However, December and January also brought sick days. Everyone got sick. Even Jay who could lick a doctor's office chair and not get sick, had a day or two of under the weather.
We spent Christmas Eve at the doctor. Tripp, Charlie, and Luke had RSV and ear infections. All three were on antibiotics. Tripp had two rounds of antibiotics because he ended up with a lung infection. Poor kids lived on the nebulizer and Tylenol.
However, we still found time to celebrate Christmas! I almost thought Santa was going to skip our house because Luke was up until midnight coughing and wheezing, while I spent time on the phone with the on-call nurse. Jay and I stayed up quite late after that trying to get presents wrapped and stockings stuffed. I mean...we stayed up late helping Santa do all of those things ;)
This picture makes me go into fits of laughter. This is Luke's new picture face. I am dying!!! And Jack pretty much always looks frightened in pictures. Ha!
I decided during a lull in the sicknesses, that I would make 12 meals to put in the freezer for days when everyone would be sick again and I wouldn't have time to make food. It was a great idea, but it really kicked my butt. My arms were so tired from chopping! I am out of shape!
On top of the sick, we have had quite an accident prone month. Charlie fell and knocked one of his front teeth in, cracked it, and chipped it. Luke tried to measure Tripp's head with calipers and sliced up his cheek. Luke threw a toy and it hit Tripp's eyeball giving it a nice cut. Charlie pulled a fork off the table, put it in his mouth and fell, and the fork stabbed under his tongue. And Jack and Luke were jumping on an air mattress when Luke fell and Jack stepped on his neck...giving him a pretty sweet burn/scrape.
I'm keeping my house really clean so when CPS shows up, we are ready. Haha!
Sad game for the Broncos, but we still wore our blue and orange!
Jack's outfit for school. I love that he wants to pick out his own clothes. He wore shorts over his pants for days. I suppose it's better than when I was in Kindergarten and wore a swimsuit over my clothes.
We got about a foot of snow last week. The piles it made were so fun! I think Jay had more fun than the kids. He spent hours outside with them making sled runs, and jumps.
Here is our first school project! Jack did lots of research on tigers. He did a great job on his diorama! I need to work on letting him do more of it next time. Haha! It is really hard for me to relax enough to let a 5 year old do the work. I'm hoping by the time the twins start school, I won't be such a control freak.
