The dog is sick...

yep, less than 24 hours before he is suppose to go to the kennel so we can go to Jenny's wedding. Great. Dog is sick - kennel will not take sick dogs. I don't want to leave my poor baby if he is sick. DH is not gonna be a happy guy.

The ears that just won't heal

Youngest finished the antibiotic on Monday. Tuesday she said her left ear hurt. Wednesday it was both ears. Pediatrician visit today - antibiotic ear drops w/ pain reliever and steroids built in. Ears are healing - just not healed all the way. Oy.

Happy Birthday to Me!

Feeling kinda Sixteen Candles - ish. DH hasn't said a thing about my BD - which is very, highly, extremely unusual. Let's see what happens when he finally gets home tonight.

School is cancelled

First J. got the phone call that school was delayed 2 hours - J got up after doing the phone tree to iron his shirt and get ready to go in. Then another call @ 7am. Nope, school is cancelled. I guess the buses couldn't make the journey safely to all the nooks and crannies of his school district with all of the ice. Following J's school districts lead, all of the other districts, including ours, started cancelling too. Middle was soooo excited. She said this was the best day ever.

The downside of this? Now there won't be a four day weekend. Friday will be the make-up day. That means I have to go with Youngest for Grandparents' Day at preschool because Lou and Barbara won't be coming and J will have to work. Drats. That screws up my work schedule. Oh, well. I get to spend the time with my four year old - maybe we will do lunch too.
These are from Tuesday. Not much in the way of snow, but they were dying to get out there.

Youngest-isms : The Coooool Car

In the car leaving preschool...
"Hey, Mom. Look at the coooool car! We should get that coooool car."
"Which one, honey?"
"The one with Katie's teacher in it."
"Oh, yeah. (looking at the Toyota Sequoia - one of Mommy's dream cars) That is a cool car. If you have an extra $35,000 in your piggy bank, then we can go get one right now."
"No, but we can go to the bank, and you can get your monies out."
"I wish, Audy, I wish...."

Who let Old Man Winter in??

Good gracious! Where did the frigid weather come from? Now were are suppose to get snow and freezing rain tomorrow? Fantastic - maybe some snow to sled in again? We haven't had much of a chance this year for some good sledding time, and I miss it. I never had this growing up in Virginia Beach, so I want to take advantage of the opportunity. Besides - when you are all bundled up - who can tell that I'm 38.9999 years old??? I am pretty short, so I can blend in with all of the kids. :-)

Saturday's Happenings....

Youngest woke up at 2 AM crying - her head hurt - but she is pointing to her jaw area under her ear. Oh, NO!!! Not her ear, please anything but an ear infection. She stayed awake until 5 AM crying in pain. Threw up from all of the drainage (and maybe from the fever?)

Took her in to see the Dr. again (between Middle and Youngest this was visit number five to the peds in three weeks and dr. visit number seven between the peds and the ENT.) Temp is 101.5. Great.

Dr. took one look in her left ear (the good ear)and said, "She's got a really bad ear infection - it is about ready to burst."

Youngest then so eloquently announced, "I gotta throw up." There she blows.

The Dr. said the vomitting was more from the fever than the drainage. He prescribed a strong antibiotic and Motrin. If she cannot keep the Motrin down, then call him.

Prescription filled and in her along with the Motrin by 12:30. By 2:00 she is like a new kid. Thank goodness. Still stiffling and draining, but no more crying. Man, we have been so lucky with the three girls - never many ear infections at all. I cannot tell you the last time any of them were even on an antibiotic. We have been blessed with that part.

So here we are. Staying home again all weekend to get these children well. Maybe if the planets align and the Gods are kind, I can, shhhhh!, not too loudly, maybe I can scrapbook. Please don't say it aloud - they will hear you and someone will be ill.

My new books from Amazon came in:

• Pieces of My Sister's Life
• Me & Emma
• Scrap Simple

Care to guess which one I dove into first? Oh, the highlight of the day? I snuck off to Paperoni when J got home from basketball to hit up their closing sale. Picked up some more foam stamps and paint since it was all 50% off. Plus some scalloped cardstock, a little paper, some ABC letters, and rub-ons. Not much inventory left - good for them, sad for me.