When it rains...

So... it has been a fairly eventful week again. It seems our lives never slow down, only keep getting more hectic. I went back to work Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and they were fairly normal days. Wednesday, Tyler turned in his notice at work that he will be going PRN as of May 17. That is a HUGE thing for us as a family. Tyler will be staying home Tues-Fri while I work and working on his masters' of healthcare administration online. He will probably be working on Mondays since I am off, and still taking call one weekend a month. This is going to be a positive thing for our family, because lately his job has been taking him away from us multiple nights a week and him getting called out in the middle of our nightly routine makes for a cranky daddy, mommy, AND baby! Let the countdown to May 17 begin!

Thursday, my mom called while I was at lunch and let me know that Grayson was running a high fever and she thought he might have strep throat. At such short notice, I had to take off work on Friday so that Jackson would not be around him. I'm so glad that I did, because it turns out Grayson has mono, and Jackson could possibly catch it even though he is so young. Now, Sunday night, Grayson's fever still has not gone below 101 degrees and until he is feverless, Jackson cannot go to their house. The doctor said that could be several weeks. Time to get creative for babysitters! :) Tyler's dad is going to come up Tuesday and Wednesday to stay with him, and my friend Kristen is going to watch him Thursday (which was thankfully already arranged). Hopefully by Friday, my mom can leave for a while to come watch Jackson at our house.

This weekend we worked on our flowerbeds... I say "we" but I guess I mean Tyler and his brothers, because I was inside most of the time with Jackson. We replanted some shrubs that were not really alive any more, and put down new mulch. In the process of this, we used our water hoses for the first time since the winter. Well, you can imagine what happened... both our outside faucets apparently froze in the nasty weather we had this year. Thankfully, after a long afternoon of trial and error today, my grandpa and Tyler got the back one fixed and it was nothing that could have hurt our foundation or inside floors. We'll have to fix the front one at a later point.

Jackson got a Bumbo chair on Friday, and he really likes it, though he barely has the head control to sit there for very long! He's getting the hang of it. The past two days, we've been working on getting Jackson to go to sleep in his crib without one of us rocking him to sleep. So far, so good. He has taken several long naps in there. Tonight, we're gonna try to let him sleep in his crib for the first time. He has slept in a co-sleeper in our bed since he was born. He's already sleeping now, so we'll see how long that lasts! Last night he slept from 9:30 pm to 4:30 am without waking up. I'm praying that tonight will be the same.

And... here are some pictures from this week! And, now I realize these are the only pictures I have taken this week. Which means tomorrow we will be having a nice photoshoot. :) This has been the most random post ever.