Well on Wednesday I went to pick Sawyer up from day care and his teacher, Mrs Sandra, told me that Sawyer just did not seem to feel good. When we got home I checked his temperature to find him with a 102.5 fever... poor baby. No real symptoms to pin the temp on so I gave him Tylenol and thought it might be teeth. Later that night I checked on him while he was sleeping to find him burning up with a temp of 103.5. Oh my, that is when a little bit of panic started to creep into this mommy's heart. So I decided to call my great friend, April, and then later the nurse on call( I hated to be one of those moms that call for no reason but April confirmed that I had pretty good reason). We were in the office the next am at 7:30 to find out we have a viral throat infection, and ANOTHER EAR INFECTION!!!!!!!!!!! One more round of antibiotics for the little man. We are scheduled for a follow up with the ENT in September. I would imagine tubes are in the very near future.
Despite being a puny little boy this week, it really has not slowed him down. If I must say so myself he is sooooo cute. He has just learned how to melt your heart and mine by blowing kisses. Today, he was blowing kisses to complete strangers. They love it though because they would blow them right back. What if we all walked around blowing kisses to each other would we get the same response? Maybe we should all try it sometime and see the reaction. Sawyer has such a sweet little personality. He waves to everyone ( he loved to flirt with the teenage girls last weekend at the Japanese restaurant), he blows the most adorable kisses you have ever seen, and loves to laugh out loud when you play peekaboo with him. I never could have imagined how much fun we would get to have with him.
Stephen just finished his 4th semester of school... looks like he got B's in his 2 classes. He has a short break and starts Fall Semester on Monday night. This semester he is taking a math class at Troy/ Dothan and 2 others at Wallace. Unfortunately the math he needed was not offered at the time he needed so he was forced to take it at Troy/ Dothan (which is a little more expensive). With three classes this semester he will have very little time for much fun. We have to remind ourselves ( remind Stephen that is) that slow and steady wins the race, and that anything that is worth having takes a lot of hard work and dedication. Hopefully in a few years he will have a rewarding career to show for all his sacrifice and hard work.
For those of you curious about the "healthy eating journey" we are still doing great. Stephen has lost 12 and I have lost 3.5 pounds. Weigh in day is tomorrow so we shall see what the scale holds for us both. I do have a pretty funny story about one of our bumps in the road to being healthier. We went to Eastaboga this past weekend to visit my Mom and on the way home we both started to get a desire for something sweet. We pulled into dairy queen for a small cup of plain vanilla ice cream because we all know that ice cream is both of our weakness. Well what do you know, that small cup of plain ice cream turned into a small NUTTER BUTTER BLIZZARD. OOPS! Well we enjoyed it and when we got home to record our caloric intake for the day we realized that that oh so sweet little treat was 620 calories!!!!!!!!!!! I mean seriously, that is half my caloric intake for the day. Lesson learned that day... know what your are eating before you eat it, and when you cave in to the calling of the sweet little nutter butter blizzard ( which was fabulous by the way) dont beat yourself up!
