Week in Review ~ 10/2

Our week started much better than the last one ended. By Sunday Avery was feeling much better and stayed fever-free all day. We finally made it to the Peanut Festival after her afternoon nap. Many of the vendors had already packed up because of rain earlier in the day, but the petting zoo was still there. Avery didn't touch (or smell) any of the animals but had a good time looking. She thought everything that was Dixie's size was Dixie and proceeded to greet them all with a "Hi D!"

Even though Avery was back to normal Monday, Ned still took her in to see the pediatrician. She was concerned it could be strep and performed not one, but two throat swabs, causing a bit of spit up. It was not strep but something similar to hand foot and mouth disease, and she had only had it in her throat. One sore remained, and we'll never know how bad her throat really felt.

The rest of the week moved along nicely with lots of rain forecast for the week. Mothers should not have to venture out in the rain. There is just no way to hold an umbrella and unbuckle a carseat. We ended up missing school Thursday and Friday because of flooded roads. Thursday was a long day. Avery was up early, didn't nap as long as normal, and seemed to have touched everything in the house seven times by 3 pm. It was just a long, gloomy day and Ned had drill for the fire department and wasn't home for bedtime. Friday was better because the rain slacked off. I made the mistake of taking Avery to Walmart to buy lots of groceries on the 1st of the month. She did take a nice, long afternoon nap so maybe it was worth it. We strolled to check out our lot and found a soggy mess. Maybe we'll build our house on stilts. We went to Applebee's for dinner and were happy to be out of the house again.

You can read about our fun Saturday here. These two unexpected days off made the thought of returning to work a bit depressing. It will be a busy week of catching up and keeping up as our 1st 6 weeks will be ending soon. Hopefully the work week will fly by as quickly as my four-day weekend did.