The Adventures of Bexico, Bubba y Max: jueves, el 13 de septiembre de 2012

Buenos noches!!

Adios to Tom Sims, one of, if not THE pioneer in snowboarding, Bubba’s favorite past time.

745pm…a late start to the bed portion of the night time rutina. Por que you ask? It all has to do with the lil’hombre and his sleep cycle.

If you recall, we were going to start a new schedule today, the 2 nap schedule. But all of that is precipitated on Max waking up at 7am and then having an hour nap from 10am-11am and another from 2pm-3pm.

So what happens when the lil’guy (he is just a lil’guy) wakes up at 6am…and is WIDE awake at 6am? First nap at 9am’ish…but it lasted only 30 minutes.

Second siesta at noon’ish and it was two 30 minute sessions, but it was not a sound sleep.

That means Max would be up from 1pm until 7pm…uh, no. That would not be pleasant for anyone. So, 3^rd siesta at 415pm, awake at 445pm and off to the playa!!

More on that later.

But why would Max be awake at 6am? Maybe he was worried about his padre? The same padre who had to have Dr Carillo come do a house call at 130am? The same padre who was given a very large cocktail of drugs, via a needle?

Yup…I awoke in some nasty pain on my left side. Both the belly and my back, near the kidneys. We tried to wait it out, but the pain was not going away. Good ol’Doc Carillo jumped into his car and was here in a few minutes.

A quick exam and a shot for the pain, and I was better. Prognosis? It might be a kidney stone…but it also might just be a gastric issue, which is what I am thinking it is.

But I had a calcium test today and will pick up the results mañana and then head back to Doc Carillo to see what he thinks. That, and pay the bill for the visit y drogas. Stay tuned.

If we were living in Vancouver…what would we have done? Jump in the car and head to Emergency and wait for an hour or so? Ambulance? But here, I call the doc and probably pay $1500 pesos and move on.

So, that was an interesting start to the day. And I was hoping today was the start of a good run of health, back to the gym etc. That did not happen and even though Max actually had a GREAT sleep last night, his parents did not.

So, there is always mañana!!

So my day was spent with Max for the first shift and then I napped most of the early afternoon. Then off to Che…are Dare Lemon Cookies, made in Canada, a score?

Then siesta #3, and when we awoke, the decision was made that it is NEVER too late to head to the playa.

We had a great time as at 5pm'ish, still sunny and warm, but not hot!! Max did some speed crawling to and from the olas and then a quick swim for all of us and time to dry off for the 5 minute trip home.

Once home, it was time to cook la cena…holy yummy lomo cerdo. Max enjoyed his cerdo, but we almost didn’t make it. Por que? Another tooth is coming in and it was hurting him something bad.

So first off was some Kanka and then mid-cena, we dropped some Niño Tylenol into his boca and he has been a-ok. The lil’guy is a TROOPER and really only complains when it is something serious. We are quite lucky!!

845pm, Max is fast asleep and I hear a bunch of niños screaming around the complex grounds. The Mexican culture is eating dinner late, thus the niños are up late….and grumpy in the morning!!

How is Bexico? Consado…tired. She had a late night at the computer, working hard, then had to deal with my issue, and then was up at 10am…doph.

But another trooper in the familia, she loves her hijo and they spent lots of time together. Both of us cherish this time of his life, when he is just a lil’guy, and don’t want him to grow up too fast, but we also look forward to the day when we can keep an eye on him from a short distance of away, vs always needing to hover.

Bex has lots of work, a good thing and a bad thing, only on days when sleep has been lacking. Doph.

Hey…Max can climb all 15 stairs from the primero piso up to the segundo piso!!

The lil’climber is a monkey…as you can tell by this foto of an attempted escape!!