Who Knows.

This is Teague's newest antic - shrugging his shoulders when we ask him questions - as if to say "Who knows" or "I don't know". Of course we think it's adorable.

Our appt. was okay. It didn't go the way one would hope as the customer service at the Health Plaza in St. Cloud leaves something to be desired. I guess it makes me realize that my small town clinic really is above and beyond "the big dogs" - I would say our clinic is much more customer friendly and more knowledgable about kids than a pediatrics clinic. Go figure. So we are basically back at square one with little or no progress. In my non-medical opinion, my kid seems totally 100% fine. So at this point we have decided just to sit on things and see how it goes. This Dr. at the Plaza wanted to pump him full of meds - FOR WHAT?! Nobody can really give us any clear reasons why they want to put him through all these tests, so I say just forget it for now. Guess I will see if my wait and see attitude works. He seems totally fine, that's what is so dumb. Ah, whatever.

We went to the football game last night at SCSU and Teague did well through the whole game! Usually we leave at half time as it is past bedtime by then. He did sleep in longer this morning, which was nice as it was MY morning to get up with him!!

Tomorrow Teague, my mom and I are going to Cottage Grove to a bridal shower for my cousin's soon to be wife. It will be a long drive in the car, but hopefully we can coincide it with naptime!

Hope you all are enjoying the nice weather this weekend!

On the Mend

Playground Fun!

We were gone all weekend, even with Teague not feeling that great. Again, I can't believe what a content little guy I have - he never whined or fussed once while we were gone. Ryan was in a friend's wedding in Mpls, so we all trudged down and our 14 year old niece, Amanda, came to the hotel to watch Teague. They just hung out in the hotel and had a good time.

Sunday we thought about going to the zoo, but going home just felt so much better! Good thing we did as Teague must have been pooped out from being sick, he took 5 hours in naps yesterday!

We have been recommended to see a pediatrician (we see a Family Dr.) and it's looking like we will be going forward with the chest CT for possible rule out of asthma - that was a possible conclusion by a 2nd radiologist reading the xrays. So we are scheduled with a peditrician at the Plaza in St. Cloud on Friday. I am hoping it is nothing more than Teague having a hard time kicking this bronchitis. Apparently when they are little like Teague they don't know to "cough up" the yucky stuff. Gross.

Today he was excited to be at Tina's after a long weekend with us. After we had dinner we went to a playground so he could use up some energy before bed. Here are quite a few pics.

Tough Week

It's not been a good week. And today is just not a good day. It's been rather sad actually. They say bad news comes in threes, so I am hoping this is it for our family.

1) Teague's follow up xray from his pneumonia last month showed that things are still not on track. Next step is a CT - which we are still debating on whether to have or not as he would have to be sedated and frankly I am not too keen on having my 14 month old sedated. However last night he woke up crying (abnormal) and with a fever - my first thought was "ear infection". He has woke up crying and with a fever only two other times and both of those times he was cutting teeth and then had an ear infection. So I took him in to see Dr. Heller today and he had a massive, infected and bulging ear drum. Poor man. That's probably the cause (I hope) for the abnormal xray from last Thursday (he was crabby then and had a cough and runny nose - precursors for an ear infection for him). So the bright side of all of that is I am hoping this means we can fore go the CT scan.

2) My dad was making something for our house and with everything on his mind he cut the tip of his finger off. Good Lord. First he throws out his back hauling the drywall sprayer from our house into his truck without assistance and ends up in hernia surgery (2 years ago) and now this. I swear he is going to request workman's comp from us eventually. So he spent the better part of this morning and afternoon in the ER with the surgeon. Luckily he "only" cut off part of the bone, but no nerve or tendon damage. And he did not require special surgery. However I hear he has a rather "funny" looking pointer finger.

