Valentine's Day

I surprised him with cake, he surprised me with an adorable hedgehog that makes kissy noises.

Matching Bracelets

We decided to get matching bracelets this week. What do you think about the pink?

Who does that?...you might be asking yourself. Well, anyone who has to get in and out of the hospital.

Yep, the hospital. Its been a long week.

Sunday and Monday were spent with Steve and I both sick with the flu. Steve got out of actually throwing up, but I didn't. In the meantime, Joshua came down with a fever, but really didn't seem that affected except for a bit of a cough.

When his fever didn't break, we took him in to the doctor to find out that he had RSV Bronchiolitis and an earache. For being so sick, he sure was pleasant!

Wednesday night, he was not getting enough oxygen to his blood for our doctor to feel comfortable with sending us home and we landed in the hospital. After some bloodwork, an IV and getting his airways suctioned out, Steve stayed in the hospital while I went home to sleep before a big test that had to be rescheduled because of my having had the flu.

I got back to the hospital to find that neither Josh nor Steve had really slept. Steve had finally decided to wrap Joshua up so that he would stop chewing on his IV.

We thought his hospital gown was ADORABLE, but kind of sad at the same time.
He HATED having all of the attachments required for monitoring his oxygen and his heartrate. After about 12 hours of being monitored, they felt comfortable in sending us home.

LOVE this kid!
We have had more doctors appointments than I would ever imagine and we have to go to the hospital twice a day to have him suctioned out. It seems like today he is finally coming out of this a little bit and he is just happy! After we had originally been released, it was still terrifying to put him down to sleep and have him out of our sight because we wanted to make sure we could take care of him if he suddenly started getting worse. We're grateful that he is doing better and are so happy to have him as a part of our family!

First time swinger

Also in Vegas, we found a nice chapel and attended church with one of the wards. Afterwards, we found this beautiful park and let Joshua swing for the first time. He LOVED it!

(Oh, and we can sometimes get him to wear shoes!)

Las Vegas....again....

Okay, so it took WAY too much time to try and get these in order, so here they are. On Thursday night (February the 11th) we decided that we both really wanted to go out of town for our 3-day weekend. Because we didn't want to spend the whole time driving, we decided that our best bet was to go to Las Vegas. SO, on Friday, we headed out! It was really fun to be so spontaneous. Our listening book of choice was Fablehaven II. We left Friday and got back Sunday night. We spent a little time in our room just reading and watching Olympics. We also enjoyed the buffet while we were there.

We had a bit of a scare from Joshua though. About 20 minutes into our trip, he decided to have an allergic reaction to sweet potatoes. He had an interesting rash around his mouth and down onto his chest. After calling mom and the doctor, we gave him allergy medicine and listened to his breathing the entire way down to Nevada. Luckily, nothing else happened and he is doing great now. No more sweet potatoes for Joshua.

Down there, instead of spening all our time on the strip (which keeps getting nastier and nastier), we took a little drive and found a beautiful canyon.
Our favorite hotel is the Bellagio. They always have an interesting and stunning garden that I think is redone every few months. Here, they were celebrating the Chinese New Year (actually the weekend we were there!) and so they had some nice decorations to celebrate. Just about everything is made out of some kind of flower.

A cool gazebo

The ceiling

Just under a year ago, we took a picture at this spot but I was carrying Joshua in my belly. I requested that, since I carried Joshua around on our last trip, that Steve carry him this time.

This chandelier was little droplet beads individually strung. It was cool!

The M&M museum

We got to see two different water shows in front of the Bellagio.

More Bellagio. It was a fun trip, but we decided that because it keeps getting more raunchy, we are going to skip going there for a LONG time.

Some cute pictures

I thought you would all enjoy some of these pictures.

Joshua has completely figured out how to turn over in his bouncer. I guess its time to find another method of setting him down.

He loves faces, but he usually scratches whatever gets under his fingers.

MMM...carrots.

He's figuring out how to sit!

Matching shirts

Toga Party!

On Saturday, Jan 29, our friend, Greg Sorensen, threw a Toga Party complete with elk meat (SO good!), grapes, grape juice, and olives. Most of the rest of the party stayed to watch Hercules, but Joshua enticed us to go home early. We had a great time and quite enjoyed dressing up and dressing Joshua up.