Babies and Books

I took Grayson to his very own storytime today (he's been to others with the big boys but this is the first time he went to one on his own).  We went to the Nashville Library for a program designed for ages 0 to 2 called Babies and Books.  We got there just as it was starting but ended up being a few minutes late as Grayson had blown out of his diaper, again.

Grayson LOVED the class.  It was nothing special - some songs, books, and music - but he was all smiles.  I'll probably try to take him to the Brentwood storytime next week since it's closer.

 

On a side note, Grayson is still running a fever - 100.2F when I got him ready for bed!

Fever

Grayson is still running a low grade fever (it was 100.6F when I took it this evening)!  I took him back to the pediatrician yesterday and Dr. Huss said Grayson still has an ear infection in his right ear (he mentioned things like bubbling which didn't sound good to me!).  Grayson had been on amoxicillan for a week so Dr. Huss decided to try another antibiotic to see if that would clear it up.  So now Grayson is taking an amoxicillin and clavulanate mix.  As Dr. Huss warned me, it tastes a lot worse and Grayson does not like it but he's getting it down.

We are really hoping this helps because Grayson has had a fever for 24 days now!  Plus, I can't handle Grayson being on medicine much longer - he his blowing out the top of his diapers several times a day!!!

First Tooth!

Grayson's first tooth is coming in!  It's his bottom right center tooth.  I checked back and he's almost the exact same age as Carter and Rylan when they got their first teeth (within a week).

It's been a big day for the little man - he also started using the jumperoo!

Zoo

Carter and Rylan had spring break last week.  We ended up staying in town but stayed busy.  On Monday we met friends at the zoo (something Carter doesn't get to do very often now that he's in school five days a week).  I think about half of Franklin and Brentwood was there with us (I have never seen the zoo so crowded) but it was still fun.  We saw tons of people we know and spent about four hours there.

I tried to get a couple of group shots of all the boys at the playground ...

Rylan - Baseball

We decided to sign Rylan up for baseball this season.  We are officially crazy with having both Carter and Rylan both play baseball and soccer.  But somehow the schedules worked out really well and we have a lot less overlap than we expected.

The boys are playing baseball through the Brentwood Baseball Club.  Rylan's team is the Colorado Rockies.  His coach is okay (he's definitely not Carter's awesome coach), but he's volunteering so we can't give him too much grief.  No matter what, Rylan is super happy to be on the team with one of his best buddies, Luke.

The boys got in 3 practices before their first game.  The weather was not cooperating the last few weeks but at least there were able to do something before their first game tonight.

Rylan really wanted to wear his uniform all day but I convinced him to wait until this afternoon to put it on.  He looks pretty good in a baseball uniform!

One of our main reservations about Rylan's coach is that he doesn't seem to ask for parent involvement.  The boys need more than just one coach and one assistant coach for practices and games to really learn anything.  I think I have officially stepped up to handle the dugout during games and Brian will be out in the field whenever he isn't coaching soccer or at one of Carter's baseball games.  Today I had Grayson in the Bjorn as I ran the dugout.  Luckily he did fine!

Rylan did GREAT today.  The coaches decided to skip pitching to the kids and just let them hit off the tee (which is great - not many of them can regularly hit a pitch yet).  Rylan made it to first both innings.  He did awesome just running to the bag and not looking around for the ball to see if he was going to get out.

Rylan played first base the first inning and center outfield the second inning.  He did AMAZING at first base.  He got four outs!  However, the runners don't leave the bag when getting out in the 4/5 YO division.  Rylan was very confused by this and starting getting a little upset about it.  Luckily Brian noticed and explained to him what was up since no one else had.  I'm proud of him for accepting it and getting over it (stuff like that is still hard for him).  Rylan got one out when he fielded the ball and ran it to first and three outs when the pitcher fielded the ball and threw it to Rylan.  The second inning was a lot more boring for Rylan as nothing came anywhere near him.

Here are some videos I took of Rylan ...

Once again I think the Lil Sluggers program has paid off.  Rylan is one of the few kids that gets it.  He knows where to run after hitting the ball and when someone else hits, he knows how to field the ball, and he generally knows where to go with it.  We are so proud of our newest baseball player!!!

Music City Half Marathon

I ran the Music City Half Marathon this morning.

