Little Girl Barbie Gloves Aren't Thorn Proof!!

Yep, I learned that the hard way! My hands are small and the Barbie gloves were the only ones that fit me. I was out in the flower bed weeding and raked my hand across a rose branch. I had to dig 2 thorns out of my hand. Youch!! But my flower bed looks very nice! I'm going to work on the veggie garden next. Hopefully this nice weather will stick.

So the kids are almost back to 100%. Colton ended up with a double ear infection. And my mom brought it to my attention that this is the first time he's ever had an antibiotic. 3 whole years...pretty good! Tomorrow is the last day of meds for both kids. Colton takes his just fine but Elly is a pistol and fights me. So I have to push it in her cheek and then blow in her face to make her swallow. Not a fun process. Arlet was back here Tuesday and she's feeling much better also. Colton sure did miss her. Although today they were back to fighting like brother and sister!!!

I snapped some photos of Ellyana this morning. Colton's on a picture strike! He just runs from me when I try and take his photo. So I don't make a big deal out of it...hopefully he'll be a little model again soon.

{Candice Wong's Lightroom Presets were used on all these photos}

And these were actually deleted from my MySpace profile today. Their reasoning was they contain nudity and sexual content. I'm very upset and uploaded them again. There is nothing sexual about these. Breastfeeding is completely natural and I'm damn proud of how long I've been successful!!!! Ok, end of rant!

Here are a few LOs I've done the last couple days.

Tomorrow we are heading to the library for story time. We haven't been in a couple weeks so it should be fun!

Well I better go fold some laundry and get dinner started. Have a nice evening.

Monday Monday

It's been forever so I'll just get right into our re-cap!
**I'm on Kaili's computer because mine is being taken over by a little boy wanting to play Blue's Clues and Kaili's computer is too slow and he gets frustrated. Sooo, I will have to come back and edit in photos when he lets me! LOL** They are up!

Wednesday Feb 13th: Ellyana and I went to see The Business of Being Born in Eugene. It was phenomenal! I loved it! I got to see both the midwives that were at Elly's birth. I hadn't seen either of them since her 6 week check up. If you get a chance I totally recommend watching that film.

Thursday Feb 14th: Arlet was here and sick. Poor thing was clingy, whinny and her nose was running. I called Karen and she was able to come get her about 30 mins early.

Friday Feb 15th: Arlet was home sick. My kids seem fine so far. We went to story time at the library and had a great time. Afterwards we went to McDonald's and Colton played in the play area for the first time. That was so cute!!! **Photos to come...**

See him in the center square?

Saturday Feb 16th: Elly starts to feel yucky. Her nose was runny and her little eyes were gunky. But we went to Eugene to get groceries and last min things for Colton's party. Then we went to the park and played before we had to pick up Andrew so we could sign the papers for our taxes.**Photos to come...**

Sunday Feb 17th: HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY COLTON JAMES!!! His party was at noon and Nana (my mom), Dan, Uncle Drew and Aunt Kylie Jo came down. He had a blast!!! We made star cakes and pizza and had balloons everywhere. He got lots of cool presents, including a kid's camera.**Photos to come...**


Monday Feb 18th and Tuesday Feb 19th: No Arlet. Karen said that she had to take her to the ER and they diagnosed her with pneumonia so she would keep her home all week. Elly was feeling pretty yucky by now and Tue night we had quite a scare with Colton. He woke up crying and Andrew ran in to find Colton on his hands and knees struggling to breath. Andrew said it was like he was under water gasping for air. He finally got him calmed down and Colton just went back to sleep. So we put him in our bed and called the oncall DR at the ER who was an idiot! He said he could say for sure what was wrong and it was our choice to take him in or not. DUH!!! We decided to let him rest and take him in in the morning.

Wednesday Feb 20th: We call the kids' pediatrician to make an appt but she is all booked for the day. So we decide to take the kids to the ER (they have insurance so it didn't cost us anything). Elly had been coughing so badly that she would throw up and on the way to the ER she threw up in the car. Thank goodness it was Andrew's day off and he was able to be there with me. So we get in to see the ER DR and we explain what Colton went thru the night before. She said niether child had fluid in their lungs (we were worried about pneumonia obviously). She said that Colton sounds like he may have croup and Elly has an ear infection. We didn't want Colton to have more breathing issues again that night so we opted to give him a shot of steroids. He, thankfully didn't have anymore breathing issues.

Thursday Feb 21st, Friday Feb 22nd, Saturday Feb 23rd, Sunday Feb 24th: Thursday and Friday the kids and I just stayed home. They were still feeling really yucky. Poor Elly hates taking her medication so that's a struggle. Saturday my brother and two good friends of ours stopped by. They were on their way to California to work. It was great to see them all. Sunday the kids were feeling a bit better. Starting to get back to their normal selves. But in the middle of the night Colton starting crying and said his ear hurt :( Poor guy.

Monday Feb 25th: I'm hoping to get Colton into the DR today. His Ped doesn't work Mondays so I have to take him to the little clinic. But as long as I can get him in and get him meds if he needs them, then I don't care!!!! After we go to the DR I want to go to WalMart and pick up some seeds and bulbs. I'm cleaning out our front flower beds to get ready for Spring and then I'm making a small vegetable garden in the back yard. Oh and I want to have a medium sized pot with herbs in it as well! Can you tell I have Spring Fever?!!

Just a few random photos


Well I think that's about it! Hopefully my kids start feeling better soon. I hate that they are sick and I can't help them. Ok, gotta run...Colton wants me to get out some paints for him! Have a great Monday!!

Almost party time!!

Colton's 3rd birthday party is tomorrow!! So today we are going grocery shopping to get some last minute things. He's very excited!!

No photos today cause blogger's being a pain. I can't seem to get it to upload. And I'll update more later...gotta run!!!

While I Have a Minute

Man, it's been a crazy week already. The kids (Colton and Arlet) have been fighting over everything and poor Ellyana is teething like a mad baby. All she wants to do it nurse...all day and all night. Today was better than the last few days so maybe we are on the down slope.

Nothing else is new...main reason I haven't updated this thing. We went shopping this weekend. Got one of Colton's birthday gifts and his plates and cups for his party. I get sad every time I think of him turning 3! Just doesn't seem possible. Anyhow, that's about all we've done! And that was actually the first day the kids and I had left the house in 12 days. I don't know how we didn't go mad!! With us being sick and then having Arlet here we just stayed home.

I watched Arlet today till 7:00pm since her foster mom had parent/teacher conferences at school. So it was a long day for all of us. Tomorrow will be just as long. But Friday there's no school so no Arlet either. We are going to the library (haven't been to story time in about 3 weeks) and then the kids have their well baby check ups in the afternoon. and Sunday I'm going to ATTEMPT to take our family portraits. LOL I told Andrew not to make any plans and to be expecting to get his photo taken...needless to say, he's thrilled!!!!!

Here are some recent photos of the kids and some layouts I've done. Oh, I made another tote bag but no photos of it yet. Maybe I'll get some of it tomorrow.
Ok, onto the photos....

Miss Ellyana in the tub. She loves taking baths with her brother!

The many faces! (click to make larger...)

Over at Heather Manning's Blog her CT is doing a challenge and this is my page for that.
{Crash}

{Scrunch Face}

{Happy and You Know it}

{Daddy and Ellyana}

{My Baby}

{Giraffie}

Well I better get to bed...another long day tomorrow! Have a great night!