Trip Day 4

Today Sucked. I am not going to sugar coat it. It sucked with a capital S.

I woke up feeling great, we got everyone ready for breakfast. The kids were getting antsy and I still had to pee. I told Dave to go ahead, I would catch up with them.

Suddenly I got the chills. I could barely grab toilet paper because I was shaking so hard. I tried so hard to get the chills to stop, but I just couldn't. Finally I made my way towards the window with the warm sun shining in on me while I wrapped myself in a fleece blanket. I sent Dave a text telling him not to wait for me. He came back to the room, bundled me up in bed, gave me some aleve and kept the kids out of the hotel room for me. I slept off and on all day. 

(Austin came back to the room for a nap and cuddled with me)

Ordered some of the most expensive room service I've ever had, but couldn't even finish it.

Gathered enough strength to go to the buffet for dinner. And had a few bites then felt sick. UGH.

We watched some TV in our room, and everyone went to bed. Of course because I had been sleeping all day I was awake, so I alternated between reading and people watching out our window.

 

 

Day 2 & 3 roadtrip

This morning, was way too early. Someone decided she wanted to wake up around midnight. That someone was Mackenzie. Dave and I put her in bed with us and she tossed and turned and cried.
And cried. We knew the hotel walls weren't very soundproof so we gave up around 4:30 and started getting ready for the day.

We were all ready to go by 5, which was just as breakfast was put out. Bonus! We ate breakfast and were on the road by 6.

My one thing about this trip, is I knew we would be eating a lot of fast food while driving. I also know that the States have a lot of fast food places we don't have in Canada. I wanted to try them out! I did not want to eat McDonalds for 3 weeks straight. No thank you. So today when we started to get hungry I started looking for new places to eat. We stopped about 12:30 for lunch and we tried out Jack in the Box. Dave got a burger and said it was nothing special. I got the chicken burger, thought maybe it could use more sauce but, I am very much a sauce person.

When planning our trip, my friend Sara offered for us to stay at her place one night. Since we were driving right through her town, we figured why not!

We had such a good night talking and chatting. It was great to visit and catch up since I haven't really spent time with her since highschool. We had a few drinks, and I could not figure out why they hit me so hard. We headed to bed about 10:30

(The amazing view from the guest room)

The next day (Day 3) I figured out why the drinks seemed to hit me so hard. It's because I was getting sick.

I woke up that morning with the chills. I had a sore throat for a few days, but I honestly thought that it was just because of me finishing my penicillin. I mean, there were so many germs going through the house before we left. I thought maybe I had caught yet another germ right at the end of taking the antibiotics, and the sore throat only came on after I had finished because the drugs didn't knock it all out. That's what I thought. That is until Dave decided to share with me that he has had a sore throat for a while and he wasn't feeling so well on day 1 of the trip.

I slept 90% of the drive from Orem Utah to Las Vegas.


But, the bit of time I was awake gave some amazing views. The red rock canyons, so pretty!

 

(we were in Arizona for a whole 25 minutes!)

 

 

Look closely in the background. It's Vegas baby!

 

We finally got into Vegas around 2pm and headed straight to the Mirage hotel to pick up our tickets to the Beatles Love, the Cirque De Soliel show. Then drive down the strip taking in the sights to our hotel, the Excalibur.

Get all settled in our hotel room, and yes, having fun while we were at it.... lol. I have a quick shower then we go wander around the hotel. Prior to the trip Dave and I have been playing MyVegas on facebook. We earned enough points (all free to play the games to earn the points!) for each of us to get an All Day Buffet pass.(Saved us $70!) We went to the MLife desk and picked up our vouchers. Since it wasn't a 24 hour buffet like I thought, but instead a full calendar day buffet, we just hit the food court in the upper level of the hotel. Ate, wandered, then Dave and I had to head back to our room to get ready for our show!!!

Get downstairs and hop in a cab and back to the Mirage we go. The show was amazing. Because of my sore throat I had ordered a fizzy pop drink as well as a bottle of water to drink. I figured I would drink all of it and then some. The show started.... and I didn't even touch my drink. I was just staring and singing and seat dancing a little bit. maybe... lol. I loved the show so much. And I would love to go back, because there is most of the time, so much going on that it's hard to see everything.

