Sionara, Summer!

The last few posts have detailed just a bit of what's been going on with Norah and the Weber's over the last month or so. It hasn't all been filled with coughs, colds, morning-sickness and sniffles, though. We have found some time to have a little fun.

For those of you who don't know, Summer in the Midwest is hot. Damn hot. You won't find too many families taking leisurely strolls around the neighborhood after supper after around July 1st. It's still too muggy and sticky at that time of day. And, by the time August rolls around these parts, water-fun and activities in the AC are the name of the game for entertainment. And, that's just what the Webers engaged in.

In addition to just stripping her down and sticking a hose in her hand and Grandma and Poppy's house, Norah got to go to a really fun local park that includes water machines. What fun she had! She was a little hesitant about all of the random spurts and shoots of water popping out from every pole, and hole in the ground at first. But after a while, Norah took to it like...well....a fish to water. She had a grand time running through all of the sprinklers and such. Mommy actually lamented that she wished she knew about the park earlier so that Norah could've enjoyed more of it during the summer. There's always next year. And, seeing as how Mommy is going to be fresh off of maternity leave with the new bambino, you can bet we're all going to need some fun playtime out of doors.

Norah also got to beat the heat by going to the Boonshoft Museum for the first time. J's roommate from UD, Andi, came in to visit her brother, sis-in-law and their three kids, and we all met up at this fabulous discovery center. The Boonshoft is awesome! It is filled with tons of hands-on learning tools perfect for inquisitive little youngsters. As you can see, Norah had so much fun, she was plum tuckered after the whole experience. We will definitely be making many trips to the museum in the future.

So, that's is for the Summer. Labor Day is upon us and J, for one, is looking forward to all of the fun that Fall has to offer. Festivals, pumpkins, apple cider, turning leaves, football.....perhaps we'll even return to the scene of the infamous llama-loogy crime and pay a visit to Windmill farms. Who knows! Maybe that ol' llama will get it comeuppance this time around!

Happy Beginning of Fall, Everyone!

A Plague Upon Your House: Part Deux-PESTILENCE! PESTILENCE!

Okay. The first post with this title was supposed to be cute. It was supposed to be witty. It was supposed to be an exaggeration of the tiny little cold that had struck The Weber Inn. It wasn't meant to be TRUE....exactly.

It turns out that this description has been more true than we'd imagined. Yep! The Weber Inn got hit with another round of the ICKIES about a week after the first wave of germy, unwanted house-guests left.

The pestilence hit, of course, smack-dab in the middle of the night again. Norah has always been prone to waking once or twice a night with a bit of moaning and groaning. She's usually just re-positioning herself and needs a small back rub and blanket. Most times, she'll just calm herself down and go right back to sleep without Dan or J ever having to even go into her room. Not this night, though. The moaning was low, deep and steady and, when Mamma went in to check on our sweet pea, she found Norah to be feverish.

I'll skip the gory details of that VERY LONG night save to say that the Weber's FINALLY got some shut-eye around 5 a.m. Norah slept on Daddy who was asleep on the couch and Mommy took a cat-nap in the love-seat.

By 8:30 a.m. (after the Webers made the rookie parenting mistake of attempting to take Norah to daycare.....the fever was down but it was a STUPID move), daycare had called asking us to pick our little patient up as her fever was now 102.2. The Dr. was called and an appt. made for 1:00 that afternoon. All that was left was to get some Tylenol in our girl and put her to bed. (After she vomited up her breakfast due to the fever, that is). Poor kid just crumpled down in her crib and went right to sleep.

The Dr.'s original thought was that Norah had either: a). a bladder infection (capturing urine to test for said infection from a 19 month old is quite an entertaining experience, btw). b). Hand, foot, and mouth disease (MUCH scarier sounding than it really is). or c). Roseleo (more dangerous for the Wee'est Weber in-utero than to Norah, believe it or not). The Dr. was 0 for 3.

Norah had simply captured yet another doozy of a cold, the second in as many weeks, from her new day care. Mommy picked it up the very next day and this time, for extra fun, Daddy got it, too. So, the Webers spent close to the entire month of August with some sort of malady or another. Dan and Norah are back on track, but J can't seem to shake the congestion and coughing.

Needless to say, transferring Norah from private care to mainstream childcare has really done an number on her immune system, as well as that of Mommy and Daddy. We knew that she'd come home with every form of cold known to man. We just didn't know that she'd spread the love so quickly......or frequently! :-) J, does have an idea about how to strengthen her immune system, though. She's just going to start licking doorknobs and chewing on shoe-soles to get all those nasty germs swirling around all at once! :-)

In any event, it has been an interesting month to say the least. J's feeling better now that the first trimester is over with. The nausea is pretty much gone, and she can stay up well past 8:00 these days. Now, if only she could find the cure for the common cold........