jinx

Boy did I jinx myself with the last post...
Early Sat. morning, after a fun filled day at Adventureland (post to come) the little man starts wailing. About 2:00 am, I go in a check on him, he is wicked hot to the touch, I get to use my new temporal thermometer (why I didn't by one of those years ago!) His temp was 103.4F. I give him the max. dosage of Motrin and his paci. Yes I gave his paci back. He looked so miserable and I imagine had a heck of a headache with that temp, I figure he could use some comfort. We continue to check on him every couple hours, keeping him jazzed up on Motrin, for two days he ran a temperature between 99F and 103 F. All along he has no other really symptoms besides being a little extra cranky and clingy, and wouldn't you be! We keep checking his ears, they have certainly looked worse; ie. more red, and he hasn't had an ear infection.
Sunday evening we are having a popcorn and cheese dinner, and Rob instantly gets super nauseous. He is full out sick within the hour, unable to leave the bathroom or the bed. I feel decent, my plan was to make some food for a BBQ we were invited to on Monday and some muffins for the morning. I get all my stuff done and enjoy the quite house, and go to bed (in the guest room, I don't want those germs!) By 4:00 am I am in the same state as Rob!

This is my third bout with this flu/sickness during this pregnancy. It worries me to get so dehydrated while pregnant, what can you do when you can't keep down any liquids. After sleep most of Monday we are tons better, kids seem to not be affected!

Anyway today was the day of taking the paci's back. Let me say it has not been as easy as the first time around. 20 minutes of screaming at naptime, followed by 30 minutes at betime. I know it is all my fault, all that mommy guilt!

Paci's, stinkee's and manners...

A lot has been developing in Dallas's little world. He had his 18 month well visit last week. He has gained some length, and is now in the 70% for height, remaining in the 50% for weight and head circumference.

He barely passed all the hearing tests they administered. It figures that the first time he doesn't have fluid, infected or not, in his ears is his well visit. He had more than enough words that he says well enough that we are not too concerned with his hearing affecting his speech. I think it is hard for Rob and I to discern "normal", I think Emily had really great speech development, and said most things correctly without a lot of baby talk. I asked the Dr. his opinion about moving Dallas into Em's room, taking his paci, and moving him to a different bed, as we need to free up the crib at some point.



On Monday, I put him to nap without his pacifier and he went right to sleep. I was amazed! That night we tried to put him to bed without it, he was doing fine, then we had the commotion with the "lost kid" I think he heard us downstairs and got a little worked up. Since then he has been doing great. The hard part is waking up, he misses it most, and then wails until we appear in the doorway.



Another new development in the last couple of weeks has been in the bathroom department. Dallas will indicate that he has just gone poop. He comes up and says stinky, and points to his diaper. I don't think he is ready for potty training, and really had not desire to start that before the baby came, but I know he is starting to put things together. When he tells me before hand, I think I will need to act.



He has also become a very polite little boy. He will say/sign thank you and please, and has really slowed down his tossing of the food off his high chair.

Happy Birthday Robert

Happy Birthday! We love and appreciate everything you do to serve our family. You are the greatest.

lost kid

Tonight I had just finished putting Dallas to bed. Emily and Rob were putting away the outside toys, working their way inside for bedtime routine. I hear Rob call for me to come down and help, which I thought was unusual because usually that accompanies a screaming kid. Then I hear another kiddo's voice, I thought maybe some of our friends had dropped by during a walk.

I came down and boy was I surprised. Rob and Em had picked up a shoeless neighbor kid. Rob said he was staying at his Grandparents house, while his mom worked, but they were not home, but playing golf. What!!!! Thank goodness Rob was still in the driveway so this kiddo could find someone. Rob took him out to see if he knew which way to go, or which way was home. I tried putting Emily to bed. 10 minutes later, they come back, I ask his name, and Rob had determined that we knew his grandparents and that the kid could get in and out of the house. I commence an Internet search to try to get a phone number while he plays with Emily. I imagine he is about Em's age, but his speech wasn't quite as clear. Rob couldn't understand anything. The boy told Em his name was Sam, I thought he said Hunter, so I had been calling him that. He did tell me his mom's name too, which I will protect because one of my readers is facebook friends with her. You won't believe how much I figured out in three minutes on the Internet, but it also only yielded home numbers, not cell numbers.
Rob went back to his grandparents house and searched just to make sure, you know, no one wasa passed out or really injured in there. Turns out there was some people in his grandparents house, in the basement and didn't know he was gone. His Aunt was outside waiting for him.

