While we were in town on Saturday (swimming lessons and groceries) some guys from the town were burning on the north side of our road. Our neighbour noticed and, nice guy that he is, went out and got them to burn all the long grass around the back yard and in our ditches.
Unfortunately, we've seen way more ticks since the burning than there was before. Ruthie's had 2 in her hair and 1 on her neck, Myles had one in each ear, one was on Ruthie's sweater, one on the living room floor, 1 trying to come through the door, and then one appeared on Zech's diaper as I was changing him.
I'm really hating these things. I'm not sure how I'll handle the summer if they continue for the whole time - I guess just a lot of time inside.
Swimming lessons went very well. Zech is doing so well in the water now, I can hardly believe that just a few weeks ago he was terrified just getting in with someone, and now he's jumping off the side and sliding in to Josh. It's awesome to see! Ruthie did a lot more fooling around this week than she's done before. I'm hoping to see different behaviour next week.
We've gotten a few spring things done - tires bought and on the van, tires ordered for the car (hope they'll stagger a bit from now on so we don't get stuck buying both sets at the same time!), and I've ordered my new glasses. This is all because of some awesome surprise help from my Mom and Dad!! :o)
We took Isaac in to the clinic on Saturday, too. He had a really bad cold about a month ago that lasted (and lasted) for 3 or 4 weeks. Then, a few days after that went away, he started with a runny nose all day and then coughing and gagging during the night. Finally we realized it might be a sinus thing, so we took him in to check. He's got an ear infection in his left ear and a sinus infection, so he's on antibiotics yet again for that. They seem to be helping, though - he seems happier today so far. Yesterday he was in pain, he needed Tempra every 4 hours all day. :o( Poor lil guy.
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