A couple of weeks ago, Reed had a cough. He would only last a swimming practice for about 10 minutes and then get out of the pool crying that his chest was hurting. I took him to the doctor (our doc was out of town, so we saw the other doc in the practice). She diagnosed him with an upper respiratory infection and we started antibiotics. He seemed to be doing better, but after he finished his antibiotics, it was the same thing all over again with his chest hurting at swim practice. He was crying on the way to the car and said "It hurts right here" pointing to a very localized place on his lower chest. I decided that was way too specific for my comfort, so back to the doctor we went. After catching our doc up on what had happened, she sent us over to get a chest X-ray to rule out pnuemonia. After completeing the x-ray, she did in fact find that he did have pneumonia which shocked me completely! Evidently is has been quite common this summer and multiple kids I know have had it. He was supposed to go the the regional swim meet the next weekend and the doc said that if he rested - no running around and definitely no swimming, he might be able to go. We were only days away and Brian and I just didn't want to take the chance. He was also competing in a relay and we didn't want to leave the team hanging by not giving them enough time to find a replacement. Reed was quite disappointed. So after a week of staying very calm, still and non-active to rest his lungs, Reed, Hudson and I finally ventured out of the house - partly because were all about to drive each other crazy and partly because I wanted to make it up to Reed that he had to miss regionals. We drove up to the Lego land Discovery Center at Grapevine Mills Mall. We had an absolute blast. Here we are at the 3D Lego movie (sorry - all camera phone pictures here)...
They had a miniland there that was all DFW themed. It was so cool. I love living in Texas - as far as I'm concerned, there are only 2 drawbacks: (1) the extreme heat in the summer and (2) allergies. Anyhoo, here is (yet another bad picture) of the Lego stockyards...
(There was a little playground at Legoland. Hudson played on it for a while, but Reed came out after only a few minutes saying that his chest hurt. So I ended up taking him to the doctor the next day where she took another chest x-ray and thank goodness it was clear. She said that it was probably just taking him a while to get over it. Low and behold, his cough almost disappeared the next day and he has been doing great.)
There was a woman walking around making balloon animals. They were so cute! Hudson got an elephant...
We had such a fun day and were very much in need of it.
If you hadn't noticed this kid loves Legos. My birthday was last week and he came into the living room to present me with the following:
He said "Mom, I made you this for an early birthday present. It's our family. This is Dad with his shovel when he works in the garden. Next is you with your coffee cup. Then there's me with a Lego and then Hudson holding a mini-fig." I thought it was absolutely precious! That's gonna be a keeper!
