Family Day & Lymes Disease 2014

We celebrated Gotcha Day by trying to eat dinner out.  Georgie had been sick but we decided to have a quick bite at California Pizza Kitchen.  As soon as we arrived everything was irritating George, the music, the lights, the smells.  He cried and cried and laid his head down in the booth.  We couldn't bare it so we ordered our meal to go and headed back home where he seemed much happier.  He was having fevers and headaches and I was up with him most of the nights as we tried to comfort him.  Back at home he quickly got in pjs and we opened gifts.  The kids decided to make gifts for us this year to celebrate our family which was super sweet.

 We gave Magnolia this cute this purse we bought for her while we were in China.

 We gave Georgie this special little turtle.

 After seeing a doctor at an urgent care who told us it was viral I went to help him out of his carseat that summer day after swimming at the pool and saw this tell tale ring around his ear.  I watched it as it faded in and out and I started to wonder if I was imagining it.  I called our pediatrician and we got in right away.  George was miserably sick in the office, barely able to sit up.  Our doctor looked and looked at him and I asked if it could be Lymes Disease.  He wasn't sure.  He spent a lot of time with us in the room puzzled by it and in one last ditch effort, we decided to strip him down and lay him down on the exam table and his red bullseye marks came back again and we started to see faint ones on the rest of his body.  No point in testing him for it,  we needed to treat him right away.  Three solid weeks of hardcore antibiotics.  I nearly fell of the chair in his office, I thought this would be something George would have to live with, that everything would change.  Turns out we caught it early and he's 100% cured.

 By the way, we never saw the tick bite and we are assuming he got bitten on the island.  There was one night where his back itched and I itched it for him, thinking it was just a mosquito bite.

Summer on Wash. Isle 2014

 Our month on the island was SO perfect.  I can't ever remember being as relaxed as I was being there. The island is very good at slowing  you down. 

They must have taken this selfie first thing in the morning.

 Not only were Nani and her cat, Lindy, with us but cousin Musa was too.  I'm not sure why I don't have photos of him there because I know I took a lot of them.  I'm sure I'll find them as I continue to update the blog.

 We loved see what kind of moths would show up every morning.

 While George would head back to the mainland during the week, we were always excited to see him on the weekends.  Here are the welcome home cards the kids would make.

A visit to the Danish Mill was a daily thing.

 The lavender fields have been planted. Can't wait to see them mature.

 The kids did a lot of kayaking on their own.

 And reading. This is the summer Magnolia fell in love with Roald Dahl.  We read A LOT of his books while on the island including James and the Giant Peach.

 And exploring.

 And just enjoying the scenery.

 Dinner our at Sailor's Pub.

 Scootering. A LOT of scootering this summer. Here we are at Jackson Harbor.

 It was a wonderful time!