Summertime Sadness

...that chick must be singing about the sadness of summertime ending and having to go back to the real world.  A.K.A. the story of my life.

Holy moly!  Where do I start?!

We've been super busy around here soaking up our last days of summer and time off.

A few weeks ago we went to Tyee for the weekend so we could go to Cascade Days.
Our favorite is the parade!  Pretty much everyone from Concrete and the nearby towns come and participate, from the little cheerleaders to the grannies in their red hats.  Oma's favorite part is when they throw candy :)

Two weeks ago Oliver tried daycare for the first time!  I was totally sad dropping him off even though it was only for a few hours.....I may have shed a few tears :(
When I picked him up I noticed he felt warm and sure enough he had a fever.  The rest of the week was awful.  Little mister was beyond miserable.  He pretty much slept all day, only waking to eat and snuggle.  His doctor said he had a flu-type virus and two days later his fever spiked to 104*!  Back to the doctor we went and then to Children's for blood-work to find out what was going on.  My poor boy was lying on the table screaming his head off while the tech was setting up and drawing blood; Oma held down part of his body, while I was holding down the rest and silently sobbing.  I couldn't help it!  I felt so terrible that he was so sick and had to go through all of it.  I was beyond thankful that my mom came with us, I would have been a wreck without her.

Showing off his battle wound

Passed out from all the excitement

Last week marked my first official week back at school.  Monday was really hard for me.  I cried all while getting ready, more when I dropped him off, and even more at work when everyone asked me how I was doing.  The week definitely got easier, probably from the stress of having way too much to do in my classroom.  Friday morning when we got to daycare Oliver started smiling and clapping as soon as he saw the big girls, who are totally in love with him.  Such a charmer!

Here are a couple videos from the weekend!
We were finally able to get him clapping for the camera:

He LOVES playing with magazines:

Our newest trick...eating big boy food!  He still hasn't sprouted any chompers, but it doesn't slow him down a bit!!  Oliver is loving noodles, avocado, chicken, sweet potato...ANYTHING!  This boy loves to eat!!!

I forgot to mention the fact that unless we are all eating at the same time, it's hard to eat around Oliver because he's always begging for bites :)

xo