You can always tell it is going to be a difficult time at church if the babies are fussing even before you enter the doors of the chapel. Well that is how everything was going today. Dallin was especially fussy because of teething (his second tooth is coming in) and the lack of a good nap. We were visiting a ward, so we had only planned on staying for Sacrament meeting. Well we sat down and as the Sacrament began Dallin started to really fuss so right away we had to take him out of his car seat (on a side note, we always leave our babies in their car seats as long as possible during church because they nap and play and do so well in them--I know we are lucky). So Darin had him on his lap and he was trying to crawl over to me to grab at my jewelry. As usual, I took off my bracelet and handed it to him. He immediately put the bracelet in his mouth. Sometimes it really calms him down when he is able to gnaw on something and get his mind off of being tired. Well once he was gnawing away at the bracelet he became so cute. He was smiling and gabbing and making all of the cute noises that he usually does. All of a sudden Darin looked down at his clean white shirt and notices a red patch on it. Huh? Surely Dallin couldn't have spit up on him since his last meal consisted of yogurt and squash--not anything red. Then I noticed some red slobber on Darin's hand. Upon further examination there was red on my dress, and a ton of red on Dallin's white romper collar. I grabbed the bracelet out of Dallin's mouth. I had made the bracelet of red coral. It matched perfectly with my necklace and the red pair of Jessica Simpson shoes I found at the thrift store. Dang. Whatever dye that was used in making the beads had mixed with Dallin's saliva to create the perfect toxic dye for our clothing. (I just hope that he didn't ingest very much if any.) Needless to say I tried to do everything I could to get the red off, but to no avail. The mysterious red has turned into the mysterious stains that litter our clothing from church.
On a side note: The meeting went by slowly as we struggled to keep our kiddos content and happy during the remainder of the time we were there. The messages we heard we uplifting and the choir in Grapevine was amazing especially considering it was a smaller ward. Overall, the mysterious red didn't effect the day too much, but it did add a little bit of intrigue to our somewhat hum drum weekend.
