Dog Days of Summer...

Well I think that's some kinda slang for..

Wow...is it hot and dry!

Obviously little princess shown above doesn't really know what some poor dogs have to suffer through!

And were so thankful for that!

Mr. Luke has been sick for the past few days.

I took him in yesterday after he started complaining the night before of his mouth hurting.

He was pretty needy and I don't know if other mom's have this...

but ya know when you can just smell the sickness on your kiddo....

So anyway, we took him in and sure enough he has some kinda virus that produces sours all over his mouth.

He has already had HFM before (and that is usually accompanied by a fever), but this is a lot like that, sans the fever, the feet and the hands...

His mouth is sooo swollen.

Imagine having about 20 kanker sours in your mouth at once.

Poor baby!

We have been dining on a healthy diet of ice cream, Popsicles, pudding, and finally tonight some pancakes.

We think he is on the mend tonight as he did some pretty cute things and started talking again.

Tonight at dinner during prayers, he asked to pray for "poppy, joe, grandma, and Luke talk".

Then later we caught him in the living room with a spoon on his nose and standing on one foot, trying to do a trick!

Silly boy!