First Sleepover

Make a scrapbook - it's easy!

Monday through Tuesday we had Allie and Luke over while my friend Kim had her baby girl. The kids were sooo excited to be together and were so good. Since having five kids is quite a bit busier than three, I decided to help motivate them to be extra good. The kids earned tickets for being helpful and following directions. They got to use the tickets to buy prizes the next day. It worked like a charm! The big girls were so excited to earn tickets, they helped clean up hundreds of sticks after Jayson pruned the fruit trees. We had a great time and I loved getting to take Allie and Luke to meet little Kate for the first time. She was a doll and it was fun to watch the kids ooh and ahh over their little sister. Allie was particularly proud of her sister so we printed up a couple pictures for her to take to school the next day. Unfortunately, the next day Angela was very sick and ended up getting diagnosed with Scarlet fever. Our fun with Allie and Luke was cut short, but it was fun while it lasted. (o:

Sick Days

We have had an odd couple of weeks - someone in the family has been sick for the past two and a half weeks. We've had a wide array of germs and what I refer to as "yuck" take over our home. Diversity is not always a positive thing. We've had your typical run of the mill colds, influenza, a ruptured eardrum, bronchitis and scarlet fever! Whew! What else can we get? Oh wait - don't answer that. Did you know that scarlet fever is actually a strain of the strep virus - it just includes a fun rash and very high fever in addition to the awful sore throat. Hey, and did I mention that it can also lead to ear infections - which it did in Angela's case?

Our kitchen sink area looks like a pharmacy - amoxicillan (sp?), ear drops, cough syrup with codiene (my drug of choice last week), Dymetap, Children's Tylenol, Children's Advil, throat lozenges, etc. Another clue that we are sufferring from lots of "yuck" is the fact that I have to keep running the dishwasher just to clean all the medicine droppers and liquid medicine cups. Our silverware basket is constantly overflowing with dirty medicine droppers/cups.

Luckily, I think we are finally on the mend. Now my only problem is that I have this stuck in my head... "This day is bananas: B-A-N-A-N-A-S!" Thanks Jays! (This was a chant Kelly did on an episode of "The Office")