A Boy and his Dog (and a Virus)

This weekend has been rough.  Tate has had some sort of viral infection since Thursday night, and has been running a constant high fever.  He has not been his usual self, and is very fussy and not sleeping well at all.  We saw the pediatrician on Friday, but there is nothing we can do about this except wait it out.  Needless to say, we're ready for the killer virus to get on its way and give us back our Golden Child.

Even with the fever, he was happy to play with Barley. She is the best dog, and is so great with thte boys pulling on her (Tate) and trying to ride her (Cole) all of the time.

(My mom is dying right now because she realizes that she just saw a picture of the dog licking Tate's face!)

As if a weekend with a sick baby wasn't fun enough, we had to go out in the 106 degree heat to take a family picture on Sunday afternoon.  Good times. 

Cole had a homework assignment to bring a family photo. We did not have any recent ones (where Tate was older than 3 months) except for some shots that were taken on our beach vacation.  As cute as those were, I was not about to send one to be plastered on the bulletin board at Brook Hill so the entire school could see me in a bathing suit 6 months after giving birth.  So, we tromped out to the lake as one big *happy* family.  This is the best we got. Poor Tate just wasn't into family picture time. Neither was Mike. I have no idea why not. ;)