Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Now that BYU basketball is over, Jack has moved his "ra, ra, ra"-ing onto baseball.

On Saturday, he and his dad went to the home opener of BYU baseball.

They got a pretzel and a drink and had fun cheering on the Cougars, despite the cold.

Jack knows the BYU logo and says, "ra, ra, ra," and pumps his fist every time he sees it.

He's a true blue Cougar!

Sleepy Man

As Jack adjusts to going to sleep in a different way, he's been all over the bed.

Yesterday I found him sleeping like this during his nap.

Comfortable, huh?

Daddy Jr.

Jack loves to try on Daddy's things - hats, ties, etc.

He had a great time stomping around in Daddy's boots!

The Luck of the Irish

Despite our illnesses around here, we still managed to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, although I didn't get many pictures.

Dallin made us green eggs and ham for breakfast.

We all wore our green.

We watched BYU beat Wofford.

We had corn beef and cabbage for dinner.

We drank (non-alcoholic) sparkling grape juice - our version of wine.

Unfortunately the only leprechaun we saw faintly resembled Jack!

Teach Me How To Jimmer

Unless you live under a rock (or don't follow college basketball), you've heard of Jimmer Fredette and his amazing basketball season with BYU. Jimmer-mania has hit a fever pitch here in Provo and Jack's been right there with it.

Uncle Andrew got Jack a Jimmer shirt that he loves to wear.

The front says "Air Jimmer."

The back says, "Fredette About It."

We've enjoyed having the uncles over to watch Jimmer play and so they can all sport their matching Jimmer shirts.

We're excited to watch BYU play in the Sweet Sixteen next week!

Go Cougars!

Jack's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Poor Jack has had a rough go of it lately.

It all started with a runny nose that started about two weeks ago. That left him feeling very grumpy.

Then last Sunday night he didn't go to sleep until 3am and was awake by 7am. He only took a 20 minute nap all day and was miserable and so grumpy. We took him to the doctor and discovered an ear infection. He started antibiotics and we thought things would start to improve.

They didn't.

He was still grouchy and not sleeping well and then Wednesday we noticed sores on his lips and in his mouth. Thursday we were off to the doctor again. This time she diagnosed cold sores (the herpes virus, yuck!). She prescribed an anti-viral and Tylenol with Codeine to help him sleep. Of course the Tylenol was nowhere in stock because the baby version isn't prescribed often, so the pharmacist had to call all over Utah Valley and finally found some all the way in Lehi. After so many nights of not sleeping, we were not going home without that stuff. Even with the stuff, he didn't sleep all that great the first two nights and was insanely grouchy. We (and sadly our neighbors) have heard far more screaming over the last few weeks than we ever care to hear again.

Poor Jack has to take so many medicines. He takes his antibiotics twice a day, his pain killers as needed, and the anti-viral FOUR times a day. He's a great sport about it.

And to add insult to injury, the doctor said it was time he was completely weaned (yes, he was still nursing, but just for a couple minutes right before bed). He had to stop so as not to spread the virus to mommy and then to future siblings. This has been one of the most unhappy things for him. That has been something he's wanted a lot especially being sick. And we are now figuring out how to get him to relax in a different way before nap and bedtime.

Fortunately, today he's doing a lot better. He slept for nine hours straight last night, ate more this morning than he has all week combined, and has not had a screaming fit yet. He is down for a nap and we're hoping for more improvement each day.

Poor little Jack!

Adventures in Travelling

Our trip to Denver was relatively uneventful.

Jack slept a lot (or pretended to sleep, like he's doing in the picture).

He read, watched a movie, played Mr. Potato Head, and puzzles.

We did discover he had some car sickness as he threw up twice, but other than that he did really well.

The drive back was a little more exciting.

We left Sunday afternoon since Dallin and Andrew had school and work on Monday.

About an hour into the drive, we discover that they had close I-70, both ways, due to an accident.

We tried the alternate route.

It was a windy, mountain room covered in snow and ice.

After almost getting stuck once, we decided to turn around.

It was fun having an extra night with the cousins though.

We got up early Monday morning and braved icy fog and slushy roads, but eventually made it home.

What an adventure!