Germ Season

It seems like every couple winters, we get hit hard with the germ season. My poor Drakie has had a fever on and off for the past week. Looks like we are headed back to the doctor tomorrow morning. The good news is between sick visits and Dorothy's surgery, we are already over half way to our deductible for the year!

At the end of January, Dorothy had tubes put in her ears and her adenoids removed. The ENT, thinks a lot of her speech delay is related to the fact she couldn't hear well with fluid in her ears. We have already noticed a big difference; she is very chatty now and even sings some songs. Right now, her favorite is "Let it Go" from Frozen.

I was so anxious about her having to fast before the surgery. This girl is so cranky before she gets breakfast! She has told Dave to "no touch me" or "no talk a me" before she has had something to eat. After some sugar has hit her blood stream, she loves her dada!





I explained to her a few days I advance that I wouldn't be able to give her any breakfast when she got her tubes, and thank goodness, it worked! She didn't even ask about breakfast and only hovered a little bit around people eating snacks in the waiting room. She was pretty grumpy afterwards, but cookies seemed to help when we got home.

Lincoln has had terrible winter allergies, which is new. He had to miss a couple basketball games, because whenever he started running, he would cough violently. A couple rounds of steroids and an inhaler did the trick. He will be able to finish the basketball this week!






Several people have had trouble with allergies, because our weather is so crazy here. Today we had a high of 80, but later this week the low will be 30!

It was so beautiful one afternoon, it seemed ridiculous to go inside for homework. Drake worked on his sight words.




Any holiday is fun with kids. We decorated canvases for Valentine's Day and decorated our mantel.







We have been trying to clean up Dave's shop, which means Lowe's trips on the weekend. Lincoln doesn't seem to mind as long as he has a book.




The 2 littles CAN play nicely together...sometimes. This picture proves it! I heard them playing from the kitchen and snuck a pic.




Dave and I celebrated our 11th anniversary. We were separated from each other, because he had to travel for work. That stunk, but I'm so proud of all he is accomplishing! He unexpectedly won an award at a sales conference in Arizona this week.




One last random event, Dorothy had her first hair cut. She didn't want to be left out when the boys got a turn. She just had a little trim.




She let me braid those beautiful curls one day. So jelly of those locks!!








Crossing my fingers we get through this germ season quickly, and so hoping all of our friends and family are staying healthy!!