Vets Day

We had a fun Veteran's Day.  My favorite veteran is no longer with us, but I spent time remembering him.

Reuel had the day off.  Today was Asher's graduation day from nursing.  He did not wake up to a cuddle and milk, but instead (in the fine tradition established by Owen), he was whisked from bed by Daddy (NOT happy about that at first) and the boys headed to breakfast at the donut shop while I slept in.  Nice!!  Later, some raking, a phenomenal 2.75hr nap for Asher (Nice, Nice!!), then a trip to the YMCA pool with the boys.  After that we stopped at Jordan's furniture (the Las Vegas-style larger-than-life furniture-opolis complete with a trapeze school, liquid fireworks, an ice cream shop, story-high jellybean sculptures, imax theater, and a Fuddrucker's restaurant in the lobby).  The boys had fun running around and watching the trapeze fliers, then we had a little dinner.  Right as dinner was ending Owen was complaining that his ear hurt.  I figured he'd gotten a little water in it at the pool and it felt weird to him, but he was complaining consistently and more and more vehemently.  SOOOO fortunately, we caught the last late-evening urgent care appointment at his ped's office (otherwise it would have been a 4+ hr emergency room wait, ugh), and yup, it was an ear infection.  Crazy!  Very unexpected, as he is just over a cold, and today was his first no-symptom day.  I can say that ibuprofen makes a dramatic difference in pain level for him.  He was MISERABLE by the time the Dr. saw him.  He was fussing and melting down and I could tell he wasn't trying to behave badly, just miserable.  The Dr. gave him some motrin in the office and about 15 mins later as we crossed the line into our town, he suddenly perked up, started chattering, telling jokes, asking questions and was as right as rain.  Good stuff!  He went happily to bed saying, 'My ear is all the way better now!  No problem!'