After the show, despite being soooo tired from being sick and not sleeping, I told Dave I really wanted to go for a Gondola ride. Off to the Venetian we go.  Funny story. lol. We spend some money in the Casino at the Mirage waiting for the Taxi lineup to die down a bit, finally go get in the line, make friends with some Prince loving ladies, get in a taxi, tell the driver we want to go to the Venetian. He informs us it was right across the street. Boy did I feel stupid.

We walk over to the Venetian, finally figure out where to go for the rides, only to find out they are closed for the night. Super sad face. I tell Dave that I am not walking anymore, I feel like my legs are going to give out. We hail a cab and get back to our hotel. We were in bed by 11pm. As we drove down the strip back to our hotel Dave took a whole bunch of pictures on his cell phone.

Stand Back

I'm setting all the damn germs in this house on fire.  If one more person gets some sort of illness, you may find me in the corner crying in the fetal position.

First, Austin got a Cold. Then he passed it onto me. Yay!

Tuesday I dropped Austin off at school, then went to the gym. I was just finishing at the gym when I got a text from Dave. Mackenzie just threw up. Everywhere. UGH!!!!

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were filled with her throwing up and blowing out her diapers. Every.single.time. We had to bust out the next size up pj's just to keep up with the speed at which we were blowing through clothes.

While dealing with her, Austin snuck under the radar. He had a very mild fever, complained of a headache, then wednesday had super red cheeks. I thought maybe it was really dry in our house since his skin is usually my first indicator of needing to crank up the humidifier. Thursday I went to get him into his pj's and BAM, head to toe rash. Yeah, that's  fun. Off to the dr's. Sidenote - Even more fun, our town doesn't have a freaking walk in clinic. Unless I wanted to wait and take him in after 5:30 pm.

3 hours later and we're done in the dr's. Austin has Fifth Disease. Ooh double yay! Thankfully, once he breaks out in the rash he's no longer contagious. But anywhere from 4-28 days previous he was. oh man. I let the schools know, I let our friends and neighbours know.

Friday? Despite still puking, Mackenzie now also has the cold and is sneezing and stuffed up. By the way, unlike her brother, she has none of it when I try to remove the goopy snot from her face. Screaming and yelling. Sigh.

And then we get to Saturday. In the morning Austin filled me in that he didn't feel good, and spent all day puking, pooping, and sleeping. The furthest he's gotten from his bed has been the bathroom. Let me tell you this, Austin is starting young with the man sick. Oh my. He could not do anything for himself yesterday. Despite getting to the bathroom, he asked me (in the saddest most pathetic voice) to carry him back to bed.  Also, every time he puked he was convinced he needed me to rub his back to help it get out.  This is the point that I publicly apologize to my mom. I was also that kid. If I was throwing up I wanted her there with me. I don't know why, moral support? No idea. But if I ever threw up, the first words out of my mouth were "Mooooommmmmmmmmmm" Even after moving out, I would call my mom and complain I was sick. Yeah. I have the female version of the Man sick. That Nyquill ( I think) commercial where the sick guy says "Pam, can you call my mom?" Cracks me up so much. Because I have uttered those words to my husband. "Dave, Can you call my mom?" I'm in so much trouble with Austin.

Also Saturday, Dave called from work to let me know that he was up at 1am puking non stop.


Have I mentioned, we are going on a road trip? Vegas, San Diego, LA, Disneyland.  Yeah, we are. In only a few short weeks. This sickness crap, it needs to stop.

4!!!!

My little boy is almost 4! Today he wasn't feeling too hot so when he went to bed I psyched up tomorrow. I told him when he wakes up it's going to be his birthday and he's going to be 4 whole years old!!! He got excited and went to bed.

So, wanting to give him a big surprise when he gets up, I started blowing up balloons. Now my cheeks hurt.

 

I also thought I'd be smart, put him on the toilet before I put the balloons in the room so he wouldn't have to go again before morning. Not only did he sit there and not pee, but I hurt some sort of muscle in my neck lifting him. Idea fail.

 

Poor little munchkin with the puke bucket there just in case of emergency tonight.

Happy birthday my sleeping boy. Tomorrow is the start to a whole new year!

Happy 5 months!

