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More Sickness, Friends, and a 3 Day Weekend

So the teething fever from Tuesday turned worse and we went back to the after hours clinic on Wednesday. Regan had an ear infection in both ears, so we were prescribed another round of antibiotics. Darrell stayed at home with him Thursday and he didn't run fever all day, so it was back to daycare on Friday.

When we pulled into the daycare Friday, Reagan was smiling and waving and in a really good mood. When we walked into his classroom, he jumped right down, went and got a toy and turned around and waived at me. I was thrilled with this new accomplishment!

I got off an hour early Friday since it was the day before a holiday weekend, so I got to go pick Reagan up at 3:30. We headed over to Mom's so that Reagan could hang out with his buddy Ellie. She was clearly very excited to see Reagan! They hadn't seen each other in a month and it was very sweet the way they smiled when they saw each other.

Saturday morning, Reagan had a play date with the sons of two girls that I went to college with. I met Kathryn and her son, Lee, and Dawn and her son, Mason. Mason will be 2 in September and Lee will be 2 in December. We went to the Jumpy Gym that is around the corner from our house. None of us had been there before, so we weren't really sure what to expect. It ended up being really great! We got there at 9:30, which was really good because there were not many people there and everyone that was there had kids that were 3 and under. There were two older kids there, but they were maybe 7 or 8 and were playing with their younger siblings. The boys had a blast! We slid down the huge inflatable slides and Reagan just loved it! They had lots of toys there for the kids to play with, so they just ran around and jumped and played. We were there about an hour and a half and by the time I got Reagan home and fed him a little lunch, he passed out for a good two hours.

My friend, Tammy, came in from San Antonio and we met for lunch so that she could show me her Hawaii pictures. She got married last June and she and her husband just took their honeymoon trip to Hawaii. The pictures were just amazing! We came back over to the house after lunch and spent the afternoon playing with Reagan. He just loves Tammy!

Another one of my friends that I've known since 8th grade, Emily, who lives in Las Vegas now, was in town this weekend visiting her family, so I got to hang out with her on Saturday evening as well. We went and picked up pizza from East Side Pies and came over to the house to hang out. It's been about 3 years since I've seen her, so I was glad that we got to have a nice long visit.

Saturday evening, my nose started getting really stuffed up and I was having a hard time breathing. Sunday when I woke up, I was not feeling well at all. Mom and I took Reagan to go Zilker Park for a train ride. it's a 25 minute ride through the park and he was asleep before we got back to the train depot! We were going to hang out and play for a while, but he was done, so we headed back home. He slept all the way home and didn't wake up when I brought him in and ended up taking a two hour nap. I was feeling pretty bad and didn't leave the couch for the rest of the day. Finally about 7, I had cold chills and decided I was just going to go to bed. I was lying in bed just shaking and took my temp and it was almost 102. I decided to head over to the minor emergency clinic and by the time I got there, I had a temp of 103.5. The doctor said I have a sinus infection, but did a flu test just to make sure I didn't have the flu because my fever is really high for just a sinus infection. My flu test did come back negative, so I got a prescription for antibiotics and was on my way.

I am feeling a little better today and haven't been running fever, so I'm very happy about that. Darrell, Reagan, and I ran some errands and came back to the house and set Reagan's pool up. He had a great time!

Teething Fever

So, the first round of sickness came and went, well...sort of! The nose has not stopped running, but since it has turned back to a clear color, we are no longer worried about it.

Yesterday, when I picked Reagan up, the daycare said that they were just about to call me because he was running 100.3 fever. I picked him up and he didn't feel warm at all. I brought him home and he seemed to be feeling fine. I kept taking his temperature and he never had any.

I went ahead and took him in this morning since they didn't technically send him home yesterday and he never seemed to be running fever at home. They called me today at 12:15 and said that he was running 100.8 fever.

Darrell went and picked him up and brought him home. He said he's been pretty cranky all afternoon and finally took a 2 hour nap.

He's got about 3 or 4 teeth coming in right now, so we are pretty sure that's what is causing the fever. He's been chewing on his hand and drooling everywhere since the weekend. His teeth are definitely taking their sweet time coming in. He now has 4 on the top and has two on the bottom with a tiny point of a third. We felt a few that are coming in further back, so I'm sure that can't be too pleasant for him!

