This past week definitely had its ups and downs! Last Thursday I took Jack to the doctor to check out a little rash on his face (which was fine.)  When we got home around noon, I felt perfectly fine, but by 2:00 pm I had a 102 fever.  It kept on going up and I started to feel horrible. Turns out I had mastitis!  I can honestly say that the next few days were up there with the worst illnesses I can remember having.  It was as bad as the flu.  I constantly flip flopped between extreme chills and feeling super hot and I felt exhausted all the time.  Luckily I was able to get on antibiotics quickly, or it might have been even worse.  Thank goodness Patrick was able to help a lot with taking care of the kids.  I truly hope I don't ever get that again!

Jack got to go to a birthday party at PowerSports Gymnastics on Saturday for one of the boys in his gymnastics class.  I didn't go due to my illness, but Patrick said he had a blast.  Unfortunately our kid seems to be somewhat clumsy!  At one point he got his leg stuck in some kind of hole between the mats and required several people to free him, and later he fell and hit his head on something hard (not sure exactly what).  But he had still had fun, and he talks about it ever day.

We started serious potty training with Jack about 10 days ago.  Since he is so stubborn, we knew that he would never do it as long as he still had diapers available.  So we just said that diapers were going bye bye and put him in cloth training pants.  He has done amazing!  Although of course we had quite a few accidents at first, he caught on pretty quickly and is now telling us when he needs to go almost all the time (except at nap and night).  He is sooo proud of his "big boy underwear!"  I am so glad to *almost* have only 1 in diapers again!  :)

Liam started smiling this week!  It is adorable!   He has what we call "happy time" where he gets excited, waves his arms around, coos and makes these little half smiles!  He hasn't quite gotten the full blown grin down, but he has made several big smiles.  On Monday morning, I had to go to a training and Patrick watched Liam.  When I got home, I picked him up and sat down on the couch.  When I looked down, Liam was looking right at me with a huge smile-it melted my heart!!  Love him.