What a wake up call. Em and I had a big discussion about why it is important that she knows our names and our address, which she does! I haven't taught her our cell phone numbers yet but I guess I should. We also talked about not leaving the house without telling someone and staying close to the grown-up you are with, how scary it is to be lost. Although this kid didn't seem to worried.

Montreal Part 3

Montreal Day three...
We slept in again, love vacation! I wanted to visit an outdoor market I had read about. Robert figured out how to get to the market using the Metro. That was fun, we walked to the nearest station, bought tickets and rode to almost the end of the stop and then walked to the market. I loved the Market, it is defiantly a good visit for a foodie. We walked past tons of fresh fruit, baked goods, fish, smoked meats, and pastries. Plus lots of jarred sauces and jams. I really could have bought lots of souvenirs but we only brought carry-ons and the flying regulations would not allow it. If I could have brought anything back it would have been these frozen ready to bake croissants. They looked so yummy, defiantly not Pillsbury. After brunch at the Market, we shopped a little and headed back to the hotel. We decided to head back to the Old Montreal area. I wanted to go into The Notre Dame Basilica. The Basilica was amazing, we took the English speaking tour, given by a trained Historian. I think that learning about places by a professional is a great thing to do on vacation. After the tour, we ventured out to find some Poutine. Putine is French Fries with gravy on top, and cheese curds. It was yummy, I wish I could have washed it down with a beer!
After our little snack we ventured down to the Port to grab a boat tour. The tour was amazing, really neat to see everything and hear the history from the water's prospective.

I was really hot after the tour, I get over-heated easily, and especially when pregnant. I was sucking down water, but was ready for a dose of air conditioning. We walked the mile or so back to the hotel and bought a movie "Hot Tub Time Machine" on the tv. It was perfectly relaxing and gave my body time to recoup. Pretty funny movie too.

After the movie, we freshened up and went out to find a fancy-last-night-on -vacation meal. Rob wanted to take me to a steak place he was thinking of. We wandered out and walked down to Old Montreal to the restaurant. It was gorgeous in the restaurant. One of the only meals we ate inside, instead of on a patio. We both ordered a steak, it was so good. I think mine was grilled in butter. I am so glad I didn't get an appetiser, because dessert was worth the wait. I had a really delicious apple tart.
After dinner we walked around and took in the wonderful evening one last time.

It was a perfect vacation. It was raining the next morning when we caught a cab to back to the airport. I can't imagine better weather, it would have been horrible if it would have rained the entire time we were there since we walked everywhere. The flights home went really well, I purchased a book at the airport, as I had finished the one I had brought. I think Rob and I realized how important it is for us to get away together. I wish it wasn't so hard logistically to get kid watchers lined up, but it is definitely worth it. Perhaps I should start planning for next year, it will be our tenth year of marriage...

Anniversary Cookie

This post is a little late. I was trying to think of something sweet and special to do for our Anniversary. Things were really busy, Rob was working 19 hours a day, and we really didn't have time to stop and celebrate, plus we knew we were leaving in a couple of days for vacation. Em suggested we make daddy cookies. I upped the ante, and we made a giant cookie, heart shaped. We frosted it, with purple and wrote friends on it, both were Emily's suggestions!

Grandpa's birthday

Grandpa came over Sat to spend the night so we could all meet up Sunday at Adventureland. We were going celebrate his birthday and Rob's. Turns out it decided to rain all day Sunday and we canceled. It was alright with me. I ended up with a day and a half virus or food poisoning, I am still not sure which. I woke up at 4:00 am, with similar symptoms of the epic sickness over Christmas. I swapped the bathroom for the bed all day, sleeping probably 20 hours or so. By Monday I was mostly myself again, just tired from not eating, drinking, and or moving. I seem to be the only afflicted person, perhaps it was food poisoning. I am thankful that my husband wastes no time and ran for my comforting orange Gatorade at 6:00 am, and he took care of the kids all day. He said it was nice to spend time with them too!