Fever

Already into day 14 of the year and this is my first post.  I hope this tend doesn't continue!  Jay keeps me pretty busy while I'm at home and always wants to play when I have a free minute to blog here. 

Jay has a double ear infection.  We didn't know anything was bothering him until he ended up with 104.6 fever.  Not quite high enough to go to the ER, but enough for an urgent care doctor visit.  He's on an antibiotic and we're keeping his fever at bay with Tylenol and Motrin.  He always seems to be fine around supper time, just before bed time.  He's not playing quite as hard, but he still likes playing with his trucks.  He isn't eating quite as much, especially since Friday at lunch he ate an entire can of peaches plus a piece and a half of bread with hummus.  He'll still eat M&Ms though!

Jason worked his last Saturday yesterday.  They changed his schedule so now he has weekends off instead of Sunday and Tuesday.  He won't have to take as much vacation time since he'll already have Saturdays off for us to travel anywhere.

I was planning on being in Miles today, but Jay's fever was pretty high when he woke up this morning.  We'll try again tomorrow.  I won't go back to work until mid-February, possibly even later.  I'm not sure if I'll start back full-time or part-time.  I've also been working on finding recipes to make more of our food so we don't have to buy as many processed items.  I received a tortilla press for Christmas and it makes tortilla making so much faster!  Homemade tortillas are really the way to go!

Jay also finished the toddler's reading program at the library and received a new book!  It's about popcorn, one of his favorite snacks!  I might have to make some for a snack on our trip!

Happy Holidays!

Jason, Jay and I are very fortunate that we live so close to family.  We are able to spend some time with both sides at Christmas!  Jay gets to play with all of his cousins and Jason and I get to have some good, adult conversations.  We were very fortunate that the weather was good and made travel easier.

I think our house is a little more in order than it was when we first got back.  We have a lot of boxes to get rid of yet.  I'm still looking for homes for a few things, but once I get rid of some more clutter, that shouldn't be a problem. 

This weekend is jammed packed with visitors!  Jason's parents are coming down today for our choir's cantata tomorrow.  A friend from Texas is traveling through Iowa with her girls and would love to stop and see us.  (Not to mention a shower and some home cooking!)  Tomorrow, some friends of ours from Independence are coming out for the day.  We're going to have a busy couple of days!

Jay has discovered how fun it is to stick food up his nose.  It started with corn, then rice.  I'm trying to make sure to feed him food that is too big for his nose now.  It definitely changes things!  Jay and I also went and bought "Cars 2" and he is just as enthralled with this movie as "Cars".  The same people who made those two movies are coming out with a new one, "Planes" based on the planes from the movies.  Jason and I are planning on taking Jay to see it in the theater!

I am planning to take a trip to eastern Iowa in January, with Jay in tow.  We'll be leaving Ames the afternoon of the 13th and returning sometime the following week.  There are several people that have requested a visit, and we're going to try to see everyone, but we'll see how things go.

Jason will no longer be working weekends come January 14th.  He's been working weekends again for the last two years, so we're hoping that he'll get to stay off weekends.  That will help him accumulate some vacation time instead of using all of it. He's very excited about it!

We hope everyone has a wonderful New Year!  We'll be in Ames, celebrating at home and spending New Year's day with friends.  We hope everyone will be able to be with loved ones!

No Party

Jay and I made the trip to Des Moines Friday night to go see the Ryan family.  It took us about an hour and a half to get to the hotel.  Luckily, Jay slept halfway.  I spent some time talking with Cyndy and Eric while Jay decided to wrestle Kjetil.  Jay had so much fun!  We even got to go swimming.  I think Jay's favorite part was checking everyone's hotel room out.  He was very good about following me around the hotel to go to different places. 

We shared a room with Jordan and her boyfriend, Andrew, and his dog, Sally.  It was a long night since Jay was overly tired and overly excited about everything.  It took several YouTube views of the "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" theme song to get him calm enough to lay down and go to sleep.  He woke up around 4:30am, after finally going to sleep about 2am.  He cried and cried, then started coughing this barking type cough.  After discussion with Cyndy, it's most likely croup.  The hotel room was very dry.  I finally got Jay back to sleep about 5am after taking his jammies off, Jordan turning the heat down in the room, watching some Disney Junior and finally getting him to drink some water.  Of course I had to wake him up to get him ready to go so we could check out on time. 

Jay and I did not get to stay for the family party.  Dad wasn't feeling well with his cold, so the three of us came back up to Ames.  And since Mom and Jordan didn't take the pinwheels I made out of the Pacifica, those came back to Ames with us!  Jay didn't take a nap when we got home, but he did end up going to bed at 6pm.  So far, no coughing!  (It's 7:30.)  Mom and Dad left to go back to Miles since Dad has to work tomorrow.  Jordan is nice enough to stay with us for the weekend to help watch Jay.  (Maybe we'll even get all of our presents wrapped!)