About two weeks ago we had our first trip to the ER with Adam.  He had a fever, a bright red rash that started on his face and spread down his arm, and couldn’t keep anything down – which included the Tylenol we were giving him.  Thankfully the doctor and nurse were able to get the fever under control and get some medicine in to him (he was still throwing up, so I’ll let you use your imagination as to just where that medicine went).  We were only there for an hour or two.  Once they got the medicine in to Adam (they also gave him something to help with nausea) and he was able to keep some formula down they let us go home.

Anyway, I took a bunch of pictures with my phone.  I was bored and I do plan on doing a scrapbook page about this – even though it’s not in the “fond memories” category.  I don’t have any pictures of when the nurse tried to give Adam some Tylenol and Motrin orally and he threw up all over Dave.  I was too busy being thankful that for once it was on Dave and not me.

Lately Adam has been obsessed with sunglasses.  He has a little pair that I bought him over the summer.  And he will have me put them on him over and over again.  Once he’s wearing them, Aunt Stacy and I have been saying “cool dude” to him and giving him a thumbs up.

Adam tries to return the gesture, but doesn’t quiet have it right.

Thumbs up or not, the kid’s got style.

Somebaby took a header in the garage earlier.  He cried for all of two seconds and then wanted to get down and play again.  He’s got a nice little knot on his melon as a souvenir of his trip – other than that he’s just fine.

My goal for this week is to update this site at least three times.  I am trying to get back in to the swing of regular updates.  Things around here have been really nuts lately.  Adam is currently working on four molars. They’ve all started to break through, but none are all the way in yet.  To say that his teeth are making him miserable would be a huge understatement.  This past week he has woke up in the middle of the night on three separate occasions shrieking.  It’s awesome.

Last weekend my friend Kelly and I took Adam to The Great Pumpkin Farm.  It was huge.  There were carnival games and rides, haunted houses, hay rides, magic shows, a corn maze, a pumpkin cannon, a petting zoo, and tons of food.  They even had bunnies for sale for $10 (I vetoed Kelly’s idea to buy one for Adam).

We took Adam through the “Boo Barn” – a not-so-scary haunted house geared toward kids and pansies like me.

He wasn’t too crazy about the giant sleeping troll.  The did have a set of fun-house mirrors that he loved looking at.  Oh, and check out the snazzy new umbrella stroller I got for my birthday.  I’m sure the fact that I asked for a stroller speaks volumes about my age, but I refuse to listen to that talk.

This next picture was taken right before he leaned forward and fell out of that window.  Thankfully I caught him – Super Mommy to the rescue! 

He liked to look at all the animals – but wasn’t too crazy about them if they came too close to him.

He was nuts about all of the pumpkins though. I think he could have wandered around drumming the pumpkins all day.

I’ve never seen so many pumpkins!!

Things around here lately have been insane – there’s really no other word for it.  I’m hoping we’re on the way to settling in a routine again and creating a new normal.  Until then though, here’s a picture of Short Round from yesterday.

I really need to figure out how to rig a cup holder in his car.  It will have to wait though – right now I need to rescue my cell phone from him before it ends up in the toilet.

Yes, the little monkey is standing on the back of his car.  And yes, at any time the wheels could have shot out from under him and left him in tears. And yes, I took a picture before I moved him.

Actually I took two – the first didn’t come out.

I snapped this picture earlier of Adam playing Peek-a-Boo with the baby in the mirror. He’s been playing with that kid a lot today. They had a pretty in depth conversation this afternoon and the little dude even gave him a kiss at the end of it – he knows a good-looking baby when he sees one.

We had family photos taken this morning. I’m posting copies of the ones we ordered here (I’ll pick them up next week).  If you’d like to request certain poses let me know which one and the size you’d prefer and I’ll get them to you.

What difference a year makes!