Yes, we're here at 5 months already. What the!?!?!  I also realize I never did post the 4 months and my camera seems to have gone missing. I will try to dig it up again after bed time tonight. Until then, enjoy some 5 month old adorable Mackenzie!!!

Sadly, this shot is a little blurry, but with either the iPhone or iPad as camera options this is what I'm working with.

I love the face, but her ear was bent foreward on the pillow.

She gave up on sitting back on the couch and wanted to explore!

There is really nothing more to say about this. How adorable is she?



And off she goes.



Mackenzie is doing great. After not needing to bottle feed her for a few months she decided she would absolutely not take a bottle. Nope, no way. At least not from Dave or I. The babysitter, she would take maybe an ounce. That's about it. So, we did a bottle crash course. I still breastfed her at 6 am when she got up and at 7pm when she got ready for bed. In between, well it was a battle of wills.

The first day, she only ate 1oz until bedtime. the second day was much better drinking 5oz. The third day was like there was no bottle training happening at all and drank like a champ. Since then I've been keeping up with at least 1 bottle a day. This will make it so much easier with Dave being home and also us on vacation and my epic upcoming girls weekend in September.

This past week sucked. Like super sucked. Dave is still up north at work and I am home with the kids. Mackenzie had been cranky and on sunday she got a low grade fever. I chalked it up to teething. Monday the fever was gone but she was still cranky. Monday night before bed I noticed her throat was a little red, I figured from all the crying she had been doing. Tuesday we ran to walmart to pick up school supplies for Austin (sob!) and I noticed she had red spots in her mouth. Off to the Dr we went. While we were waiting to be seen some of the spots turned into what looked like cankers. She had one on her lip and one under her tongue. She could have had more, she wouldn't let me near her mouth. The dr took one look inside her mouth and said "it's herpangina"

What is that you say? Yeah, my thought too. It's a virus caused by the same virus that causes Hand Foot Mouth disease. Except, nothing on the hands or feet. And I thought she was cranky the past 2 days. As more and more sores developed and reared their ugly heads she cried and screamed in pain. I alternated between advil and tylenol per the dr's orders. It really didn't do much. She slept from 7:45-11pm tuesday night then screamed for 2 hours straight. Only stopping to breathe. Oh it sucked.

Thankfully she seems to be on the mend and back to her happy self, as  you can see by the pictures I took today. Yes, 3 days late, but if we took them on her actual 5 month birthday they all would have looked like this-

The Plague

There has been a plague in our house. First, I got a fever of 102 and felt nauseous. The next day I felt just fine stomach wise, but had a horrible headache that almost reached migraine level.

Then yesterday? I was sick. I haven't eaten much in 2 days. the very little I ate yesterday came back up. So far today 2 pancakes managed to stay in there. Hooray for small miracles. It's now 6:30 and while I'm actually feeling pretty good, I'm deciding if I want to risk eating anything.

And now, Dave has it. I'm still trying to figure out if this is what Austin has last week when he decided not to eat for 2 days, or if he's going to get it. And Mackenzie... well. I hope she doesn't get it.

I am still breast feeding and worried about the lack of nutrients she is getting seeing as I've eaten nothing. I've notice she is feeding more often and not for as long. Out of desperation yesterday I pulled some frozen milk out for her. She would not take a bottle. She screamed and fought me for 2 hours last night and I could only get her to eat 2 oz. By then she was exhausted from the fighting and passed out. She seems pretty irritated and isn't really napping today. Which sucks, honestly. Sigh.

Anyways. These past few days all I keep thinking about is Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet.

                                                  A Plague on both your houses!!!

Which then begs the questions, who is the other house? Because I want to send them a big ol bouquet of Pepto Bismol.

The First Week

Here we are, closing in on the end of the first week alone with 2 kids.

I'm still alive. Austin is still alive. Mackenzie is alive. Woo Hoo!

However. We're sick. All 3 of us.

Monday night, Mackenzie was fussy and finally got her to sleep at 11. 12:30 I woke up to Austin crying. Got him settled back down. 2:00 Crying again. Walk out into the hall and greeted by a child covered in puke. Also, in the time from 11 to 2 I developed a sore throat. A little bit of a sniffly little boy, just a sore throat from me.

Then..... sore itchy ears and my runny nose starts. Austin has coughing and sneezing and massively runny nose. Oh yay.

