Weekend Recap: Omphalocele Awareness & Playing

I feel like I should dedicate an entire post to omphalocele awareness day, but to summarize, it was amazing!  Andy and I were seriously blown away by the outpouring of love and support for Ben and all of his omphalocele buddies.  As I write this post, the "Super Ben" YouTube video my dad created has 325 views!  I cannot even count the number of people who wore black and white on Friday.  It was a humbling day.  After last year's omphalocele awareness day, 2 different people gave my name to moms who were expecting an omphalocele baby, and one of my facebook friends even said that she had been born with an omphalocele.  I had no idea!  I can't wait to see what this year brings!  I really feel like we educated a lot of people and definitely raised awareness of these tough little cookies.

I don't know if it was all of the emotional excitement of O-awareness day or what, but Andy and I were tuckered out on Friday night and didn't even make it to the end of Dateline.  :)  Ben slept like an absolute rockstar on Friday night: 7:15-5:00, quick bottle, and then slept until 7:30!  That never happens!  He must have known he had a big day ahead of him.  My bff Sarah had the brilliant idea of going to this indoor playground of sorts on Saturday morning.  Ben was in heaven.  He loves balls, and since there was a new ball everywhere he turned, he never stopped moving.  I knew he was fast, but seeing him sprint across the open floor was something else.  You better believe there were tears and a dramatic throwing of his arms in the air when it was time to leave.  I'm lucky I snapped this lunch shot when I did, because he truly did not want to be bothered with eating.

Luckily for me, I was too short to lift Ben up to the tallest hoop, aka Ben's favorite hoop, so Andy helped him slam dunk about 75  times.  I don't know about Ben, but Andy and I were tired after chasing him around for 2 hours.  I'm sure we will be back there soon!

We had a fairly low key dinner with some friends before we headed home for another early night.  I know, I know, we are so exciting.  I wouldn't have it any other way!

Today was a lazy yet productive day.  Who doesn't feel accomplished after hours of organizing?!  Ben and I opted for dinner with my mom over the Super Bowl.  Ben was trying new foods so I obviously had to capture these moments on camera.  I nearly fell off my chair when he acted like he was going to take a bite of my chicken.  He chickened out (did I just write that??) at the last second, but I'm feeling confident that he'll go for it next time.

Back to the grind tomorrow.  Have a good week!