Daddy's Birthday

The Wednesday before Drew's birthday (that would be 9/12 ... yes, I am behind on updates) Jasper started to sound a little congested. By Friday he was a bonafide snot machine. His second cold had arrived. Poor thing, he was really a mess. Not only was his nose completely congested, his right eye also was red and green goopy. That eye has a blocked tear duct, so the tears have nowhere to drain. This eye is a veritable fountain when he cries, and he can definitely produce a very dramatic sympathy-inducing tear at the slightest incident.

On Saturday we did a little work on the deck while Jasper napped, and then we all cleaned up and headed out to run some errands. It was HOT, miserably hot and humid. But I think one of the best things for congestion is getting out into the heat of the day instead of staying cooped up in air conditioning. Jasper wasn't irritable, but he looked like he had lost a prize-winning fight. Poor kid. He endured a confusing tour of the I-35 exits for Georgetown on our way up to the Tractor Supply Store. Wow - that was a little bit of an eye-opener, being in that store. They did have livestock wire which we're fixin' to use on the deck, but it wasn't quite what we wanted. So, the trip was almost a bust, except that we took the 4Runner off road the back way out of the store.

On Sunday we all played hookie from church and slept in. We went out for lunch and then hunkered down for the remainder of the day. Jasper thought the gifts daddy got for his birthday were super cool. :)

** Update **

Somehow it escaped me to mention the rather profound achievement Jasper made on Drew's birthday. He pulled himself up to standing in his crib. After lunch Jasper was quite tired, and yet he fought us in going down for his nap. He was just cranky. He cried for a little while when we first put him down. This is unusual, but since he was sick - not out of the ordinary. I checked on him while he was crying, stayed just a short time and then walked out of the room. A short while later Drew went in to check on him and came out holding Jasper with a rather grave look on his face. He said "He was standing up."

Since we still had the mattress in the high position, that was something about which to be concerned. So, Drew handed him to me and said, "I'm lowering the mattress right now." The tyranny of the urgent, right? Thankfully I have an engineer husband who got it taken care of pronto. Unfortunately, Jasper still wouldn't fall asleep easily. All in all, it ended up taking us 2 hours to get him to go down for a nap ... and he proceeded to sleep only 30 minutes. Whatcha gonna do?