Jan 1st
We had a slow start of the year because of the cold winter
outside. We lounged the entire day and stayed on our PJ's a lot.
Joshua enjoyed Julia’s
IPod while Spencer and Julia played with my I pad.
Daniel got his first try of rice cereal which he surprisingly
liked. None of the other kids liked it
The kids spent the last days of their Christmas break watching
some of the movies that Santa brought them and eating popcorn.
Jan 11Th
Snow, snow and more snow
We had a blizzard and is lasting for an entire week. The sky has been very cloudy or foggy during
these days and I missed the sun much. We were even chosen to be the city with
the worst air in the world because the inversion kept the air trapped in Utah. I
made it a big deal whenever a ray of sunshine escaped through the clouds. This
is also the very first year that we actually had the need for snow pants. The kids
got their first and loved playing in the snow until they realized that it was
too deep to do anything. It reached Julia’s waist and it was a little bit under
Joshua’s shoulder, Andrew went out once and he got lost in it so he didn’t want
to try it again. One day we even had frozen rain, everywhere became an ice
skating ring. Good thing I had just gotten new tires for my van because it was
very scary out there.
Here is my little Andrew looking so cute on his new snow
pants.
Jan 12Th
Another First
Moving into the solid food. First food: PeAs. Daniel ate the entire jar of food; although
most of it ended either on his cheeks or his shirt.
Jan 16th
I hate how fast Daniel is growing. Today he started holding
his own bottle L
so very sad.
Jan 17Th
Joy school-Costco Field Trip
T
he time finally came for me to teach Joy school. I love doing it but i just get so stress out trying to get this ready for the kiddos. here they are after one of our days at school. they are truly a cute bunch.
I had also planned a field trip to Costco. The kids were so excited to learn
how to become a Costco employee. They got name tags and were cashiering for a
while. Too bad they didn’t let them drive the fork lift since they were all dyeing to do
so. We visited all the departments and
found some fun on each one of them. The optical department was a hit with the
sunglasses. The bakery smelled so good and the kids got to decorate their own cookie and loved to wear hair nets.
They sampled some macaroni salad at the deli courtesy of Spencer and finally we
went backstage on the food court and watched how they made pizzas. They gave
the kids apple juice, cookies and a little frosty at the end, it was fantastic.
After our field trip we came home and Daniel was stripped
down to his oncie and shoes. I love his chunky legs
Jan 20th
Random picture of these two. Julia is so in love with his baby brother. She
has completely forgiving him for not being the baby girl she wanted.
Wacky day.....at least it feels like one. Gotta love their style
Jan 21st
Footie pajamas
Julia has been so sad that all three of her brothers had
footie pajamas to wear and she had none. I tried to tell her that she was now
too big for those. This weekend I happened to go into the carter’s store
because of a clearance sale they were having. I usually stock up on pajamas for
the kids, so looking through the racks I found one last and lonely size 8
footie pajama. She about fainted when I showed it to her. After all the
discounts it turned out to be $4 so I had to buy it for her. That night she was so
excited to get ready for bed and wanted me to take a picture of all of them on
their matching PJ's.
Jan 23rd
Joshua's Tumbling
This boy is getting so good at tumbling. He has a blast and looks forward to it every week. I'd rather have him in karate but I don't have $ 80 a month for that. He has become more coordinated and is growing a lot of muscles. His favorite trick to do is a handstand for 10 seconds. His favorite thing to do in class...bungees
Jan 28Th
One big scary day
I was doing laundry this day and I had left Joshua and
Andrew watching TV upstairs. After 30 minutes of not hearing the boys I walked upstairs
to check on them. Joshua was sitting down at the table concentrated on a
puzzle. Then I checked on every room for Andrew and Andrew was nowhere to be
found. I dashed through the basement and still no Andrew. I was yelling his
name going all around the house like crazy just to hear silence. Then I got
worried that he actually went outside. He can open the door now so there was
nobody to stop him. I checked up and down my street including the dirt pile by
the end of the street. Then all these
bad thoughts came to my mind. I came back inside the house and asked Joshua if
he had seen his brother one last time but he said he had no idea where he was.
I was panicking by now and in tears and as I was ready to call 911 I got this
feeling to check behind the couch in my living room. I had checked one end but
had totally ignored the other side. Right as I picked over the couch I found this:
He fell asleep by the heating vent...
Jan 31st
Virus
We finished up this month with a severe virus. Poor little
Daniel got it first and decided to be a good brother and share it with Andrew. Symptoms
were throwing up, messy diapers, fever, stuffy nose, bad cough, weakness, loss
of appetite, aches, body pain did I mentioned throwing up?
The first couple of days were OK but nights were horrid.
Andrew started first but almost froze for a week while little Daniel was
suffering (thank goodness) I don’t know how I could have managed 2 sick kids. I
decided to spare Spencer and camped out at the couch with Daniel for several
days.
I didn’t enjoy this bug at all I smelled like vomit all day
long I had so much laundry to do because I had to change clothes about 10 times
a day not to mention the kids piles of smelly laundry that I had to do at the
same time.
As soon as Danny got better, Andrew went down with it. He
had a fever of 105 one day and developed pink eye. My baby was out of it. He didn’t
want to eat or do anything all he cared about was sleeping and rocking himself
on Daniel’s swing. He lost 7 pounds in 1 week.
No pictures of my misery just memories of my sore back for
sleeping too many nights on the couch and black circles for my lack of sleep.
So February is up to a weak start but hopefully no one else
gets sick
