Conclusion of My Birthday Week

Wow...what a whirlwind this week's turned out to be. But it's been a good whirlwind except for Joshua getting another fever today. But I'll talk about that later.

Friday morning, we all met up with Danielle's parents at the Original Pancake House for breakfast. We always enjoy going there and this was no exception. Chocolate pancakes for me, thank you very much. Later that morning, we went to the mall to go birthday shopping - Robinsons May to be exact since the store here was closing because Macy's bought it. Later that afternoon, I took Joshua to pick up the portraits at Sears (because we forgot that morning). Then after dinner, the two of us went to church where MOPS put on a Dad's night where the Dads and their kids could make Mother's Day crafts together. Of course, Joshua lost interest pretty quick. But it was fun nonetheless. Next year should be more fun if they choose to do that again.

Saturday, we did some minivan shopping. It was actually sort of spur of the moment, but something we'd been needing to do for awhile. In the morning, we went to a Honda dealership to look at the Odyssey and in the afternoon to the Toyota dealership and looked at the Sienna. We were amazed at how much less room we felt in the Sienna. There were lots of other features we really liked in the Odyssey that either weren't in the Sienna or were just designed differently. Ultimately, it looks like the Odyssey is where we're leaning. We just need to do the test drive and the kid test (i.e. how does the stroller fit, get the car seats in and how easy is it to move in and out, etc) and then figure out how we're going to pay for it and we're all set.

That evening, our neighbor's, Tara and her mom Cheryl, came to babysit while we went out on a birthday date. We are very appreciative of them for taking care of the kids while we got some time together. We went to the Irvine Spectrum and specifically to the Yard House for dinner. We would have gone to the one in Brea, but figured we hadn't been to the Irvine Spectrum in a quite a while and it would be fun to walk around the various shops that are there. I wasn't impressed by the food or atmosphere. Not bad, just wasn't impressed. Danielle, on the other hand, really liked the food. Probably didn't help that it was on the night of Game 7 of the Lakers series with the Pheonix Suns. But since they lost so badly, we didn't hear as much from the crowd as we would have had they won. Overall, it was a fun evening just hanging out with my bride of 9 years (soon to be 10!) as we celebrated my birthday.

Today was really a regular day, going to church, going shopping, etc. During church, our pastor told us that there was an article written in the local paper (Star Progress) about our church and the series we were going through. Pretty good article. Here's a link and I hope you're able to see it.

Orange County Register - Star Progress for La Habra/Brea

After church, we began realizing that Joshua wasn't acting normal and felt really warm *sigh*. We took his temperature and it was somewhere in the 101 range. We took it again later and it read somewhere in the 103 range. Seeing that he had been pulling on his ear for the past day or two as well and that Urgent Care closed at 5, we decided to take him in rather than wait a full day. So, we got him on antibiotics...again. Sheesh! Does this ever stop, even for one month???