Summer Days and Our Sick Boy

I am officially calling this past Friday/Saturday the first real days of summer. It was SOOO nice outside. Cameron had Friday off so we went on a walk (with our new LL Bean baby backpack-30 bucks off Craigslist, used twice, nice!) We walked down to a park near our house and pushed Grant in the swings for a while. This was his first experience with swings and he seems kinda underwhelmed... maybe next time. We cut the walk somewhat short because I was melting( I am a wuss when it comes to heat...I am NOT going to survive this summer!)

Cameron had Saturday off too, so we started the day off by going on a bike ride. We borrowed Jake and Jill's bike trailer to make sure Grant would stay in it and be content if we bought our own. We were planning to ride to the grocery store and get just a couple things and head back(just about 3 miles total), but we got about three BLOCKS away and realized that Grant had fallen asleep in the trailer. Once we saw that, we decided we should just head back and get him in his own bed for his nap. It was still a fun ride and I think we can consider falling asleep a sign that he likes it. Here are a couple pictures from that...

Later that day we set out to build a garden with the Barnes. We had been talking about it for a while and finally got around to going and getting all the materials and building the raised garden bed. After buying all the wood, dirt, veggies etc, we came home to get to work(and again, when I say "we" I mean Cameron-and Jake in this case). The boys built a very nice raised bed and filled it with dirt and fertilizer and then the final touch was to add the actual vegetables and herbs that we wanted to grow. I think it turned out great and we are all so excited to have very fresh salsa this summer. It was a fun and REALLY nice day outside. After the garden was done, we fired up the grill and had a very summery dinner together.

The boys after building the box, and getting ready to add the dirt

Callie loves Grant and was being his little mom here and wiping his nose

Jenna and Cameron were buddies. Jenna was the official water-er and was right there whenever Cameron needed the plants watered.

Grant enjoyed being outside and playing in the dirt and grass

"look mom, grass!"

love this little series of pictures...

planting

finished product

Grant has been sick with a cold for a couple weeks now, but just as we thought he was getting better he developed a horrible cough. Cameron had the same cough so we weren't too worried since Cameron's was gone in a few days. We took Grant in for his nine month well check up last week and we mentioned his cough. He only coughed one little cough while we were there(isn't that always how it is...), but we told her it gets worse at night. She listened to his lung and said everything sounds fine, but to let her know if it got worse. We weren't worried at that point and still thought it would go away soon. Over the next several days, Cameron worked a bunch of nights in a row, so I was the only one who heard how bad his cough was getting at night. One night I was holding him while he just coughed and coughed until he would choke and gasp for air. It was really scary and I debated taking him to the ER. It stayed pretty bad, but then it was the weekend so I couldn't just take him to the normal Dr. office. I knew he could still breath so I was holding off till Monday to take him in. I called the second they opened today and asked if they could get him in and they said "can you be here in 15 minutes?" I jumped in the car and got there before 9. The dr(who I LOVE) saw him right away and I explained everything that had changed since last time she saw him(including a wheezing noise and high pitch whistle noise when he tried to breath. She said she was really glad I brought him in and said he sounded much worse than the week before. She sent us immediately to the hospital to get chest X-rays to make sure it wasn't pneumonia. She also wanted to start him right away on a nebulizer machine to open his longs more. She called in an antibiotic as well to try to kill whatever virus was doing this to him. She said her official diagnosis is bronchialitis. It is basically like RSV she said and hopefully with the breathing treatments and the antibiotics it will be gone soon. We have an appointment to follow up on Friday and I hope things are looking much better then. She said to listen carefully while he sleeps because that's when it's the worst(which I already knew since the last several nights have been so bad). She said that it can take a turn for the worse in a matter of hours and that she might still have to admit him to the hospital for a night or two if this stuff doesn't help. Anyway, hopefully I will be posting soon saying he is totally back to normal and we don't have to do anymore breathing treatments.... BECAUSE this is how much he LOVES them (;

Starts off ok

wants it OFF

not happy that dad is holding it on

REALLY not liking this

The SADDEST picture ever! Poor guy finally gave up and just whimpered the rest of the time ):