Happy New Year!

From our house to yours, hope it was a fantastic end to 2010 and here is to a wonderful 2011!

I will do a post later how we rang in the new year. I just had to add this picture, because seriously, is SHE NOT THE CUTEST PRESENT EVER????

This is the picture of....

PURE JOY! My son asked every Santa we saw for a bike, and alas! He got it! Happy Happy Joy Joy!

But lets back up a bit, our Christmas vacation began with us going for a ride on the Georgetown Express. It was a ton of fun, if not a little chilly. Santa and Mrs. Clause came for a visit and the kids were the bell of our train car. Well mostly Sloan, she was decked out and smiled at everyone who would look her way. Gavin was getting round two of the flu, but more on that later.

Our Christmas was great, we hosted Xmas Eve with my family and Greg's. It was a full house and I think everyone had a great time. I never saw much of the kids, so I am thinking they had a blast in the basement. Our Christmas morning was great, Gavin was a late sleeper and I finally had to wake him up! He was very excited to see his NEW BIKE, tent, sleeping bag, etc. He really liked everything, it was just a little overwhelming. He would open something and then want to play with it, instead of continuing on and finish unwrapping everything. Sloan seemed to enjoy the day also, I think she was most content with the tissue paper. We all had a wonderful Christmas and hope you did too!

Now onto our shit storm that has once again hit our house. ONCE AGAIN I SAY, SERIOUSLY???? Gavin has had an ongoing cough/cold/flu/exploding poop/puking/puking in Daddy's hands. Now he has walking pneumonia/constipation/a fever and to top it off pink eye! We found this out while at the doctor today, once again. This is our 5th trip to the doctor office since the week after Thanksgiving. 5th freaking time. Will this child never get well?

So we are hoping for a very Happy New Year, along with a healthy one! Merry Belated Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family!

Baby It's Cold Outside

Sloan and Gavin looking super happy. Sloan really does not like attempting to eat "food".

It is starting to snow as I write this. FINALLY! Maybe we will actually get a white Christmas. I am not holding my breath though!

My lack of having my crap together this year has made me a slacker with my cards. So if you are wondering if I forgot you this year, no. I just finally finished my cards on Wednesday night and then forgot them in the car yesterday. So I am hoping to get out today and get them sent. Who knows though, I may forget them again. And yes, it is some pictures of the kids and dogs. Crash's pic is a little fuzzy, but that is because we put him in soft focus- he is the oldest. He needs it!

Here are one of the only the 4 pictures I took in Steamboat at Thanksgiving. We had a great time!

Here are some other pictures of the kids meeting Santa and Mrs. Clause. I can't believe how well they did. Sloan just won them over and poor Gavin, we did this in the midst of his flu/cold week with a raging fever. But he did better than he did last year.

I will try and do a post next week of our lovely tree(s), hopefully some snow on the ground, some pictures of the house, and our exciting train ride on Saturday in Georgetown. There will be a special guest to surprise the kids!

Bah Humbug

That is somewhat how I am feeling right now. I have a boy that WILL NOT GET BETTER. We took him to the doctor today for the THIRD TIME since Sunday morning and still....NOTHING. He may have MONO? What, what is that? And can we know for sure if that is what he has? Or does he have Strep? Because we have now taken 2 cultures and it came back negative, but wait, he may still have it. AGGHHH! Let me tell you the JOY, JOY I SAY, that my son is right now. Not only is he sleeping about 2 hours a night and then moaning and groaning for the next 6 while withering in pain, but he has not eaten anything but Popsicles for over 2 days. He now has it down pat that if he starts feeling like he is going to throw up he runs to the toilet. It is great, after he power barfed on our bed Sunday and then did the same on our couch the next day. Or he carries around his "pot" that he spits in. NO MORE! I want a well kid, because he is miserable and in turn is turning me into a shrew. Stir crazy is my middle name right now. Poor Sloan got her shots on Monday so hasn't been her peach of a self lately either. I need normalcy.

On that note, we have had our beautiful tree up since Saturday. SATURDAY. We have now just finally decorated it, on Wednesday. I have yet to even think of Xmas cards. I don't even know if I will get them out. I hope I will, but I really don't want to take Gavin to Santa looking like hell warmed over and spewing chunks. Yes, I just resorted to being 12.

Sloan, Sloan, Sloan, our little devil. She seriously sounds like it. She completely makes these crazy devilish noises while motoring all over or when you change her. It is actually very funny. She is very vocal and chatty. Today Greg worked from home, and at one point we looked at each other and asked, "who was that?" We thought Sloan had spoken an actual word. She kind of did, but not intentionally. She is very cute and very advanced. I am not ready for her moving all over the house and teeth yet. Oh well.

