Halloween Eve

Tonight we celebrated Halloween a day early at a fun weenie roast at Suzanne and Jeremy's house in Wallburg. The fire pit was burning, the kids were playing, and the weather was perfect for a fall celebration!  Here are our hosts, Suz and Jeremy, dressed up like Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers!

Kevin and I dressed up as spider webs to compliment our itsy, bitsy spider, Whit! Here I am with our little spider and Little Red Riding Hood (a.k.a., Sanna), Suz & Jeremy's daughter!

I made a dessert for the shindig that was inspired by a Rainbow Cake on MckMama's blog seen here. I wanted to make it festive for the season (and not quite so tall!) so I went with a three-layered cake in the colors of candy corn. Here are pictures of the outside and inside of my cake!

 

 

 

 

Lunch Date with Daddy

Today Whit was out of preschool (and I don't work on Thursdays), so we spent the best part of the morning trying to decide how to spend this beautiful fall day. Then, suddenly Whit asked, "Where's Daddy?" and it hit me like a bolt of lightening...let's go see him! This was a great idea today because: (1) it's been a while since Whit's been to the Grain Mill where Kevin works, (2) Kevin's been working late hours lately because corn is in season, and (3) it was an absolutely beautiful day to do anything outdoors! We quickly got dressed and headed up to Jonesville. Daddy was so happy to see us!

Just as we pulled in, a big loader truck pulled in to pick up some soy beans. Whit loves "big trucks" and loved even better getting up close and personal with one! His face in this picture is priceless!

He wanted very badly to "drive" the truck, but with all of those buttons and gears and such inside, we didn't think it was a good idea (although the truck driver, James, said he could sit in there). I just felt like that just might be a disaster waiting to happen! We walked around the rest of the mill and saw the brand-new grain bin that was installed recently. It's 80-feet high and holds 80,000 bushels. Here are some other pictures.

 

Whit is of course very "hands-on" these days and had so much fun touching things and playing in this wheelbarrow full of a corn/grain mixture.

After visiting the grain mill, we went to eat at Basin Creek Country Store in Elkin. When my parents had a house up at High Meadows we rarely made a trip up the mountain without either first stopping there or stopping on the way home. Whit slept for a little while in the car on the way home, and we had such a great morning visiting Daddy at work!

B O O M E R ---- S O O N E R !

How cute are these shoes???

Whit has been sporting them all football season in hopes to bring a win to the

Oklahoma Sooners (for Uncle Robert)

and the NC State Wolfpack (for Daddy)!

So far Oklahoma is 3-3 and NCSU is 3-4.

Hopefully the shoes will bring better luck to both teams in November and December!

P.S. The shoes even squeak each time Whit walks!

Sick Days

Look at that sweet face! Can you believe that he's "suffering" from pneumonia!?! Yep, it's true. Whit went to sleep at 8:00pm like any other normal Monday night, however at 11:00pm woke up to a fever of 101.9. We gave him some Motrin but before the fever went down to 99.1, it spiked up to 103.7. Of course I freaked out and immediately searched the web (& texted my Mom) to see if we should take him to the ER. Thankfully, temps of 103.7 aren't really that high for a two year old. Once his fever was down, he went back to sleep and slept pretty soundly from 1:00-7:00am.

I stayed home with him on Tuesday. He didn't run a fever for most of the day and was doing his normal activities, which mostly consists of begging to watch Barney (over and over and over) and letting Charlie sniff whatever he's snacking on and then taking off running, taunting Charlie with the food while giggling and tripping over toys.

I got a text from my step-sister, Erica (Whit stays with her the 3 days I work), and her daughter, Emily also had a fever on Monday night/Tuesday, went to the pediatrician, and was diagnosed with H1N1. Whit had an appointment with the same pediatrician at 3:00pm that afternoon and if I were a betting woman, I would have put down good money that he also had H1N1. When we arrived at the pediatrician's office, his fever was back, but "only" hovering around 101. Thankfully, the flu tests came back negative, however he was diagnosed with beginning pneumonia in his right lung. We left the pediatrician with prescriptions in hand for a high-powered antibiotic and steroids.

So far, the side-effects of both drugs have been worse than the "beginning pneumonia in the right lung." The steroids cause Whit to either be hyper-active or irritable, with a little bit of a look of being stoned thrown in the mix. The antibiotics are pretty rough on his digestive system, and must be given with yogurt because his GI tract needs the probiotics.

Kevin stayed home with Whit Wednesday morning while I went to work and then we switched off at lunch. Whit is taking full advantage of having Mommy and Daddy at home with him and is milking this "illness" as much as possible! He's eaten cookies for breakfast and watched Barney, Sesame Street, the horse video, and music videos to his little heart's content! He's also been allowed to have his paci and blanket all day, not just at nap and bedtimes like normal.

He missed preschool pictures on Tuesday and is missing the Fall Festival at preschool on Thursday, but luckily he doesn't realize that he missed them, so it's just me that's sad. Here's one last picture of Whit singing "Head, Shoulders, Knees, & Toes" - he's never been to sick to break out into song...his life is truly a musical sometimes!