Balloons!

It's been a long couple of days over here. My girl has been not quite herself since Wednesday evening when a small fever crept in. It never got very high but it came and went until Saturday night! She had a major decrease in appetite, which is very odd for my girl who likes to eat. Lots of milk and lots of purees and not much else.

She was feeling okayish on Saturday which meant that our plan for a family outing was a go. We headed out to the Hot Air Balloon Festival and we had a great time. It was a little bit precarious there as the launch was supposed to start at 5:00 but the wind was too strong so they delayed.

Except when you got there when the gates opened at 4:00 for a good parking spot and a good viewing spot... and you have a 3 year old and 11 month old. We were really crossing our fingers. C loved last year's festival so much, he had multiple copies of the program and calls them his "balloon map." He still looks at them and in fact when we finally told him it was the day of the balloon festival, he got out his balloon map because he thought he needed to bring it with.

So he had better see a balloon was what I was saying.

Luckily they did launch 8 balloons. The weather was beautiful. (The wind that was just too windy for balloons was just a nice breeze, really. It was gusting at 10 mph.) And my boy thought it was even better than last year. Plus he got more balloon maps with this year's balloons. The excitement abounds.

Yesterday M was totally fever free and even got her appetite back in time for dinner. That smile was a welcome sight after a few days of grump. 

Now today is going to involve soccer and a lot of cleaning because school is at our house this week.