In Health

Happy Birthday (Great) Grandmother!

Today I finally feel like Adeline is well, and really well, for the first time in months and months. She doesn’t have a fever, she has an appetite, she isn’t cranky, she's snoozing well and waking up happy... I feel like I have my little girl back. Hurray!

Adeline has a birthmark!

We never noticed before because she’s never gotten enough sun to make it show. But sure enough she has a little spot on her left arm near her elbow that has no pigment so it doesn’t tan. It’s pretty cute. I tried to get a picture but it didn't come out, so you'll have to take my word for it :).

July 4th at Amma & Papa's, Part Last

Happy Birthday, Mom/Amma!

Breakfast with Papa

We left Amma and Papa’s house at about noon today – just in time to get some Steak and Shake burgers, fries and a malt on the way out of town. We got home in time for Alan to head to work for a few hours and Adeline to take a snooze. We had a great weekend with our family.

July 4th at Amma & Papa's, Part IV

Alan left early this morning to make it to church back at home. We decided it would be best if he went by himself, rather than packing the whole family into the car at 6am. He came back in time for dinner together this evening. More family time – and even some more time with Aunt Beckie today!

This afternoon Adeline went out kayaking with Amma and Papa. She's the little white dot in the pictures sitting in front of Amma :)

Ah, life on the lake!

Tomorrow we head home.

July 4th at Amma & Papa's, Part III

Happy Birthday, U.S.A.!

Today we got to spend the whole day as a complete family – Amma, Papa, Megan, Peter, Amy, Sophie, Abby, Rob and our little family of 4. Even Aunt Beckie made it up from Indiana to spend the day! We had some tasty barbecue ribs and chicken for dinner, followed by more s’mores for dessert AND The Great Marshmallow Sparkler Experiment of 2009! Did you know that if you stick a marshmallow on the end of a sparkler and light the sparkler the fire goes straight through the marshmallow and makes it glow from the inside out?? It was very cool :). See my Facebook page for the video my sister took.

We originally planned to go down to the neighbors’ boat at the marina and watch the fireworks from there. In the end – given Adeline’s state that afternoon and evening and considering our own sanity and out of fairness to our children – we all decided it would be best to stay home and just spend time together rather than battle the crowds at the marina. Although the fireworks would have been great, the good times had by all with the family were far better.

Rockband2 Dominated the weekend

Adeline out for a morning swing - still in her jammies!

Evelyn tanning...

Happy 4th, everyone!

July 4th at Amma & Papa's, Part II

Happy Birthday, Grandma!

Today we felt better about Adeline’s state so we didn’t even bother to take her temperature. By the evening she was running around and playing with her cousins, so she was definitely feeling better.

Today Amma and Uncle Rob built a swing on the upstairs deck for Adeline. Best idea ever!! Adeline could swing forever and never get sick of it :).

Uncle Rob entertaining a smiley Evelyn

We had a great meal on the deck outside for dinner. Kinda feel like the all-American family! (nevermind we had brats... ;-)

At the end of the evening when Megan, Peter and the cousins arrived we went down to the edge of the little pond my parents live on where they have a little fire pit and made s’mores.

The cousins entertained us with some songs, until Adeline wanted to hold the camera :)

July 4th at Amma & Papa's, Part I

Adeline went to bed last night with another fever (probably was that trash can she licked in Ohio!!). This time it was 103.5. We brought it down with some Motrin, but she woke up this morning and it was back in the 102 range. We gave her some more Motrin and played the morning by ear since we were supposed to leave for Amma and Papa’s today for the 4th of July weekend. We ended up leaving at noon when the fever had come down to 99-100. I could tell she was out of sorts, but she did very well for the rest of the day, considering.

We had a nice dinner tonight with family and some friends, neighbors of my parents. It’s nice to be on a little vacation :).