A few very cute quotes from my son this week:

While we were fighting over what to watch on TV (yes, when he is sick and feverish that is all we do), he said "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse" and I said, "No, I am sick of Mickey." He just looked at me and said, "Well Mommy you aren't the one sick." Seriously I got upstaged by a 2 year old.

When Sloan was crying, he said to her, "Sissy don't cry, Mommy will always love you and take care of you." He is the nicest little boy to his sissy goo goo. I literally started crying.

Tonight, while decorating the tree, Gavin was coughing. I reminded him to cover his mouth, "so we all won't get sick." He responded with his favorite word, "WHY?" I said, "well because if Mommy and Daddy were sick, who would take care of you?" His little witty response was, "my doctor."

The kid has a great memory and very quick on the come backs.

There won't be any pictures until I figure out my computer. I had a virus and Jerry took it over to correct the problem and since I have had it back, my camera won't download to my pictures. I am sure it is operator error, but having a sick kid I haven't had much time to figure it out. I am actually doing this after they are in bed. Then we will be off to bed, getting about 5 hours of sleep for the past 5 nights does not a body good.

HUGE NEWS BEFORE I SIGN OFF. My hubby got great news from his job, that not only will he be keeping his director title, but he is getting more responsibility, more people and moving up two levels in the company from where he is now. YEA! We celebrated last night with a couple of glasses of champagne, in the midst of holding Gavin's hair while he was puking. FUN TIMES I TELL YOU!

Whoops

There will not be a post this week and maybe not for awhile. I let my son take the camera into a pile of leaves a few weeks ago. Greg and Gavin were raking and jumping into the piles. Anyway I can't get my camera to work. So???? I may be asking Santa for a new one!

Plus it has been a little chaotic around here. Gavin is catching a cold and so am I. Greg got his "MANHOOD" taken today and is loving frozen pees, while I am being nurse maid. Sloan....well she is not so adorable lately. Her sleeping is out the FREAKING DOOR! She is up constantly through the night. I don't know if it is the cold she is getting or the 4 TEETH she is getting at the moment. It is fun. FUN FUN FUN I TELL YOU. This week alone, I think my total nightly average of sleep is 5 hours. And that is on a good night. Ugh. Today is her 4 month birthday and still NO HAIR!

At Last

Ok, finally Halloween! It was a busy week for us that is for sure! But here is our 'Ween in pictures:
The Friday before Halloween, Gavin had a party at his school. It was very fun and we realized that the girls out number the boys about 3-1 in his class. No wonder he only talks about 1 other boy! He does talk quite a bit about some of the girls though, it is very cute.

The carving, I love the pose of Gavin annoyed. He is so my child! We had a fun time and he actually got more into it, especially the drawing on the pumpkins (can you see all the black marker residue?) and the stabbing of the pumpkins. It worried me for a minute, but it may just be a way for him to get his frustration out on being a 2 year old and having parents that have hardly any patience lately. Who knows.....

On Halloween day it was a nice day so we were all outside playing, Sloan of course in her Halloween onesie and Gavin in his scary shirt! Too cute!

That night we got our outfits on and headed over to a neighbors for some chili and drinks. We then piled onto the trailer to do some trick or treating. Gavin had a ball! He loved getting off and on the float and going up to the neighbors and saying "TRICK OR TREAT!" He was usually always the last one to get up there. It was so fun and it turned out to be such a nice night!

I also threw in some random pictures of our week. I decided to go to Target a few days after and buy some of the costumes 50-70% off. I thought, even if the kids don't want to be it next year, they would be good for dress up. I think Elvis looks dashing as a cowboy!

SCARY BONES!

On another note, my little missy has 3 teeth coming in. AT THE SAME TIME! sheesh.

Halloween

Here is a pic to tide you over until I get the time to do a BIG BLOG on our super duper fun Halloween, complete with Pumpkin carving, Party at Gavin's school, slaying some vermin, a lot of witches, hay ride and of course passing around a flask!

Never fear, our wonderful Spiderman will save the day of his baby Ladybug!

Seriously adorable, but WHEN IS SLOAN GOING TO GET HAIR! And we are still not sure of why Gavin picked Spidy to be his costume, he has never seen, watched, read anything about him. Oh well, he is still wearing it around the house....

Sloan is now rolling over onto her tummy (she started this last week) while sleeping and holding her own bottle. I had a break down when I realized she is not going to be my baby for FOREVER!

Greg and I are off tomorrow to the Ameristar to win BIG and celebrate Linda's bday. Wish us luck!