a weekend in october

My 31st birthday was this past weekend. We had a nice quiet weekend planned. Caleb planned a date night for Friday night and a friend watched Josiah. I had an all-day retreat for church on Saturday so our only real plan for the end of the day was to spend some much-needed time as a family!

The one little nuisance in our prep was this crazy cough I couldn't seem to shake. I have been coughing for a couple weeks now but had no other symptoms to speak of. I decided against going to the doctor and hoped it would just start to get better on its own. We also had a well-baby check up and shots for Josiah on Friday morning so we both attended that appt. and proudly told our pediatrician that it had been months since Josiah threw up.


We left the ped's Friday morning and by Friday night when he went to bed , he'd thrown up 6 times. We were concerned and besides thinking it was a little ironic we'd just told our doctor how he never throws up; we assumed he was having a reaction to the shots (although he'd had them all before and had never had a reaction to any of them) or maybe it was that toy he'd borrowed from a sick-looking kid in the waiting room. Either way we'd hoped it would get better through the weekend. It didn't. 6 throw-ups a day was par for the course this weekend. This poor little angel is sucking down Pedialyte like crazy because be can't hold anything else down.

Caleb and I still went on our date night; still thinking Si was suffering from a reaction and knowing he was in the quite capable hands of one of his AZ grandpas. We had sushi and watched "The Social Network". Both were amazing and come highly recommended by me!


We also got our family time on Saturday. I still went to my retreat (even though the cough persisted) but I made it through. (who knows how many people are now coughing up a storm). When I got home Caleb, Josiah and I went to a little pumpkin patch and farmer's market, played at a park and ate at our favorite restaurant, which coincidentally, gives free meals out on your birthday! We had a great day and the pics below are from this day.

Sunday came and we had a whirlwind day, not unlike most of our Sundays, with church services in the morning and evening but this past Sunday we also added the annual church picnic which fell, of course, right during Si's normal nap time. So we did church, picnic, nap, church....all the while Si throwing up every few hours.

Monday finally roles in and I go to work in the morning. By noon Josiah and I both had diagnosis...Josiah: Some crazy contagious virus that is going around that he is too young for any kind of treatment for. Should last a few more days with the throwing up and several more after that with diarrhea. Anna: Pneumonia. While Josiah and I spent the rest of the day convalescing, Caleb was off to work and then school (he got an A on his Greek quiz). On the way home he says: I have a horrible headache and sore throat. I guess that was inevitable.

Although we have been freely spreading our gems around town all weekend, I still would not advise a trip to the Fields house any time soon.