What a week!

A recap of our week...

• Every year Robert rides in the MS150 from Dallas to Fort Worth to raise money for the MS Society (for those of you who don't know, we lost Robert's dad last year after his long battle against MS). The ride was this past weekend.
• On Thursday we found out that Tarrant County (Fort Worth) was cancelling all public events due to overreaction from the swine flu, which meant that the second day of the ride had to be re-routed. The finish line in Sundance Square is one of our favorite parts, so we were disappointed, but mostly just feeling sorry for the organizers.
• We left Friday morning for Dallas/Frisco. Before we left, I noticed some weird gunk in Claire's eye, but it didn't seem to be bothering her.
• As we're almost to Austin, I notice more gunk in Claire's eye. We decided to call the our pediatrician's nurse advice line after lunch (at Hula Hut - yum!). Nurse thinks we should start prescription eye drops to help with possible infection and offers to call in a prescription for us. Since we're on the road, we decided to just have them call it in to a Walgreens in SA and then have it transferred to another store along the way. My mom got us the number of a store in Waco. It was a fiasco trying to get everything worked out, but finally we got her drops and were on our way again.
• That evening we got to have a short visit with our friends Sarah & Randall and their precious daughter Izzie. It was so great to see them!
• Afterwards we walked over to the mall to grab a quick dinner, and Claire got to ride her first merry-go-round. She LOVED it! She would get so excited every time we came around and she could see her Daddy - lots of waving and laughing.

• On Saturday Claire and I saw Robert off on the ride at 7 am, got ready, had breakfast, went to Ikea, and met up with some of the A&M girls & kiddos (Lindsay & AJC, Courtney & PHP, and Melissa, who is "the pregnant one" this year - yay!). It was so wonderful to catch up with them - love you Girls, and miss you lots!
• After lunch we headed towards Texas Motor Speedway (the overnight location) to meet up with Robert. As I was driving the sky just kept getting darker and darker, and a few minutes after we parked it just started pouring. Robert and his friends Whit & Jon jumped in the car with us until everyone was picked up. Claire wasn't so sure about the strange man sitting next to her - fortunately Daddy was on the other side keeping her happy while we waited!
• That evening we went to dinner with Jon and his wife Stephanie - Claire enjoyed cuddling with her - and found out that Day Two was cancelled due to the weather.
• On Sunday morning we got ready to head home and met up with Whit and his family for breakfast before we left. We had a great time visiting with them and marveling over how much all of the kids had grown (they have 3) since we last saw each other.
• As we drove home, I realized that the minor sore throat I woke up with on Saturday was turning into something more.
• On Monday I went to the doctor and found out that I had a run of the mill respiratory infection - and was contagious - so I stayed home from work sick on Monday and part of Tuesday.
• Tuesday Claire decided to push her wake up time back another hour. A couple of weeks ago she'd moved from consistently waking up around 7 to getting up at 6. Last couple of days - around 5. Any tips for getting her to sleep later? She's exhausted when she goes to bed at 7:30, so we can't move her bedtime back.
• Today I realized that I caught Claire's eye gunk. Glad we still have some eye drops.
• Is it Friday yet? Please?