It's been a L...O...N...G winter

I'm ready for winter to be O-V-E-R! Colds go on and there seems to be a never-ending river on snot flowing out of our house. Sorry, really don't mean to gross anyone out, but that's what we're up to around here. Jake is now healthy, Kaylee (knock-on-wood) has remained healthy through all of this, but late last week, Jesse started in with sinus gunk, and now I've finally succum to it as well. I'm well on my way to loosing my voice. The kids are so funny. I try to whisper to them and they look at me and whisper back, "Why are you whispering?" Anyhow, hopefully next week will be better.

Short funny story about Jake before I go... you know I can't get on here without sharing something funny about my crazy monkeys. Two Sundays ago, he was a nightmare in church. It wasn't that he was loud or screaming or anything like that. He just wouldn't listen to us, was very mouthy, and I'd had it with him. Afterwards, we head out to the car and as we're driving home, I say to Jesse, "So what are you and Kaylee doing at 10:30?" Sidenote here, we have threatened (empty threat by the way) time and time again that if they don't behave in church, we'll go back to church for the 10:30 Mass; but we've never actually done it. So Jesse knew exactly what I meant when I asked him what he and Kaylee were doing at 10:30. He starts talking about going 4-wheeler riding, going down to Grandma's house, petting the horse... you know, all Jake's favorite things to do. Jake speaks up and says, "Yeah and me too!" I said, "Nope Jake, we're going back to church." You would have thought I had beat him to a pulp. He screamed, fussed, kicked, and threw himself around. So after getting no reaction from us, he finally settles down. 10:30 rolls around and we head back to church. He and I walk in the door and he looks around and says, "Were all these people bad in church?" It was hilarious. In his 4-year old little mind, he thought that there was a mass for people who misbehaved in church. How funny. I do have to say, he was the most behaved little guy in church that day as well as this past Sunday. Trust me, if that's all it takes to get him to behave in church, IT WAS SO WORTH IT!

What we've been up to lately

We've officially got Strep in our house. UGH! And it doesn't look like it wants to leave anytime soon. Poor Jake came down with a soar throat Friday evening, ran a fever and complained of a headache all weekend, and then I thought I saw the light at the end of the tunnel yesterday when his fever started to vanish. Unfortunately, it came back with a vengeance yesterday afternoon along with stomach cramps. So we were able to get an appointment with our pediatrician who did a strep test and confirmed it. They acted like once we got 2 doses of the antibiotic down him, he should be good as new. Well, we're going on dose #5 and still can't seem to kick the fever and belly ache. He's finally napping now, although he cries out in his sleep every now and then. I'm just hoping it ends with him and no one else gets it.

During the last week of January, we got hit with a ton of snow and ice. The kids were out of school for 4 days and had several more 2 hour delays. They've never done so much sledding in their whole little lives! It was a very pretty snow. Jake thought it was so pretty one day, he decided to pull up a chair and watch.

Here's a picture from Kaylee's Birthday party. We had it the weekend before last. She and her cousin Emma, who also has a January birthday, wanted to have their parties together.

The kids started Bitty Basketball through the YMCA last week. Thinking they'd be put on the same team just as they were with Bitty Baseball and Soccer, Jesse told them that he'd coach their team. At the sign ups, it was announced that they'd have 3-4 year old teams and 5-6 year old teams. Neither of them were going to let him off the hook, so guess who's coaching TWO teams. There is a HUGE difference in watching the 3-4 year olds play versus watching the 5-6 year olds play. It's very entertaining!

Well, I'd better go check on my little patient. He's hollering for more "Dadoraid" (Gatorade.)