Golfing, motorcycles, picnics and runny noses

We've been quite busy over the past week. The weather has been what we like to call "Chamber of Commerce" weather. Blue skies. Brisk, but hardly cold air. Absolutely Beautiful. Apparently, the northerners have also figured it out, they are here, and on our roads, in full force, and moving at a snail's pace. Now, if we could just get enough of them to buy some real estate, we'll be good to go. Most of activities recently have taken full advantage of being outside.

On Sunday, all of us went to the Driving Range. To say Thomas was excited would be a complete and total understatement. Madelyn enjoyed being Caddy almost as much as she did putting balls. I know I'm his mom and might be a little biased, but seriously, this kid can HIT the ball. His eye-hand coordination is crazy, and he's not even 2. Watch out Tiger!

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the driving range, we made it in time to watch the Teddy Bear Run. What an amazing charity event. The parade started with police on motorcyles with their lights and sirens on to clear the roads. Then the roar of about 500 motorcyles quickly followed. Santa was the "Grand Marshall" of this event and was followed by his elves, all with at least one (and many with a lot more) teddy bears in tow, to be delivered to children in the hospitals over the holidays.

 

 

 

Monday, we met went to Island Park to hang out with a bunch of friends we met through Gymboree. Another Glorious day. Blue skies, cool enough for long sleeves, but by the Bay in November. The kids had a blast. They climbed, slid,ran, and had a picnic lunch. We are blessed to have such great friends.

 

 

And, sadly, it can't be all fun. Thomas came down with a nasty bug Monday night. He was moaning and crying any time I put him down and he was burning up. His fever of 102 bought him a ticket to the Doctor on Tuesday morning. We discovered that his throat was fire-engine red, tonsils were kissing, and there was a lot of nasty puss on them too. His eye is goopy and nose runny. Poor little dude looks pitiful. His strep test came back negative, so it's viral, and only time, fluids and a lot of love will help at this point. While we were there, I decided to get Madelyn's flu shot and her last set of vaccines she was missing. She wasn't a happy camper, but nothing a little chocolate from Miss Kathy and stickers from Miss Tracey couldn't fix. Here are some pictures of Thomas finally sleeping on Tuesday afternoon in his "Anywhere chair boat" and another of him Wednesday while outside getting some fresh air. Notice the nice dripping nose.