sick.kids

No fun. Meredith and Amelia have been sick since the end of last week. They even stayed home from church on Sunday with Josh. Amelia has definitely been improving, and Meredith only had to "officially" wipe her nose once yesterday...much better than the previous day. (By officially I mean that she used a tissue instead of her sleeve.)

Claire, however, has taken a turn for the worse. She had been fine over the weekend but had woken up yesterday (Monday) with a fever of 102. Not too big of a deal, but by the time she went to bed last night, she was up to 104. We were giving her Motrin and did the tepid bath thing (which she didn't enjoy because she had just taken a bath an hour before that).

So, we continued to check her every hour or so, and she had dropped to maybe around 102-103. We gave her more medicine at 2:30, and she woke me up at 4:00 with a temp around 104 again. We went back and forth about whether we should just head to the ER, but alas, we are still home because she's dropped a bit again (102ish). She's fairly perky for 5:30 a.m. (much more-so than her mother!).

We're going to call our doc later this morning. I'm typically not one to panic about these types of issues. However, after our bout in the hospital a couple of years ago with the same issue, I'm a bit more paranoid about the whole thing. Hopefully, it is nothing, but if you could send a prayer or two up for her as you are reminded, that would be greatly appreciated!

labor.day

I am finally getting around to posting about Labor Day. I apologize for not having pictures. I was too lazy to get the camera out of the computer bag busy enjoying a little quality time with the fam.

We went to the lake on Friday night and spent the weekend with Mom and Dad, Jill and Drewski, lots of long people, and a whole lot of beautiful weather. We went tubing on Saturday afternoon. Fun, but I felt like I had been hit by a train by the time Sunday came around.

Amelia woke up early in the morning to eat, and I almost dropped her because my arms were giving out on me! Thankfully, no baby drops, but my arms were crazy sore.

We went to a big party at the neighbor's house (at home) on Sunday evening. To say that they go "all out" would be a bit of an understatement. There were hundreds of people (supposedly fewer than usual), lots of great food, a huge salad from one of my favorite Italian joints (yum!), snow cones, a HUGE moonwalk-type slide for the kiddos...oh yes, and they had fireworks at the end...seriously good ones. (Not the little bottle-rocket-type that are firework wannabees...like go-to-the-park-and-sit-on-a-blanket fireworks.)

Anyway, so we had our little party on Monday afternoon. There were about 25 of us (family and friends included). T (who always reads my blog, but never comments) was there! I told you that I'd mention you here, T! Maybe she'll comment someday!

Well, we had a great time of talking, eating, corn hole....and the neighbors practically begged us to bring all of the kids back over during our party to use their blowup slide. The rental place wasn't picking it up until Tuesday, so we wandered over and the kiddos played for a bit. Fun times. Thanks all of you for coming over. We had a great time with everyone. We'll have to do it again sometime!

question.of.the.day

Today, Claire was looking at our cheap stickers, the little circle ones that come in tablets of like 1,000.

Here are some examples of the stickers:
"Great!"
smiley face
star
"Yeah!"
frog
whale
"WOW!"
"Super"
various animals
and...

#1

Claire asks..."Is there a #2 on here somewhere?"

Hmmmm...I don't think they make #2 stickers...I think it has something to do with self-esteem issues :).

5.months

Happy 5 month birthday, baby girl! In the last month, Amelia has grown so much. She has gotten 2 teeth, rolls over from belly to back and from back to belly, and smiles ALL the time (especially for Mommy...I'm her favorite). She is such a cutie! What an easy baby. I couldn't ask for more with the craziness of this year.

She loves to look at her big sisters, and I'm convinced that she'll start pulling their hair this month! She is so patient with Claire (who loves to hold her)! We love you, Amelia!

open.season

Josh has the 7:00 shift today, so as he heard the geese fly over the house this morning, he decided to go out and shoot a few of them. mmmmm....gooooooose. Four down, lots to go. I can take this type of hunting outing any day. It was literally an hour from start to finish (cleaning and all!). Josh loves the country...I think I'm starting to like it a bit better as well :)

seriously.september 1

It takes me at least 2 full days to recover from a fun afternoon of tubing on the lake.

Please remind my body that it is 29, not 19.
Big difference.

Seriously.

made.it

I got up this morning at 6:40 and had breakfast with Josh! I finished reading Esther this morning...more about that next week.

I'm just pumped that I set my goal and accomplished it! Woohoo.

Now, if I can just do it next week, that will be great. Time will tell.

Happy Labor Day to everyone! We're going to the lake...sing along if you know it...
We're going to the lake, lake, lake.
Maybe have some cake, cake, cake.
Lots of fun we'll make, make, make.
When we're at the lake, lake, lake.

Yes, my kids sing this all the time. Yes, my mom made it up with them. Yes, it's borderline obnoxious, but they love it so I love it. Yay for Grandmas, yay for songs!