Week in Madison

Happy 90th (Great-)Grandma Carole!
(can you believe she's 90? She doesn't look a day older than 70!)

After a weekend in the Dells, Andy headed back home to work while Jess and the boys headed to Madison for a week. We wanted to attend my grandmother's 90th birthday celebration the weekend following, and since I spend most of my week working from home anyway, it seemed silly to drive all the way back to Rochester on Monday, just to drive all the way back to Wisconsin on Friday.


So, we enjoyed a lovely week with my folks in Madison in the interim--we even got to see Aunt Liz, who happened to be in town for a wedding. Unfortunately, Theodore was sick and miserable for much of the week...which means the rest of us were fairly miserable as well, trying to keep a sick baby at least relatively content while Mommy had to do (at least some) work! He had his highest fever yet, actually, peaking at just over 103 degrees one night--poor guy.



Of course, we managed to have fun despite the illness, and even Theodore enjoyed himself as he was on the mend towards the end of our stay. A few photos:

playing at the playground with Grandpa

at Grandma Carole's birthday party, Simon and Theodore enjoyed getting to see some of their second cousins



lots of "Go Fish!" was played

a fun new addition to Grandma & Grandpa's toy selection was a pop-up play tent and tunnel

the tent portion soon became Simon's restaurant!