Sick Baby and Last Cabin Weekend

Sadly, we won't be enjoying this beauty for some time. 

     What a week and weekend we had! Ashlyn developed a cold earlier in the week.  She was congested and coughing.  I was really hoping that Dawson wouldn't get it.  Well, Tuesday and Wednesday he was pretty fussy.  I didn't put two and two together that he may be getting sick.  I put him to bed Wednesday night, and he struggled falling asleep and staying asleep.  Thursdays are a work day for me and I have to be up at 5:00.  Joey got up with Dawson and laid with him for most of the night.  I managed to get a couple of hours of sleep.  Around 3:30, I woke up with him.  Poor thing was just miserable!  He was so congested and his cheeks and nose were bright red.  He had a fever too.  I knew that me staying home wasn't going to be a possibility.  Since its so early in the year, I don't have any sort of sub plans set up.  It was the worst thing in the world to have to leave him when he was so sick and needed his mom the most.  Joey stayed home with him and was able to get him into the doctor first thing.  Turns out he had an ear infection.  Ashlyn has never had a single ear infection, so I was very surprised he had one.  They prescribed antibiotics and he felt better later that day.  He is back to his happy self once again.  It was just so hard to see him so sick.  Joey was such an amazing husband.  He not only stayed up with Dawson so I could sleep, took him to the doctor,  I also came home to a sparkling clean house and the laundry done! I definitely have an amazing husband!

We headed up to the cabin for our last weekend of the summer.  Joey and I dropped off Dawson and Ashlyn off at his Dad's house on our way up Saturday.  They had a blast spending the night with their grandparents.  Ashlyn got to see her beloved horse, Pistol.  On Sunday morning, Joey and I picked the kids up.  I took Ashlyn to the hot springs.  She has never been there before, and really had a great time.  We will be going again for sure.  We spent the rest of the weekend relaxing at the cabin.  It is very obvious up there that fall is looming.  Not only was it quite a bit cooler, leaves were already changing.  I'm so sad that we won't be going up there for a long time.  I'm glad that we were able to go up there so much this summer.  I know that all of us had so much fun there. 


Ashlyn left her dinosaurs out this afternoon.  Dawson crawled by and saw them.  He immediately started playing with them.  It was pretty cute. 

He was very intrigued by them.

He knew just how to play with them.

He's so cute!

He had a blast at the cabin jumping in his bouncer.

Ashlyn showing her mom what a rugged cowgirl she is.

Ashlyn was so excited to see her favorite horse.

Ashlyn and I did a lot of art this week.  She just can't get enough of art projects.  Here are some of the ones we did this week. 

This is a ladybug made from her footprint.

This is recycled art.  She used an empty toilet paper roll as a stamp.  She made this one for her Papa to hang at work.

Ashyln has been loving monkeys.  She insisted we do a monkey craft.  She really liked the way this one turned out.  She decided to add some finishing touches to his face.  One of ears also fell off before I took a picture because she was playing with him.

Ashlyn had a blast making this fish.  Her favorite part was going outside and gathering rocks for the bottom.  I think it turned out adorable!