Happy Halloween!

Dragon on the Loose!
He HATES the hood, but who can blame him?

We have been enjoying a lot of pretend soup meals....

Another random costume shot...

The Potomac at Great Falls

Walker, Pudd and Myself on the canal boat...

We are not doing much for the holiday. We went to a little carnival in our town square yesterday, but William is still quite sick so we didn't stay long. I will post some pictures from the past week. Walker Stanovsky came to visit on Tuesday which was lovely. I used to take care of him and his 2 brothers and it is great to see what a fantastic guy he has become! I took him to Great Falls and we rode the canal boats, which was a lot of fun, though William was unimpressed. Will has a sinus infection now, I guess the vaccine weakened his immune system enough that it set in easily. He is now on antibiotics, but his eyes are improving, so I guess it is working! I tried to get pictures of him in his halloween costume, but he won't keep the hood up. I did the best I could! Have a great holiday!

Overdose!

I found a clinic that had the H1N1 vaccine in stock so I made appointments for William and I and took him over there this morning. I got mine and then they poked him. I was busy comforting my poor little baby and I asked when he needed to come again for the second one. The assistant said she would go check, I then heard her out in the hall talking to the nurse. The nurse asked her if she gave him 0.25ml or 0.5 ml, to which she answered 0.5ml. I immediately knew she had overdosed my kid! Yikes! I was very upset. When I got to the car I called Will's pediatrician and she said it would be ok, and that he won't need an extra shot in a month. She also said to watch him for the next 2 days because he may have a fever. Poor guy!

Weekend Update...

I haven't been able to write much recently. On my trip to Washington I drove over 1000 miles in 2 weeks, and with all that steering wheel gripping my carpal tunnel has been back in full force. I have had 2 acupuncture treatments so far and they have helped a lot, but my fingers are still numb 90 percent of the time. Will recovered wonderfully from his schedule upset. It only took him about 18 hours and he was back on track. I love that... He is really exploding in his language right now. He is making more and more word combinations and counting to 20 with about 60 percent accuracy. He is doing much more imaginative play now, he loves to cook us food on his little kitchen and feed us soup and milk. So cute! He is getting more and more daring as well! He tries to climb anything at the playground and scares me to death! The other thing I have noticed is that he is insisting on being a big boy more and more now. He wants nothing to do with booster seats, car seats and bibs. He still loves his bottles though! Our main concern right now is getting the H1N1 vaccine. Jason and I can both get it at work, but the county is almost out of it, and so is his Dr. I am panicked! This area is seeing a lot of cases of it, and just the other day a 14 year old healthy girl died of it. So scary. I wish I had gotten him one in Washington while I was there. At this point I would be willing to pay just about anything for a vaccine for him.... I just hope more becomes available soon. Until it does I am basically keeping him close to home and away from crowds for the most part. He is so precious to us after such a struggle to get him, I can't imagine losing him. And yes, the chances are small, but tell that to the 100 parents who have already lost their kids to it this season....

Pumpkins!

William picked out his own pumpkin!

He found some green ground tomatoes and kept calling them "peas"...

"Stick!"

The Beginning of the END...

THE END

He recovered in time for some chicken viewing...

Vacation Recap...

We picked out pumpkins with Grandma....

Fun at Camano Island State Park...



At the playground at Country Village with Grandma Jeanie...
At the Seattle Children's Museum...


On the Carousel with Patty...
Playing at Point Defiance Zoo...
First Time At The Pacific Ocean...
IT WASN'T A BIG HIT!!!
On the Ferry coming home...
Touch Tanks at the Aquarium...
Cousins!
Everett Children's Museum...

The Trip Thus Far....

Update time! Will and I flew in to Seattle on Tuesday 9/29. The flight went fine, with a layover in Minneapolis, my car seat wheelie thing worked GREAT! It was so easy and I loved being able to use my full size car seat for a stroller. Will basically watched Elmo the whole trip. I love long battery life! He slept about 2 hours too, and we colored a little and ate snacks. We made it to Seattle on time and met Grandma. Will was a little standoff-ish, but not bad, considering it had been 6 months since he had seen her. The next day was spent lazing about, and trying to adjust Will to a 3 hour time difference. He woke up at 3 am wide awake and ready to play, as you can imagine this did not go over well. Aunt Julie came over and we played in the yard, dug in dirt and BBQ'd. We decided to take Will to the beach so he could have some fun Puget Sound style. As you can see from the pictures, he did! He reacted to an enormous field of rocks exactly how I thought he would, at one point he threw himself down and made snow angel motions like he had died and gone to heaven! He saw the water and walked straight out into it up to his knees, it was pretty chilly so I was surprised. I think he would have gone all the way to Whidbey Island if we had let him! The next day we went to Everett and visited with Uncle Patrick and Auntie Bridget and Connor, Laura and Sophie. The kids were thrilled with Will and he was madly in love with their rabbit. We went to St Mary's to see Grandma Jeanie and out to lunch. That morning I also went to the consignment store to get a stroller and shoes for William since he got his other shoes wet in the sound! The next day we did Sausage Fest, Will won some animals and ate french fries. He also got to go on one ride with Uncle Patrick, but sadly there weren't a lot of them that he could ride because he was too short. We met Julie and Debbie for breakfast that morning as well, at IHOP and Will ate pancakes and sausage, one of his favorites! Julie gave Will a bunch of Fisher Price toys to take home, many of the ones we played with years ago and the coveted trucks and train set that Uncle Norman made for Julie when she was little. Will has been having a ball with all these new goodies! Saturday we stayed home at Mom's and puttered around the island, we also went to the beach again, and again Will went for a dip! Thankfully now he has 2 pair of shoes. Sunday we went out with Grandma Jeanie for breakfast and Grandpa was able to join us, then we went to Country Village which I hadn't seen in over 10 years. They have a great toy store, and Will had a good time at the playground. Jeanie bought material for a quilt for William that I am going to try and actually finish in time for him to use it before high school. It is an adorable Cowboy theme and I will scan in the material later. Later that afternoon we went to visit Teresa and Booker, and give Booker his first birthday present. The boys were very cute together. After that I had a little time, before I had to pick up Mom so we went looking for Legion Park in Everett. I couldn't remember exactly where it was, only that it was on a bluff overlooking the water. I finally found it and it was lots of fun. Monday we went to Seattle and spent the day with Patty, we had tons of fun! We did the Children's Museum, which is AMAZING! We went to Ivar's on the pier for lunch and I saved some french fries for the seagulls. We went out to feed them and low and behold -one SWOOPED down and bit me on the finger! Ouch! I even bled! Darn things! On the way back to the Seattle Center we walked through Pike Place Market, which is always so busy and fun. We stopped by Fun Forest and we all rode the carousel, one of Will's favorite things to do. After that we stopped for a few more minutes at the Children's Museum and then took Patty home. We had such a nice day and we were very Thrilled to find out Patty and Ryan are having their first baby! Whoopee! I can't wait to meet him or her!

Attempts at Some "Artsy" Pics...

Wet Willy!