Two for Tuesday

 What a crazy outfit -- a jacket since it's 49 outside now and shorts since the high is in the 80s!

With Mrs. Brittany (at daycare)

It's true.  Our baby is moving out of the Babies Room at daycare.  This is his last week.  Now that he's been doing one nap a day, I feel more confident to letting him move over where there is no crib to lay down in and just one scheduled nap time.  He's confident in trying to get around so I expect that walking is just around the corner.

Happy Tuesday!

Playing...

We're trying to have a brave face.  Maybe these animals will help!

Sunday was a better day for us -- Barry's had fewer trips to the bathroom and Tylenol has been helping Nathan.  So a few more light-hearted moments were had!

Nathan is getting pretty good at doing the shape sorter -- he's got the circle down (as you see in the video) and tries the other shapes too.  His fine motor skills are advancing and he's trying things that he has been unsuccessful in the past.  He's doing really well at turning the light switch off (with one finger, even!).

My two sickies

Hanging out on the couch while Momma gets dinner made!  Isn't it cute how Nathan sits with Barry to have a snack?  

We've had a rough week with Nathan being sick and then it hit Barry.  Here's a re-cap of our week:

Monday - Nathan wakes up in the night & throws up - stays home with a fever & diarrhea.
Tuesday - Fever is gone, but diarrhea continues - Nathan stays home.
Wednesday - Nathan seems better & goes to daycare; call at 1:30 to come pick up because of diarrhea.
Thursday - Nathan seems back to normal & goes to daycare; call at 9:45 to come pick up because of fever.
Friday - Nathan & Daddy stay home so no more calls from daycare; Daddy is sick.
Saturday - Daddy is sick.  Nathan is very whiny.  Momma is trying to run the whole show.

WHEW!  We have tried so hard to get back to normal and it just isn't happening!  Barry got the virus that Nathan had (although unrelated to Nathan) and is struggling to get back to life.  Nathan actually has a molar popping in which is the reason for his unease Saturday and into Sunday.

From the car seat...

Nathan is too funny with these shoes!  He doesn't wear them during the week because they don't end up staying on at daycare (that's why we have the baseball slippers), but on the weekend, they are our go-to shoes.  He's been doing this for the last week or so:

 As soon as he gets situated in his seat, he's undoing them!  He'll sit the whole ride with them open like this!

"Momma, really?!  Do you have to take my picture?"

"Peek-a-boo!"

Can you believe on April 27 that we'd be wearing jackets?  Nathan even had long sleeves on under his jacket!  It was a rainy chilly morning and we actually didn't stop wearing coats until late in the day.  Nothing like doing errands in the rain.

Friday Frolics

 This is what Nathan does best -- getting where he wants to go using whatever he can hold onto!

Here Kitty Kitty!  I'll play with you! 

I had some extra time with Nathan this week and just loved it!  He is getting so active and wanting to try all sorts of new things.  We had a paper towel roll emptied this week so I gave it to him for his "do-duh-do" and  demonstrated how to talk into it.  He immediately put it up to his mouth, but since he doesn't know yet how to make the right sound, just chewed on it!  Later he came back to the roll and handed it to me to make the noise.  Too funny.  I read on one of my parenting emails that often at this age, they only need to see you do something one time before they mimic you -- and that might be a week later after they saw it.

Hopefully our little guy will be back to feeling like his normal self and the weekend will be fun.  More work on the car is scheduled.  Fun!

Boogie Fever

Well, the sickness is still hanging around.  We made it till 1:30pm on Wednesday until they decided that they'd had enough of Nathan (5 bad diapers).  Barry got him and they had a fun afternoon together (with no problems, either).  This morning we thought all was well -- no bad diapers and just a bit of teething going on.  But, I got a text at 9:30am saying that he had a fever and we needed to get him.  I do believe that it was teething related (because somehow it dropped in the hour it took for me to get to the daycare), but what can you do when they don't want your son at daycare?  It just meant that we got to have some time together!

I found this birthday card in some things I was going through in the office and knew Nathan would love it.  He has a fever, but how much more fun to have "Boogie Fever"?!  We danced to this all afternoon!

We're not even going to try for daycare tomorrow.  Barry'll keep him home and get over this crud!

Two for Tuesday (Sick edition)

 Trying to have fun even though he's not feeling well

Being twins with Momma and going on a walk

The fever didn't really break until Tuesday morning so it was another day at home.  Nathan seemed to be feeling better, but continued to have bad diapers.  Poor thing!  His butt was so raw.

Since he was doing better today, we went for a little walk in the neighborhood.  Toward the end it was too much and I was trying to race home (forgot the paci for the walk!).

We're optimistic about going back to daycare on Wednesday.  Hopefully he'll be doing better!