A Boy's Weekend

Miranda had to accompany the high school band on their bi-annual trip to Walt Disney World. That left Gavin and I to our own devices for a few days. It was just the boys (Gavin, Mason and I) from Wednesday afternoon till Sunday night. Thursday and Friday turned out to be pretty routine. I got Gavin ready for school, and Lindsey was kind enough to drop him off when she dropped Dean off at school. I was so thankful for that - it saved me an extra hour of driving both days.... Saturday was a different story however. I had lots of stuff for us to do...some fun stuff and some errands to run. First stop was Krispy Kreme for breakfast doughnuts. Gaving has never had a KK doughnut or any doughnut for breakfast for that matter. So this was a extra special treat. Needless to say, he loved it and sported the hat the entire time. A little milk helped wash down the warm doughnutty goodness.

Soooooooo gooooooood. Check out that frosting on his mouth! I had to carry him outside to clean all the icing off of him before we left.

Then onto the Honda dealership for wiperblades for Miranda's car (they only sell the type her car uses through Honda for some reason). Next stop was my office for a little work. I just had to e-mail a few files, and Gavin was happy to help.

After work we felt like we needed to burn off some of our breakfast, so we went to the park and played some ball...

and slid down the BIG slides - this was a first for Gavin.

Check out that static electricity. Also note his shirt - I bought it especially for out boy's weekend. It has ketchup and mustard talking to a hot dog saying "What's up dog"?

Then G spent a little time in the sandbox. He played very well with the other kids in the sandbox. He shared and waited patiently for his turn to play with the cool "sand wheel".

And FINALLY the swings were open. G had a mini meltdown when he realized that some other girls were in "my swing". But he took it in stride and ventured out of his comfort zone to explore the park a bit.

After the park, we hit a couple garage sales on the way home since it was the Trophy Club garage sale weekend. We didn't buy anything though. Once at home we grabbed some lunch and it was naptime. The afternoon was a little more laidback. We had a haircut for G, and other than that we watched some basketball on TV.

We met up with Jimmy for dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings. Gavin must have been starved because he ate over half of my dinner. He even ate half of a piece of pie that Jimmy had made.

Sunday was a totally different day however....I chose to play hookie from church that morning, and that turned out to be a very good thing. We watched cartoons in the morning and Gavin ate a few eggs for breakfast. I didn't think much of it since he was probably still full from dinner the night before. Then around 10:00 he started crying for me. I picked him up and realized that he was very warm. I sat with him trying to comfort him when all of the sudden he threw up all over both of us. I cleaned both of us up and gave him a quick bath. The throwing up and gagging scared him quite a bit. After getting him settled down I took his temperature and it was 103. He spent the rest of the day napping and crying for dada when he woke up. There was another throw up incident, but the second one went much better....his response afterward was "I spilled".

Motrin failed to lower his fever, but Tylenol seemed to do the trick. He finally started feeling better around 5:30. By 6:00 he was back to his normal self with a fever of only 101.

Miranda got home around 9:00 Sunday night, just missing all the fun. She was as tired as I was, but I haven't given her much pitty since she was tired from riding roller coasters for four days. :)

Gavin was very happy to see his mama this morning. We split time at home with him today since he couldn't go to school. Thankfully this was just a 24 hour bug of some sort. He has been playing and talking up a storm as usual today.