Christmas Morning

Who needs presents when you have paper and boxes?

New Tradition

Thanks to the family that I previously babysat I have started a new tradition with my girls. Every Christmas Eve they will each get to open 1 Christmas present. It will be a set of matching Christmas PJ's. Here is our first Christmas PJ set. I hope that they enjoy this tradition down the road.

Christmas Card Photos

These are the pictures that we used for our Christmas card. These aren't professional by any means, but they worked. My mom took the picture of the 4 of us and for her that was a great picture. She usually cuts off you head. Until this year I usually did a picture of our cat and I would have loved to include him this year, but he isn't that fond of the girls and I knew there was no way that I could get the 3 of them together for a picture.

Hand me downs

We have gotten bags and bags of clothes and shoes from a family of 4 girls that I used to babysit. Once the girls hit sizes 18 months to 5t we are set in clothes. The other night Billy and I were sorting through the last batch (5 trash bags) of hand

me downs and I came across this super cute hat from The Children's Place. I put it on Emma tonight to see if it would as cute on as it did laying on the floor and I had the most horrible thought. Since she hardly as any hair and this hat hides it all I thought she looked like one of those kids in a commercial for kids who have cancer and have no hair. It was hard to get a good pictures with the camera of what I was seeing, but I tried.

Who needs toys?

The girls are having the best time in the kitchen playing with old plastic dishes

and lids. Who needs toys when you have Gladware? Even though they make a mess it's nice to know what they are doing when we are out in the kitchen doing something.

We like to share

Being sick is no fun, but we have shared it around the family. I think the girls are getting better, but Billy and I still aren't feeling our best. Ali started with the diarrhea Monday and then she threw up last night. Emma was throwing up yesterday afternoon and evening. By mid afternoon today they were ready to start eating again. I hope its over for them. I've munched on crackers all day, but that was all my stomach wanted. Billy stayed home from work today because he was in no condition to work. I also learned my lesson today on the importance of having emergency lesson plans together and everything pulled. I got up this morning at 5:30 and drove to school to get things ready for the sub and I was home by 7. The girls had only been up about 10 minutes so Billy was able to handle them. But it was no fun being out on the roads in the rain by myself at that time of day. Well everyone in this house is resting and I guess I should be as well since I don't feel the best either. I only hope everyone gets better tonight and not worse.

Once again....thanks April

Last year before I was brave enough to have a ebay account April ordered this reindeer set for my car. Thanks April.....what would I have done without you for so many things. This past Monday we put it on my car to finish our Christmas decorating. Most people laugh when they see it and probably think that I'm crazy.....but look what you will do when you have kids. The girls are to young this year to understand, but as they get older I hope that they will enjoy this.

Growing Up

Monday the 8th of December Emma came from from the babysitter's house in her new big girl car seat. I was able to go by the fire house after school and have help getting it put in the vehicle correctly. The weight limit on her old car seat was 22 pounds and she is just over 20 pounds but we went ahead and moved her up. If you ever carried her in the old car seat you would understand why.......she was heavy in it. Here she is enjoying her new seat. Thanks to Uncle Johnny who helped purchase one. We got two and put one in the truck and one in the car.

Emma's Meds....my poor baby

My poor sweet baby is being pumped full of meds and I worry if its good for her. This is a picture of everything that she takes during a day. The stuff in the white bottle she gets twice day. That lovely stuff has also given her diaherra and her bottom is so red. We both cry when it's time to change her diaper......which is all to often because of this medicine. She gets to stop taking one med tomorrrow, and another one is decreasing. Instead of having three doses a day she is now getting two, and I hope to decrease it to once a day. The doctor doesn't know what's wrong with her. Maybe asthma? Thinking of sending us to an allgerists? Maybe it's related to acid reflux? We have heard it all. All I know is I'm sick of going to the doctor's office and doing all this "stuff". We go again next week so we will get the latest story and course of meds.