• Aug. 30, 2007
The girls still have the rash...

But it looks better. I'm probably not going to even call the Dr. about it because she'll want me to come in. I am NOT going back anytime soon unless I absolutely have to. I'm sure this is just some kind of viral rash that has to run it's course.

Autumn's new favorite thing is to say "bubble". She says it soo cute. It sounds more like "bah-baul".  She only has 6 teeth and I think that's keeping her from talking more. When Lexi was her age (15 months) she was talking in short sentences! She also had a mouth full of teeth too though.

Lexi has a potty mouth lately. She was at my MIL the other day and my husband has twin sisters that are 15. She got frustrated with them and said "you freakin twins!!!" (I didn't substitute any words). I don't know where she heard it but of course they thought it was hilarious. She also told the nurse at the Dr.s office "I ought to kill you!" after she gave her a shot! I wanted to crawl under the table! Of course the nurse thought it was funny, but I was all embarrassed, trying to figure out where she heard it!

I wanted to go on a picnic this week (I bought a picnic basket and everything) to go along with one of the pictures in "The Yellow Ball". I'm not sure that's going to happen though unless these rashes clear up soon!

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• Aug. 29, 2007
You've got to be kidding me....

A couple hours ago, I discovered a rash all over both of my kids!! See previous post about the little girl in the Dr.'s office. Surely it's too soon for them to have got it from her. Right?

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• Aug. 28, 2007
It's strep!

Yep. Both of my kids have strep throat. Neither of them slept last night either. I am running on empty. I am glad I am not sick yet but with my lack of sleep the past 2 nights it's probably inevitable. Plus when we were in the Dr.'s office, this little girl with a rash all over her arms, came up and tried to love on Autumn. I really almost freaked out. Her mom and grandparents just watched her do it and didn't do anything about it. I started to say something but we were saved by the nurse calling us back. I'm sure we were exposed anyway. It really frustrated me that I didn't let my kids get down and run around or play with the toys or get close to anyone, but it was okay for this little girl to come rub her germs all over us. She didn't have any brothers or sisters with her and she had 3 people who came in with her and they just let her do whatever. UGH!

Anyways, sorry for the gripe, I get kind of cranky when I haven't got much sleep.

On a happier note, we did start rowing "The Yellow Ball" yesterday. Lexi LOVED it. She slept, laid down with her yellow ball that I gave her yesterday. In the story, the ball gets caught in a storm on the ocean, and the curriculum suggests that you link it to the way Jesus gets caught in a storm and calms the wind and waves in Luke. So I read the Bible verses to her and explained what happened. Then when we got to the part in the book where the ball is in the storm I asked her "who else was out in a storm like that?" She said "Jesus was!" I said what did he do? She said "he told the storm, stop storm!! and he made it stop!" I just LOVE Before Five in a Row!!!!

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• Aug. 27, 2007
2nd Week of Before Five in A Row

First off, apparently Lexi got sick from the Dr. visit on Thursday. She's been running a 103 temp for the past 24 hrs but she has no other symptoms except she feels bad. You guys thought I was joking when I said that in a few days we'll know what we got from taking Autumn to the Dr. Thursday! I am praying so hard that I will not come down with it!!

This week we will start rowing (or trying to start), The Yellow Ball by Molly Bang. It looks like a great book. Today (if Lexi feels well enough), we'll read it for the 1st time. Yesterday I bought her a yellow ball to give to her after we read it. We also are going to color a picture of the front cover of the book.

This weekend we went with my DH's parents out on their boat to go to a resteraunt on the lake. We got about halfway out there and a belt broke and stranded us! We had to flag another boat down to have him tow us back to their house. It was quite an adventure! Lexi and Autumn had a blast but it was sooo hot. We eventually drove to the resteraunt and had a great evening with them. I love my in-laws! My MIL calls me her daughter-in-love whenever she introduces me to anyone. I'm a lucky gal!

Anyways, hopefully we will not have to spend all day at the Dr.'s again!

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• Aug. 24, 2007
Pass The Button

I just found this at TrainingHearts.com 

She has got some awesome prizes! Go enter (or don't so I'll have a better shot at it )

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• Aug. 24, 2007
Self sustaining business

So remember Monday when I took the girls to get their shots? Well, I had to take Autumn BACK to the Dr. yesterday because she has croup.

I knew she had it before I brought her in, because of the distinct cough it causes. She was hospitalized for 3 days this past winter with it.

The funny thing is, Monday I was trying to be soo careful in the pool of germs AKA the Dr.'s office. I brought my own toys, hand sanitizer, Lysol and amazingly I was able to keep them off the floor. But she still picked it up. I know she got it there because even the Dr. said, "I think she probably got it here, Monday. It's going around. We even have a boy in the room next door with it right now." UGH.

I wonder what we will come down with from bringing her to the Dr. yesterday. I guess we'll find out in a few days. I took extra measures yesterday though. I got a tip from this book that I bought off Amazon a few weeks ago (when we were sick again):

Here's the link

It has some great advice. But it says that when you get home from a Dr. visit, change your clothes and wash them. So maybe the extra step will prevent any further sickness. I sure hope so!!

What happened to Dr.'s making house calls?!

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• Aug. 23, 2007
Crime Stopper

For the past month or so, this teenage boy (who obviously doesn't have much sense), has speeding down our road in his pickup truck and doing doughnuts at the end of our cul-de-sac. It has been driving me CRAZY. When it happens, I run to the window and try and get his license plate number so that I can put a stop to it. Night before last I got it. Apparently he lives just a few houses down from us.  So yesterday, I called the local police (I've NEVER called the police) and they sent an officer out to my house to write a report.

I explained to the cop that I had young children who play outside and that this kid is going to kill someone with his recklessness. He said in order to give someone a misdemeanor, I would have to catch him on tape, but he'd go threaten him anyway.

Well later that day, a friend of a friend who lives in our neighborhood called and said that she also had called the police and that he told her that she was the 5th person to write a report. The cop said after he talked to me that he talked to the kid's parents and they are furious and their son is in major trouble!

So the point of this boring story is that I think I did a good deed and helped stopped the nonsense that has been going on around here!

On another note, I think I may have to take Autumn to the Dr. again. She seems pretty sick and I think it's been too long since she's had her shots (Monday) for that to be the cause of a cough, runny nose and fever.

We are still reading "Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?" and Lexi just loves it. I wish I had been doing more of the activities that I had planned to go along with it, but this week has been kinda hectic so I'm going to forgive myself and do better next week.

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