Janelle and Archer had a great time playing with each other in the front yard
They even mimicked each other's facial expressions without realizing it!
When I came over this particular afternoon, Rebekah and Janelle were having a candle-lite vigil on the front porch. They had been going through all of the stuff they had packed away when they had left home for college, throwing away things they no longer felt like keeping. Something that didn't make the cut? All of their random shaped candles that had been collected over the years. So they decided to light them all at once.
Archer climbing up Grandma's legs (before doing a backflip back onto the ground)
Ann making sure that Archer stays hydrated
Archer often got some quality diaper time outside after dinner. He would get his clothes all messy at dinner and then just got to run around in just him diaper until bath time later in the evening.
Little monkey boy :)
Um, yeah, that's a stuffed rat in my diaper bag. Rebekah found this among her packed away belongings, and she and Janelle thought it would be fun to place the rat in random places around the house to startle other people. And it eventually wound up in my bag. I promptly took it downstairs and placed it in Janelle's bed :)
Ann takes advantage of Grandma and Grandpa's TV almost every time we are there. She will sit in their Big Bird chair and usually watch Sesame Street. But this day we watched a Winnie the Pooh show. She was entranced while holding on to a stuffed Eeyore.
Playing in a laundry basket
Such a cutie
Looking at the pictures Grandma took with her phone
Group effort diaper change
A week ago on Friday we all headed out to the little zoo at Oxbow Park. It was the first time we'd been this year so it was fun to watch Ann enjoy the animals more now that she's older. Here she's watching a black bear pace around his home.
Looking sharp in the stroller
Archer getting a boost to look at the prairie dogs
The cute little prairie dogs (it was fun that they were up and moving around today, they sometimes will just hide in their tunnels so you can't seem them)
Hello there mr. badger
This male turkey was really trying to impress the two females. He was constantly puffing himself up and fanning his feathers.
In the visitors center just before we left. We had a great time....
...but then illness sabotaged the rest of our weekend together. On the Saturday before Rebekah and Janelle were to leave, Ann came down with a fever (and we later found out that Janelle came down with pneumonia). Ann ended up vomiting a few times that night after her fever started spiking up to 105+ F. I stayed home with her on Sunday instead of going to church. We took her into an insta-care, where they took a strep test, but it came back negative. We saw her pediatricians nurse practitioner on Monday and she said it was just a virus that would cause really high fevers, but not many other symptoms. Apparently we were the 3rd case of it they'd seen just that day.
The advil and tylenol that we'd give Ann helped her fever a lot and she'd start acting fairly normal.
But then she'd crash again when the medicine would start to wear off and her fever would coming raging back again. Then all she wanted to do was cuddle and/or sleep. If I tried to move her she would start to cry.
Asleep on mommy and daddy's bed while cuddling her ball
Why are you taking pictures of me, mom?? (you can see how red her cheeks were from her fever)
Before nap time on one of the days she was still sick. She was so tired that she fell asleep in her chair while I read stories to her. The doctor we saw said that the fever could last 3-5 days. Luckily it only lasted about 3 days, but it was a rough 3 days of up and down fevers. We're so glad that Ann is finally feeling better and is back to normal now. Unfortunately Rebekah and Archer left town before Ann was better. Janelle extended her stay to recover from her pneumonia so we got to see her more until she left yesterday.
One night we needed more medicine for Ann and since she was asleep on me, Tom went to the store. He came home with medicine for Ann and flowers for me :) He said he just saw them and decided to get them on a whim. I didn't mind :)
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