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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

sick in the summertime

about a week and a half ago i went into dave's office to do some work for them, leaving the boys with mom and dad. when i went to pick them up my mom and i talked about how both boys have always been so warm. she stated the talan felt really warm, but when she felt his forehead to see if it was a fever, it didn't feel like it.
so we go home that evening and talan is clingy and whiny and continues to be really warm. i finally decide to take his temperature and sure enough, he has a fever of 104.
we wake up the next morning to find hayden complaining that several things hurt. a bit later he's seeming to be run down and when i feel him, he's also burning up. we take his temperature, same thing. 104.
when hayden was little we NEVER had to go to the dr. he was a super healthy kid. only had 1 ear infection from the time he was born till 4 years old. then, within the past year, he's had 3 ear infections. and about the only thing that gives it away is his fever.
so when fevers hit, i never took him to the dr. nothing they can do about it. just something you need to get our of their system. but now, with all of the ear infections these kids have had, i've become completely paranoid and have no idea when i should or should not take them in.
seeing as though their fevers were so high and it was a friday, i figured i'd bring them in just to make sure. the dr. said neither of them had ear infections, but that is something that can change in an hour. so we were told to bring them back if the fevers lasted more than 4 days.
mom and dad planned on coming over for father's day that sunday and i figured that the fevers should be down by then. they were. to about 102. and then hayden puked. wonderful. the never ending illness. father's day plans canceled.
monday comes and both boys seem to be doing much better. the fevers seemed to be gone and they were acting more like themselves. then, come the afternoon, hayden was lying on the couch not looking well. i take his temperature again and it's back up to 104 again.
thankfully by the next day it was gone and they have been well ever since. it was nice when the weather became cool and we could open up this germ infested house!
so i think we're all back to normal and hopefully will start being able to do some fun summer time activities!

talan wasn't sleeping well so one nite we got him out of bed for a bit. he was happy just to sit (which tells you how sick he was!) in dave's lap and watch football clips on the computer with him:

Sunday, June 8, 2008

the national

last nite, jessica and justin graciously came over to watch the boys so that dave and i could go out for the evening.
we first headed to fuddruckers to meet up with our friends jeremy and sarah. we haven't seen jeremy since i was pregnant with talan and we haven't seen sarah since well before then so it was great to spend some time with them. my burger was incredible...i highly suggest the southwest burger.
after dinner, sarah headed for home while jeremy headed to the brand new crofoot ballroom in pontiac with us to see the national. we were also meeting up with our friends eric and jennie shanburn and kevin brace at the show.
the crofoot ballroom was beautiful. the only problem was it's a bit smaller then st. andrews hall and the show was sold out. with my tendency to have panic attacks when around too many people, this did not help my cause. the only problem i saw with the venue was the fact that there was no real place you could go to just get away from people and still see the show. had my panic attacks gotten too bad, i could have walked out the door to the outdoor bar area which was also really cool. i somehow was able to keep it all in check though, possibly because the show was SO GOOD.
i usually end up going to shows and remembering why i don't like people. they are rude and have no consideration for anyone else around them. these are the drivers that i hate on the road as well. i am 5 feet 4 inches tall. that's not very tall. especially when you're packed into a club with 1000 other people, most of which are taller then that. but for whatever reason, at every show, i have the total idiots come and stand right in front of me. now, when i say right in front of me, i mean DIRECTLY in front of me. there could be no space at all between me and the person i am currently behind, but in walks the group of tall, usually borks, and they somehow squeeze right in front of me.
last nite was no exception. 3 borks and one of their girlfriends were more or less standing on my toes...as well as jeremy's. they were like big dogs that don't realize how big they are. but i think it's more that they don't care how big they are. even with all the sarcastic comments i made, they didn't move. well, they did move but it was always even closer to us.
i don't understand how people don't care about their own personal space. maybe it's because i need mine to an extreme, but i just don't get how you can be jabbing someone with your elbow and they act as if they don't even feel it.
so here i'm complaining and making it sound as if i didn't have a good time, and that's not the case. last nite i kept my comments and looks to a minimum and i didn't even really do the elbow thing or throw any punches. that's something pretty big considering how many people were there.
the opening band was a band from detroit, zoos of berlin, and they weren't half bad. probably nothing i'd go out and buy but a welcome change from the countless HORRIBLE opening acts i've seen in my day.
then the national came on and they were incredible. truly. if you ever have a chance to see them, do it. i have seen many shows. shows that i'm glad i saw and would see them again. shows that weren't anything super amazing, but just good to see live. this is a show i would recommend to everyone, as long as you don't come and stand directly in front of me.
every year dave and i go to chicago for the 3 day music festival, lollapalooza. this year, the national is going to be there. one of the reasons we decided to go see them last nite was so that if they were playing at the same time as someone else we really wanted to see, we wouldn't feel bad missing them since we just saw them. well, after last nite's show, i'm not sure what i will do if they are up against someone else we really want to see. the show was so good last nite that i'm super excited to see them in an outdoor venue where it's wide open space with everyone dancing and NOT on my feet.
so the moral of the story is: if you are tall and go to a show, please be aware of others around you...you can see over top of other people, but people like me cannot. AND...go see the national if you get the chance. you will thank me.
thanks to jessica and justin for making last nite possible for us by watching the boys. especially since you had to wake up so early this morning for work, jess. seriously....you guys are the best.

