Happy Easter!

Maddox is healthier than ever and had a blast over Easter weekend. We took him to the Children's Museum on Saturday with Corey's family (pictures to come because I forgot my camera at my parent's house). Sunday we spent the morning going to church with my family and then headed up to Ted & Pat's for an Easter egg hunt and dinner celebration.Here's Maddox on his very first Easter egg hunt. It was funny because we were telling him we were going to have an Easter egg hunt and here was his response:

"Well, you're going to need a big gun and I'm going to need a little gun." Apparently his only reference to hunting includes a gun. Too funny!

The hunting crew: Matthew, Phebe & Maddox

Maddox also got a new bike from Grandma Michelle & Grandpa Robby, which he was pretty excited about. As you can tell, so was Corey.
Sibling picture!

While I was shopping before Vegas, Corey took Maddox to the amusement park at the MOA for the first time.

They had a blast!

Merry-go-round.

I guess this post is a little "to be continued" since I'm missing my camera, but I wanted you all to see that Maddox is now healthy since people keep telling me they can't stand clicking on our blog and seeing his sad little face.

Still miserable...

Maddox is still feeling terrible. He woke up at 2am with wet pants, but it wasn't pee. Then he's had 3 bouts of diarrhea this morning. Once he stood up too soon and shot the wall. I have a picture because I didn't think Corey would believe me, but I thought I'd spare you all. Now he has this rash on his forehead and temples with blood-shot eyes. I've talked to our doctor and she thought it was just fever related, but we're not giving motrin anymore since this is the first time he's ever had it just in case.

Maddox has slept most of the day, but he's still drinking a lot and peeing, so hopefully we'll avoid an IV. We were close yesterday because he went 13 hours without peeing. He's sleeping on the couch right now (see above). This is the first time he's fallen asleep not on me, so I can actually get off of the couch myself.
This was post diarrhea explosion. I thought it was a good time for a bath. Please send Maddox well wishes in hopes that this blows over soon!!!

Maddox update

Well, this is how Maddox spent the entire day today. He woke up around 5am calling out from his room only to find a pile of vomit on his bed. He specifically told me he was "not sick". He hates when we say he's sick. He then proceeded to puke 6+ more times in the next 4 hours.

After that he spiked a few fevers today - 102.4 & 103.5

Then he was feeling a little better this evening, so he took a bath and got all cleaned up. All of the clean sheets required a clean kid to crawl in them.
Now the bug is working it's way thru his system and coming on out. Thank God he uses the toilet!

Cooper has been at his side all day long. So sweet.

My dad emailed some pics of the weekend Maddox spent at their house. Here's their trip to the Minnesota Zoo to see the new farm babies.

Maddox was apparently quite interested in the piglets nursing. We tapered off and stopped nursing as of last week before we left for Vegas, so I think he was a little jealous. He did point out though that the piglets were babies and that's why they got to nurse.

Apparently riding a pig?

Just having too much fun!

Poor little guy. Almost riding a live goat.

Riding a turtle.

This is just an adorable picture. If I had the original I would have cropped in. Cute!

Having fun at Grandma's house with Auntie Kris.