Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is not a big holiday in our house. Probably mostly because of me. I mean, who wants to hear they are 'loved' when everyone else in the world is also saying it? I'd rather something spontaneous. In fact, a surprised clean house or other such tasks would make my day!

But, since Taylor has been excited this year because of 'school' we went all out with breakfast! Heart-cakes for those of you who don't recognize our creation! Pink ones at that!
Taylor gave Daddy a book she even wrote her name in it. It wasn't a surprise because she pulled it out of the hiding place we had stashed it in several days previously and wanting it to be read. Note to self.. keep child in the dark about such secrets. I think she had the book memorized before she actually gave it to him!

Jordan all worn out later in the day. This 'loving' is rough! It was windy so we were protecting her little ears! Cute as a button!

Taylor update

On January 29th we took cupcakes to Taylor's daycare 'school' and celebrated her birthday (January 30th) with her best friend Kyler who was born on the 29th!

I wonder which one is Kyler!

Taylor, you are so much fun to be around. You have a very vivid imagination and it is fun to watch you learn and figure things out. You already know all of your alphabet and can even write most of them with just a little help on some of those 'hard' ones.

Jordan Update

Early in the morning on January 29th , Michael and I headed off to take Jordan to get tubes put in her ears!

Jordan is NOT a happy camper here. This is when they are all done and coming out of the anesthesia. She wasn't happy about being put into her carseat! She wanted to snuggle some more!

Since the surgery Jordan has made some amazing progress. She has learned to crawl on her hands and knees, sit up from any position, pull herself up to the furniture, and yes... even has started to take steps on her own! Really! Those ears must have been bothering her quite a bit to accomplish all this in just 3 weeks! She is a goer!

Poor neighbors

2008 ended quite blustery. This is a picture of our poor neighbors! I wonder what they were doing for the celebrating the New Year... Yard Work?

Cranky girls

Jordan had tubes put into her ears last Thursday. All went well. Or did it? Seems to me she is more grouchy than when she went in. Could it be her independence striking or a second round of the sickies invading our house? I'm sadly hoping for the sickies as that will eventually go away. Jordan and I have not slept for 3 days. I would have enjoyed sleeping more if she felt well. Poor little thing. I guess we're looking at another doctor's visit. The cough keeps waking her up which results in crying for mommy or daddy. Daddy plays the 'who can ignore her the longest' game and waits until I get up to take care of her before moving! I'm on to you Michael! Tonight is your night! It has not been decided if we will go to school and work tomorrow. It depends on how I end up feeling. I've had a bad headache since Thursday and a pretty good sore throat. I don't think there is anyone out there that would like for me to share this 'bug' with them! If you would like it, let me know and I'll send my kids over to your place while I take a much needed nap!

Last weeks adventure in being a home owner...

In the last year we have had our house almost blown over by a tornado, our furnace quit working on a morning it was -16 degrees outside, and now we had the bake element in our stove blow up! What's next on the home improvement list? We did learn that hiring contractors is not fun so we did the fix-it repair on the stove ourselves

Sleepytown

One of my oh so favorite places to visit is sleepy town. Yesterday, after dinner I had two whiney girls on my hands so I decided it was time to get in the car and go to sleepy town! All bundled up in their pajamas, the heat on, and a little help from classical lullabies we arrived at Sleepy town in a short 7 miles. I didn't know it was so close! What a wonderful time I had driving home from sleepy town! (It was only 6:15pm!) She did however get up at 5:53am but hey, we needed to be getting up soon anyways!

Jordan ...

Well Jordan ... you're past 9 months old and just today finally walked up and down the couch. You made it look so easy considering you haven't done it before. Perhaps you were just keeping it a secret! You're still getting over a bad cold and had your first fever the last couple of days. 102F but you managed to get through it. You still aren't back to yourself yet. In fact, you haven't been interested in your bottles at all this weekend! Get better sweetie!

Happy Birthday Taylor #1

Happy Birthday Taylor! We had your first little party tonight with Grandma and Grandpa who can't make it later. We had some of your favorites for dinner. We had Homemade Stroganoff and green beans. Earlier today you helped make your cake and even helped decorate it. I learned that I should have let you decorate it AFTER I wrote on it! You wanted a blue cake, hence the blue writing! (Do you remember the blue cake Carrie Malinda?)

We made a yummy carrote cake this morning! (Snuck in a vegetable!)

Jordan certainly let her opinion be known that she was not to be left out on this one! She licked her little bowl clean!

Poor Jordan

So, for the last several months we have made numerous trips to the doctor for Jordan and her ears. She pulls and pulls and pulls on them. Some nights she hardly sleeps. She wakes up and gives this terrible cry and lets you know she'd rather be sleeping. Well, finally, at her 9 month appt her pediatrician agrees that we need to go and see an ENT. So, anticipating that, I had already called and gotten an appt with an ENT doctor the same week as her 9 month check-up. Well, her hearing is still within the normal range. Unfortunately, she has no movement in her eardrum. This is what we were suspecting. If we didn't do anything to fix this it would cause her to be delayed in many things. i think it already has in regards to standing. poor thing doesn't have a lot of stability! well, I guess that is understandable now. So, today after her hearing test and doctor's appt she is scheduled for surgery. She will be having tubes put in on January 29th.

Crossing our fingers for you sweetie!