This was my third time doing this race (though today was a new course) and eighth half marathon.  I always try to do a long race a few months after having a baby to try and stay motivated to workout.  After Carter I did a half and after Rylan I did a 10 mile race.  My time today wasn't amazing (2:11:11), but I beat the half marathon after Carter by over a minute :)

Today was perfect race weather - around 50F and generally overcast with a little sun later in the race.  I have not been running much at all.  I had been doing a lot of the Beachbody workouts (Insanity and T25), but haven't even done those the last 2 weeks because life just got too busy.  But after a few days of recovery, I plan on starting back up with those and running more now that it's warmer and Grayson won't be too cold in the jogging stroller.

I had very low expectations for myself today and did better than I expected.  I only walked through the water stations and kept a pretty steady pace.  I'm so glad it's over though!

Rylan - Soccer

Rylan had his first soccer game of the season today (Carter has a bye week).  Brian is coaching both teams again.  Rylan's team has 9 (of 11) players returning from the fall with 3 new players (including one of his buddies from preschool).  Both boys are also playing baseball, but we recently got all the schedules and there is a lot less overlap than we expected!

Rylan did amazing today!  He scored 4 goals!  But what I'm really proud of is that he never gave up or started crying!!!  There was even once that he took the ball almost all the way down the field, got around 2 defenders, and then had his own teammate kick the ball away from him at the goal (and miss the shot).  Rylan wanted to get upset, but he didn't!  I hope he keeps up this matured attitude!

This is Rylan scoring his first goal (Rocco, the kid in orange, was on Rylan's team when I coached him).

Rylan has decided he wants to wear one of my headbands (just like his buddy Gray who wears his mom's).

Rylan with his buddy Radnor waiting for the other team to kick off ...

There was a lot of clustering around the ball still but Rylan's team easily dominated the other team on his field (I think the other field had a much more even match up).

Rylan did a great job of dribbling to the goal today ...

So proud of his effort today!!!

Go Pack

Grayson and I are ready to cheer on our team!

RSV

Grayson has had a low grade fever (between 99.5 and 101F) for about 2 weeks now.  In addition, he's been congested.  You can mainly hear it in his breathing but he's also been coughing some to clear the mucus in his lungs.  Grayson hasn't really been much fussier than normal but he has only slept through the night once in the last couple of weeks (he was sleeping through the night a lot before that).

When I took Grayson in for his 4 month checkup, he'd had these symptoms for about 36 hours.  The pediatrician wasn't concerned so I wasn't worried.  But since they'd been lingering for awhile now, I finally took Grayson back in yesterday.

Dr. Huss determined Grayson has an ear infection.  Grayson is also wheezing and with the constant low grade fever, Dr. Huss thinks he's probably had RSV (and that has caused the ear infection).

We got a prescription for an antibiotic and hopefully that will kick all of this out of Grayson's system soon!  It is hard to give Grayson the medication but I think I'm getting him to swallow most of it.  He still had a fever of 100.3F tonight but maybe tomorrow it'll start going down!

Recent Pictures

A few recent pictures ...

With all our snow days that have been on Friday and the spring party yesterday, Carter had only had one Friday to do a spelling test so far.  He did perfect on his first one!

Last Saturday the boys' fort they built on Thursday was almost gone ...

It was so warm on Saturday that we took a long walk that afternoon to school and played on the playground for an hour.  Grayson went on a swing for the first time.

You can really see Grayson's mohawk in that last photo.  He has a thick and long strip of hair down the center of his head right now!

Carter had my phone for a few minutes and took pictures.  Carter enjoyed getting to play on the entire playground (the kindergarteners only get to go on 2 of the 3 play structures).

I tried putting Grayson in the exersaucer on Sunday.  This was his initial reaction ...

He warmed up to it though :)

He generally likes it now which is great since I still can't lay him down on his playmat right now - he still rolls over right away and gets mad.

Both boys had their first baseball practices of the season on Sunday.  The fields were still closed but each team found some grass to use off outside of the fields.

Rylan was SO EXCITED for his first baseball practice.  He's only done Lil Sluggers before so this is his first team.  He's on a team with his best buddy from last school year, Luke.  Luke switched schools so we don't see him much but Rylan still talks about him so I'm excited for them to get to see each other again.

Rylan is on the Colorado Rockies and he's been wearing his hat everywhere all week.

On Tuesday Rylan's class FINALLY had pajama (and pancakes and pizza) day.  They were supposed to have it three weeks earlier during "P week" but they were out of school three Thursdays in a row because of snow.  Rylan doesn't like to wear his pajamas to school but was super excited to wear workout clothes.