Catching up - July

July was a busy month too.  We did a lot.  Mike and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary on July 7th.  We left Alex with Grandma and Grandpa Bruzek, Auntie Beth, Uncle Cory and Auntie Amy overnight and we headed up to Minneapolis.  We went to the Walker sculpture gardens, at downtown Minneapolis, checked out Lake Calhoun and Minneahaha Falls.  I think we did pretty well.  We had a great time, neither one of us cried, and Alex had a great time with Grandma, Grandpa, Beth and Amy.

We had heard that one of the pools in Rochester has a really nice toddler area.  So we took Alex there one hot day in July.  He seemed to really like it.  

These pictures were of the 4th of July.  Grandma and Grandpa Bruzek, Amy and Beth came to Rochester for the day.  After they left and Alex went to bed, we watched the fireworks in the backyard with the neighbors.

Alex looks a little confused.  Maybe he's not sure who to cheer for - the Twins or the Brewers.  We have a little National League and American League rivalry going on...

These pictures below were probably taken the day we exposed Amy to whooping cough.

Alex developed a little cough that week as did the other little girl at day care.  It was just the cough for both of them for a few days - no other symptoms.  In fact they both looked great.  After a few days, it got worse so we took him to the clinic.  He tested positive for pertussis.  So he went on antibiotics and so did we and so did Amy and so did Jeanne our day care provider and her family.  We'd all been exposed, so the antibiotics were to keep us from getting sick too.  We had to keep him home for 5 days until he finished his medicine, which he liked.  The cough was a little scary, as the congestion would make him choke a little at night.  He has done pretty well with it.  He's a great sleeper and it didn't interupt his sleep very much either.  They call it the 100 day cough because the cough can persist even after the infection is cleared.  So he still coughs, but not usually during the day and usually only every few days at night.

Alex's first tooth came in June 30th and the second one about 10 days later.  It took me quite a while to get a good picture of them.  But there they are.