Today was the  Pet Expo at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Avery and I were scheduled from noon to 6 with Geronimo doing agility demos. We got there a few minutes late due to the crazy parking situation (the Sportsman Show was going on at the same time). Geronimo got to work pretty much right away. He was awesome at the course. It was a little one, but there were jumps that he took higher and longer than he ever has at our regular agility sessions. I think he liked the crowd cheering him on! I was pretty proud of him and at the end he did the whole course off leash. Fancy boy.

Avery's friend Maclan from Hoppy Hour was there and they came up with the ideas to put 3 bunnies in a wagon with the donation box and walk around the expo with free bunny petting. They made over $60 in donations! It was super cute and they had a blast together. I'm so glad he was there to entertain Avery because originally she was supposed to be picked up at 3pm to go to Tim's.

I had dropped Riley off at Petsmart to get groomed by Jane (who has groomed him for over 8 years) before we went to the Pet Expo. My dad picked him up at 3 when he was done and brought him home until Avery and I were done. When I got him I was told that Jane probably won't groom him again because Riley kept biting her the whole time and it's been getting worse each grooming session now. Last time she had said he might need to go to the vet and be sedated if he wouldn't behave. I thought he'd be better now that the lump on his ear is gone and he it isn't sensitive any more. Apparently I thought wrong. This sucks. I don't know why he has to be like that, he used to love her. Now I have to find somewhere to get him groomed and hope they don't give him a hack job of a hair cut.

Tonight is going to be an early to bed night I think. I am so exhausted. I don't even want to think about working tomorrow. Ugh.

The birthday party went off with only a few hitches, nothing too major. I learned a few things that day. The first being that next time Avery wants to go to a place like SkyZone where they charge you for the number of kids attending and then a short time in a "party" room, or in this case a table outside the party room we will just go to the place, pay for the kids individually and then go to a restaurant for eating and presents elsewhere. We only had 40 minutes for the kids to get their jumping shoes off and their own shoes back on, then eat pizza and cake. There wasn't time to open presents so we had to take those to Grandma and Grandpa's to open at our own leisure. It all worked out though, the kids had a lot of fun and Avery was happy.

Tierney came over afterward and Avery stayed at Gram and Gramps to play. I went home and took a much needed nap before making the whipped cream frosting for the confetti angel food cake I had made the night before. Then we met at Pizza Ranch where the Super Bowl game started and Avery was half asleep from her long day of playing. Afterward we came home and opened presents from Grandma and Grandpa and myself. She got all that she wanted and more and she began to open all the packages and play with her new things while Grandpa watched the football game and helped me fix my lamp.

Monday morning Riley had his appointment for his dental and lump removal of the pea sized little skin lump on his right ear. I dropped him off with Avery before taking her to school. By 11:30 he was done and recovering. His gums were a little inflamed, but no extractions were needed and no loose teeth. The ear bled a lot, but they put a mesh type piece over it to help the scab form and it has been just fine ever since. I picked him up after getting Avery at school around 3:30. He was still kind of groggy and whimpery, but was walking around fine and wanting to go home. We stayed home till 4 and then I dropped Avery off for swimming with Tim and I went to my kickboxing class at the gym. I worried a little bit that Sierra might try to start a fight with Riley in his weakened state so I called my neighbor Kenny and asked him to pop in and check on them to make sure all was well. Riley had thrown up a little but everything else was good. When I got home at 5:45 everything was hunky dory. After sleeping off all the ill effects of the day, he was back to normal this morning. The ear looks good and he's taking his medicine like a champ.

Today is kind of creeping by. I've done a lot, but I've had that..."I'm bored, now what?" feeling for most of this evening. We didn't have riding or therapy today because it was too cold. The high in Baldwin was only supposed to be 7 degrees. I had made plans to meet a girl from craigslist to pick up a pair of fleece riding breeches in Woodbury on the way, so I still picked up Avery and went out there. Luckily they fit perfectly! Then I dropped off my taxes, realizing I was missing one piece that I will have to fax over on Monday. Target was next on the list for ingredients to make Avery a birthday cake in addition to the one I got her at Byerly's.

The birthday plan is as follows: SkyZone in Oakdale, an indoor trampoline park at 10:40am. She invited our neighbor twins Vanessa and Victoria, my co-workers twins Courtney and Makayla, Elle and Payton from riding lessons, Tierney, Mikai, and Lucia. They jump until noon and then they have pizza and pop in the party room. I got her a Brave cake with Merida and Angus along with her own picture in her Merida costume from Halloween. After the party we'll come home and I'll frost the angel food cake I made today. Then we'll go to Pizza Ranch with Grandma and Grandpa and come back for cake and presents here. Phew!

Yesterday she went to Robin's where they had a little pre-party for her. Grandma Deanna came down and they did some clothes shopping. All but one pair of her jeans had gotten a hole in the knee so I asked if they could pick up some jeans for school. Well she's definitely all set now! She had a lot of fun I think.

So today after I dropped Avery back off at Tim's I went to the library to pick up some books I had on hold. Then I came home, unloaded everything and started cleaning. Pretty much everything is done now and the cake is in the oven. Avery will be home around 9, so until then...I don't know! I could read, watch Snow White and the Huntsman that I got from Netflix or an episode or two of Criminal Minds. But...meh.

Avery sleep walks every now and then and it never fails to entertain. I just put her back to bed after I heard her stirring in her room, I went in there and she was digging in her back pack muttering and I caught the words "I need..." I told her she didn't need anything, she could go back to bed. I had to actually pick her up and bring her back to bed while she continued mumbling about what she needed. Aww my sleepy girl. She is so funny. I wonder what she does when I'm not awake to see it?!

My poor sick girly is in bed now and hopefully will sleep through the night. This morning around 2:30 am she yelled to me that she was too hot. I told her to push off the down comforter that she got for Christmas. She then started coughing, crying and had a bloody nose. So we got up, stopped the bloody nose (not too bad of one, the humidifiers mostly do their job) and took 2 puffs of the albuterol inhaler. She calmed down but was absolutely burning up. I brought her out to the couch and took her temperature and it was 102.5 so I gave her some advil right away. She just wanted to lay on the couch with the tv on but the volume so low you pretty much couldn't hear it. I cleaned up the bathroom and putzed around a bit before I checked her temp again in about 20 min. It was around 100, so it was coming down. After letting Mom know I'd need her for a few hours in the morning so I could run in to work, I went back to sleep.

When I got up at 7:40 (which was no easy feat) I checked her temp again and it was normal. She was feeling okay and watched some cartoons while I got ready. I went to work and came home at noon. She was doing pretty good, had some food and Gatorade in her and we played some games. I checked her temp around 1 and it was back up so I gave her more advil. She still felt okay and we went to Walmart to get some more Gatorade and Madagascar 3 from red box. Around 4 she started feeling hot again. Her fever was back and at 102.6. She watched the movie quietly and looked fairly blah. I called the doctors office because it was too soon to give her more advil and I couldn't remember what temperature kids had to have before it was considered dangerous. They said I could alternate the advil with tylenol every 3-4 hours in between the 6-8 of advil. She didn't need to come in yet. So we did, and it's staying around 101. I've been trying to get her to eat and drink but she doesn't really feel like it. She did have some fruit snacks and a bowl of ice cream. Better than nothing I figure!

She had a bath and laid on the couch for the rest of the night. Now she's sleeping so I'm going to watch Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows that I got for myself at red box. We'll see how it all goes, and hopefully she's feeling better in the morning.