First my sweet, handsome man Travis had his 31st birthday! We really didn't get a chance to do anything on his birthday because I was at work until 10:00 pm. I did
have a chance to get him a little something for his birthday. I bought him a pair of thinning shears that are supposed to last FOREVER and they better for as much as they cost.
The day after Travis's birthday the three of us took a little trip to the zoo. It was a beautiful day for a stroll through the zoo. We actually made it through the whole zoo without any major issues. Many of you may remember the last zoo trip ended with Braeden throwing up while we were in the cat house. Braeden LOVES to check out the monkeys while we are there but I think that this time the polar bears were his favorite. We just happened to be walking by them when it was feeding time. It was pretty cool. We got some pretty sweet pictures of them tearing into whatever it was they were eating.
Braeden and Travis chillin in the shade.
How cool is this picture of Braeden and the polar bears?
Braeden the turtle!
Mommy and Braeden going for a little stroll past the waterfall.
Since the zoo not much has happened other than Braeden getting sick once again. I bet you could never guess what is wrong. It's an ear infection. This time it is in his left ear rather than his right. We went in to see the doctor last week because Braeden had a runny nose and had been throwing up with almost every meal. When we came out it seems that seasonal allergies were causing the runny nose, he is back on Pepcid for reflux and he had an ear infection. It seems like every time we go in we come out with an ear infection. I did ask the doc. what the likelihood is that Braeden may need tubes since my brother had them when he was small. He told me that if Braeden has one more ear infection before January or two before July that we would need to see an EENT. Oh wait that is not all....One week after this appointment the daycare called to let me know that Braeden was running a fever of 101.5 and it was rising. GREAT....what now? My doc.'s office was booked so I took him in to urgent care. That doc told me that Braeden has blisters all over the back of his throat that are caused by some virus and that his ear infection does not seem to be getting any better. She decided to change the antibiotic that he was on to something stronger and let me know that there was nothing to be done about the blisters, they would just go away in a few days. That would pretty much bring us to today.....
What is today? It is Braeden's birthday! He is 2 today. When I woke him up this morning I told him Happy Birthday and he told me NO! I guess he doesn't really get how great it is to be a little kid on your birthday. We had planned to go to Young's Dairy Farm for his birthday with the family but since it has been raining non-stop for two days we decided to switch the location to Chuck-E-Cheese. We had a good time after everyone finally got there and Braeden stopped freaking out and saying he wanted to go bye bye. He really got into the games and by the end of the night he wasn't totally freaked out by the robots on stage. His favorite game tonight was probably skeeball. He thought it was cool that he could walk up and toss the balls into the holes. I think he could have played it all night long. He came up to me at the end of the night saying "More money mommy." Crazy huh? Here are a few pics and a video of our night.
Here is our birthday boy and his "pantakes" (cupcakes).
Braeden, Uncle John and Travis cheesin it up.
Gavin playing with balloons.
Hurray a Diego toy!
That's one happy mommy.
Finally I thought I would just throw in a few pictures of my two men working together to build a bookcase.