I had such a bad cough that I gave in last night and took cough medicine. I tried to go to sleep at midnight. I was up coughing until 2, when Mackenzie woke up so congested she was having a hard time breathing through her nose and was not at all happy about it. She was so congested I actually managed to get something out when I used the nasal aspirator. That just pissed her right off. She was not happy and let me know. Finally got her settled and was still coughing. I said eff that and took the cough medicine. It was lovely to sleep.

Today my cough is back and so bad I'm gagging and it feels like my will explode if I cough one more time. Bring on the cough medicine.

But the upside is that even with being alone with 2 kids and all of us being sick, I did all the laundry and we made it to Mackenzie's 1 month check up.... On time. *gasp*

Another update on my meds

I am feeling better. The odd time I'll get a bit of a light headed spells.

Last time I tried go down in my meds I got irritated and cranky. It was not a pretty sight in this house.

I can feel myself getting cranky. Hell I got pissed at my husband this morning and he's not even here!! I just need to remember to sit down and give myself some time to calm down. I need to remind myself that I'm just getting cranky because of my pills.

This is going to be a long week. Ugh

Meds suck.

More specifically being weaned off meds suck. Due to some issues with my meds I'm being switched.

Now, when my dr first started me on the anti depressants I just started to take them. On one hand I've heard through a few different friends that the ones I'm taking (effexor) is the best they've ever had, works really well. On the other hand I've heard through a few other people that it's the worst meds to try and wean off of.

We had to do a rather quick switch and let me tell you, my body is not appreciating it. Yesterday was the first full day of the switch. If I moved too quickly I would get dizzy and a little light headed. Other then that I was good.

Today? Today is a shit show. Walking has proven difficult. I am dizzy, light headed, and nauseous. I can't move my head without having to stop and take a few breaths. I am beyond thankful that dave and his dad are here. There is no way I would be able to care for austin. I've napped more then I would like to today, simply because I don't feel dizzy then.

There is a small part of me that is thinking maybe the dr went about this wrong. I think the transition from one to the other should have taken more time. My dr (I should note a different one then originally prescribed me the pills) has me off the old pills already. A 2 day wean.

Shoot me.

I don't ever want to go through this again. I feel like I am in a hell composed of a non stop spinning carnival ride. You know, the ride that you stand against the wall and it spins and spins and spins and you slowly creep up the wall. (Omg just typing that made me almost throw up!! This sucks)

I can't wait for the follow up appt where I can tell the dr just how much I appreciate this trip.

The best news out of this? My in laws are here for 3 weeks so if this lasts more then the next few days I have some help. Thank goodness!

Number 150!!

Wow, this is blog number 150. How exciting is that!! Who would have thought I would have enough things to write them down 150 times. Oh who am I kidding, I could talk all day if I was allowed. (just ask my mother)

I went to write this post and thought, wow, I should do like a giveaway or something. That is what all the cool kids are doing. So why the Heck not!!! Leave a comment on this post by Sunday Nov 21st and at midnight (EST) I will use random number generator to pick a winner. Well, what does a winner get you ask? If you aren't familiar with my crafty side you can head over to http://creations-by-kristin.blogspot.com/ and take a look. Yes, there are lots of pretty things to look at. The winner will recieve a 5 pack of hand-made Christmas cards!! (and maybe some bonus goodies if I'm feeling up to it.) I will post right away so that the winner can contact me with their address so I can get their prize in the mail.


Alright, so back to the original reason for this post....

I have a small vent about TV. Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that I can now watch tv shows online. Most of the time I can get lucky and catch all my shows on the network websites. I used to have a lot more luck though. I've noticed a huge shift in the sites. For example, CTV.ca now only has the last 3-4 episodes available on their site. Same with CITYTV.com The worst though? GLOBALTV.com only has 1, 2 if you're lucky. grrr. this doesn't help me! I was very busy at the start of this tv season. I've missed a lot of shows because I was just too busy packing and moving. There are lots of shows I would love to just sit down and watch, but I've missed a good 6-8 episodes by now. However I can no longer watch from the beginning on websites. It sucks. In the past I have used SURFTHECHANNEL.com but for some of the shows the sites they take me to are ones that no longer have the earlier shows, such as the network sites, or sites that you can only view in the US. (I'm looking at you HULU.com) Sigh, this is just a random vent I'm throwing out there. I was given a few other possibilities today so I might go check them out now.

