Happy Birthday Kris!

Happy Birthday to Daddy! Ryan and I made him a cake, which was Ryan's favorite part of the birthday. As you can see, we never feed him.

Sorry to everyone who commented that I haven't updated this in a while. I'm a little busy keeping up with two kids during these snow days and starting on Facebook. Yes, we've had about a foot of snow and Ryan has been out of school all week. It sure makes for a long day - at least he still takes a nap. It would be different if Ryan would play by himself, but even if he does, he wants to tell me about it or whine for me to play with him during most of it! I sure hope its better by next week. At least Ryan has gotten to play outside. And second, yes - I finally broke down and joined Facebook and now I've been looking up people and reading what everyone's been up to. It's addicting.

So what have we been up to? We have had sickies here. Ryan got sick two weeks ago. Of course, Kris was going to California for the week. So I called for reinforcements and my mom and sister drove down to help me. Ryan was out of school all week, not because he didn't feel well - mostly because he was so tired and wouldn't get a nap if he went to school. By Friday, he still wasn't 100% and I broke down and took him to the doctors. He had an ear infections and possible strep. Then this past weekend, Emma not only had two teeth coming in, but also got sick. Monday, I took her to the doctors, which we were scheduled to do on Thursday for her 9 month appointment. She had a double ear infection and possible pink eye. Well the eyes cleared up in two days, so I'm pretty sure it wasn't pink eye. And both the teeth came in. She's feeling much better now.

Besides that we've been going to the gym and playing. We get reimbursed for our gym membership if we go 12 times a month. We joined last January and never made it one month. Our best month was in March! Can you believe it? I was 8 months pregnant - but I really needed that break from Ryan. So this month, I've been trying hard to make it, plus lose the 3 lbs I gained over Christmas.

Yesterday, to abate the winter boredom, I let the kids finger paint (and then take a bath!). I NEVER let Ryan do this when he was as little as Emma just because I didn't want to clean up the mess, but I've become more lenient in my parenting. She enjoyed it for a few minutes and then started to rip the paper and try to suck on the washcloth I was using to wipe her off! Ryan just wanted more and more paint. I wasn't sure his picture would ever dry - but it did finally. I think they enjoyed the bath a lot more though!