So tomorrow, it's my turn to stay home with him and I'm looking forward to snuggling with my sweet man!

Day Care Cooties

Well, we made it not quite two weeks before we had our first round with the daycare cooties. His nose has been running since the second day of daycare, but we had been keeping an eye to make sure the snot was clear and not green and that there was no fever. All was fine until I got a call from the daycare yesterday at about 3:45 telling me that Reagan had a fever of 101.I got off work and went and picked him up. When I got there, the teacher had him lying on his mat in the back of the room. He had a real glazed look on his face and you could tell he just didn't feel well. I got him home and he didn't want to go play or do anything except hang on to his Momma, which is always fine with me!

I had called the doctor to make an appointment for this morning, but once we got home and felt how warm he was, I decided to check out the Austin Regional Clinic after hours clinic, which is just a couple of miles from our house. I called at 6:15 to make an appointment and they told me to come in at 6:50. We got over and didn't wait very long. We saw an awesome physicians assistant that Reagan just love. She checked his ears and everything and said that his throat was irritated, but it was from all the drainage. His ears are clear and his chest is clear, but he did have 100 degree temp when we got there. She gave us a prescription for antibiotics, but told us not to give them to him unless he gets worse. She told us to give him tylenol to keep his fever down, keep his nose irrigated, and give him lots of fluids.

Darrell stayed home with him today. When I pick Reagan up from daycare, they always give me a daily report that tells me when he had his diaper changed, what he ate and when, how long his nap was, and what kind of mood he was in. Darrell, very sweetly, drew the whole little page on a piece of paper so I could see what Reagan had done today. He also noted that he was happy, tired, played will with others, and needed extra attention. He was barely able to keep his eyes open when we were eating dinner and he felt really warm again, so Darrell took him upstairs for an early bath and he has been asleep since 7:45. Poor little guy is just not feeling well! It looks like one of of is going to be staying home with him again tomorrow!

I know that getting sick is just part of being in daycare and as my friend, Amanda, reminds me, it is better for them to get sick when they are this age than when they are in kindergarten. I know that these little spells are helping him to get build his immunity.

Happy Mother's Day!

The first week of daycare ended on a successful note. Both Thursday and Friday, the teachers told me that Reagan had good days and was crying less. Friday, there was a note on the back of his daily report that said that Reagan didn't cry hardly at all and spent most of the day playing with the other kids. When I picked him up on Friday, Miss Gail was holding him, but she said that was the first time she had held him all day because every time they would pick him up, he just wanted down to go play again. I got a very pretty Mother's Day Card with Reagan's little hand print in it and several other works of art that he had done this week, one of which was a beautiful watercolor painting of a tug boat. I'm so glad that he is getting to do so many fun things.

He has been in the BEST mood all weekend. He's only taken one nap both days, each of which were around the same time that he naps while at school. It looks like he is getting the hang of his new schedule! He and I have both had stuffed up noses all weekend, but we are hoping that it is only allergies.

I ran the Chuy's Hot To Trot 5K on Saturday morning and didn't have very high expectations because I just wasn't feeling well. I ended up running it in 31:22! Last weekend at the Bun Run was the fastest 5K I had run yet and I did that in 34:24. So, to do it in 3:02 less than I did last weekend and not feeling well, I was ecstatic! I am SO close to running a 30 minute 5K, which was a goal that I had set while training for the half marathon. I have one more 5K scheduled for next weekend and then I have not registered for any other races for the summer.

Other stats about the Chuy's race:

--This is my third year in a row to do it and they have all been on the same course.

--It is usually very hot and humid when I do this race and therefore usually the last race I do for the summer because I don't do well running in the heat.

--This year, it was in the 60's and the humidity was very low because we got a week cold front that came in Friday evening. It was also a little windy.

--My past times for the race:

2008: 38:15 ( I couldn't figure out why I had NO energy. Two weeks later was when we found out I was pregnant!)

2009: 42:58 (Not quite 4 months after Reagan was born. I still had quite a bit of the baby weight and hadn't been running enough.)

2010: 31:22 (Not feeling great, but with the right temperature, I ended up having a great run!)

