Room in progress, Park, Sick Bug!!!

We have been pretty busy lately! So I am a little behind on posting. This month I guess the "Nesting Bug" has hit! I LOVE LOVE LOVE it when it does! I made my list of things to get done before our little man arrives and I am almost done with it! One of them was to fix the kids room. This is a picture of what it looked like before: Cute huh! Well Karston and his little buddies picked off all the animals and by doing so the red paint behind it also came off. So I had to think of something new because it was bugging me seeing all the holes where paint/animals used to be. This red paint is impossible to match so I had to think of something totally different. So this is what we came up with. We painted a blue stripe around the room and then a dear friend of mine is going to be printing out some cute little western decals with her Criquet they will be a horse shoe, A star, and a cowboy hat. I was looking around his room and his pictures are all those old western photos that I LOVE so I figured why not go with that theme! I am going to try and figure out how to make a cute curtain for his little window, and maybe one for the BIG window we will see about that! Then under Karston's name will be the new baby's name. So I can't have more than 2 kids here because there isn't room for any more names on the wall! Anyway so this is what is done so far!

It was fairly decent one day a few weeks ago, and I had no kiddos to watch so Karston and I had a mommy son date at the park. We went to eat at Arctic Circle, played there for a little while, then we went to a park and soaked in some fresh air! Karston LOVED it and so did I! Towards the end it got a little breezy so we didn't get to be out very long, but it was still so nice!

Karston would hang on to the slide bar and tease me. He would go "Ready mom, Set mom, G.... No no." and he would laugh and laugh! Little tease!

He like to play peek-a-boo around the pole from the stairs! Silly baby, but I got a cute picture!

This is how you watch T.V. broom, bucket and all! I have been going through every bin, cupboard, etc. Karston is making good use of the empty buckets! Amazing how much more room you have when you throw bunches of stuff away! I LOVE that feeling!

This picture I came across and it made me giggle so I had to post it! He has always LOVED helping mom with the chores! That little face makes me soo happy! I love him!

This past week Karston has been sick. He has had a fever of 103-104 with the lowest on medicine being between 99 or 101. The week before Doug was sick with Strep so I thought for sure Karston got it, but no. I took him in Monday, and he had a double ear infection. Tuesday we went back in and he had Croup. Saturday Doug and I took him in because he still sounded a little croupy and still had his high fever. Well everything checked out on his ears, and throat so then they decided to see if maybe he had a UTI that was TRAUMATIC both for Karston and Mom. He is a STRONG little bugger. Takes after the Purcell side I guess even the nurses were amazed at his strength. Got that done nothing. So then they decided to do some blood work. We took him over to the hospital Doug has a hard time with needles, blood and stuff so I got to be the lucky one to take him in. I was so nervous the entire time. Kept saying a little prayer hoping that they would find a good vein and they would only have to do 1 poke! I took Karston back and Karston saw the needle and looked at me and said "OHHH NO NO NO" I could not stop laughing it was so cute. He actually did REALLY good. He helped them disinfect his little arm. He cried when they held his arm down and did the little poke, but once that was done he just watched. I wish I would have taken a picture of his little bandaged arm, but I forgot. Anyway it showed some infection somewhere, but they don't know where yet, and they won't know for about 5 days. So in the meantime he has been on a strong antibiotic which seems to have found whatever it was causing the fevers! HOORAY!!!

This picture is so old, but it is so cute. This was taken when Karston wasn't even 1 yet and had a fever.

He is much better and back to his curious little self!