Or maybe I'll just go to bed.. or well, sleep, since I'm on the couch and this is my bed for the night. We've been battling sickness/flu here all week. Austin, then me, and now Dave. I gave him some flu meds and some gravol and he's out cold in our bed. I think I'll just stay on the couch. Well, I'm off to bed I guess. Hope everyone has a great day!

Yay a visitor

My husband is home for a week. yay!! I am excited. We went to the cottage then I am going out with some work people tonight. Unfortunately Austin has a runny nose and my throat is starting to hurt. This could be a rough week for Dave to come home to visit! Hoping to get some awesome pictures on here for everyone!

Yay!!!

I am feeling better. Yay! Got some meds from my dr and the dizziness is gone! Boo to vertigo.

I got a new phone! I am only on my second full day of using it and I am in love already. I lurve it. I was thinking of the getting the iPhone 4 like Dave did, but I wasn't going to cough up $400 for it since he got to use the promo price for his. I did however get the Blackberry Bold 9700 (yay BBM!) at a promo price so woo hoo. Takes amazing pictures, and even though i'm still getting used to the buttons it's pretty easy to use. I would have liked the white phone but black was the only color available. But oooh, look it's so pretty.

Sorry, no exciting post

I have felt really dizzy and nauseous today so nothing new tonight. Just didn't want to leave you all hanging.

I guess the bright side of my day is that I got my new phone! I will no longer want to throw my phone out of a moving vehicle multiple times a day. I am going to try and get it activated now, if I can. If not I may be doing it in the morning when I'm not so dizzy. For those on BBM message me for my pin.

Crap. & Friday!!

I forgot to give Austin his medication before bed. I really don't think I want to go wake him up right now to give it to him... How on earth am I going to remember this?? I never remember to take meds on time. Like honestly, All those years I was on Birth control..... total waste. I always forgot to take it. Thank Goodness I was responsible with a back up.... but anyways.. enought about that topic.

My stomach hurts.

I have no attention span tonight.

I think I'm spouting random stuff tonight...

AND

There is just a tiny twinge in me that misses the old - younger days (omg, I just said younger days. I can't be that freaking old!!) That was brought on today by:

A case of the fridays!!!

For those who don't know.. let me explain the Fridays to you. It is quite opposite to the mondays. You know, the dragging blah feeling you experience every monday morning upon waking?? That's not the fridays.

Remember back in public school. Friday afternoon the bell would ring. Even though there was a good chance that you wouldn't see your friends all weekend, it was Friday. You immediately got a smile on your face and a bit of an extra bounce in your step. You had 2 whole days to do whatever you wanted with! The bus ride home from school was that much more bearable, it was friday!!!

Then highschool. Friday meant no more teachers who worked you to the bone. You had TGIF (oh how I loved TGIF & ABC) and even though you wouldn't admit it you had saturday morning cartoons. It felt like you were free, like you have just been untied and set free. Oh how the air was that much fresher. It was friday. You would talk on the phone for hours and stay up till all hours of the night. Sleepovers, hanging out, gossiping. It all laid out before you on the friday afternoon, You had all those choices and more.

Then, your late teens/early 20's. Even if you were a working sucker who had to work on saturday and Sunday, Friday still left a great taste in your mouth. You were going out, hitting up the movies, the bar, going out with friends, whatever you wanted, because it was friday. You sacrificed exhaustion and sleep deprivation for a good time. Who cared that you still had to work, you had 2 nights of fun ahead of you. Oh the Fridays...

To be honest, I haven't been feeling the fridays much. Yes, I know I'm not currently working and everyday can by my friday if I want. But it can't. You just can't dress a Wednesday up in Friday's clothing and call it a sheep. It's not the same. However, today, I was driving. Enjoying the sun, and the nice 5 degree weather. my windows were down in the car (just a crack, I didn't want to give austin hypothermia) and it hit me. The fridays.

In my mind, Fridays are always sunny. Just a hint of a breeze or coolness. And the smell of fridays. Like a crisp clean smell. Oh, how I love me some fridays. When I think of the fridays, for some reason I think of walking up Amelia street to my old house. Walking up the little hill with a bounce in my step. No idea why, but I'll stick with it. Hello Friday, I embrace you. Please come again. Every week would be great.

