It's a beautiful day!

It is a gorgeous day outside! The next few weeks are the Azalea Trail, and we love this time of year because we are right smack dab in the middle of it. We awoke this morning to cars lining the street outside our house and people walking by in the masses to view all of the pretty flowers. The weather is perfect for being outside, and luckily we have gotten to be out some! At first this morning, I thought we were going to have to stay in all day.

River woke up this morning to eat at 4:30 and had the toughest time. He was crying and breathing hard off and on while he was trying to eat. He sounded congested but no fever. So we made it through his feeding and I put him back to sleep at 5, praying he would feel better when we got him up at 7:30. At 7:30, he woke up and ate better this time but was still a little fussy. After I changed his diaper I attacked him with the booger sucker (they give you one in the hospital usually, so we have two now). However, there weren't very many nasty green guys to rescue from his nose, and he was fussing the entire time I was doing it. (Usually he enjoys the booger sucker!) Fortunately, he started laughing and smiling and sounded better by the time he went back to sleep at 8:30, and when he got up at 10:30, he was back to normal and eating well again! Whew! I thought we were about to experience our first "call the doc w/ a baby emergency" feeling...As it was, I hated the thought of my little guy being in the least bit uncomfortable! :(

River got to meet his Great Aunt Diann and cousin Elana today for the first time...we sat outside on the front porch and enjoyed the nice weather. He loves having visitors! Then when he woke up from his early afternoon nap Cody and I gave him his bath and then we swung some more before he fell asleep again. Right now he is taking is late afternoon nap while Cody is at Home Depot exchanging the mail box we bought last week to put on our house...there were screws missing. We are going to make steaks on the back porch tonight for dinner- we have grilled 5 times now this week! The weather has been so perfect for it and we know we need to take advantage of eating outside before it gets too hot! : ) That's all I have for now...hopefully we will get to take River on a walk around the neighborhood tomorrow and maybe go down to the arts and craft fair at the park. : )