Almost a year?!?!

Wow - in just a few weeks out baby Rex will be 1!! Wow time sure does fly. We are so grateful to have such a wonderful person in our lives. We're getting all the party plans going. The theme will be dino's :) It's going to be fun!

Well... lets see, time is kind of all mushed together lately. I posted a bit ago about his illness that we still don't know what it was. A couple weeks ago my mom, Rex and I went to Provo. We meet up with Georgia and Marissa to drop off lots of baby stuff for her soon to be born son! And then Ivy and Becky met up with us for brunch. It was really nice to see them as usual! Rex was trying to share his fruit with the cake. It was so funny and cute. I can't wait to see them play again next month!

We had a whole family 1st last weekend - we went camping! Our friend Gary went with us which was nice because he showed us some tips and whatnot. Rex LOVES the outdoors and did great on our little get away. We went up to Yankee Meadows Utah. It's near Brian Head so it's pretty high in the mountains which meant we were out of the heat and with the trees! Chad and Gary made fires, Chad cooked. We put up our tent. We got rained on and we got to see some cows really close. It was lovely and I can't wait to go again. We're hoping to get together with Ivy, Jeff and the cake for a camping weekend too. That would be really fun!

Baby Rex get's sick

So our baby had his 1st real sickness of his life...

All of us seemed to have caught a little cold after we got back from Colorado. So on a Monday we all didn't feel well but thought it would pass, well Tuesday we still felt pretty icky so we went to instacare here in town to make sure we didn't have anything bad. We were all told we had cold and it would just run it's course. So Chad and I ended up feeling better throughout the week and Rex was doing a lot better as well. Then on Friday he really didn't feel well when we got home from work, we thought it was just teething. By Saturday he had a fever of 103 so we decided we need to take him to be checked again. So we went to the instacare in St. George. He had a rash all over his little legs and his eyes were so red and he didn't want to eat anything. They checked him out and said it seemed that he had an ear infection. He was put on amoxicillin and we were told he should be feeling much better in a day or two. And we should give him ibuprofen and Tylenol to keep the fever down.

Monday came around and he still had a fever of over 100 but Chad and I went to work anyhow. My mom called and said he really wasn't feeling well and his rash was getting bad so we should take him up to see his normal doc. Luckily they were able to get us in that afternoon. Dr. Smith looked him over and said he didn't have an ear infection but might have adenovirus (sp?) so they stuck a cotton swab up his nose to run the tests. She said his throat was very, very red and that was probably causing him to not want to eat. She said we should stop giving him the Rx the other doc gave him and to just try to keep him hydrated and wait for the results to come back. Well we got the results back on Tuesday evening and they were neg. So we really don't know what was going on. However on Wednesday he started to feel better and started eating again! It was so great to have him feeling better... poor baby.

I will admit, it was nice to cuddle with my little guy though. Most of the time he is just wayyyy too busy to be held and cuddled so he'll have no part of it. But for about a week I got to snuggle with my boy and just try to make him feel better. Here is a picture of us from Tuesday, I stayed home with him just in case he was contagious.