Alas, it's after midnight so it's now saturday. The fridays will have to go away and come back. Time to embrace a new Day. Saturdays I have to say don't have a feeling for me. Nothing like my case of the Fridays. Thank you for the bounce in my step friday. I *heart* you. Hope to see you soon.

Houston... We have:

medicine. Oh Dear lord, please let it help and make my baby not sick. I kid you not that Austin started Daycare Dec 17th, and by the end of that week was sick. The last week in january and the First week in February were the only 2 weeks he has not been sick. It was kind of an embarrasing dr's appt today. I got mini lectured by the dr for being almost an hour late when really, it was the new secretary who forgot about us for over 45 minutes in the waiting room. I was frustrated that I was left that long in the waiting room, plus all hopped up on mommy guilt that my child was STILL sick. Once the dr realized we had been forgotten and I wasn't that late to the appt he told me that if I am ever waiting for more then 5-10 minutes to go remind the receptionist that I am there because I should never have to wait, let alone more then 5-10 minutes. *Insert gush at how much I really love my dr!*

Then he said, what's going on. And that's when the embarrasment started. I bawled. Lol. I really did. He told me to sit down and tell him what's going on. In between gasps and cries I told him just how frustrated I was with Austin still being sick, going for 3 hours of crying in the middle of the night because he's sick and can't breathe and there is nothing I can do to help it, Dave still being out of the province and me doing the night times and most daytimes alone, and my frustrations over my previous job about them being so sucky about me having to call in because Austin was sick then got me sick. So, we have amoxacillen (however you spell it) and the dr said to come back in 10 days and either he will be better and get his shots (that he was supposed to get 2 weeks ago at his last appt, but suprise suprise, was sick) or if he is still sick he will be going to see a pediatrician. I'm banking on being better.. please please please.

We have some sort of a plan worked out. Dave will be home on the 16th - ish. They are leaving Alberta on the 13th. I can't wait. Too bad that he will miss the 2 days that I am going to need him the most, the 14th and 15th, as I have to go into the hospital on the 15th and need to prep on the 14th. I know there is no way I'm going to be able to keep up with Austin either of those days and on the monday Daycare is closed for March break. If you're curious as to what's going on the 15th, message me and let me know... There is just some TMI I don't want broadcast everywhere.

101 in 1,001 update: Finished reading Who's wedding is it anyways by Melissa Senate. I bought the book last year in hopes of actually reading it and getting nowhere. I have read the solomon sisters wise up by Melissa Senate and enjoyed it so I thought I would read this one. It's pretty predictable... but was a very quick read.

First Playground trip

Well, the first time we went to the playground in our Townhouse complex. They tore out the old one that was in dire need of repair and put in a new one. Not really a fan. However, I did get Austin sliding away and he seemed to enjoy it. Here are some cute pictures from today.

He kept wanting to sit on the slide at first, then I showed him how to slide.

Showing off his super cute new Cars Shoes.

Seconds after this pic was taken he gave me a heart attack as he tried to take another step towards the slide. Ugh. Really glad I was right there to say stop and sit down. *whew*

Great Action shots. You can see how much fun he's having!

And then going back for more!

We almost have the waving down. After I don't know at least 6 months of trying to get Austin to wave he's started to pick it up. This is kind of exciting. lol. It's a 1 in 50 chance he will wave on his own, but if you start his hand waving he will continue. Of course that's when he's in the mood.

Also, he's starting to get the concept of Kleenex - other then to rip out of the box and shred all over the living room. Tonight he took a kleenex, put it to his mouth and blew. Not quite it's intended purpose but I'm sure he'll learn that soon enough. Especially if he continues down his sick path. This week we still have the runny nose and lots of chest congestion. I've got the vapourizer going full blast in his room, which I don't think he enjoys so much because he's been up coughing and screaming, making it known he's not happy through the night the past few nights. I know the coughing is good for him to get it cleared out, but the screaming and crying I could do without. We have a dr's appt on thursday, which from the sounds of it he won't be better for, so we will probably have to re-schedule and get his shots another day.

