Month: January 2013

Have you ever heard that when kids have a fever it pushes them through a developmental spurt and they come out the other side with new skills and maturity?  We had seen signs of this before with Quinn but it\’s been quite some time since he had a fever.  

This past week Quinn had a fever on a number of days.  Now he\’s like a butterfly who has come out of his cocoon.   We thought he was a chatterbox before.  But now?  Wow!

Friday morning at breakfast Quinn got up and asked me how to spell \”the\”.  I told him how to spell it  not thinking much of it because he is always asking me \”Amy, how do you spell xyz?\”.  But I turned around and saw this on the chalkboard.

He wrote out a full sentence by  himself. Amy is on the cat.  This is similar to a sentence he learned at school but I\’m still impressed.   He later changed Amy to Don.  And then to Amy and Don.

Our little butterfly is spreading his wings and soaring!

I think we are all on the road to recovery and feeling better.  Don continued to work from home all week to spare his co-workers from his persistent cough.  But he got in a couple of full work days working from home.

Quinn and I finally ventured out on Friday for some fresh air and a change of scenery.  At lunch time Quinn was asking about his \’kids lunch choices\’.  I mentioned a \’salad sandwich\’ from Subway and he jumped at it!  So off we went.  We started at Subway, went around the corner to our local toy store to check out all the things we weren\’t going to buy, then on to Starbucks for a treat and coffee, and then off to the library.    It was great to get out!

Our New year has started off with quite a cough!   Don, Quinn, and I returned home from Chicago with quite a coughing virus that has really hit the east coast.   Since returning home we have spent most of our time in our pajamas on the couch.  Mom and Pam came up for a few days so that got to enjoy a couple of days on the couch with us.  It was great to have them up and spend a couple of days!  I think we are all on the road to recovery and looking forward to a fresh start next week!