Grandparents and Museums

The kids have been getting a healthy dose of grandparents these past few weeks. Last Friday to Tuesday, Grandpa Black (Terry) and Grandma Cindy came to visit. We gave them a jam-packed long weekend, with trips to DC to see some museums and then to the Air and Space Museum in Virginia.

On Saturday (19th), went to DC:

 Isaac and Rose ready to see some neat stuff

 Isaac and the bear

 With Grandpa Black

 With Grandma Cindy and Grandpa Black

Matt by the giraffe while wearing his giraffe shirt

 Rose wanted to stretch her legs

 Walking with Grandma Cindy

 Ooo T-Rex!

 The Capital getting ready for the inauguration 

Looking down at some air planes in another museum. 

On Sunday, Terry and I took Isaac to Kinder Farms where we met up with the Lings and the kids played for a bit before they came over for dinner at our place.

 Isaac and Noah

Climbing on a rope, supervised by Grandpa

 Isaac and Noah playing Candyland 

(Isaac was more interested in the cards

 and I basically played for him, but they still had fun)

 Liam, Rose, and Theo under the table

Rose was licking the floor, like how Theo was

 Rose and Noah

Rose and Noah playing

 Isaac and Rose getting ready for bed and snuggling with Grandpa

On Monday we went to Isaac's favorite place, the Air and Space Museum in Virginia. 

 Space shuttle!

 On Tuesday, Isaac got really sick and complained about his ears hurting. I took him to urgent care where he had a 103.6 fever and diagnosed with ear infections in both ears. They gave him meds and a popsicle while there and the fever went down a good amount and he was back to running around. This pic was taken when we were waiting for the doctor. 

 Take notice of all the food under her chin.. saving for later??

 Smiling for me

Smiling for me

 Mmmm oatmeal with raisins!

 Yum yum yum!

Love your crazy hair this morning, Ikey 

 Oh ya, we got snow! Not too much, but just 

enough to toss the kids outside for some pictures 

before they had enough

 Touching snow for the first time

 What IS this cold stuff???

 He wanted to make footprints in the snow

 She's had enough

Back in side, nice and warm

 Hi mommy!

 Rose watching Isaac and Isaac looking back... 

that's actually his reflection. Pretty neat!

On the 17th, Matt and I celebrated our 4yr anniversary. 

He got me pearl earrings and necklace :)

And here are two videos

This is a common occurrence at our house at dinner time: 

throwing a fit and not wanting to eat. 

Right after I got done filming, he started 

eating and was fine. Toddlers, oi! 

She's getting better at walking, if only she will let go, I am sure she can do it!

That's all for now! Grandma Deb is here visiting us this weekend while Matt went on a camping trip with all the men. Not many pictures though since we're just hanging out...been too cold out to really do anything fun, plus the kids both have coughs, Isaac has his ear infection, and I have a cold now too. 

Ear infection and other random stuff

Last weekend we went to PA one last time before the baby comes. It was our nephew, Zack's, birthday party on Saturday. We knew we wouldn't be able to make it up for Thanksgiving (too close to the due date for us to be traveling 5hrs from home) and especially not for Christmas (which is after my due date), so we decided to go since we probably won't be able to go back up there until February or so.

Isaac had been fighting a bad cold the whole week before. The Tuesday and Wednesday after Halloween he had a fever, cough, and runny nose. He stayed home with me and watched TV shows and movies while I worked at the kitchen table. On Thursday and Friday he still had a cough and runny nose, but the fever was gone so he went to daycare those days. We left for PA Friday after dinner.

We got to Matt's dad's house around midnight. Isaac slept fitfully on the way there, waking up every now and again and fussing, then falling back to sleep. When we got to our final desintation for the night, he was wide awake and wanted to play (we expected this as this happens every time). Around 1, we decided to head to bed but Isaac wouldn't settle. He cried and screamed and just didn't want to sleep. We put him in bed with us and he finally crashed. We transfered him to the pack-n-play and finally went to sleep ourselves.

However, Isaac woke up at around 4am crying and not settling down again and just rolling around and crying/screaming. It took probably a half hour or so for him to go back to sleep (after we gave him some pain meds.. he just wasn't acting like his usual self and we KNEW something was wrong). He woke up for the day around 6ish. Let's just say Matt and I were exhausted haha.

Around 10 (after playing outside with daddy and Grandpa Terry), Isaac came in and crawled into Grandma's Cindy's lap where he proceeded to pass out.

He slept for an hour, then we had lunch and got into the car to get to Erie for Zack's party. He slept again on the way over there.

Isaac seemed fine for a while but around 6 he was being very clingy, whiny, and crying a lot. He wanted no thing to do anything/anyone and only wanted mommy. We knew that Papa Joe would be at the party that night, so we asked him to bring his medical stuff so he could look in Isaac's ears. Turns out Isaac had an ear infection BOTH ears. Poor kid! Joe was able to call in a prescription for Isaac and we got it that night (his cousin Jimmy also had an ear infection as well and we saw Danny at the pharmacy that night). We also alternated Advil and Tylonal to help ease the pain and hoped he would sleep better.
He did slept a little better, but only because he was sleeping with me (in a twin size bed haha). By Sunday I was ready to head on home haha.

It's now the following Friday and Isaac is doing much better. He started sleeping through the night again on Sunday (when we got home, which makes me think he also wanted to be in his own bed and not a pack-n-play) and he stopped being extremely fussy and crabby during the day a few days ago. He's still taking his prescription medicine but doesn't require pain meds anymore.

Unfortunately, I have no more pictures from last weekend, aside from the one already posted. I was just exhausted and with Isaac being clingy, it was hard to do pictures anyways that night.

I do have other random pictures from throughout the week though :)

Making silly faces and playing

peek-a-boo at the dinner table

One of the nights he wasn't feeling well. 

He was watching his show and 

just laid his down on my belly.

Sleeping in his big boy bed :)

And these pictures were taken in September, but not on the regular camera we use so I forgot to upload them. They are too cute not to share.

Eating a blueberry doughnut 

That's all for now! :)