jeremy, jennie, eric and dave:

the idiots. i plan on starting a website where people take pictures of idiots and post them. then people can write in like "i know that guy...and he IS an idiot!":

it was hard to get a good picture in there. these were the best. they show up better if you click on them:

dave and kevin after the show:

Saturday, June 7, 2008

finishing up the big day

so friday after going to the sprinkler park and then going to hayden's new school for the spring fling, we all headed over to grandma and grandpa's to pick up jessica and justin so we could take a trip to cone zone.
because we just hadn't had enough junk to eat at the spring fling, we had to go and get ice cream! we ended up leaving talan with grandma and grandpa so that later on in life he can complain that we never took him anywhere.
with jessica in talan's carseat, we headed off. hayden got a chocolate ice cream cone dipped in sprinkles and did really well eating it. they were melting really quickly, and even though he was a mess, it could have been much worse!
the ice cream was great, and so were the slush puppies. maybe we'll stop off for some cone zone in between the wedding and the reception in august!

yes, they always eat making this face:

the blue is from the snow cone he had earlier:

she made almost as big of a mess as hayden did:

justin wishing there were more sprinkles:

"does it ever end?!":

"here mom, take this. i just can eat anymore":

hayden and justin:

hayden, justin and jessica:

let the summer begin!

we had a big day on friday....a really big day. we started it off by going to the plymouth sprinkler park to meet our friends jenne, trey and marissa since it was going to be over 90 degrees. apparently, everyone else had the same idea since the park was PACKED. we went several times last year and it was never as crowded as it was yesterday. every couple of minutes you'd have a mini heart attack when you would look around and couldn't find your kid. no worries, i always did end up finding him.
i wasn't quite sure how this day would go seeing as though last year i had an independent 4 year old and an immobile 3 month old. i was able to sit under the shady trees with my friends and have, for the most part, uninterrupted conversations. this year would be different. i now have an independent 5 year old, which is great, but a walking all of the time 1 year old. i also wasn't sure how talan would like the sprinkler aspect. he loves his baths, but the last time water sprayed him, he wasn't so fond of it.
hayden, of course, ran right in as soon as we got there. he spent most of his time running around the sprinkler park and then running over to play on the big hill. he would occasionally make his way over to the towels to get something to eat. but i pretty much didn't see him most of the day.
talan was a little sceptical at first. he wanted to be around the water, but only with me holding him. at one point i was able to finally put him down and he started walking around. when the water would spray him he would put his arms up and wait for me to come get him. never really crying or freaking out, just making it known he didn't really like what was happening to him.
i'm not sure how or when it happened but he eventually became braver and braver and was suddenly walking right through the sprinklers. he'd get out of one, put his fingers up in the air and start smiling and yelling as if he was letting everyone know this was the greatest thing in the world. after this point i wasn't able to get him out of the water.
he probably walked over a mile. in and out of sprinklers. at one point he made his way over to a pair of shoes (he has a MAJOR shoe fetish. he just loves playing with shoes) and then another time made his way over to some older man babbling away at him and trying to get the man to give him some of his pop.
i am a horrible mother and allowed hayden to get a sunburn on his shoulders and back. not even quite sure how that happened since he didn't get burned anywhere else. he actually woke up around 4am this morning and had 101.5 fever! yeah, i felt like crap. but after some medicine and some more sleep, he woke up feeling fine. we'll be sure to reapply suntan lotion from now on!
we ended up leaving a little after 1:30 since we were headed to hayden's new school that evening for the spring fling (you can find those pictures on hayden's blog) and i knew that talan had to be exhausted (he was, as he fell asleep immediately in the car and then when we got home he slept until about 5pm!)
so no, i wasn't able to have an uninterrupted conversation, nor sit under the shady trees, but i did get quite a bit of sun....and we had a great time! i have a feeling we'll be out in the water A LOT this summer!