3) And the worst news of all is my Uncle Bolla. I haven't wrote about it for a while as he was doing so well after his brain surgery from the summer. Unfortunately things are taking quite a poor turn for him. His goal was to have a nice and comfortable Christmas with his family. Never say never, so hopefully that will still be possible. However, please keep him and his family in your prayers. This is my dad's "baby brother" and it is taking it's emotional toll on my dad too. My dad comes from a family of 12 brothers and sisters. Of the 12, 4 of them are boys. One other succumbed to cancer about 12 years ago. Uncle Bolla has two grown children and one 16 year old daughter with special needs. She is why Uncle Bolla continues to fight this cancer so hard. Pray for them to find peace and strength.

Rainy Weekend

Yuck, what a cruddy, rainy weekend. We had plans to go to the Hemker Wildlife Zoo for their Fall Extravaganza, but it literally rained all weekend long. I think Teague is beginning to go stir crazy. I have no idea what we will do when the weather gets cold! I think we will spend a lot of time with Daddy in the gym with his team while they practice.

Teague is ready for the rain in his rain boots!

I met my best friend Beth out for dinner and a movie on Saturday night. Originally we were going to get together with our kids and then decided we have not had much of any time together without our kids lately. It is plain just too hard to really get to visit when you are constantly watching kids, so we left the kids at home and went out. It was so fun - I think I need Girls' Nights more often!

Here are some of the things we did to keep Teague company while we were cooped inside all weekend:

If you ever wondered why his nick name is "Monkey"..........

Some "down time" to read, and read some more and read some more - this seems to be Teague's favorite thing (reading books).

And after all of that he was hungry, so he helped himself to some snacks while I started dinner.

Good-bye Baby Mullet

Well I GUESS since people keep saying Teague is a toddler and the fact his dad kept making comments about "cutting off his mullet", it was time for Teague to have his first haircut. I was OF COURSE sad about it - just one more reminder that Teague is not a baby, or so they say. Here I am giving him a chop job. It looks okay - I don't think a "professional" could do much better (Rhonda if you are reading this - sorry, but he was awfully wiggly)!

BEFORE

DURING

AFTER (Okay, can you even tell?!)

Happy Grandparent's Day!

Teague has the best two sets of grandparents ever. They love him and dote on him and think he is so perfect (well they are right I guess)! Anyway, just wanted to say Happy Day to all the grandparents out there!

Teague with one set of Grandparents...

Well this is our first full week at daycare. I hope it goes a little better than last week - for me. I left crying a couple of mornings, so hopefully it means it will just get better and easier. I thought I was doing so great with it all, but this week seemed harder. Teague still seems to love it, so that's what I have to remember!

Friday night we all went to the tailgating before the football game and then Saturday Ryan and Teague went to the Johnnie football game while I ran errands. I don't really get why Ryan always wants to bring Teague because I asked him if he gets to watch the game and he said "not really". Maybe he is just trying to be helpful or something?!

Other than that, nothing new in our boring - but nonetheless just the way we like it - life. Hope you all have a great week!

Good-bye Summer.

Teague's new "toddler" computer game. He loves it!

Does this picture say: "Leave me alone NOW?" or what??

I guess he loves digging in my purse.

*Sniff, sniff*

Good-bye summer. We will miss you.

Well we are back in school. And I made it through another first day of school which means kids just complaining about how much they hate their schedules. Okay, it's not that bad - a few do like their schedules. But you always hear the ones crabbing the loudest!!

Teague loved being back at Tina's, he squealed with delight when we pulled into her driveway this morning, he was excited to be there.

We had a nice weekend. We didn't do a lot, but just enough. Friday Ryan had a Fantasy Football draft with the Cathedral friends so the wives got together at the Wahlin's for a get together with kids. I think Teague enjoyed being with the other kids and playing with someone else's toys! Saturday and Sunday we stayed home and Monday we went to (Great) Grandma Dusha's 96th(!) birthday and then also went to an end of the summer BBQ at G-pa and G-ma's. All in all, a good weekend.