Holding Our Breath

So, C ended up having strep throat and scarlet fever, at least that's what our pediatrician said. Some people that I've mentioned that to have wanted to debate the scarlet fever part. I looked it up myself and apparently is is caused by the strep and starts with a high fever and ends with a really bad rash. The rash that C had (which was way worse than the strep by the way) looked just like the scarlet fever pictures. So, I believe what the doctor said, although some people have told me that no one gets that anymore. Whatever he had, he is better now, hallelujah. He went to school today and did some shopping with me after school. We are holding our breath and hoping that the bug stopped with C. I am leaving in the morning to go up to Cincy to meet my mom and sister for dinner and The Nutcracker. It should be lots of fun, but I will feel sorry for Hubs if AP gets the funk while I am gone.

Also, I am adding several new shirts at With Sugar On Top. Feel free to browse!

Oh, and thanks Megan for babysitting for us! We had our first non-family real babysitter tonight at our house. We went to a Christmas party with some friends from church. The kiddos seemed to have a great time with M. We'll have to have her back real soon :)

Good Thing It Was a Snow Day

Because my little man didn't feel good today at all. Poor guy woke up early with a fever. Things went downhill from there. I wasn't too sure what was wrong, he went from saying that his mouth hurt to his head hurt, then his stomach hurt. Around lunchtime he lost his, literally. We had lots to do tonight, but we ended up cancelling it all. Good thing because he ended up getting sick again after nap. He has pretty much been on the couch all day and we have been hanging around the house and going a little stir crazy. The highlight of the day was when the kiddos got a Christmas package in the mail from their great aunt.

About thirty minutes ago, C just perked up all of a sudden. He shouted "I'm healthy again!" Now he wants to eat and get up and run around, but I'm a little leery. I just hope the bug stops with him. This is a picture C just took with his new found energy. Don't you like how AP did my hair?

What My Niece Thinks of The Jolly Guy in Red

Little Wrappers

Christmas is coming fast! Ready or not!

I have two little helpers that love to wrap presents! This actually resulted in us getting very few presents wrapped, but they had fun.

Snow Day

Friday was one of those days that we in the school system look forward to all year long. It was a snow day with no snow in sight! Actually, it did snow some Thursday night and they went ahead and cancelled school then, but by Friday morning it was perfectly clear and a great day to go shopping!

The kiddos and I met up with some friends at our local mall. There were lots of children's activities going on.

They rode the train...

decorated ornaments...

met Ms. Claus and the Chik-Fil-A cow (they were way more interested in the cow)...

and rode the carousel.

After all that excitement we ran by Joann's (a craft store) for maybe 20 minutes max. We went to my aunt's house after that. She asked C what he had been doing all day and his response was "my mom made me go shopping at JoAnn's" . He completely forgot that I had been chasing him and his sister for 3 hours at the mall! Little stinker!