Wedding Weekend

Last weekend, we traveled to Cookeville, Tennessee for the wedding of one of Greg's cousins.  The bride and groom were happy and beautiful, and it was a lovely time with family. I have decided, however, that attending a wedding with a 2 year old is far more stressful than being the one actually getting married.  This is no joke.  After Davis burned through his snacks in the first thirty seconds of the ceremony, he started talking (and it was a big space with all hard surfaces, so his noise was distracting) and the two of us spent the rest of the ceremony in the bathroom because it was raining outside and I couldn't find any other place to go.  I tried to bring him back out a couple of times but he would loudly say, "QUIET!  SHHH!" and back into the bathroom we would go.  Ha ha!  The reception included several fun events like walking out onto the floor and saying "HI!" during the toasts; splashing water on the dance floor; having two really bad dirty diapers during the reception and running out of wipes; gorging himself on M&Ms, staining his vest with red M&M coating, and then chugging water and throwing up a little; head-butting Mommy really hard during the anniversary dance, thinking it was funny, and continuing to do it repeatedly; and so on. You get the picture.  :)  But it was a beautiful wedding in spite of the rainy day and Davis did love the dancing! Some highlights of the weekend for Davis: taking a 3-hour nap in the car going both ways (which sure makes a 5.5 hour car ride more bearable) sleeping on his inflatable toddler bed for the first time instead of a pack-n-play and doing very well with it (although it's crazy how fast he would pop out of that bed as soon as he woke up, including at 2am when I suddenly heard him say "bear!" and he was already out of bed and walking around the dark room looking for his misplaced teddy bear) playing with his cousins Jack and Ellie - especially having Jack chase him up and down the hallway while he laughed and laughed meeting his second cousin Charlotte (who is just a couple months younger) and running around with her dancing at the reception going to the store to kill time and playing with balls and wearing an awesome bike helmet that looked like a monster (though he was very very sad when we had to leave the helmet at the store) seeing Great-Grandpa again and having a very sweet exchange of "I love yous" that I was able to record  showing off his suit    the four cousins    dancing with Daddy...    ... and with his cousin Jack    you should always wear a bike helmet while holding a golf club   playing with cousin Ellie  four generations of Mueller men   with Great-Grandpa