One week later

After a week of flu like symptoms and a stubborn 3 yr old that won't take medicine, we were back at the pediatricians office. Now Parker has pink eye and what we call a sinus infection, we didn't test since the antibiotics are similar. Parker hates the medicine so it might be a long week and the boys are home for the second day in a row, not so much fun. Here is a few pics from the last week...its sad that our first pumpkin of the year was an ice cream cake but it fits our family! This week has been interesting, Parker shaved for the first time, kissed his best friend Madisyn (it lasted about 5 seconds and we all witnessed it), he baked cookies, ate cake and carved a pumpkin.

the first belly shave...he must be mine

he is super focused and loving every minute

first real pumpkin (he gaged when we cleaned it out, seriously)

mom and parker baked cookies, let's just say they were not from scratch

kisses for grandma jeanne on her birthday with the first pumpkin of the year, DQ ice cream cake

we tried lil tots suckers, pedialyte and he hates everything, worst sick kid ever

but very cute at the same time

Down and out

It has been a tough 72 hours at the Mellenthin home. Penny was sent home with a fever on Wednesday afternoon, Parker started with a small cough about a week ago and that has morphed into high fevers including the rest of the not so fun flu symptoms. So far I have avoided everything except exhaustion, we plan to relax and get healthy over the next 2 days. Hope everyone else is doing better than us!

Seasons are changing

Today we accepted the fact the summer is gone and with that our Sunday Fun-day S'mores making with the Berggrens is done for the year. We mastered the traditional S'more and experimented with the Reese's peanut butter cup S'more. Our next adventure is a random recipe one night a week and if all else fails we are ordering pizza. The summer was our best in years thanks to Parker and Madisyn becoming buddies earlier this summer. More summer pictures coming soon.

Brian wakeboarding.

Day one he pulled off a surface 180. New hobby?

Penny and Parker swimming for the

first time with lifejackets on.

Pen wakeboarding and loving it

Parker and Pen tubing, next year

Madisyn will be joining in the fun.

Madisyn and Amie enjoying the sun

Uncle Mark doing a backside grab on the wakeboard

First time was a charm,

Brian mastered waterskiing on the first attempt