Merry Christmas!!!

We celebrated Christmas a day early this year because of Dan's work schedule. This was our first Christmas by ourselves. At 7am I hear running down the hall and not so light tapping on my shoulder..."Mom, I felt something in my stocking!" After opening hers and Kailtyn's stocking, we headed downstairs to see what Santa had brought.

'Tis the Season...

...to be sick. Here is a run down:

Sunday night, Kaitlyn throws up twice during the night
Monday night, Madison starts coughing
Tuesday night, Madison, still coughing, gets the flu and is inconsolable for about an hour, finally her temperature breaks and her stomach doesn't hurt anymore.
Wednesday- still coughing and sick
Thursday- Kaitlyn starts to cough, Jen gets a sore throat.
Friday- drag them both into the doctor before the holiday week. Everything okay- nothing serious. Get home and Kaitlyn gets a fever.
Saturday- All three girls are sick, Kaitlyn finally broke her fever this morning, only to have it come back this afternoon.

I love this time of year...

We Have Mastered the Stairs

A few days ago Kaitlyn started making it onto the landing of the stairs, and takes a header off of it to come back down. Yesterday she started up the first step, then today I am not sure if she was on the first or the second stair and I see her coming down face first onto the landing! Looks like we have some work to do!

Here is my little party animal- it is almost 11pm and she decided it was time to get up and play!

Here is our backyard...looks like the Exersaucer is getting a good wash!

I Finally Saw It!!!

Yes- I know the movie came out weeks ago, but I finally went and saw it tonight!!! This is the first time I have read the books first beforing seeing a movie. I must say- I did like the movie, I just wish it could have been 10 hours longer so they could have gotten EVERYTHING in! I feel they missed so much between Bella and Edward...I feel a little cheated!!!
I am dragging Dan back with me next time I see it!!!

For those of you who are not in the know- I am talking about "Twilight"

We MOVED!!!

...or at least it seemed like we moved to somewhere COLD and WET!!!

What an exciting day today! We were inundated with snow - all day!!! Madison first ran outside in her pjs and NO shoes on, then she put shoes on (of course she picked her pink cowboy boots!) and ran out and played for a minute.

We bundled her up and she went out to play again. This is her throwing snowballs at the window!!!

We did some Christmas shopping and this is what it looked like on our journey

Dan and Madison went to the PARK to play in the snow!

Building a SNOWMAN

Having fun in the snow!!!

She had such an exciting day, she was SO EXHAUSTED at the end of the day that she fell asleep on Dan's lap on the couch!

My First HATE

Over the past couple of days Madison has started using the word "hate." I don't think she fully understands the impact it has. So, today at the store I told her it was time to go and she said "you are a bad mommy, the police are going to come and get you." Okay- whatever, I can handle that one! Then she proceeds to say "I hate you." Needless to say that was the end of that!
So- I have officially received my first "I hate you." How fantastic.

A New Position

Kaitlyn is really into standing up lately and gets caught in the strangest places!