Fresh Eggs and Laundry: 08/01/2012

Thursday, August 30, 2012

It's getting hot in here...

Did I mention Travis got his first fever yesterday? As a person that has never really been all that intelligent in the area of sickness and common sense type things this threw me into a frantic tailspin. Thank heavens for older sisters.

Let me digress.

I got a call yesterday from T's school at 2:30 saying he was running a fever of 103.1. HOLY COW. In my mind this means my little man is cooking, so I drop everything I'm doing, throw on some shoes - the ones without socks, because they go on faster, find my keys, remember my wallet, haul butt into the car and instantly call the pediatrician. They, of course, say "bring him in" and that makes me worry even more.

Next call, Tammy. She consults her favorite baby book, Baby 411, and it says, don't freak out - get the kid some Tylenol and it should drop.

So, 25 minutes of a drive later toward his school and I screech into the Randall's parking lot, run to the pharmacy, frantically ask where the baby Tylenol is, bairly smile at the little checkout lady, hop back in the car and make a sprint into school to get him.

And what is he doing? Sleeping, peacefully.

The good news is, once he got a little Tylenol in him, that fever broke and he started feeling a lot better. He was a complete wet noodle - very little energy and super sleepy, but all-in-all he was fine. And today? Like normal. Amazing how kids bounce back. He started to get a little fussy again tonight, and a bit warm, but he's been - for all intensive purposes - just fine. We're going to keep him home tomorrow (because Jason's staying home!!) so it'll be good to be able to watch him.

Ohhh that little boy. Sometimes I wonder if there is anything else in my life and then I think, YES, YES THERE IS!!

Fun stuff: I bought a road bike. I've been wanting to do it since college. There was this fellow named Wes that I used to work with at Sam's Club in the Membership Department, and he would tell us these stories of how Austin is just the most amazing town to cycle in - it's so pretty and the hills are amazing and you can go out on your bike and just pick up a ride with other cyclists that are on the road. The sound of that was so cool to me that I've wanted to it ever since. THEN, I was in Colorado Springs a couple weeks ago and I got to cycle down Pike's Peak and I got the bug. So after spending 5 hours in a bike shop, learning about all the gear, I finally took my new little bike out for our first ride and it was GREAT. I love going fast and it was a lot of fun. I only rode for about 15 minutes but managed to burn nearly 200 calories in that time! If you want to go for a leisurly ride with me, let me know!

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

8 months

We've been a bit quiet over here in blog land, but it's not for lack of being busy, quite the contrary - so busy, I haven't had a chance to say HELLO to all of y'all.

Wanna see our cutie pie? He turned 8 months old Monday!