What's been going on...

Nearly 2 weeks since Ironman and there are lots of reasons for my lack of posting, none of which are too thrilling. Evan has been back and forth to the Dr. for the past couple of weeks with a horrible cough (going on for weeks now), wheezing and then spiking 103+ fevers. After seeing a pediatric pulmonologist on Friday, we finally got the official diagnosis of asthma, which we had figured. The fevers were being caused by an ear infection. The asthma symptoms were brought on (and made worse) by the colds he keeps catching from daycare. And, the colds he keeps getting, I keep getting. Right now, I'm fighting some sort of sinus infection that has really dug its heels in. Miserable. So, after a slough of medications (amoxicillin, albuterol, pulmicort and singulair), Evan is feeling so much better and his asthma symptoms are improving ten-fold. He's learned to enjoy sitting and using the nebulizer. Unfortunately, until/unless he outgrows the asthma (most children do), he'll be on most of the medications daily, although in smaller doses as he gets better. And so, in addition to his good looks, Evan can also thank his daddy for good health genes. Jason had childhood asthma (exercise induced), but now only occasionally has symptoms that are brought on by allergies.

Adding to this fun, Jason had his first major paper due for his Master's class last weekend. What he thought would have taken him a full day or so to write (after having done all the research), took three full days and nights to finish. It was a fun weekend for all of us!

Evan has started a new phase lately where he gets attached to a toy and will play with it over and over, and gets really frustrated (read: fit) if you try and take it away or ask him to do something, like take a bath. Here he stands his ground, buck naked, after being told to go and get in the tub.

The other thing that's been keeping us busy was preparing for Jason's birthday/post-Ironman party that we had last night. In addition to the typical pre-party preparations, we had to finish remodeling the guest bathroom. Every night for the past week, Jason came straight home from work and started work on the bathroom. At about 3 hours before the party yesterday, it was finished. Apart from crown moulding and some paint touch ups, it's finally done. No more wallpaper in the bathroom! I'll have pictures of the bathroom (for anyone interested) a little later. For now, I'll leave you with some party pics. We had a chili bar and hot spiked cider, both of which were gone before the end of the night.

Jason cutting the cowboy hat cake, provided by our culinary artiste, Yuki.

Some pics of the party-goers. I was told I had to take pictures of someone other than Jason, or people would think that no one came to his party.