Ren Fest and Fever

Last weekend we headed over to go to the Texas Renaissance Festival.  We tried to go last year and it poured down rain the entire time.  We went this year and had great weather.  The kids had fun, but as usual it was a lot of work.  Everything is so $ and of course they wanted to do everything.  Logan got into the jousting a little and clapped for his knight, so that was fun.  He also peed all over Brian, so that wasn't much fun. He's been battling this diaper rash/eczema thing that I think was making him not want to use the toilet.  Wiping hurt and he associated the toilet with getting wiped.  I guess he didn't realized that there is much more wiping involved when he has accidents.  Anyway, he's doing better, so that's good.  Unfortunately he started running a fever late Tuesday night.  It seemed really high all day yesterday, even with Tylenol.  I started alternating Advil and Tylenol and that seemed to help.  I took him in last night just to be sure it was nothing more serious because he seemed really lethargic and actually fell asleep on the couch.  That was a first!  By the time we got to the doctor (6:45pm) he seemed to have more energy and his fever was almost gone.  She did a step test because he was drooling so much, but it was negative.  He was ok last night, but has been up since 5:15am tossing and turning.  Brian took his temperature before he left for work and said it was around 99, but I took it at 5:30 and it was up to 101.  I gave him some more tylenol and hopefully he'll be more comfortable and get some more sleep.

Isabel had dance class yesterday and had a really good day.  I'm glad because she's had a couple of tough days recently.  It's amazing how different the kids are when you have them one-on-one.  It's like their best qualities come out and shine.  Just shows me that most of the bad behavior is really just attention-seeking.  Duh.

While Izzy was dancing I took Logan over to Target to get some sick day stuff.  We stocked up on acetaminophen and ibuprofen and got a couple of Christmas movies.  Target had all of their kid Christmas movies on sale!  We got "Santa Buddies" (the prequel to Santa Paws with the Treasure Buddies in it) on blu-ray for $8.99 and a "Prep and Landing" DVD for $5!  They LOVED them both.  Logan was asking for Santa Buddies last night before bed.  I kept telling Izzy that the dog in the movie was Santa Paws, but she just looked at me like I was crazy and started laughing and saying 'Mom, WHAT are you talking about?"  I was like "look, that's the Santa Paws crystal, so it has to be him."  She turned and looked and then looked back at me and it was like mind=blown.  So funny.  If you've never seen the movies that paragraph was probably very confusing and incredibly boring.  Sorry.

So today I'm providing the pizza day snacks for both Isabel and Logan's classes.  It should be interesting getting them both in the building, Isabel dropped off and the food dropped off without Logan having a meltdown because he's not staying to play with his bestest buddy ever, Ms. Fwwankie (Frankie).

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