We took Gavin into the doctor on Monday and they only test for one strain of RSV. Fortunately he was negative. I am not sure how many there are but they prescribed another round of antibiotics, his third this month and his second breathing treatment. There are 7 babies in his the nursery and 3 are out with RSV (43%). It's a mandatory week at home once a baby has been diagnosed so as long as they send in the janitors to scrub the place clean those germs should only be there for another 4 months or so until the temperatures break 60 degrees to burn off the germs. He sounds much better and is sleeping longer at night without interruption so he appears to be making progress. Hopefully he turns the corner this time and makes a full recovery so they can inject him with a docile version of viruses number 6, 7, and 8. Have to love that medical profession. That will be $20 for the visit, $90 for the medication and we'll see you next week (big smile)! If that doesn't prove getting a liberal arts well rounded education is well all I can say is ha! and here's my wallet. I should've been a better student. 
We are at a bit of a crossroads with the potty training. He does great in his Pow! Bam! Batman underoos but then he spends the week at school wazzering freely in his diapers because they only take him to the john twice a day. He's had a few accidents like yesterday when the weather was finally warm enough to go outside. He and I are staring into the endless sea of what should be a knee high cornfield and he looks over at me and says, "Dad, I'm peeing my pants." I'm sorry, what? "Dad, I'm peeing." I take a moment and look down, admiring his well fitting khakis and then realize he surely is letting loose in those fine fitting khakis. Yup, that's what we get for finally enjoying the outdoors. We take a leak out there the first chance we get. Clearly, this kid is fitting in just fine to the Iowa culture. He's one farmer's blow away from getting his masters degree in farm culture. Um, Care!!! ya, we're gonna need you to work this out. It's been a while since I peed my pants. What exactly is the procedure? Sink? Straight to laundry? Hose? Who knows about this stuff? We need a serious straight to the point man manual for kids.
We are thinking this weekend will be it and next week he goes to school with 14 outfits and lots of underwear and we figure at the very least we'll start getting our money's worth out of that place. We were giving him M&M's every time he successfully went potty but this kid is no dummy. He was going every 15 minutes to score the M&M. You are in the bathroom for 10 minutes out of every 15. So on a Saturday when he gets up at 7 and goes to bed at 8 and pees every 15 minutes you are only getting a total of 4 hours of free time. That's 52 trips to the bathroom and a lot of sugar highs and more importantly sugar lows. Those crashes are like Intervention. "GIVE ME MORE!" "RRRAAAAR!!!!" Okay, okay, just take the M&M and calm down. No, here you go. We don't want anymore trouble. Just take the M&M and leave. Thank you, thank you. You're such a good boy. 
To distract him and gain a bit of weekend sanity instead of going to Spago for a nice romantic evening we head to Theisen's. First, we get out of the house. And trust me that right there is good enough. This wonderful store of feed and tack provides free popcorn straight out of a help yourself popcorn machine. And that is priceless. Every time we say store around here Quinny inquisitively says popcorn? That's right son, popcorn. And it's free! Daddy likes free. Plus you can't beat the prices on hay. This past weekend we put together a little engineering feat I like to call bird feeder. Yup, Quinny and I built our own bird feeder. It wasn't easy but with the use of some high school calculus, geometry, free popcorn, a dash of toddler tears and minimum swears we built a very successful bird feeder for what we think are house finches. I had no idea the mess they would make or how expensive birdseed is so we're not sure how long this experiment will last. There is a recession going on and this economy is for the birds. Okay, that was bad. Enjoy the pics of the small weekend victory.
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