time for a vacation

My last post was about Monkey's trip to the dentist. Which other than around his two crowns is still a little sensitive, his mouth is doing great.

Mom on the other hand is ready for a vacation. Thursday morning as I was getting ready to take Monkey to preschool I realized that Bub didn't look very good and when I touched him he was extremely hot. He has a temperature of 102.6. After taking Monkey to school I called to get him an appointment at the clinic here, but the only opening was when I had to go get Monkey. By that time, because of the medicines I had given him, the fever was down so I just figured I would watch him and if he still acted sick Friday I would take him in. The fever was down by Friday, but he kept putting his fist in his mouth like he had a sore throat. He doesn't have strep, but his throat was really red and his one ear looked infected. So he we have him on amoxicillin.

Saturday, I woke up and said to Spencer lets go into Salt Lake so that we could get the part that he needed to get the sprinkling system tapped out of the main line to the house. He told me that he could get the parts at the local hardware house. Famous last words. At about twelve thirty he came in and told me that he they had turned the water off. Forty-five minutes later he came in and told me that they were not able to get the parts he needed here in town. He called the place over in Wells just to see if they might have them, but they didn't. So he jumps on the internet and finds a place in Sandy that has the parts that he needs but they are only open till four and at this point it was about one thirty. So I get us all ready and get onto the main drag and realize that I didn't have enough gas to make it in so I stop and fill the car up and Spencer runs in and gets us all lunch. We made it into the place about 3:35. A hundred and one dollars later he had the part that he needed.

Oh, and about 11:00 that morning, as I was getting ready to go out and help Spencer I realized that Monkey looked like he wasn't feeling very good. His temperature was up to 102.4. So all weekend I kept giving him pain killers to try and keep the temperature down until I could get him in to the clinic Monday. He also didn't have strep which was good. His throat also was really red and he also had an ear infection in one of his ears. The poor kid. We didn't even make him a birthday cake for his birthday. I figured we would make it up to him later this week when he is feeling better.

On top of all of this, the truck's electrical isn't working so we are down to one vehicle until we can have someone out to look at the truck.

I am so ready for a vacation.