Texas....Yee haw!

Miles and I took a trip down to El Paso last week to visit a very good friend of mine from high school and her family. She has a fun 2 year old son and a brand new little girl that we just had to meet.

So we were off!

Airplane backpack....check!

"Mom, what is this thing? I've never come across one of these." "Well son, that's called a PAY PHONE"

The boys had so much fun and it was neat to see them play together. Miles is getting to the stage where he is actually playing with other kids and not just parallel playing. They had a wonderful time the first day and Miles LOVED having a backyard to play in with a "big boy". They got super messy and super tired which was great.

Pals in their PJ's

Boy stuff

And baby girl was just too adorable. She even took a nap on me which was just the best. I love squishy babies.

Everything was going so well. The boys were playing great together, Miles actually ate TWO helpings of mac and cheese for lunch, they all slept at the same time for a little bit giving the mommies time to catch up and then disaster struck. It started at dinner with Miles refusing to eat which is not a new thing, so I wasn't too worried. Then he kept waking up during the night screaming. This is out of character for him. Usually he's a great sleeper but I just thought it was because we were sharing a room and he was in a pack n' play instead of his crib. Well, the next morning he was super clingy (very unlike him), was all around fussy, and was refusing to eat again. He didn't sleep well at nap time and then he was burning up. His temperature got high and out came the Tylenol. Cling fest 2012 continued the rest of the day and I had to make the judgement call to cut our trip short and head back home. Better to have one sick kid quarantined then to get all others sick.

Rare photo of a Miles snuggling with mommy. Poor little guy.

Once we got home I took him to the doctor and he had a double ear infection. Poor kid. Considering this, he did extremely well on both flights. It was sad to cut our trip short but it was the right thing to do. Guess we'll just have to go back again soon!

Thanks K family for hosting us! We had a great time.

Miles with Auntie Jenny before we took off

P.S.- Miles is usually not allowed to have his pacifier unless he is sleeping, but I thought I'd throw a kid a bone since he was miserable. Felt like I had to mention this since he is pictured with it in... oh... almost EVERY shot :)