Sick...again...

Despite our best efforts with things like this:

We all keep ending up like this:

Of course everyone knows that this is Gavin. 

But this is Gavin passed out on the couch with a fever nearing 103 and a terrible cough.  Illnesses have been tearing through our house one after another.

So we’ve been using a lot of things like this:

Every week it’s a different thing and we are fed up.  All of us are desperate for a full night of sleep without waking up coughing, crying, or with sky high fevers.  So for now, we’re trying to get by doing the best we can maintaining only the absolute necessities and working toward wellness. 

Hopefully everyone else is doing better in the wellness category than we are.

Until next time…    

Long time no bloggy...

We’ve been sick.  For weeks.  There has been some never ending cycle of illness in our house for nearly a month now.  At least one of us has been down with some sort of gastrointestinal illness, ear infection, croup, fever, virus, cold etc constantly.  Not much has been accomplished around here.  We’ve been taking care of the basics but we’re a bit behind with everything else.  So, if you’ve been expecting a blog, a note, a phone call, or anything else from us, we just haven’t had time.  Either we’ve been nursing ill children back to health or trying to get well ourselves while still taking care of children.  It’s been exhausting and I hope it ends soon.  The house has been cleaned repeatedly.  Clorox wipes and hand washing are our dear friends to no avail.  For some reason every time we leave the house we manage to pick up something else.  Icky.    

Not much picture taking has been going on lately for the aforementioned reason.  However, we did take some pictures on Valentine’s Day and when the little sickies were caught doing something cute. 

Abby recently learned how to climb into her toy box.  I remember Gavin doing this too.  In fact, I remember finding Gavin in his toy box with his legs sticking straight up in the air one time.  Thankfully these shenanigans kept the two of them busy long enough for me to get some dinner on the table.

For about a week we worked on Gavin’s valentines for school after dinner.  He wrote a couple of them each night.  He’s developed more of an interest in writing and cheered when he was able to write a difficult letter correctly.  We’re going to continue practicing and mastering all of the lower case letters as well.  Letters and numbers are a struggling point for Gavin so we need to practice the next several months before kindergarten. 

Gavin made a bag at school to collect valentines from his classmates in.  He said he had a great day at school doing the valentine exchange.

Big brother and little sister got together for a picture on Valentine’s Day!

Gavin got a new Lego set, Abby got a Lego Duplo set, and they each got some candy.

Daddy bought the little daddy’s girl some flowers.

And he bought some flowers for me too!

Gavin and daddy have been playing Lego Star Wars on Wii.  Gav is still trying to figure it all out but he has fun working playing.  Along with his new interest in Legos he has also become interested in Star Wars.  He came home from school talking about Star Wars one day and hasn’t stopped talking about it since.

We registered Gavin for kindergarten this week.  He goes for his assessment in May.  I am looking forward to this next chapter and he seems excited about it too. 

Abby has been a wild child.  Gavin did not have the terrible twos, it seems the threes and fours have been more challenging with him.  Abby on the other hand will probably uphold the terrible twos moniker.  She’s into everything and is constantly making mischief.  When she is displeased she dissolves into a screaming fit on the floor.  To say life is challenging is an understatement. 

Hopefully we’ll be back to full wellness soon and blogs will pick up again.  With the track record we’ve had, no promises.  I wish everyone wellness and warm sunny weather!