GA trip- Part 1

Finally, I'm making myself sit down and blog about our trip to GA a couple of weeks ago. Jamie had a 2 week business trip to Australia, so the kids and I stayed in GA to hang out with our family. Overall, it was a good trip. It felt like the never-ending weekend but the kids and I had a good time. We had lots of time to spend with all our family, time to shop, and time to relax a bit in the pool. (If you consider swimming with a 1 and 3 yr old relaxing!)
We had a nice drive up to GA early Saturday morning. Jamie had to have a DQ Blizzard so we made a stop at the I-75 exit with the big cow. The DQ didn't open until 10am and we were a few minutes early so the kids got to hang out with the giant cow. Everyone was very excited! Analy moo-ed the rest of the drive.

We visited with Jamie's family Saturday. By Saturday evening Analy started running a fever. No big deal, she was feeling fine by Sunday afternoon. Mathias got to go to vacation bible school at Long Creek Baptist Church, Jamie's home church. He really enjoyed it especially since it was an "Egypt" theme and Mathias is obsessed with King Tut these days. We spent Monday hanging out at Nana and Pop's and swimming.
By Monday night, Mathias started running a fever. I gave him some Advil and put him back to bed. About 10 minutes later he got back up and had huge goose-eggs on both of his temples. I'd never seen anything like it before so we called my nurse aunt and mother-in-law. Neither had ever seen or heard of anything like it so off to the emergency room we went. The nearest hospital you'd actually take a loved one is over an hour away from my parents. We made it there just before midnight, just making it into the pediatric unit. They saw us immediately, checked for strep, and decided it was just a viral fever. The doctor said that the knots were swollen lymph nodes. He had never actually seen a patient with swelling like that so he was excited about it and wanted to take photos and record a video. The video is pitiful. Remember it is 1am and Mathias had been sleeping in the car before we got there. They had also been jabbing him down the throat for the strep test. They had to bribe him with a Popsicle. Here's the link to what he posted:
http://youtu.be/UbeREdDTZFY
Mathias is a YouTube star! So nothing major, just your typical viral fever that all you can do is give Advil and Tylenol. We made it back home around 2:30am and Analy woke up her typical chipper self at 6am. Mathias' fever hung around a couple of days.
So to wrap it all up, the first 4 or 5 days of our trip was spent taking care of sick babies. Thankfully, things did get better and we caught up on our sleep!