A long few weeks...

Sorry for the delay in postings. We've had a busy few weeks. The weekend before last was the ever exciting Morton Pumpkin Festival. We walked to the Festival on Wednesday and Friday nights (we can see the big slide from our front door) to have dinner and then watched the Parade on Saturday morning. Anyone who knows this town knows (for some strange reason) this is the festival of the year around these parts! (And if you ever want to come to the parade - you can have a VIP spot in our driveway - it is PRIME parking for the parade). Then on Saturday night we went to Marcus' 10 year class reunion followed by a bunch of friends coming over Saturday night for some Rockband. A long week/weekend...but lots of fun.

Below are a few pics from the festival.....

On her way to her very first Pumpkin Festival



With the Biggest Pumpkin Winner



Okay, this was the best part of the parade. These little kids were being pulled by a tractor (they were reindeers if you can see the signs on the individual carts). Well obviously it was the last two kids naptime. Can you see the little boy with his head straight down in the second to last cart - and the little girl alseep to the side in the last one? So cute...and so funny.



This is Darcy and one of her girls. Darcy is Lucy's babysitter when I go to work. They walked in the parade...aren't they the cutest?



The "old school" Morton crew...


Lucy with her best friend Stella




Then this past Wednesday I started feeling sick and Lucy followed the trend. At about 6pm she had a fever of 101.1 and our doctors nurse line wanted us to go to the ER to have it checked out. We ended up getting to the hospital ER around 7pm and after a full work up blood, urine, and a chest x-ray (which may be the absolute worst thing I've ever seen done to a newborn - they swear it doesn't hurt them - but oh does it look uncomfortable) they came to the conclusion that she just had a viral infection. We gave Tylenol but nothing would bring down her now 102.5 fever. We left at 2am. Ugh. I realize with all the different flu's and nasty stuff out there they just wanted to be on the cautious side - but man was it a long hard night. It also happened to be one of those nights where the ER was a zoo! We went to the doctor on Thursday morning - where she still had the 102.5 fever - and he thought it was just viral too. Thankfully the fever finally broke on Thursday afternoon, and she is on the mend. She definitely was not herself, but even as a sick baby, she wasn't too bad, she really is as sweet as they come.

Here is a picture of the contraption they put her in to take the x-ray...she was not as content as this young lad.....imagine her screaming bloody murder...then multiply it by 100. That is how bad it was....she also stuck her poor head out of that opening as far as she could, which did not help in taking the xray....crossing our fingers we never have to do that again.



On Saturday we went to Decatur for a wedding and stayed at Nana and Poppy's house and on our way home on Sunday stopped in Bloomington to have lunch with Aunt Margaret and Uncle Lew who were in town on their way back from Colorado. They saw her at the beginning of August - but where surprised at how much she has changed in two months! :)

Oh, and I can't forget to wish our sweet Lucy - Happy Five Months today! Boy, is this going fast!