Finally, I am sooooo happy to announce: My husband is finally coming home!! We are expecting him sometime between the 16th and the 21st. Depends on what day he's done work and what day his dad flies out to Alberta to drive home with him. This excites me to no end. Although, on one hand, I'm not looking forward to giving up the bed I've had all to myself for the past 8 months.

Lastly: 101 in 1,001 update: Read another book: Working Stiff by Grant Stoddard Plus, I rented and watched an entire tv series I have never seen before. I got Freaks and Geeks. I honestly thought this was a totally different show that I had seen a few episodes of years ago.. However it wasn't. It did turn out to be a pretty good show, even though the entire series was only 18 episodes long. At times it was a little over the top acting but I did enjoy it anyways.

Still...

Well, Austin still has a fever. Makes me so sad. Monday night it was at 101.1, Last night 102.5 and tonight was 103.5 I gave him a lukewarm bath, motrin then bed. Hopefully that helps.

Austin wouldn't let me do anything without him today. He had to me touching me. If I set him down on the floor to pee, he started crying. We spent our morning watching Elmo, a quick trip to see Grandma at work and to pick some stuff up, then back to nap. After nap was spent downstairs watching movies while curled up in my lap. My poor little baby. :(

Here are some super sad pics. We layed in bed and he put his head on my lap to watch elmo on the laptop, then eventually fell asleep.

And, some happy pics.

The first one is from Sunday. He got ahold of the lid from the cake and decided that was as much fun as his toys.

This one is also from Sunday. We were playing Just Dance on the Wii and he had his remote (x-box remote tho) and was dancing along with us.

Again.

Ugh. Austin has a fever... AGAIN. I guess I should be thankful, we made it 2 whole weeks without him getting sick. He started Daycare the middle of December and has been sick every week with something else since. Doing this alone has worn me out. Non-stop sickness. blah. Tonight he was unusually cuddly (which considering lately he's been very cuddly) and I noticed he was getting a bit warm. When we were getting ready for bed I took his temp and he was at 101.1 Fantastic.

His skin has also broken out in dry patches again this winter. Poor boy. It's gotten so bad. There was a spot on the back of his head that he had scratched so much that it had started bleeding. I got a refill of his medicated cream and have started using it in full force. Hopefully it clears up within the next few days and gets better.

Onto the good news. I think Austin said book the other day. He walked up to me with his elmo book in his hand and said baaaaaa. I'm going with that means book. lol.

Tomorrow we have a dr's appt for Austin. We can see how much he's grown in the past 3 months. After that we don't have too many plans so far for the week. I really want to go and check out some of the indoor play places in the area now that Austin is old enough to appreciate them. Thursday we are headed to a movie with Devon and Pierce. That's about all we have planned for this week.


*101 in 1,000 update * I finished reading Lust Lizard of Melancholy lane and finished my *secret* goal.

Sick

Austin is a great sharer. I think the count of people he's shared his cold with is at 4. At least he shares right?? lol.

I need to get over this cold, because it's now less than a week until my niece and nephew arrive! I'm very excited and can't wait. I've already got the babysitter lined up so that I can visit.

Not too much going on here. We're going pumpkin picking tomorrow so I will definately have some pictures to share. I'm tired so I'm heading to sleep.

Happy Birthday Dave!!

Today is Dave's Birthday. It was so great he even called in sick to work today. This is how the day went: Wake up, go downstairs. Dave fell asleep in the chair, baby in the swing. I woke up, go downstairs, Dave moves to couch - falls alseep. I feed Austin and watch some recorded shows off our pvr. Dave sleeps all afternoon, I watch tv, play with Austin and generally do nothing. Dave wakes up, we feed baby, watch some more tv. Austin falls asleep, I go have a shower then we go to Dave's parents for dinner, come home Austin goes to bed, dave goes to bed, here I am.

My throat is still a little sore but it doesn't seem to be getting worse. Dave I think has killed whatever cold was in him by sleep (I hope) and Austin is smiling again today. The entire time he was sick we couldn't get a smile out of him. Today he was all smiles so I take it as a sign he's getting better. His nose is still running a little bit but not bad.

This is a picture of Austin Monday. He was fussing like crazy and as soon as I put him on the Panda pillow he passed out.

These are a few pictures I took while on my road-trip on Tuesday. This is out by my grandma's house.