February 2008 - Flying to Utah!

We flew to Salt Lake City on Valentine's Day to visit Grandma and Grandpa Wheeler at their new home in Springville, Utah and help them celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary a little early. This was Alex's first plane trip and he did great! Unfortunately we forgot to take any pictures in the airport or on the plane. Alex was already fighting a little cold when we left so I think that the sleeping on the plane was partly due to Tylenol and Benadryl, but also because we were able to time most of the travel around his naps. He loved seeing all the people and pushing his stroller around and around and around. That little tyke is STRONG!!

We got to meet Cousin Tyler for the first time and he's such a cute little guy! The boys took to each other (and each others pacifiers) right away. Tyler was looking on in awe as Bug crawled around. Don't worry little guy, you'll be mobile soon, too!!!


Alex also got to meet his other cousins Hannah, Isaac, Allison, Stephanie, Jennifer, Jon, Andrew, Nastacia, Aaron and Tim (I think that's all we saw...). We had pizza night at Grandma and Grandpas and all the kids played together. Alex really got a kick out of Hannah while we were there and she was so helpful playing with Alex, helping to feed him and give him his bath.







Alex was trying SO HARD to walk while we were there and actually took his first series of steps with Grandma's help! First just two or three and then up to five or seven. That's all he wanted to do for the most part, but he did pause now and then to read and look out the window with Grandpa.














Unfortunately little Bug's cold grew into croup which landed us in the emergency care center while we were there. Fortunately there is one right across the street from Grandma and Grandpas as we were there for quite a while. Luckily the doctor was able to give Bug a shot of decadron steroid and it helped his cough right away and we didn't miss the big surprise Anniversary dinner that Aunt Karen and Aunt Deanna worked so hard on.

On our last day in Utah little Bug really didn't feel well. You can see in the picture with Grandma how red his cheeks are. We thought it was just the cold/croup still, but by the time we got back to Denver and home, little guy's fever peaked at 103.5 and he was just so limp and weak that he couldn't even cry. So at 4:30 am we bundled him up and whisked him away to the Children's ER in Parker. One very quick test revealed that he had Influenza A. So unfortunately there was nothing we could do for him other than to keep the fever down and give him lots of fluid. He also got another dose of the croup steroid as he was still wheezing a bit. It was a rough couple of days, but he pulled through it just in time for Mama to catch it. Oh my, my heart broke for him seeing him sick, but then after experiencing it myself I really felt bad for him - that was AWFUL. Luckily Daddy never caught it and was able to really take care of us both.

Out of bad comes some great thought! Time at home with Mommy and Tucker helped Bug feel better quickly and gave him lots of time to practice walking! Yup, sometime around the 20th he officially became a walker.


As you can see, Alex and Tucker are still the best of buds. Alex will go up to Tucker, "hug" him and say "awwwwww" because that's what we say whenever we hug him!