Parks!!

Our family has been loving the beautiful weather. Alden and I go to the playground at least once a day but usually multiple times a day. He loves the slides and playing in the rocks.

Alden is back to normal! Thank you for all of your prayers and kind words. It was comforting to hear from all of you. It ended up being a little over 24 hours. By Thursday evening Alden was pretty much himself again. On Friday he was running around smiling!
This is what he is up to now...

He has loved being outside in this beautiful weather!

Alden loves playing on the computer. I would say it is probably his favorite thing to do.
You can probably see how the chairs are pulled out from the computer, in hopes of stopping Alden from getting on it, but he will reach pretty far to play on the computer.

This is Alden in the morning at breakfast time! It is always fun to go pull my happy boy out of bed.

At home, sick

Yesterday at the end of one of my lessons, Alden was acting really sleepy and was a little warm. I rocked him, and he kept going in and out of sleep. I tried to take his temperature but that just made him really mad.
I had another lesson a couple hours later and took him to a friend next door so she could hold him while he went in and out of sleep for the 30 min lesson.
In the middle of the lesson she came running in with Alden, he was in the middle of a seizure. We took him to the emergency room where he was laying limp and lifeless in my arms. When I got to the desk he started vomiting. Anyways they rushed us straight back.
Today we are at home, sick. Alden has a fever but it doing better. I am hoping it is some 24 hour bug. That means only a few more hours... we will see.

Aldi's

When I moved out here to the south about a year ago, I was introduced to a new store, called Aldi. At first I didn't think much of it, but I have grown to absolutely love this store.. my reasons why..

1. Things are usually cheaper then at other stores.
2. It is a small store so I can get in and out fast (Which is really helpful now because I can't keep Alden in a shopping cart... anybody have any tips on this, he can even wiggle out of the seatbelt ones)
3. I would say about 85% of the time I see someone from my ward there and the other 15% of the time I inevitably meet someone new. (Last time I was there a nice little old lady in the line gave me a back massage, where can you go and get back massages while waiting in line... I guess this lady does this for people in the line at Aldi's most of the time when she comes in.)

Well those are my reasonings, but the back massage totally made Aldi's go off the charts as my favorite store.

Shirt or Shorts for your hat tonight?

Michael and I have been looking for a good way to help Alden go down to sleep, because every night and nap time have always been a little bit of a challenge for Alden. Well, we finally found it...

Some people have special blankets, some have stuffed animals, others have bed time routines, but Alden has parents that put his shorts or his shirts on their head.
It really works great, I get a pair of Alden's shorts or one of his shirts every time I want to put him down. Once the article of clothing is on my head, Alden gives me a big smile then settles down and puts his head down on my shoulder and is ready to go to bed!

Michael was the genius behind Alden's new bedtime routine, thank you Michael.

Marathon

Michael did great on his marathon. He finished in the time he wanted at 3:43:56. Not only did he do great on his marathon but he helped pack everything up and drive back to Mississippi on the same day.

St. Louis

On Friday Alden and I went to the Memphis zoo and then on Saturday we went with Michael to the St. Louis Zoo. Both times Alden really had something important to say to the elephants. We caught just a little bit of it on video. (Here he is a little bit tired so isn't being as voicetress as he was at other times) We all loved the St. Louis Zoo!

Missouri

Off to Missouri for Michael to run his Marathon!