A Hard Day's Night

Things have been kind of rough around the O'Brien household this week... the worst being Friday night. Av has been fighting some sort of illness that I caught and now it seems as though Pat might have fallen victim as well. It has made the night times particularly difficult. Friday night Avery woke up just after midnight and just couldn't fall back asleep. We tried taking him for a walk at 2am, but that did nothing except give our neighbors something to chat about. Finally at 5am, I strapped Avery into his car seat and drove around the West end. I've got to say that I find it incredibly hard to drive without a destination. So, even though I really don't like it, I drove to a Tim Horton's drive through. At this point, I had slept maybe three hours in total, so gross or not, I needed caffeine. Thankfully, the drive did the trick and Avery got some much needed rest.

We took him to the clinic in the morning and even though the doctor couldn't find anything really wrong with him, he gave us some medication. It certainly did the trick, since last night he slept for almost eleven hours straight. Today, he seems like his old self - rambunctious and a little crazy.

We hit up Ikea this morning for breakfast with Chris & Ashley. While we were there, we picked up some new paints for Avery. As you can see from the picture, he was thoroughly enjoying the new purchase.





It's been quite miserable out this weekend, so we've been keeping busy indoors. One thing we love to do is dance. Avery really gets into it, spinning around until he falls down. Hopefully all of this activity means that he's on the road to recovery.



Avery is very intune with his body and understands the necessity of stretching after so much dancing. He loves doing his downward dog yoga pose. Honestly, Avery shows Pat and I new things about himself all the time. Who knew he could do such things! In fact, when we were at the clinic, Avery kept saying something that I thought was "cream." He was actually saying "crane" because he saw a crane outside the window and wanted a better look at it. He is one smart cookie.