January Lake Walk

January in Iowa usually brings chills and snow.  Neither have arrived yet minus the small amount we got a few weeks back.  I heard the cold is coming but for today it felt like Spring had smothered winter and I couldn't complain.  I had to take advantage of the coat free weather.  Landon leaping off the couch and landing in the middle of the living room convinced me.  We were going for a walk.  For the first time in January we were going to walk around the lake.

This lake is two miles around and we would make one complete round.  My dad went with us.  The kids stopped to observe things every so often.  The boys saw a poor fish swimming across the ice, desperate to find a hole to go back into the safety of the water.

Here is Jadzia and Grandpa.  The exact conversation that was going on here went like this.  Grandpa looked at Jadzia's wand said "Fairy Princess Jadzia, Are you going to grant me a wish."  Jadzia laughed and shook her head and said. "Silly Grandpa, I only grant wishes to children."

Before the walk I took Ronan into his GI doctor to have his button looked at.  It looked pretty bad this morning and had a lot of blood caked around and under the button.  I tried cleaning it the best I could but was afraid I'd pop it off since its just held in by one stitch.  When we arrived at the doctor he cleaned it really well underneath and it looked horrible.  He believed it was infected or that the metal prongs holding it in were starting to push out.

 Eventually that button should fall of but not for another few weeks.  For this reason if I start to see metal poking out then I have to call the GI office immediately.  He put Ronan on some antibiotics and told me to call Monday if it was the same or worse.  He also said that if Ronan spikes a fever 101.4 or higher to call him right away.  

Tomorrow is a big day.  Ronan has his Endocrinology and audiology appointment in the morning.  For the afternoon is my ultrasound.  I'm excited and nervous.  I'll have to post pictures tomorrow night.

Random Pictures of the day.