Outage

Our internet was down yesterday. I was all set to blog too. Oh well. These things happen. I watched an episode of "House" instead.

Let's see...so Jason is home now. Got back Friday afternoon as planned. He told me the wrong store to pick him up at but I'm a genius and realized there wasn't a bus stop there and was able to follow his bus to the proper store. Goob. And he had stuff for the boys:




Dalton got a cute new hat:


Easton got a cool "exploring" tool:


Saturday morning I had to take my mom to the airport to go get Lauren in California...she's coming home!!! Saturday evening we went out to dinner. I have to thank AJ for planting the hibachi idea in my head. It sounded delish and we hadn't taken the boys to a place like that yet. It was time! The boys loved it and the others at our table were entertained by Easton. When the chef first lit the table on fire Easton exclaimed, "I don't believe it!!!" Later he made an onion volcano and he went, "I don't believe it either!!!" He got lots of laughs. Jason was the only one of the 9 people at our table that was able to catch a piece of food in his mouth, flipped by the chef and Easton cheered loudly for him which was super cute. Then we tried flipping a piece of broccoli to Easton--he didn't catch it but did eat a few pieces of it. Other than his hibachi broccoli we brought the boys dinner from home.

Sunday we had church. Both boys did really well for drop off. I was happy. And in the late afternoon I headed down for a Mom's Night Out with a few friends: Max's mom, Rachel's mom, Wee Laddie's mom, Lily's mom, and one new-to-us mom who has older kids than ours:

Our new friend left before we took this picture.

We met for dinner and wine. Only I couldn't have any wine. And I soooooooo wanted some. Pregnancy really heightens one's sense of smell and their wines smelled delicious. Plus, it's strange but my only real craving this pregnancy has been for beer. Only 6 more months, only 6 more months. Good pal that she is, Susannah (Max's mom) offered to have a glass for me:

(Both those pictures were stolen from O-tay (Wee Laddie's mom))

It was a fun time and I got home nice and late. The boys stayed home and Jason took them to pick up a pizza for dinner. I guess Easton ate really well for him! And this picture was waiting on the camera from my time away:


Starting early Monday morning (5ish), Dalton started waking up crying about every 20 minutes. That was a little odd for him. Then once he was up he was pulling on his ear, crying, and saying, "Owie". I decided a visit to the doctor was in order. Even though we'd woken up to this once again:


The roads were fine and we went to get our doughnuts. I made D's appointment in the drive-through line. :) Multi-tasking at it's finest, people. We came home to eat and in the car Dalton started gagging a lot. I figured it was from all his post-nasal drip since we've all had colds. As soon as we walked into the house he started puking. He puked about 3 different times in maybe 6 minutes. Then he was done. Even ate breakfast.

I got the boys dressed after we ate and we headed up to our new doctor who confirmed Dalton's got an ear infection. You may remember he was treated for an EI before, but it was later confirmed he never really had one. So this is his first ear infection. As a matter of fact, Easton's never had one ever so it's my first ear infection as a mom. 4+ years, 2 kids, not too shabby. I'm actually shocked they don't have problems with their ears as I had horrible ears as a wee one. They still give me grief.

Anyway, the doctor recommends not necessarily treating the ear infection right away to see if it gets better on it's own, just managing the pain really. So I was perfectly happy with that and Dalton was fine the rest of the day. He had Motrin before his attempted nap and again before bed and we had zero issues. This morning he said "Ow" and yanked on his ear when we walked out in the cold to walk Bubba into school but other than that he hasn't mentioned it and I haven't given him anything. I hope it's getting better without antibiotics, sure seems like it is.

So you may have picked up on that "attempted" nap yesterday. He slept for maybe 15 minutes in the car on the way back from the doctor yesterday morning and I guess he was set for the rest of the day. I put him in his bed but he just talked and played and took his diaper off twice. When I walked in to get him up from trying for two hours Easton pointed out some poop on the floor. Dalton told me, "I spilled balls, diaper". So yeah, those were turds, son. Not balls. Ick. What were we thinking getting new carpet with soon-to-be three small kids and a cat who decided yesterday was a fun day to throw up since I was already cleaning up Dalton's yak?!?! Ugh!

Actually it wasn't too bad.

After we were done with quiet time we went to Wal-Mart. Easton had snack day today at school. That's about all that's going on here. Hope things are well with the rest of you.