The First Week of May

The first week of May was an interesting one at our house! On May 1st, this is what we woke up to!!!!! I am so tired of snow I could scream! The kids don't hardly know what to think. One day it is about 70 and the next day this...... My tulips still looked bright and happy giving me hope that spring really is here to stay. We have had a couple of good rain storms since that day, but no more snow....hopefully it is gone for good (at least until next winter). Somebody needs to give Mother Nature the memo! (I guess I have to say I am grateful for the moisture, hopefully we won't have to worry about a drought this summer!)
Then our poor little Camden got SOOO sick. I hate seeing my kids sick, it just breaks my heart. Camden hasn't really been sick at all this winter, which I am grateful for, but hated that once he did get sick we had a newborn baby aughhhhh. Luckily no one else got sick. He had a temperature of 104.6. My kids fever high, but never that high. We took him to the doctor and he was pretty sure it was strep. He sent us home with a prescription and sent the test in. Camden has been named the worlds WORST medicine taker. Even with his temp so high he absolutely refused to take ANYTHING! Not even a grape flavored children's Tylenol (I thought those tasted pretty good). And to think he was going to take his Amoxicillan was a completely other story! We tried sneaking it in everything.....no luck. We finally snuck some Motrin in a jelly sandwich and that ended up being our trick to help get his fever down, but we never did get him to take his prescription. On Mon. I was ready to take him back to the doctor to get a shot of antibiotics (figured it would be much less painful than fighting him twice a day for 10 days), when the doctor's office called and said his strep test came back negative. I was happy to not have to worry about giving him the medicine....or a shot, but hated that it meant there was nothing I really could do to make him better. After 4 long days he finally returned back to normal. Hopefully we can keep the sick bug away for a LONG time!

My little sister Ashley just got the cutest little toy poodle you have ever seen! His name is Bentley. He is only going to gain two more pounds. Anyway we babysat him one afternoon while she was at work, and Carter was in puppy HEAVEN! He carried that little thing around all afternoon. He wouldn't leave his side for anything. I was really worried he might hurt the poor thing, but luckily he survived! If I was an inside dog person I might consider having one, but in the mean time I will just have to let Carter play with this little guy!

Well by the end of the week, the sun was shining, the weather beautiful and I even got a sunburn working in the yard. I am itching to get my flowers planted, but have to get the weeds out first! So here is the first flower of the spring......it's pretty cute if you ask me!