Still Sick

Long week. Jack's been sick since Sunday with his temperature peaking at 105.2 on Tuesday evening. Thursday he was fine, no temp, good mood. Then of course this morning he is puking his guts out. My theory is that he's not actually sick but that the mucus drainage from his cold is ending up in his stomach since he doesn't know how to blow and the sucker isn't really doing much. Then I think that's making his stomach upset. But still....I'm ready for a healthy family.

I Love My Boots

Jack's boot love continued today. Pretty much as soon as he saw them this morning he wanted them on...once again over feetie pajamas. I ended up taking him to the doctor this morning and indeed he went just like that, jammies and cowboy boots. Very stylish. While I did change him out of jammies, the boots have remained all day today, even through his nap. Every so often he just stops and points at them like he's so excited to be wearing them.

Sick Day

Sadly my baby is sick right now. He woke up with a stuffy nose yesterday morning and by the afternoon was running a temperature and acting as though he felt very poorly. Unfortunately, things didn't improve much today. His temperature has continued to rise today reaching a high 103.8 this evening. After speaking with a nurse I gave him a dose of Motrin which he promptly threw up in the following ten minutes. Awesome. Immediately after puking he saw the mac 'n cheese I had made for dinner and got super excited to eat some. I know I don't usually feel like eating right after I puke, but he sure went through his small portion quickly. We had to lie to him about there being more so he wouldn't eat too much too quick. Along with this sickness he has a slight cough. The other night I was showing him how to cough into his elbow to try and cut down on the germ spreading. He thought I said Elmo though, so know he thinks his elbows are Elmo's, or something like that. The picture below is from this morning. Jack found his boots in his room and brought them to me to put on. I told him that was silly since he had on feetie pajamas. But he insisted, so I obliged. He wore those boots around for a good hour or two before he asked to switch to his slippers...once again, over his feetie pajamas. So I guess if this is a sign of things to come Jack will be one of those kids who dresses super bizarrely because I let him pick out his own clothes. 

A New Friend

Last Friday Tanya brought Mikayla over for the first time for a few hours. Jack wasn't overly interested in her for a while but then Tanya laid her on the ground and Jack got brave. He knelt down near her and reached out like he really wanted to touch her but he was nervous. And then he laid down on his belly and reached out to touch her hand. It was the sweetest, cutest thing. He was so gentle with her and so interested in her. Every time he would just touch her hand he would pull back real quick and sit up like he was really excited but he wasn't sure if it was ok that he just did that. Tanya and I kept encouraging him and he held her hand several times for very short periods. He also waved to her and blew her kisses. Of course this very sweet, gentle side of Jack didn't last terribly long, before we knew it he was throwing his tractor around and Tanya and I were fearing for Mikayla's safety!

Monkey See, Monkey Do

I've been meaning to write this post for a while now and I just keep forgetting. As many of you know, Jack adores his daddy. For the past couple of weeks Jack has been making us laugh at dinner. Paul tends to not sit still very well, he's always tapping his fingers or something like that. Jack has picked up on this and now when we're all at the table together Jack has started copying almost everything Paul does. If Paul swats at a fly, Jack swats at a "fly". If Paul drums his fingers on the table, Jack drums his fingers. If Paul takes a drink, Jack takes a drink. If Paul taps on his glass, Jack taps on his glass (and wonders why it doesn't make the same sound). If Paul scratches his head....well you get the point. It cracks me up and it has really made Paul aware of all his little movements that I don't think he realized he did before. 

These pictures below really have nothing to do with the post above, but I took them recently and they make me smile so I'm sharing them with you. In the first one Jack just starting grabbing his face on day. Over and over he would do this as though there was really something wrong. The second picture of of Jack getting ready to jump. He has become a pretty good jumper lately and there are times that that's all he does is jump around as high as he can. He bends real low and shoots up. It has been observed that he possibly has a higher vertical jump than me. I'm sad to say.

O Christmas Tree Part 2

We finally got the tree decorated this evening! We've had the lights on for a few days and Jack knows how to turn them on, so every morning when we come downstairs he goes over to turn them on. But I don't really think they need to be on all day so we made turning the lights on a special event. Every evening when daddy comes hom Daddy and Jack go and turn all the lights on. It's a big deal and Jack gets a kick out of it. Jack wasn't the biggest help with the ornaments but we tried to make the evening very festiv and he definitly caught on to that. We had Christmas music playing and we tried to make everything seem very exciting. He loved the music and would get worried every time a song ended and we had to wait for the next song to start. He did "help" put up a few ornaments. The first one being a new Elmo one I bought him.

Not sure if we'll do the new ornament every year for him, but I saw this one and thought he would enjoy it. We hung it at his favorite spot to look at the tree and then we hung all the soft, non-breakable ornaments around the rest of the bottom. He helped select a few spots for those. And after running off to do a little dancing he came back and gave his Elmo ornament a hug followed by a few hugs for some nearby ornaments. Too funny. So the tree is done and the stockings are hung and to top off the night we enjoyed some milk and cookies and Jack got a bath which he loved. It was such a fun evening as a family and I found myself almost tearing up as I watched Jack enjoy his bath and thought about how much fun he'd had today and how much fun it was to get ready for Christmas as a family and how much I love that little squirt. Ahhh, emotional mommies. I don't think that will every change.

O Christmas Tree

Last night after Paul got home from work we went off in search of our Christmas tree. This is actually Jack's first Christmas tree as last year we did without due to traveling and a crawling baby. The few years before that we had gone to a tree farm and cut down our Christmas tree. But this year we traded in the "experience" for the convenience. Thankfully I don't think Jack will care and we are glad to have a tree now rather than later. So we packed up in the car and headed to the Jewel parking lot. We walked up and down the row of trees a few times and picked our tree. Jack was excited about the idea of it all and really liked to touch the trees.

We brought the tree home and set it up int he dinning room. Jack helped daddy put on the lights since he loves lights so much. 

Funny thing is after we put the lights up we didn't really like them because they were so stark white. We tried the LED bulbs and found we really missed the soft yellow glow of traditional white lights. So after dinner we went to Target and picked out different lights. Unfortunately, Jack had to go to bed before we replaced the lights so he didn't get to help with round two. And no ornaments have been put on yet because we just ran out of time. So hopefully tonight we can finish up the decorating. I think Jack will enjoy it. Every time he comes in the house or down the stairs he goes up to the tree, says his version of Christmas tree, and touches the branches and the lights.