--This run goes right in front of my friend Rachel and Matt's house. This year, they made me a sign that was posted on their mail box. Pretty sure that helped me keep running fast!

Anyways, I'm totally THRILLED about this and am hoping that I can keep this up and continue to improve.

Yesterday evening, Reagan and I had gone to visit my Mom and take her her gifts, which was a very cute red table and red chairs for her patio. When we got home, Darrell told me that I could have part of my gifts then. He took me outside and he had planted a lemon tree. My friend Colleen had gotten us one when we first moved into our house, but sadly, it didn't make it through this very cold winter. I was sad about the loss of our lemon tree and Darrell remembered and got me a new one. He also got two other nice plants that he planted out in the front of the house. He told me I would have to wait until later to get the rest of my gift.

We were getting ready to go to bed last night, Darrell said that he and Reagan needed to do something and they went into Reagan's room and closed the door and were in there about 10 minutes. When they came in, Darrell was carrying Reagan and Reagan had a gift bag in his hand with a big smile. He handed it to me and watched intently as I opened the contents. There was a card that both Darrell and Reagan had written in with a beautiful silver heart necklace from James Avery that is called the Mother's Love pendant. I absolutely love it! As I was oohing and aaahing at the sweet card and necklace, Reagan did a face plant into the tissue paper and bags and started to gleefully throw it into the air. It was perfect!

We had a rough night last night. I was all stopped up and couldn't sleep and Reagan woke up at 3m crying as well. His nose was all stopped up as well. Once we suctioned all the snot out of his nose, we finally got him calm enough and we all got to sleep around 4. We managed to sleep until around 7:30. Darrell got up and did his usually early Sunday morning grocery store run and I made Reagan breakfast. Once Darrell got home, I went and picked up Mom for a Mother's Day breakfast at Trudy's. I had been to the one down on the UT Campus, but I had never been to the new one that's not far at all from the house. They had a great breakfast! The rest of the day has been spent lounging around the house with the boys and the dogs since it was raining off and on.

As I celebrate my second Mother's Day, I am so thankful and blessed to be the mother of such an amazing baby boy. I cherish every single day that we spend together and I love watching him learn new things each day. I know that each year, the meaning of being a Mother will become more and more amazing to me. I am truly blessed to have my Mother, who has taught me so many things and has helped me to become the mother that I am today as well. I know that she had a wonderful mother as well, whom I was so lucky to have gotten to spend so much time with as a child and learn from her so many things as well. I also have several very special Aunts that I love dearly and whom have mothered me and my mother both at some time or another. Any way you look at it, Mothers are very special people and we really wouldn't be where we are without them!

First Day of Daycare!

Here are photos of the first day that I left Reagan with my mom when I went back to work on March 9, 2009 and here is the photo of Reagan and I on his first day of daycare.

It went much smoother than I thought it would. Darrell and I both went to go drop him off since it was his first day. When we got there, there were two other little boys an two little girls. One little boy helped him get a toy down from a shelf and Reagan gave him a kiss. Darrell and I hung out in the room with him for about 15 minutes. He was pretty interested in the other kids and was exploring all of the fun toys that they had. He fussed just for a minute when Darrell and I left, but by the time we got to the front door, he had already stopped. The sweet lady at the daycare told me to feel free to call and check on him during the day. So, I called around noon to see how he was doing. She said that he had been a little fussy, but had eaten ok and was about to take a nap. She told me to make sure and call back after nap time, because she was sure things would be better than. Darrell called around 2 and they said that he was eating a snack and he had taken an hour and a half nap. The nap thing was what we were most worried about since he has pretty much always been held when he takes naps. They said he layed down on his cot and went to sleep fairly quickly.

When I picked him up this afternoon, he was ready to go home. He fell asleep on the way home and woke up when we got in. For the past few weeks, we have been going out to play in the backyard for about 30 minutes to an hour before Darrell gets home t make dinner. Tonight, Reagan sat in the yard for a long time just playing with sticks and rocks around him. Usually, he is running all over the place. He is absolutely exhausted right now and is curled up on Darrell being very mellow and babbling. I've got a feeling that it is going to be an early bedtime tonight!!

We are so excited about Reagan starting daycare and can hardly wait to see all of the new things that he learns each day!