More Lake Fun

This weekend we did a spontaneous thing, which is not easy to do with four kids. Since the weather was going to be hot we decided to pack up the kids and head to the lake. We had been to the lake last weekend and since it is 2 ½ hours away we were not planning on it for back to back weekends. We decided to leave early Saturday morning. Here are some of our happenings:

The weekend started when we couldn't find Jaden's glasses. After about a half hour of searching we found them on top of the piano right where Megan had put them (Thanks Megan for waiting a half hour while we searched before you told us).

We stopped in Bemidji and had lunch by the lake where all the rides use to be. We were sad to see they were all gone except for the train ride and the miniature golf. We decided to take a train ride since we tried to stop there at least ones a summer.

Our neighbors at the lake had 4 of 5 of their girls visiting. One of the girls has three children and the other has two so there were 9 children 8 yrs old and younger at the lake. The kids had a blast. Megan went tubing and I went water skiing. This 40 yr old body is sure feeling it today. I got up on my first try but didn't even attempt to drop one ski like I could do years ago.

Megan and Jaden were able to ride in the boat while I was skiing and Megan got bit on her knee by a deer fly or a horse fly. Her knee swelled up so we gave her some Benadryl. She complained that her breathing wasn't right. We listened and could tell that her breathing was raspy. We went next door (did I mention that 3 of them are nurses) and Stephanie came over and listened and looked Megan over. We ended giving her some ibuprofen and were told to monitor her for a while. Megan fell asleep as we continued to monitor her. When she awoke she was feeling better and her breathing was close to normal. The breathing scared Megan which in turned worried us.
On the way home Jaden was complaining about not feeling well so Janelle suggested that he stop watching the mini DVD player and put his head up (stop looking down is what she meant). A few miles down the road and I looked in the rear view mirror and saw Jaden with his head looking straight up at the ceiling. We told him he could stop looking up.