The last couple of weeks

Ugh. Bring on the spring. So the past two weeks here have really been something else. Let's start with the good stuff. We had a great visit with our friend Jen from Toronto - it was her first time seeing the kids since I took my leave so Leo was a very different boy. As per usual, we had a great time together hanging out, catching up, eating great food and having a couple of adventures, including Winterlude.


Leo loves snowballs!

Max and Daddy tag team a Beavertail.

Mommy and Max check out an ice sculpture.

The Monday morning after Jen left, Leo and I were going up the stairs from the basement and I let my guard down at just the wrong time. Leo logrolled down all 13 wooden stairs onto our tiled basement floor. It was pretty horrifying to watch. Leo grew an instant goose egg on his forehead and was really upset. It took him about half an hour to settle down and that's when the monitoring phase began. I kept a close eye on Leo all day, pretty nervous that he'd done some real damage. However, Leo's mood, behaviour and balance were all normal throughout the day. His nap was a little longer than usual, but his appetite was also normal. All in all, Leo has bounced back nicely. I'm posting a couple of visuals of the goose egg and ensuing bruise. Enjoy.





Had to put this video in here. For the longest time, Leo has been saying "Dumpaday" to himself over and over again. Not sure what it means. Sometimes, he just says it. Sometimes it's a song. Anyway, I had to film it for posterity...and it definitely shows the bumps and bruises pretty well.

OK, so by the end of last week, Leo seemed to be A-OK and I was psyched to get out and do something with the kids this week. However, in the middle of the night on Sunday, Leo started vomiting for a few hours. This was followed by a couple of days of nasty diapers and a horrendous rash. Wednesday morning, things weren't improving and so I took Leo in to the clinic. Diagnosis: double ear infection. That's four in four months. I mentioned this to the doctor to see if it would raise an eyebrow. However, it seemed like this was still within the realm of normalcy. Doc suggested that the infection accounted for the tummy issues, but then there was more, er, upheaval Wednesday night and....drumroll....Max joined the party Thursday night. I have a hard time believing that the two sicknesses were not coincidental and now Holly has a bout as well. So I guess I'm the last domino to fall. Thankfully, Leo's back in the game and after a couple more days, Max should be up and about again. In the meantime, this has been a crazy first exposure to family-of-four sickness. Obviously it won't be the last, so we're taking notes :)

P.S. Holly and I took this awesome "time lapse" series of photos. The first is at the doctor's office Friday morning, the middle ones are on the couch on Saturday and the last is at the mall Saturday night (when Holly was at her lowest point, I took the kids out to the mall to get some air). Yes, that is a baby seat that he is in.