The weekend before last my niece Ada had a virus. Since mom was out of town and she wasn't keeping Tuff again until Tuesday, I thought we'd be in the clear. By Tuesday, Ada had been virus free since Sunday. Tuff seemed to be fine all week until Friday. (Why must they always be sick on the weekends?) We got surprised at work on Friday by getting to leave (with pay) 2 hours early! I was excited to be getting off a little early the day before our long weekend. I headed to moms, picked up baby boy and headed home. In the car I kept noticing Tuff's little eyes being red rimmed and along with him being more quiet than usual I thought to myself, something isn't right. Once we got home and inside the house, he started crying. He cried for about 10 minutes and wouldn't let me or Jordan put him down. Around 5:00-5:30 I laid on the couch and he came over to lay with me and fell asleep!!! Now I know something's up! He NEVER goes to/falls asleep that late in the afternoon. We let him take a little snoozer until about 6 and once he woke up, he was burning up! So, instead of going out like we had planned, we stayed in and alternated tylonel and motrin for the evening and into the morning on Saturday. Saturday morning he was still running a fever but after a bath, was acting just fine. So we let mom keep him for a while and continued with our car shopping plans. (And if you're wondering, we still have the same car...) On our way home from car shopping mom called and said he'd taken a 4-5 hour nap and woke up burning up! He hadn't drank or ate anything all day and was pretty lethargic. Once we got there to pick him up we decided to take him up to the Emergency Room (where my sister in law works) just to have the doctor take a look in his ears and throat to make sure it was just a virus. Virus was confirmed but I was still concerned because his temp was at 103 and thats an hour after having meds. He also threw up all over the ER area because he was so hot. Poor baby. My sister in law decided to give him a little more meds and we headed home for another warm bath. After his bath and getting him settled on the couch, I headed out to Gracie's party to drop off her present. I was devastated he had to miss another birthday party for being sick. But I definitely didn't want any of the kids there to catch what he had. Once I got home he was still on the couch. A couple hours later he finally started to get up and around. He also started eating and drinking. Thank God! Later that night as we were laying down for bed I PRAYED HARD asking for a fever free child on Sunday morning. Well... prayers were answered. Sunday morning baby boy was 100% fever free and back to his self almost completely. Jordan decided he wanted to take Tuff fishing. His daddy came by and we headed out to Lake Ann to fish for a little while. Tuff wasn't having much to do with it at all. We also realized he probably wasn't feeling back to his self 100% yet either because he was VERY whiney. Fishing was fun even though we didn't stay long. I hadn't been fishing in YEARS! In the little bit of time we were there, Jordan caught 2 fish and Poppy caught 1.
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It was FUN! I can't wait to go back without baby boy and do it again! We figured we better wait a couple more years before we try that again with Tuff though. :) After fishing, we came home and took a loooong nap! Sunday night we grilled steaks for dinner and relaxed.
Monday morning we got up and got ready for the cookout at my MIL's. We headed that way around 11. We ate, swam, napped and played all day. Later in the afternoon PaPa came over for a little swimming too.
Yes, he was swimming in the buff.
By this point, we had already been through too many wet diapers.
I decided I didn't want to waste anymore.
Definitely looking PREGNANT here.
Ada loving the water!
We had a long but fun day! We finally headed home about 7. After getting cleaned up, we were all in the bed by 8:30. Since MeMe is on vacation this week, Tuff is spending the week with Daddy since it's daddy's last week of shut down. He didn't seem to care too much about me leaving for work this morning. He said "BYYYYEEE" and sent me on my way! I'm sure him and daddy will have a blast this week.
Hope you all had a fabulous extra long weekend too! At least we have a short work week ahead! I'll be working on a few last minute projects for the big party on Saturday! Can't wait to see how everything turns out! Have a good week!
