No More Sickness, Please!!!

We were so looking forward to having a nice relaxing weekend at home. We had planned to see my Aunt Julie and Uncle Jeff and their daughters Kim and Ali in Johnson Creek. They were up from Indiana picking Ali up from school. We had also planned to go to our friends Mike and Karen's house on Memorial Day. We unfortunately did not do any of that.
Thursday Jacob tossed his cookies and had very messy diapers, then Friday Ben tossed his cookies and had very messy diapers, Sunday was my turn to toss my cookies. Josh was the only one who did not get sick. On top of it Jacob, Ben and I all have been fighting colds tooo. Plus, Memorial Day was 80+ degrees and humid, not so fun when you are sick. Jacob you can not tell is sick by the way he runs around the house creating what was clean order into utter chaos. Who would have thought this sweet little toddler could be so messy. He can take a room in 5 minutes and make it look like a tornado hit the house. He can even make it look like he is playing and not intentionally just making a mess.
Besides being sick this past week was filled with chiropractor appointments for Jacob and Ben. We decided to take both the boys. Hopefully, it will mean less sickness in the long run, we can only hope. Jacob was pretty out of align after the spill down Grandma Pat's hill, so it was good to get him in.
So, besides getting puked on this weekend and the endless dirty diapers, I am really ready for all of us to be healthy and to enjoy being outside.
Oh yeah, how could I forget, last weekend our lawn more broke. So, we decided to be earth friendly and by a non-gas, non-electric push lawn more. It is not really that bad and it saves gas. However, Thursday evening when I was cutting the grass one of our neighbors was laughing at me and shaking his head. Why pay to go to the YMCA or Bally's to work out when you can mow your own lawn and save the environment!!! There is really never a dull moment in the Toepfer household.

Update on Jacob...

Sorry, I forgot to mention the results of Jacob's x-ray. All is fine, no broken bones. :O)

First X-ray....

So last week we spent part of the week at Grandma Pat's house and Grandpa Tom's house. What fun a whole acre for Molly and Jacob to play on, a swing set with a slide and sand box. However, their house is built on a hill and Jacob decided to run down the high part of the hill. It was like a slow moving movie. Unfortunately, I was not able to catch him in time. He ran, tripped and fell half way down and then rolled the rest of the way down. He couldn't walk after he got up and kept falling back down. I was a little concerned and brought him into the house. He crawled around on the floor for about an hour after he tried walking a couple of times. We called our pediatrician and she recommended getting it x-rayed. However, when I took him to the doctor in Sheboygan, he talked me out of getting an x-ray and said let's wait and see. I should have insisted on an x-ray, for my piece of mind. He started to run on it later that evening, however he would limp every once in a while. So, Wednesday, Uncle Andy was going to an appointment at the VA hospital so Grandpa Tom, Jacob and I tagged along. Jacob had an x-ray done at Children's. Uncle Andy went to visit Great Aunt Gracie while we were at Children's. She was in the hospital for a month and is now back home.
We came back on Thursday and had a whirl wind Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Friday we decided to get Jacob out of the house and went to the zoo, came home, napped, uncle T.J. came over and we ordered Chinese, (Jacob had hot dogs and fries, he thought that there should be French Fries in the Chinese Carry-0ut bag) Jacob and I rushed to the airport to see Josh get off the plane, stopped at Pick-n-save to get a few things we needed. Saturday started off with swim class, Grandma Pat was able to see Jacob swim and splash. Then we cleaned like mad, went to Walmart to get things we needed for Sunday, cleaned some more, went to Walmart to pick up things we forgot the first time and finally went to bed. Sunday was baby dedication for Benjamin and we had grandma Pat, grandpa Tom, Uncle T.J., Nana, Papa, and Aunt Alisha over for Papa Murphy's pizza and cake!!!
This week has been adjusting to being back home and having Josh home again. Last week he was in California for a conference. Ben has been talking up a storm and laughing and giggling. He is quite the little jumping bean.