Football!!

The rain held off and Jeremiah attended his first Illini game of the season! He is a little more squirmy than last year but did pretty good. He's learned how to hold out his hands to STOP the other team and before we even went to the game he was doing the arms up touch down motion. This is not just for a touchdowns but for all sports/sports teams that he likes.

Mommy and Jeremiah were both tired after the game! (Note Mommy's good attitude about being willing to put this picture on Jeremiah's blog)

Goober eyes!

My worst suspicions were confirmed by a doctor around noon today. Jeremiah has pink eye. He's acting relatively normal and is being cooperative about the drops for now. I'll stay home with him tomorrow again because he's contagious for 24 hours.

His poor little eye looks gross and I'm scared to see what it looks like in the morning. It was nasty this morning but I tried to convince myself it might have been allergies. WRONG!

7 days of drops and hopefully we can kick this newest medical issue!

Quite the weekend

We had a great weekend up north. Jeremiah had a rough night of sleep on Friday night and ended up in the bed between Mom and Dad, but that's OK sometimes.

Saturday brought great excitement with a trip to Krape Park in Freeport to play on the castle-like playground, climb on an old fire truck, feed the ducks and, most importantly, ride the carousel. Grandma T. packed a great picnic lunch and Great-Grandma Z. went with too! Jeremiah rode the carousel 8 or 9 times (3 for $1 and one free adult is quite the deal). He rode with Grandpa, Grandma, Mommy and Daddy! He enjoyed throwing bread to the ducks too.

He was definitely ready for a nap after all that excitement. Later that afternoon, we dropped him off for some play time with Aunt Leisa and cousin Karl. The report is that he was a good boy and was enamored with the tractors, etc. at their house. However, having two two-year-olds on your lap while you try to read a book is apparently not an easy task. Mama and Papa S. picked him up and took him to their house for the night. They were surprised to look in to the back seat upon arriving home around 10 p.m. to find him wide-awake. After a little play time he went straight to the play and go when they told him it was time for night-night.

Sunday brought church, some time at the park with my high school classmates' families and the drive back. We were all pretty tired upon returning.

We did want to let you all know that the mystery word has been identified. It is "Theresa". She is a close friend of the sitters. She also babysits and the two groups are together often. That doesn't explain why he is saying Theresa at various points throughout the day and night, but we, at least know what the word is.

A little boy?

I was downloading pictures tonight and couldn't resist sharing this shot. I think it makes him look so grown up. I think I may need to face that he's not a baby.

In other news, he's saying more words. Some he is willing to repeat, but others get said once and then he won't repeat them for us. The sitter asked me tonight if I noticed him saying more because she is hearing many more words. However, there's one word that he has been saying over and over for a couple days but I can't figure it out. It sounds kind of like "pizza", but I know that's not what he is saying. We're intrigued to make this mystery history, as Pooh and his friends would say.

We're headed north for the weekend and anticipating an adventure with his grandma on Saturday and spending some time with his cousins.