We had so much fun at Hive 09 this year.  It was exhausting but well worth it.  Ty had so much fun with all his new friends.  We got to swim, go on water slides (Dave and Ty, not me), hang with good friends, eat good food, we even got a game of bowling in before we left.  Ty also managed to get bit by an ant on the top of his foot.  It then swelled so much we could barely get his crocs on! By the time that finally went down, he managed to get croup and now we are battling a cold!  Here are some of the pictures.

Future blackmail pictures for Ty.  He really enjoyed dressing up.  He called it his “boy dress”.

Some of the kids chillin, eating bananas.

Ty feeding the cows that were next door.

All of the kids.

Ty being silly.

Going down the waterslide with daddy. Screaming bloody murder at the top, but loved it once he got down.

Real bowling (as opposed to the Wii fake bowling).

This past Friday, the only day Ty was well enough to go to school, I had a girls day with Suzanne.  We started with mani/pedi’s at the salon.  There is nothing better than a nice French manicure!  How come your nails are always so much prettier and shinier when someone else does them?  Then we had lunch in the mall and then proceeded to shop it up!  New York and Company, which I have never shopped in before was having a huge summer sale.  All their yoga pants were 5.99!  I got like 6 different pairs along with some cute long cotton skirts.  They had their jewelry on sale for 4.99.  I think I got like 4 new necklaces.  Then we headed over to Anchor Blue (another store I have never shopped in) and they happen to be going out of business.  Everything was 40% off plus and additional 20% off!  I got a couple of cute dresses and a pair of flip flops.  All in all, a great shopping day!  We had planned to see The Proposal but still had about an hour to kill so we went over to Panera.  I got a frozen caramel and a chocolate chip cookie.  So good.  We took a quick scan at Kohl’s but found nothing like our previous sales and headed to the theater.

The Proposal was great!  Very typical chick flick but I like chick flicks and I like happy endings to those chick flicks.  I would definitely recommend it to other chick flick movie fans.  After the movie Suzanne came over since both our men were headed out for guys nights.  My mom joined us and we enjoyed some wine and great girl talk.  All in all, a wonderfully fun day.  I definitely need to do those more often!

Well, I got a better night’s sleep only because Dave was on duty last night.  We figured we needed at least one of us coherent during the day.  So, Dave gets to sleep in this morning.  I was crossing my fingers that Ty would be magically cured today so he could go to school but he is not.  Still no fever which is good, but still coughing and a runny nose.  He looks like he doesn’t feel good.  This morning he said, “Mommy, I still sick.”  What really stinks is he goes to school 3 days a week, MWF.  Friday they are closed for the 4th.  He better be ready to go on Wed.  So, pretty much we have paid last week and this week 130 dollars for one day of school.  Ouch.

I have been on blog hiatus for some good reasons!  We left for Hive 09 (which I will have a separate post for) on the 18th of June and stayed until the 21st.  Then this past week we have had to deal with Ty  being crazy sick.  Tuesday night we put him to bed about 8:30, totally normal, and he woke up at 11:30 gasping for breath accompanied by the horrid barking cough.  So, off to the ER we went.  Turns out it was croup.  They gave him some oxygen and some oral steroids to open up his airways.  We got home around 3:30am.  Then for the next 2 days we dealt with psycho Ty.  The oral steroids made him insane!  He would go to sleep well past 11 and wake up at 5am!  So, he finally finished with the steroids and then proceeded to get a head cold!  He has been coughing like crazy(not the barking cough thankfully), waking about every hour at night.  His fever finally broke last night.  So, we are hoping for a much better night’s sleep tonight.  Keep your fingers crossed for us.  I promise be a better blogger once I have had some decent sleep!

So, Ty and I were just in my bed watching Backyardigans before bedtime.  He rolls over on his side and says, “I love you mommy.” (It was more like, I wuv you mommy, but still!)  Totally out of the blue. How freaking adorable is that!