Day Thirty-One: Father and Daughter

I spent alot of today hanging out at a cute restaurant with my daughter and her friends. My granddaughter and their daughter were at "cheer" practice.....mind you, they are only 5 and 6 years old, but UNI (University of Northern Iowa) held this, and tomorrow they cheer at the half-time of their basketball game.

This is a picture of Kerry and his daughter Peyton. This little Peyton is the best little baby ever. And when her father holds her, they are both very content. So I had a great time photographing them. I finally had new subjects!

I decided to play with some actions from Pioneer Woman, and this experiment was one of my favorites.

PS: Max is finally getting better! He even came with us, and out of the house.

Day Thirty: Goodbye Iowa, or not

I was all packed up this morning at 7am, ready to drive back home. I began bringing my suitcase, laptop, camera, etc. to the garage door. Then my daughter said she wasn't feeling well. Max, who has been on amoxicillan, has not gotten better. He came into my room at 12:30 at night. He was burning up. I gave him Tylenol and let him sleep with me.

So, I took each bag.....suitcase, laptop, camera, purse.....back to my bedroom. That was this morning. It is now after 7pm, and I still haven't had the strength to unpack everything. Of course, that doesn't include my camera and laptop!

My picture for today, therefore, are the bags that got shuffled from bedroom to backroom to bedroom.

Day Twenty-Nine: It's Strep!

It's been 7 days of high fever. It seems there is no advantage to having a doctor for a father. He kept saying as long as the fever responded to Tylenol and Motrin he would be fine. He even talked with the pediatrician and they agreed.

Meanwhile, my daughter found out that strep was going around his preschool. But of course, he didn't have a sore throat, nor was it red. At the doctor's today, it was me and my son-in-law and the pediatrician. They kind of pooh-poohed the strep idea. I kept saying that the only time I ever had strep, I had to force the doctor to take a culture, since I also had no symptoms (that the doctor could see), and sure enough, I had strep.

So they did a culture........and sure enough, Max has strep. Poor Max....suffered for so long. Hopefully amoxicillan will help him fast.

I forgot to take a picture when we were in the doctor's office, so I had Max stand in front of the pharmacy sign at the hospital.

The second picture is poor Max asleep on the sofa when we got home.

Day Twenty-Eight: Camera Bug

Max is still sick. I'm pretty sure he has something more than a camera "bug", but he definitely has the camera bug.

I found some fabulous pictures on his mother's camera. Not only is it from his point of view as a four-year-old, but from interesting angles as well.

So, he is sick....still running a high fever. Sometimes he is burning up, lying around and whiney. Then other times he perks up......he generally wants constant attention. I lie in bed with him for hours......watching kid shows!! Today, for awhile, he was off playing by himself. I found him with the camera, taking pictures.

Though his eyes look fairly sparkly in the pictures......they are really very sad looking, half closed.

Day Twenty-Seven: Gymnastics

Well, another sick day for Max! So I took Josie to gymnastics. She started about 2 years ago. We don't necessarily think she is a gifted gymnast, but they both love to tumble and hang, etc.

But about a year ago, they moved her from the 1-hour class, to the more advanced 2-hour class. Then last week they moved her to the 3-hour class.

So I was just shocked when I saw her at her class. She can now stand on her hands, and she does backbends (called bridge now, I guess), and flips over. She and one other girl are the youngest in this class.....both are not yet 6!

I did the two pictures together to show how she flips. It was very exciting.

Day Twenty-Six: Ice Skating

Today I took Josie to her skating lesson. And poor Max.........still running a fever!

End of Week Four

This is my layout for the end of Week Four......wow 4 weeks gone in 2009!