Swimming and a Carnival

This weekend we enjoyed spending our family time at the pool and a carnival. Saturday morning while I went to an art show, Brian took Anna and Micaiah to a parade that was the start of the "Old Shawnee Days" carnival. Anna really enjoys parades and would like to be in one some day. The parade lasted 2 hours. They enjoyed it and had a great adventure...

After nap time, we took the kids to a local pool. It was Micaiah's first experience in a kid pool. It was crowded though so I think he was intimidated. And eventually he just got so cold he was shivering. The pool has some really great slides! One slide is a tube slide and the other is a person slide. Anna can go down the tube slide with an adult, so she had a lot of fun! The first time she went down, I got that picture of her falling out of the tube at the end.
We all got a lot of sun!
After swimming, we went home to change and eat so that we could head over to the carnival.
"Old Shawnee Days" is the town carnival held in the downtown area. Its a popular carnival with rides, games, food, and musical entertainment. Anna got to ride some rides and her favorite was riding the ferris wheel with Papa (pictured below). Micaiah rode a spinny ride with Anna and Papa and got really dizzy. He played on the playground most of the time.
We had a great Saturday!

Little fingers, Bloody nose!

Two weeks ago, Micaiah started running a fever of 101. The next morning when he woke up, he was covered in blood. There was blood all over his pajamas, sheets, and blankets. The first thing I did was gave him a bath and found he had a bloody nose. It was rather scary and yucky! This was my first experience with blood where I actually got really nauseous. He was fine the rest of the day and I didn't think much of it.

Then, the next morning he woke up with another bloody nose! Now I was beginning to worry. As I gave him another bath, Brian called a nurse hotline to ask if this could be related with the fever. We were told to see if it happens again in the next 24 hours and then call the doctor.

Thankfully, it didn't happen again. We figure that he was probably just sticking his fingers up his nose! And he was fighting off a stomach bug at the same time.
The bloody noses stopped. The fever went away. Phew! I am just glad thats all it was.

So if your kids ever get a bloody nose, check their fingers first!!! :)

Caiah's First Haircut!

My handsome boy

Caiah got his first haircut about two weeks ago. I cut his hair the day before our trip to Tennessee because I knew that it would be hot there. It was a good thing that I did, it was very, very hot! The haircut itself wasn't hard to do...distracting him on the other hand was a little more work. Toys and food worked the best and he sat still just long enough to get the job done. As I was cutting his hair, Anna kept asking me to cut her hair. She has yet to experience getting her haircut. Now that she has watched Caiah get his haircut, she is more willing and excited to have hers done. I am really glad about that because she seemed nervous about it before.