Week 29: Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! As this was Erik’s first time celebrating this illustrious holiday, he decided that the best way to celebrate was to play hooky from school!  His daycare called me late in the morning to inform me that Erik had a temperature of 100.2 and that I needed to come pick him up.  I rushed around getting together some paperwork that I could work on at home and then raced over to the daycare to pick up Erik.  

When I walked into his room, I was expecting to see Erik crying & being held or at least laying down in his crib. But no, he was sitting at the “scoop” table (a semi-circle table with infant chairs cut into it, so all the babies can sit and look at the teacher who sits opposite them).  He was happy to see me, smiling and waving his arms.  I just chalked it up to Erik not being a fussy baby, even when sick.  I had already called his pediatrician’s office and they were expecting us, so we drove immediately to their office.   Guess Erik’s temperature - 98.6 - huh, what happened to his temp?!  They checked it several times to be sure.  I have no idea why he was hot at daycare, but something clearly wasn’t right!!  

However, since we were already there, the doctor’s office decided to treat Erik’s cough that he has had since Christmas.  So we will be getting a nebulizer this week and doing misting treatments at home twice a day.  By the time we finally left the doctor’s office, I decided it wouldn’t be worth it to take Erik back to daycare so I could go back to work.  We just went home, Erik took a nice long nap while I tried to get some work done.  When Erik woke up from his nap, I took some photos of him in his Valentine’s shirt and with the big blue bear that cousins Jake & Caden had bought for Erik while I was still pregnant!  Erik thought the stuffed bear was the greatest thing and I got some really cute pictures.

I just love the expression on his face here!

Happy Boy

Kent & I celebrated Valentine’s on Sunday by going to a couple’s dinner hosted by our church.  Several of our friends were also there: Bergherm’s, Cochran’s, Deininger’s, Grodack’s, Isidro’s, and Zbaraschuk’s.  The event was sponsored by Focus on the Family and featured a very good comedian (of course, I can’t remember his name).  The particular message that the dinner was trying to get out was that couples need to take time to focus on just each other, such as having a regular date night away from the kids and from any other responsibilities.  It sounded like a great idea; hopefully, Kent and I will be able to incorporate a regular date night into our routine soon.