Our sick day at home

The girls have been playing Mancala for the past 2 hours. Motrin seems to be making them feel a little better.

Thomas, is wound up. Not feeling sick at all, and trying to get someone to be WILD with him.

Joseph, is happy as can be watching everyone around him. You will notice that I have not posted a picture of myself, due to the fact it would keep you from ever coming back to look at the blog again.

Under the Weather

It's another one of those mornings when I am up before 630am and have been up every couple of hours with Joseph. I have been sick since Monday, and have an awful cold with a sore throat. I didn't get into bed until 1130 last night because we took a trip to the Urgent Care.

The girls started getting sick on Tuesday, and yesterday continued to get worse and worse. Since we have been through this many, many times. I knew that all their symptoms were pointing to strep throat (Fever, Headache, sore throat, stomach ache) I ended up taking them into the Urgent Care where I work. Well, they were both positive. So, then we headed to a 24 hour pharmacy and picked up their Rx's, thus the reason I wasn't in bed until 1130.

My goal is to have them back at school tomorrow,for their second day of school. I am sad they are missing their first day, but it's only a 1/2 day anyway. This is not the way I had imagined the school year starting.

Today, we plan to take it easy and let the antibiotics do their work. I have a Rx to fill for myself if my throat doesn't start feeling better, and if Thomas gets sick I have one for him too. It helps having connections. :) Some days, I just wish I could crawl into bed and have someone take care of me. I like my life as a nurse and a Mom, but some days I want to be off duty!

EEEEEEEK we have Mice

So, I was doing laundry the other day and when I took the clothes out of the dryer everything smelled kind of funny, almost like burnt plastic. It happened again with 2 more loads. We just bought our washer and dryer from Sears in May and luckily we purchased the extended warranty. So, I called them to come out and look at our dryer. Well, today the guy was here. He took it apart and showed me along the sides on the bottom that there were little mouse droppings along with a trail of dog food. I said "please tell me that we have not fried a mouse in the dryer" he said, "No" but they have seen that before. Basically the mice are coming in and taking dog food from the dish which is located in the laundry room and then taking it back through the dryer, and that is what we are smelling! Yuck!!!! He vacuumed it all out and told me to run it a few times with dryer sheets in it. EWWWWWWWW!

A Look Back at the Summer

A Baby was Born..





We had a horse in our backyard for a weekend...



We ran through sprinklers, and went swimming...
We caught toads and turtles...

We played on the swingset, and buried eachother in the sand...

We took long naps together...
We played music and danced and sang songs...

We laughed, and laughed...

Thomas the Rock Star

Thomas will be turning 3 in just a few months. He has been working with Infant Toddler services since he turned 2, because of a speech delay. These past few days I am really seeing all of the therapy paying off. He has been talking, singing, and even reciting nursery rhymes. His new favorite games are pretending he is different animals, people, airplanes and trains etc. He also is counting, and noticing that every object is made out of different shapes. "Whats dis shape Mama" He is talking non stop, we still have some difficulty understanding him, but he has made great improvements. My little boy is growing up. I am so proud of him.

Exploring Castle Rock

To learn more about Castle Rock click the link below.

http://www.washburn.edu/cas/art/cyoho/archive/KStravel/bigrocks/castle.html




Here we are at the top of one of the "mountains" as Thomas liked to call them. We are all here except for little Joseph who stayed home with Grandma Bray.

Our kids love to explore so this was right up their alley. The kids had no trouble climbing at all. Even little Thomas never seemed to get tired.

We all had fun looking for fossils and exploring the small little caves. Each of the kids came back home with a bag full of treasures.

3 kids and a Naked Baby

What is it about naked babies. They are just the cutest thing in the world. Check out these cute shots of Joseph I took a couple days ago.