We're Back!

Alright, we're back. Sorry, I've been a little busy and, well, distracted lately. Lots going on in life. Finally, here are pictures from the Children's Museum and some randoms. The Boogie to Beat Breast Cancer to come....stay tuned.

This is the 4th time Maddox has been to the Children's Museum and I'm pretty sure he has more fun each and every time he goes.

He absolutely loved splashing in the water here.

His new favorite thing to do is to climb up slides and thanks to his super grippy shoes he can. We're working on breaking that habit. Let's just say he's collided with people that are coming down.

Going down...

Here's Miss Phebe being a turtle.

Maddox just loves snakes. Uncle Andy has one, so he's learned lots about them.

He made sure to point out how snakes smell with their tongue. Smart little guy we have on our hands.
Phebe hard at work.

Me relaxing on the bench. I realized I have probably 2-3 pictures of myself in the last 2 1/2 years. We've really got to start taking family pictures more regularily.

Maddox working on filling up Clifford's dog dish with bones.

Clifford! When Maddox first walked into this exhibit, he ran straight for Clifford yelling, "That's Clifford....the big red dog".

Then it was followed by, "Hey mom, there's Emily Elizabeth". So articulate
My little construction worker getting all dressed for the part.

"Look at me!"

It was just so cute how hard he would concentrate on his "job".

Showing Daddy his skills.

Just to show you that Maddox is obsessed with sleeping with all of his stuffed animals. After he falls asleep, I have to sneak in and clear some of them out.

Sittin' on his skateboard playing trains.

And finally me working for my dad. My dad thought he'd be funny and take a picture of me hard at work. I keep telling him that I have a "real job", but I still seem to keep coming back for more. I guess I just love my dad.

Well, there's the update. More to come...

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.