Tuesday, 07 July 2009

• We had a pretty good fourth of july weekend.  Randy was off on Thursday and Friday, so it was really nice having him around and being able to take a shower whenever I needed to instead of during naptime!  My sister Bethany came up (she's interning at a missions place in Texas this summer), oh my gosh...I miss her so much. 

  

  I'm so used to her being around during the summer to hang out with.  It's so nice to have some company and she even babysits for us once in a while, which is nice!  Anyway, she got here Thursday night, so we spent the whole weekend w/ the family.  Friday we went to a park to fly kites and then went to lunch.  That night we went over to my parent's house for dinner. 

  Saturday we just stayed home and relaxed in the morning and that afternoon we went to a historical museum downtown.  They have some buildings from some of the original settlers in Arkansas and it's all set up like it was in the 1800's w/ people in costume and everything. 

  

  

  They had old-fashioned games, a parade, crafts and watermelon.  It was fun.

  

  Inside the museum they had a lot of original artifacts and a neat children's area w/ a puppet stage and a dress-up booth and games and stuff.  Madelyn LOVED the puppets!  She just kept giggling and smiling at them.  It was cute.

  

   

  I can't believe I caught her "scrunchy-face" on camera!

  We went and ate barbecue after that and then went home to relax a little before the fireworks.

  
  (From Left:  Parker, Bethany, Crazy Uncle Willy, Maddie, Grandad, "Tee-Tee" a.k.a. Timothy, Jessica, "Honey," and Randy)

  

  

  Making cupcakes.  I wanted to do something special w/ Parker for the holiday.

  We went downtown for the fireworks and oh my gosh...we'll never do that again.  The traffic was terrible and it was so incredibly crowded.  There were people drinking and smoking (not everywhere, just in little groups here and there).  We normally go to a different part of town that a small community and the fireworks are just as great, but you don't have to fight the crowds and traffic.  It was so late too, by the time we got home and got the kids in bed.

  

  Parker kept saying, "Momma, wook! wook!  Right dere, right dere!"  Every time a firework would shoot up in the sky.  Maddie Grace wasn't a fan.  Bless her heart, she was so tense the whole time.  She started watching them after a little while, but she had a firm grip on me!

  Saturday night, around midnight, I was nursing Madelyn and I heard Randy run through the house and throw open Parker's bedroom door.  I knew immediately what was happening.  He was having another seizure.  It's crazy, he went eight months without one and now he's had two in a month.  He was running a low-grade fever and it got a little higher afterwards.  The good thing is, he came out of it on his own.  We didn't have to use his kit (it's valium).  We couldn't believe he was sick again.  So we've been laying low ever since then to give him a chance to recoup.  I took him to the doctor yesterday and he has strep throat.   Poor kid.  They had to give him an antibiotic shot.  We decided to do the shot because strep is famous for causing seizures and we didn't want to risk him having another one.  The shot was terrible.  The poor thing started crying before they even did it.  He's had one once before and I think he remembered.  I went to McDonald's and got him a milkshake afterward.  I figured he deserved it.

  So, this week will be pretty low-key.  I'm not planning on going anywhere the next few days.  He hasn't had a fever since yesterday afternoon and they said if he went 24 hrs. without a fever he will no longer be contagious.  So I'm hoping by Thursday we can be out and about.  That is, if Madelyn doesn't get it next.  He always in her face kissing her and they play w/ all the same toys.  So I'm just watching to her closely.  Hopefully since she's still nursing she'll be protected.  We'll see.

  I hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend!

   

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