Waco Weekend and Suckiness

This past weekend we escaped from life briefly to visit Waco family and attend Baylor homecoming. We didn't make it in until late Friday night and basically went straight to bed, then got up early and went to the parade. It was freaking cold, and Carter's nose had started running, but he enjoyed it. Especially since they throw "tendy" off the floats for the kids to fight over.


I'm guessing he thought he was the grand marshall

A few layers deep

Da bear

This was by far the coolest float. It was chock full of old school toys

More toys

And a giant original Game Boy! Complete with a person dressed as Mario inside! How clever.

Collecting tendy

We left a grouchy, yucky-nosed Carter with Nana and went to the game.

Jazzy lasted until the end of the 3rd quarter, when she declared that the game was almost over because Baylor was winning, and I broke her heart when I told her that there was a whole nother quarter left. Her daddy took her home shortly after. :)

Sunday morning Carter woke up early, partially due to the time change and partially due to the fact that he was obviously getting sicker. We again left him with Nana so that we could visit Christiaan's home church. After delicious lunch and a little more visiting, we grudgingly loaded up the truck and headed back to Dallas.

This week has started off with a bang. Dad has not been doing well the few days, and by the time we got back to Dallas Carter was officially sick, like with a fever and all. Not just teething. I had some issues at school that I had to handle first thing Monday, and I was not looking forward to any of it. By Sunday night Christiaan started complaining of a sore throat and runny nose. Awesome. He stayed home with Carter yesterday and took him to the doctor today for a diagnosis of.....strep. So Christiaan has an appointment tomorrow morning to get tested for what is obviously strep also. Which means that I took the day off work to stay home with Carter, since my aunt Karen is staying with Dad tomorrow. Life is just one giant shit storm after another these days. I am taking leftover antibiotics to avoid the plague. But honestly?? It was not a very hard decision to take off tomorrow, despite the fact the Kasi will be gone too. This school year is dead to me.

I'm praying for a better end to this week. Otherwise, we may not return from our next Waco trip. :)