Fever

So, I get a call from Little Boy's daycare (which will be his old daycare as of next week) at 4pm yesterday -- it was the director, letting me know that Little Boy had a fever.  Man, did he ever!  He was dozing on one of the girls (the one that I don't like! grr...) in the rocking chair in the baby room -- they had me all packed up, so I could just grab him and go.  I hadn't given them Tylenol, so they couldn't give him any for me.  They just used cool compresses on his head, which I think helped.

I got him home and laid him on the couch and took his temp -- 103!  Whoa!  That baby got Tylenol and went to bed.  He woke up a couple of times between 5:15 and 9, but then was asleep until midnight; then he had more drugs and a bottle.  And he slept until almost 6 this morning and his temp was almost normal, which makes Mom happy.

The reason old daycare is now old daycare is because we have found a new place.  It's called Nonni's House and it's a mom and a daughter that live in a duplex more toward the center of West Allis.  They are awesome!  And he can go three days a week and it's only $35 a day.  I can handle that!  They are really nice, normal people too.  And I feel like I know the daughter, but I don't know why...She's only 24, so I don't think it was HS.  I am just so glad that we found a place very easily that we both love and Little Boy will get the attention and care that I think he wasn't getting at the old place.

So, I call the director to ask what I need to do to leave the place.  Now, three weeks ago, I asked about him coming more days.  She told me that she really didn't have anymore room for him -- he could come Thursdays, but not Wednesdays and there was no room really to move him around, because the whole place is full.  When I called yesterday, man, had that story changed!  Suddenly, there was room for him for more days.  Well, lets see  $180 vs. $105 a week.  Gee, let me think...

So, we've started a new place.  LB's Grandma was very, very sad that instead of watching him on Thursdays, she works.  I think that she wasn't ready to give up a day.  But, she will still see him Tuesdays.  And when it's nice out again, we can go to her house more.

Also, this week (on Monday, actually), my friend Julia had her son.  She works at a hospital not too far away from where I work, so Tuesday afternoon, I stopped to say hi and see the new adorableness.  And both Mom and Dad looked really good -- they didn't have that new parent look to them at all.  And her son was very, very cute.  I got to hold him for a bit and he was so sweet.  You could tell that he knew I was someone different, but that didn't stop me from rocking him back to sleep.  sucker!  :)

I think that whenever we're monetarily ready, I'm ready again.  The monetary part might be a little longer coming here, but the tax returns helped a bunch.  I don't feel so strained.  I'm hoping we can pay a big old chunk down this summer.  Cleaning out the house would also be a good thing.  I'm taking off May 13 and 14 for LB's 1st birthday, but I will probably use it to have a garage sale Friday and Saturday.  I'll spend the time before that to clean out the whole house and basement.  I would like to get rid of 50% of the stuff that we have.  That way, we can have a nice playroom that isn't my living room.  Actually, I'd love to move the living room around so it's more open to the "dining room" area -- then the toys could go there and you could still see LB playing from the living room.

OH....so many ideas!!!  I love spring.  Time for some spring cleaning!