Blue & Gold

Tonight Trevor earned his Weblos badge, yay!  Next up arrow of light.

Griffin earned another bead toward his Wolf badge.

There was a cake decorating contest.  Trevor & Griffin made a compost heap.

Dirt, grass, mushrooms,berries & worms, yum!

A visit with Aunt Dorothy

We spent one afternoon at Explora. The kids had a blast playing, and learning.

We ate out a lot.  Including this very yummy vietnamese restaurant near our house.

Aunt Dorothy helped me organize ALL our pictures!  They are now in boxes according to the year they were taken.  I also cleaned out the downstairs closet, and donated a ton of stuff.  The pictures are right on the shelf in the closet, super easy to get to now.

We played some games while she was here, and we ate a LOT of ice cream, and even squeezed a trip to the movies   We saw The Secret World of Arrietty.

As you can see I (Mom) am not in any of the pictures.  I've been super sick with as Dorothy calls it the plague.  I look even worse than I feel, we don't need pictures of that!!

It's been nice having her here.  Savannah cried after she left tonight, asking why we don't see our family more.  I wish we did too.

Lots of love

Before the kids came home from school:

After the kids came home from school:                                                                                                   

                                                                                           

Up to my eyeballs in Valentines...

Luckily, I'm finally done with all of them, phew!!

Savannah- lip whistles

Griffin- swedish fish

Trevor- skittles

All of these ideas were found on the internet.  Griffin loved the fish bowl idea. It was on Esty.  I didn't want to pay for the download, so I called my sister and asked her to create something similar.  In a few minutes she whipped up the cute printable, thanks so much Kim! 

Trying to be crafty

I decided I wanted to make Savannah a cute Valentines Day shirt in early January. I bought the stuff and it sat until Griffin was home sick last week.  Since we had to rest and stay home for so many days, it was the perfect time to finally make her shirt.  It turned out pretty cute, not perfect, but who cares.

Yes, the heart is off center on purpose!

She wore it to school today because I wanted her to.  She thought it should be  saved as a Valentines surprise.  I wanted her to wear it the whole month of Feb.  On V-Day I think I'll have her wear it it with red tights and her cute skirt.  She likes it, and that's all that matters, well and that I finished a project.

Sick, Sad, Suffering

So Griffin stayed home Tuesday because he had a fever and a bad cough.  He seemed better Wednesday morning, so I sent him to school.  Well, Wednesday's they get out at 12:45 after he came and did his chores, he had a major meltdown.  I sent him to lay down for an hour.  After an hour I checked on him, and asked if he wanted to skip scouts, he did.  By the time late afternoon rolled around he had a fever again.  So today (Thursday) he stayed home again.  He had a fever and cough, but seemed to be in a decent mood.  Right around lunch time he said his ears were hurting a little.  After lunch (a grape slushie) Griffin layed down for a nap.  After an hour of sleeping he came and told me his ears were hurting, and asked if I could give him something.  By the time I got back from getting the other two from school Griffin was inconsolable.  He was crying so much.  I took him up to my room and layed in bed with him.  He kept squeezing my arms asking me to make the pain go away.  Then, he let out a blood curdling scream, then said it felt like something in his ear popped.  I called his Dr. and they said it sounds like his eardrum ruptured.  A few minutes later it happened to the other ear.  Luckily, just as the Doctor said the pain started to get better.  During the time he was in pain, he was asking for Dad.  Lucky for him, Dad was able to come home to be with him.  He is feeling MUCH better right now.  He has a Doctor appt. tomorrow.  Hopefully he will sleep well tonight.

Starting to feel better

It is heartbreaking to see your child in so much pain and not be able do help.
We were having a much healthier year, then last week Trevor had a tummy bug, the week before Griffin had a tummy bug, the week before that Savannah had croup.   Patrick & I have been fighting colds for almost two weeks, and I woke up with some weird rash on my face, chest, and arms Saturday (still have it too).
Here's hoping we all get better and sickness stays away!

*  So a few hours after I typed this I started feeling super nauseous.  I felt that way all thru the night too.  I woke up early and finally threw up, but still feel super nauseous.  Seriously, when will it stop??