I love mermaids. Yes I do. My favorite mermaid? -- Sirena of Salado. Ever since I can remember I have been coming to the village of Salado to swim in Sirena's spring-fed pool. These are some of my fondest memories growing up. In the summers we'd come as a family and spend all day swimming in Salado creek. Once I got to be a teenager, my friends and I spent a lot of time swimming there. Over the years, it's been a special place that I'd bring close friends & show them one of my favorite things ever--Sirena. In high school a couple friends & I even did a project where we made a movie here.
Sirena has a very interesting story, I actually have the book. I won't spoil it for you, but it involves a love-sick maiden, a brave warrior & a magical catfish. Since this is one of my favorite places on Earth, I was absolutely delighted to finally be able to share it with Clark. Last week, I got my chance.
Clark was happy to be out exploring.
He wasn't too sure of the pool, but he was very interested in Sirena & the catfish.
Here we are making our way to the sand bank, you can see Papa in the background.
Clark was having a great time throwing rocks into the pool near the waterfall.
Time to go...
Then, of course, we have a visitor.
Mermaids--favorite thing. Snakes--Least favorite. Go figure.
Even with the snake encounter, we had a great time. My grandparents & Jeramy were along, it made for a wonderful day.
A little update on Clark, he's been sick for the better part of 2 months. It started off as a double ear infection & pink eye which was resistant to "the pink stuff" but seemed to improve with a stronger antibiotic. Two days after finishing the course the runny nose came back. I really tried to ignore it--write it off as allergies, you know...trying not be the hypochondriac mom.. But, once it got to the point where the drainage was making him throw up every meal, I knew we needed to go back. Yesterday was the day & he's been prescribed another round of anti-b's with refills...just in case the 1st round doesn't zap it completely. Fingers crossed that this does the trick!
He has a follow-up with GI next week and even despite the sickness has gained just about 2 pounds in the 2 months that he's had the feeding tube! We're really excited about that, as I'm sure his doctor will be, too.
