Much Better

Dalton seems to have turned a corner and is on his way back towards normal. Although he still had a dry diaper at 6:45 this morning, he asked for milk and I gave him Pedialyte. He guzzled about 2 ounces, rolled over, and went back to sleep and when he woke up he'd had a tiny wet diaper.

I called the doctor's office since he's still not producing anywhere close to normal amounts of wet diapers (the phone nurse told me they like to see 3-4/24 hours) but when they called back she said only if it's been 24 hours should I worry. So that's my new plan.

But Dalton started drinking. I was offering pretty much whatever clear fluids I could. The tiny straw of the CapriSun appealed to him at first and he drank a bunch before throwing it on the ground and refusing another sip:


Pick a sip, any sip...


Thank goodness for the boys' copy cat game where they both take a long sip:


And then say, "Ahhhh!" in unison:


Dalton even ate a little bit of banana and crackers:


And finished it off with a mini popsicle for some extra fluids:






With Dalton doing better my mom proposed an outing to the aquarium...a way to get out of the house and do something, but not be too active so that Dalton could just sit back and relax and not push himself too much:


But Easton was needing to get out of the house and get some energy out:






I hadn't been to that aquarium for probably 8 years or so. My boys had never been and it was a nice time:


Jessica and Lauren came too. We discovered Jessica has a fear of eels:


And Eastie was afraid of this shark, but not as much if Lauren was with him:


Actually Easton got a little freaked out by quite a few things after awhile, like the fake flood they had, or the fake rattlesnake, or some sea urchin stuck to the glass that apparently he thought was Nemo's head. He wasn't liking being near it:


It's rather unlike him to be scared of things like that. Maybe because I was with Dalton more than I was with him? I dunno. He wasn't all scared, he liked sticking his head up in the bubble under one of the giant tanks to look around:


He was afraid of this fake orangutan:

As much as that boy loves monkeys and thinks he is one, it was weird to see him kinda scared like that.

Everyone but me:


Because no aquarium would be complete without a tiger:

Easton said, "I need to show that to my dad!"

The touch tank where Easton never did get to feel a ray:

I made him stop because he kept splashing and I feel like that torments the sea creatures.

Instead he got a Batman airbrushed on him:




We went to the aquarium's restaurant even though none of us really eat seafood. It's one of those kinds of places where the entire walls of the restaurant are giant fish tanks so it was fun scenery. Lauren's new boyfriend came and met us over lunch. And Dalton drank quite a lot of Bubba's lemonade and ate too! He had bread and a couple of crackers and more macaroni than Easton did (although that wasn't hard to do!). What a fun treat, thank you Moosie!

E crashed just a minute or two away from home:

He's still napping now in his room. I'll let him go an hour.

Dalton's napping too. His nap was 3 hours late and he didn't even want to rock first. I sat in his chair to rock with him but he just asked for his bed and I never heard from him again.

I should probably get them up before too long so they'll go to sleep tonight.

But anyway, that's your D update and our day.