DJB's Big Kid Blog

Dumbfounded Dad

Every day he says something that causes me to drop my jaw in amazement. His latest thing is expressions. Not just that he is using them, but that he is using them correctly the first time we ever heard him say them! Tuesday I helped him to use the potty after he had been in bed for a while. He said "Daddy I think I'm going to play in my room for a little bit." I said "I dont think thats a good idea. You're still a little sick." His responce was "That's a good point Dad." He went to sleep right after without any problem...

Wednesday we ate dinner at The Melting Pot. When the waiter brought the dessert platter, Dex's mouth gaped and said "Wow! I can't believe my eyes!" Just today I told him he could pick out two cookies. So he said "Mmmm. Don't mind if I do." I guess I'll just keep shaking my head. I dont know why I'm still so supprised at his obvious brilliance; we all know his mom :)

What'd you say, Mommy?

This past week, we'd wondered if Dex was starting to ignore us, or just not be paying attention.  Since both Dan and I had colds, I figured that the reason he seemed to ignore us, or ask us to repeat ourselves a bunch of times, was that we both were hoarse/sniffly.

Friday night I picked Dex up from school, and while Dan had to work late, Dex and I had planned on going to a co-worker's house for pizza, poker, and quality time with his collection of 20+ Hess trucks.  However when I arrived at school, Dex was flushed, felt like he had a fever, and clingy.  The teachers said he had TWO accidents that DAY.  Lately, if there's ONE a WEEK, that's a lot.

He wouldn't let them take his temp, as they only have a thermometer that goes in your ear.  So I got him home, gave him a snack, and observed that he was definitely not himself.  I took his temp and it was 99 point something.  Our doctor didn't have evening hours, so rather than waiting til the AM, we went to Urgent Care up the street.  I called ahead and they had no wait, so while I knew he'd be really upset, I didn't want to wait another 12 hours and see what this was going to be.  After 2 weeks of him not being 100%, I was ready for this to be over with.

The doctor said he had one ear that was completely impacted with ear wax.  So that's why he's not hearing so well!  The other one was red, so he said it could be a lot of things, and gave us antibiotics.  Dan picked them up on his way home from work, and I broke the news about no pizza or Hess trucks.  Sad :(

He was much better on Saturday for his visit with Aunt Martha, and stayed up late with us on Saturday night as we visited another co-worker's house, and saw BriBri and Nicci there.

Sunday we hung out around the house, Dan took him out for lunch, and lots of 'construction' occured in the basement.  His hearing is definitely getting worse, so I have to call our doctor in the AM.  He doesn't mind it, but it's noticibly difficult to get his attention, or for him to hear you if you call out to him from another room.

I'm ready for cold season to be over with!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Busted!

Who knew that trying to steal hershey kisses from the cupboard could be so cute?

Already a big hit with the ladies

Rainbow Sherbet Sky

Dan was showing Dex the sunset tonight, and how the sky was all stripey.  Dex said it looked like the sky was just like rainbow sherbet! :)

Friday: Dan had to work late, so I had planned on getting Dex from school.  What I hadn't planned on was getting an email at 10am about how my new car had arrived a week early!  So I shifted some things around to make sure I got the paperwork together from the bank before I got Dex, so I could get the car Saturday afternoon.  We had a fun outing after work, but Mini started acting up...the lock/unlock feature on my key stopped working!  I think it knew something was up.  Dan came home and brought us pizza for dinner, and then handled the bathtime routine, at Dex's special request.

Saturday: Took Mini to the gym while Dan stayed with Dex, then when I got home Dan went to help clean out Great Grandpa Frank and Great Grandma Shirley's house.  Dex wanted to go, but he would have slowed down progress.  So he and I hung out for a bit, then went to a local toy store to play with their train tables, before heading over to visit the cleaning crew.

After we got home, Dex fought naptime, so we just played and I cleaned out the Mini the best I could.  Once Dan got home, he packed up Mini's summer tires, took out the car seat, vacuumed the back seat for me, and I was off!  After an hour, I said goodbye to Mini, and hello to Rover. :)  Aunt Becky watched Dex in the evening so we could take Rover out for a spin and get dinner + a movie in.

Sunday: As Dex hadn't seen Rover yet, I told him 'he' was in the garage waiting to meet him.  Dex was really excited and wanted to sit in the car.  So since you can play a dvd on the nav screen when it's in park, I put a movie on for Dex while I installed his car seat.  Once that was done, we made a coffee and donut run and brought it back to the house in time for Dan to wake up.

We stopped over to visit the cleanout crew again, then did shopping, lunch, naptime, had a visit from Todd, and then usual Sunday evening activities....cleaning, laundry, pretending to be knights/construction workers/puppies.  Dex still has a cough and a pretty runny nose as of today, so hopefully it's not going to take a turn for the worse.  Dan and I are both battling various levels of congestion.  Maybe when we finally all kick it, we'll be done for the season?  I sure hope so. :)