still alive

Hello everyone...I hope you weren't worried due to my long absence. Things were pretty eventful here for a while. Max had a nasty cold and was wheezing so we got to experience and Irish doctor's visit. I wish I had my camera because it was an experience. From the outside, you would never know we were at a clinic. It was just in a row of houses. The waiting room was like a dining room...there was a fireplace (not burning), chandelier, dining room table full of books and magazines. The doctor came in and took us to the patient room. The room was HIS office...the desk was full of his stuff, photos, papers, there was a mini fridge. It wasn't like your typical clinic where the room was just white floor, white walls with nothing but canisters of cotton balls and gloves. The doc was super nice and took care of business. He gave us a couple prescriptions and we were on our way.
The medicine comes in glass bottles! I don't know why I love that fact, but I do. When Max was on the mend, Kevin was out of commission for several days. He stayed home sick a Wednesday through Friday when Max was on spring break (WOOOOOO) from school. We tried to stay out of the house as Kevin moved from couch to bed throughout the day. Kevin took himself in for the Irish doctor experience as well.
THEN on  Friday Max and I came back from the park and he had a fever. He was so exhausted and was coughing and coughing more and more as the night went on. He didn't sleep well but didn't have a fever Saturday morning. Kevin and Max laid low and I still felt like a million bucks. By Saturday night Max was wheezing again and had a temp of nearly 104! Then we had the Irish Urgent Care experience. The hospital experience was more typical to what we are used to, but still had a different feel. Max had a virus and asthma (most likely, they won't officially diagnose) and they told us we needed to stay for 3 hours to do a series of inhaler treatments. It was close to 9pm at this point...Kevin still wasn't at 100% and I looked up and saw the sign by the TV that said "out of order." NOOOO It was a long 3 hours. Home by midnight and straight to bed.
On Monday Kevin returned to work but by Tuesday Max still wasn't feeling better and was staying home from school. We were leaving on Thursday to head to Minnesota and I couldn't imagine taking him on an 8 hour flight coughing the way he was. We went back to the hospital for a follow up and they gave Max some steroids. By Wednesday night he was ready to play and by Thursday morning he was ready to go.
So, that happened. BUT, before that we went to a farm in hopes of some lamb holding.

This mama scared me. She was FIERCE.

No lamb holding..........:( :( :( but, lamb feeding

Max just loved cruisin' on the tractors

a KID!

I am still on a quest to hold a lamb....but serious progress was made this day with some petting of the lambs. Despite the evil eyes from mama sheep, the lambs loved it. But I probably did more :)