We've been a bit absent from this blog b/c we've had a lot happening over the past 2 weeks. It started with me spending a few days in Atlanta for work and I came home to a "not sleeping through the night anymore" baby :( Tyler has never really been sick so it took us a while to figure out that our test case had something going on and wasn't feeling well. Turns out that when he's sick he's still pretty darn happy. We ended up having to take him to urgent care last Sunday to get him checked out. He had an ear infection, a cold and an upset tummy to go along with it, which ended up giving him a nasty, nasty diaper rash. Then he added in another tooth sprouting up. We did a lot of "airing out" every night to get rid of the diaper rash and a few nights ended in a messy disaster! Next time the doctor suggests to air out I'm going to ask if we could go to his house :) It's almost gone - thank goodness! He is back on his feet and has discovered the stairs and has almost made it to the top - eek!

Dave did the triathlon last Sunday and it poured, and poured and poured some more for the entire race! He did awesome and we were really proud of him! He must have swam, ran or rode through some poison ivy, oak or sumac b/c he started breaking out in a rash and this past Friday he was at the emergency room getting steroid shots b/c it was so bad. My men are a mess!

We had great weekend though. On Saturday celebrated my friend Nichole's 30th birthday and on Sunday went to a favorite amusement park of ours and had a wonderful day with Jill and the kids and Ryan and Juli!

Now it's time to overwhelm you with pictures!





Dave and our friend PJ crossing the finish line!



Future triathlete



Tyler made his first homemade tie dye at school :)



I'm pretty sure he's already planning his escape



First Carousel ride - he loved it!



Finally meeting Aunt Juli and hitching a ride in the back of the antique cars. Sydney was the driver and gave us all some minor whiplash



Beep beep



And then this went down...let me recap the conversation

Jill (experienced mother of 2): "Sydney wants to take Tyler on the boats."

Beth (scared mother of 1): "Alone?! No he can't go on alone with her"

Jill: "Yes he can Beth he'll be fine she'll watch him."

Beth: "But Jill I can't even control him let alone a 3 year old he doesn't sit still" (mind you this water is like 12 inches deep and it's a kiddie ride, but I had vision of him trying to explore outside the boat. I knew Sydney would have the death grip on him b/c she always does)

Jill: "Why don't you guys go on a roller coaster I'll watch Tyler and Sydney" (I should've known)

And........they're on the boat and loving it! Phew I'm happy they had fun!



For a split second he was thinking about jumping, but I guess he decided to follow the rules and stay in the boat. I guess that's what sisters are for :)



Goofin around...