Long weekend and other going ons.

Where to begin? These past few weeks have been so hectic! Between planning a birthday party, having a very sick child, and running to Little Falls and to Duluth, I'm surprised we can even get up in the morning.

Noah was at my mom's house for a week, so I had to go to Little Falls last Thursday to pick him up. While there, my mom mentioned that he had a cough, that only appeared to come out at night. I think he has an allergy to cats though, so I wasn't to worried. When Thursday arrived, I was all excited to pick up my little man. I got to my parents house, and the television was playing. It was Noah's birth video and First Birthday! It made me so sad! I can't beleive he is already going to be three years old. My mom, Noah, and my little brother, Ethan, came home though shortly after. We played with their dogs Max and Ruby, before heading out to lunch at a Mexican resturaunt. After lunch we went to the Minnesota Military Museum. That was the funniest thing I had ever witnessed as a parent! They had a lot of mannequins dressed in diffrent era combat attire, and while looking at assorted weapons and gear from diffrent wars and eras past, Noah leans over, tugs on my mom's shirt and whispers "SHHH! GUY!", while pointing at a mannequin. Oh how we laughed! Turns out, he was pretty creaped out by all the mannequins, and I do have to say, they are pretty creapy, and gives the whole museum a eerie feel to it. Afterwards, we say soldiers dressed in full uniform with M-16s. Fortunatley, Noah wasn't scared of the soldiers at all. We left for home, and Matt was really happy to see his little boy blue. That day, Matt and I finished paying for my wedding dress as well....

The next day, Matt picked Noah up from daycare, and took him to the doctor to get his cough checked out, which they said was probably just a cold. Even though, when Noah would cough, it would leave him doubled over, and really red in the face. Everything seemed fine, so I got off early, and we went to Duluth to get a gift for a little girl that Noah is friends with at daycare, since Matt was taking him to her birthday party the next day. We also picked up my dress.( How exciting!) Noah was a little Crankasaurus Rex on the way home, and fell asleep with my sweatshirt over his head. He was complaining about being cold too, which, feeling cold myself I didnt think anything of it. We got home, and I took Noah's temp. , and it was 102.3! I gave him some Motrin, and thought that might be it.

The next day, Saturday, I went to work. Noah seemed better than the night before, but still told Matt that if he wasn't up to the party to not take him. Matt called me at 11:30 and told me his fever was back up to 102, so I hurried home. All day Saturday, my little buddy was feeling ill, until he fell asleep at 6pm. I thought his fever had broke, and felt much realived....but it came back only after an hour and a half after it had broken. On Sunday, it remained the same, despite switching between Children's Motrin, and Baby Tylenol, so we called the nurse help line, and they advised us to go in.

The E.R. ended up doing, a WBC, which came back at 18, a high count. They told us they thought it was bacterial, and they wanted to know where it was coming from. So they did a strep test, a chest xray, and a UA. For the UA, Noah wouldn't pee in a cup, so they had to cath him, and I felt so bad! He just cried and screamed, but was to weak to even fight us! Everything came back normal though, so they just gave us a broad spectrum antibiotic, and told us to keep up with the Motrin and Tylenol. On Monday, Noah seemed better, but still pretty lethargic, but by the time Aunty Katie came, he was all smiles, and fairly wild, even though he took a late, long nap, and went to bed without complaint, and then slept until 9am. He is defintley on the mend now, but I still feel weary. This has been the longest weekend of my life.

As far as other news goes, Matt and I are looking at houses, and I had a job interveiw yesterday. Say a prayer I get it, because Noah would only be in daycare six hours a week! Not only that, but I really miss working with residents. The job is for a company called Orion Corporation of Minnesota. I would work as a PCA, they offer free dental, and 401(k). Medical isn't free, but it's cheap, and it would be nice to have my own insurance again! As much as I love cake decorating, it's getting old. People expect an "Ace of Cakes" type of cake, or want me to be a mind reader. Either that or they want all this elaborate crap on their cake, and, when put all together, looks like shit. My common catch phrase at work is " People should not be allowed to use their imagination, they often don't know what they actually want" I will load some pictures later today of some cakes I have done.\

And I just remembered about Noah's birthday party! This is whats making my week worth it! His birthday is actually August 6th, but I wanted to throw him a party in Little Falls, where most of our relatives, and friends are located at. My mom works the weekend of the 6th, so we decided the first it is! I have a pinata, and a scavenger hunt plant for Noah and his four friends. There will be some older children there, but in fairness to the smaller children( whom the party is for) they will not be playing the games. We are having hot dogs and hamburgers, my grandmas baked brown beans, pickles from her garden, and a cake that I will make myself (of course.) We took him to see Transformers a few weeks ago, and he loved it! i was so surprised that he watched the whole thing! So the theme is, of course, Transformers.

Its about time to get going to work today, peoples imaginations need repairing.

Birthday, Wisconsin, and Fourth of July

Sorry it's been so long, we have been going, going, and now I think we have (gone) crazy!

Well, the rest of June went by so fast, and already here we are, almost into the middle of July! We went to my parents house to celebrate my birthday, and my brother did show up. Sort of awkward, like the big unspoken gorrilla in the room. I think I already blogged about this though.

We went down to Matt's parents house over my birthday though, and boy was that fun! We left Friday morning, and left Monday morning. It's a long drive but well worth it. On Saturday the boys went golfing, and Mary, Noah, and I went shopping. I had such a blast, I don't remember having that much fun shopping. Mary bought me a really cute outfit( a green, greecian looking top, and a white A-line skirt, and a cute pair of sandals). Noah decided in Maurices though to play hide and go seek tag with Mary and I. He also made us stop and play everyone of those ridding machines. It was fun. We had a quick lunch at Culvers, and then we went home. We sunned for awhile, then went to a grad party. On Sunday we just lounged around, it was pretty relaxing, since we always seem to be on the go. On Monday we met Matt's grandparents in Menomine for lunch. It was pretty enjpyable, except Noah acting up a bit, since he was stuck in the car for three hours, and he knew he had to be in there alot longer. The drive home took about ten hours, and it felt good to get out of the car.

For the 4th of July we went fishing, and had a picnic at a playground in a neat by town. After Noah's nap, we made a nice supper, then went to fireworks at dusk. Noah wasn't as into these, as he was with the Little Falls Dam Festival. He kept wondering where the choo-choo was, since the ones in LF took place by the train tracks. Eventually he settled down though and watched them. We went home, made some smores, and went to bed.

We just had Noah's haircut( again), so I will post pictures of that on here too, asides from some miscelaneous pictures.