We had the makings of a wonderful weekend, but things did not exactly end well. I took Colin to the park on Friday and we had a great time. He finally got in the sand box and loved it! He has been terrified of sand, so this was a big deal! I have been working out religiously and eating right for several days now, which has been bolstering my mood. I always find the first few days are the hardest and I am happy to have some momentum going. On Saturday we had dinner with our good friends Jeff and Natalie and their kids. Our boys are the same age and we have been close friends for several years now. They live about 45 minutes away from us, which keeps us from spending much time together now that everyone has kids. It was SO GREAT to see them on Saturday and we had dinner at Cristina's, which is one of our favorite places. The best part of the evening was having their oldest daughter with us. She is such a big girl now and Colin adored her. She kept the little ones entertained for a good portion of dinner, which was such a blessing! Even though Colin got antsy and did end up making a huge mess, I still had time to drink almost one whole margarita first, which is unheard of. :-) I had a salad at dinner and worked out extra hard that afternoon in preparation for my "cheat" drink. It was totally worth it! Colin ended up getting out of his high chair, pulling his bag of animal crackers out of the diaper bag (which I did not see him do) and dumping the whole bag across the crowded room. Lovely. He also started throwing silverware, which signaled the end of dinner. It will be very nice when dinners can actually be longer than 20 minutes again!
Sunday morning is when things went downhill...I noticed Colin coughing on Saturday and sure enough, he woke up with a high fever on Sunday. This has been the sickest I have ever seen him...even when he had that horrid stomach bug, he was in good spirits between being sick. This illness has knocked him down! He spent literally all day Sunday laying on the couch in my arms, which is so VERY unlike him that it scared me to death. I ended up at the children's urgent care place that afternoon and found out he has an upper respiratory infection with fever. I was certainly glad to hear it was not more serious. Colin continued laying on the couch yesterday as well and his fever spiked last night. He is still feeling yucky today, but is walking around and being more active. He has been a bear this morning and I know he is sick of the house. I took him to the park down the street to give him a change of surroundings, but after swinging for about 5 minutes he started to cry. I pulled him into my arms and he put his little head on my shoulder! HOW SAD!! So here we are, back home and watching The Wiggles. I hate seeing Colin feel so bad!!!! I also caught this crud from him, but it is not like I can go lay in bed. I soldier on!
It should also be noted that Colin does not want to eat
anything, so I went through the Sonic drive-thru to bribe him with something extra yummy. You will all be proud to know that I did not order anything for myself, nor have I had one single bite of the delicious goodies I got Colin. YEA ME!! :-)
Here is a great picture of the kiddos from Saturday night...Austin, Lydia and Colin. SO SWEET!
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