Spring Hat Day 2008

Since I am having problems uploading images, I think I will stop at these 4 images. For Nates hat we used his builder hat and made big daisy petals, for ike's I used a soft builders hat and small petals, both have a little painted in ladybug. Of course, both kids refused to wear the hats! As backup i saw in China a cute bug hat and a ladybug one for myself.

Nate's big daisy hat ended up on his classmates head for the parade. That same day I had to go and get Ike earlier from school, he developed a high fever, then at night he had a barky cough... he now has croup. Its day 4 and although had no fever today, am not sure his cough is getting better. He's now been quiet for 5 minutes after coughing for 30 minutes straight. Has had drinking water, bathroom steam (hmm... should I take him to the steam sauna tomorrow?). Ike hasn't eaten much in 4 days, can't say his cheeks have disappeared but his belly has gone down a bit.

We now have a cold front and temperatures have dropped alot. Or was it a heat wave we got the last two weeks?

I have finally started Nate on night time no diapers, I had been waiting for 3 straight days with dry diapers but Phedre in one of her weekly notes said, if they know they have it on they will pee in it... So we did a few things, we have moved his room to where he has his own bathroom, we have talked about it for some time and we have also bought a very absorbent lining for the bed. Day 1 went very well, he woke up and went to wee, happy that he accomplished a dry bed. Day 2 (last night), went not bad, he woke up at 7am today and it was because he peed but he made it for 12 hours!

Day 3 (today), I forgot to have him pee before going to bed (oh oh). He is either not feeling great or going thru a growth spurt because at 6pm he wanted to sleep (instead of 7 his usual bed time). He was yawning alot and passed out by 630. We did have a bit of excitement where he let the dogs out and Elli was at our garage. While carrying Ike, and holding on to Bullets collar, the other 2 rats went to attack Elli. probably too much for nate, he stood frozen unable to help me close the garage door and then started to cry as we was scared, not sure if its because he was scared for Elli or jake and pistol.