San Antonio...or BUST

For weeks we've been planning this super fun vacation to San Antonio - complete with Sea World, a boat ride on the river walk, visiting a friend in New Braunfels, and going to a new children's museum that just opened. Our plan was to leave Thursday evening after Clay and I got off work, and drive through the night so we would have all of Friday, Saturday and Sunday to play. We had gas in the car, the oil changed, the ice chest packed, bags packed (you get the idea), and then the fever hit around 3:30 Thursday afternoon. Poor Ethan was SO sick. By the time I got to my mom's house Thursday he had peaked at 104.5 and he was completely limp. The Tylenol finally kicked in around 7:00, but he woke up Friday morning with his fever at 102 so we took him to the doctor. The final verdict - strep throat. So, here we are on Saturday afternoon and Clay is working outside and Ethan's taking a nap. Thankfully, though, he is feeling much better and should be fine by tomorrow. Obviously I hate that Ethan was sick, but we couldn't help thinking yesterday around 1:00 that we should have been at the Shamu show. The good news is that the only thing we had to cancel was our hotel reservations, and they didn't charge us for that. So, we'll try again in another couple of weeks, but I have every belief that Clay and/or I will probably come down with strep about then (it's already been through my dad and then my mom). Such is a day in the life!

But we have been having fun around the house. Ethan's talking so much more now, and is starting to initiate more "conversations." We've been playing cars, reading books, jumping on the bed (I'm pretty sure my brother got in BIG trouble for this once as a kid, so I'm sure the day will come when we kick ourselves for letting Ethan do this now), etc. I'm attaching a picture of Ethan wearing his crown that he made in Bible class a couple of Wednesday nights ago. He absolutely loves Bible class, and he especially enjoyed making the crown. King Ethan rules for the day!

P.S. Ginny (my sister-in-law for those who don't know) started a blog so you HAVE to check out http://4txnsnnc.blogspot.com for pictures of my beautiful nieces.