When it Rains...

Life always gets really fun all at the same time. This is how our holiday weekend finished up:

Saturday Night/Sunday Morning - Anna not eating, having a tummy ache, totally out of it. At one point she had a fever, but I took her temperature right after a crying jag because Emma-Grace rolled over her foot with a push car. Emma-Grace developing a case of conjunctivits in both eyes. (Once you see it you know exactally what it is when it comes back).

Sunday Afternoon - Take Emma-Grace to emergency to fix her toe that she split open.

Monday Early Morning - Ken spending quality time in the bathroom. However, no fever.

Monday Afternoon - Olivia take Emma-Grace to doctor for eye medicine, which they do not have a generic for, so with insurance it is $20 copay for a 0.5 oz bottle. Ken done needing to live in the bathroom, but now has a low grade fever and pretty much incapaciated. So Ken definately has the flu, but is it the dreaded swine flu? Lets just pray that the girls regular and swine flu vaccines work... although Ken got the regular flu shot ... so lets pray for science to work!

4 Years and 2 Months

Well we made it Four Years and Two months without an emergency room visit for the KIDS (Ken had his trip in the summer!). I think 4 years and two months is a pretty long time with all the acrobatics that kids do. Anyway, Emma-Grace was in her and Anna's room opening and closing her closet door and she must have rolled over her big toe, as the door is a sliding door... she sliced it right open! I was putting away clothes right next to her and the next thing I know she is screaming and blood is shooting everywhere from her toe. Anna was napping in my room and Ken was working outside. I run and grab a towel, dripping blood all over the carpet yelling for Ken. He comes in and we call my aunt who lives down the street from us. Meanwhile Anna is crying because she was woken up from a serious nap from Emma-Grace crying and me yelling for Ken. So my aunt arrives and we whisk Emma-Grace to the hospital, dripping blood all over the house on our way out. We felt bad for Anna because she was all confused after waking up from a nap, but thankfully the lure of making cookies with my Aunt settled her down.

Good advice from our friends: If you ever have to take your kid to the emergency room, don't make them stop crying. Nothing will get you faster through the emergency room than a screaming kid.

Although hectic, I was able to recall their advice. Thankfully, Emma-Grace is of the age that she screams at ALL people she doesn't know, so our simple entry into the emergency room escalated her to full alarm. True to what our friends said, I stood in the entry no more than 5 seconds and we were taken back, registered, checked in, and ushered to a room. Less than 10 mins later, Emma-Grace's toe was glued beck together and we were getting discharged (with Emma-Grace screaming the entire time). On our way home, I was telling Ken how much blood there was and how I was sure that there was a lot that we would have to clean up. I guess my adrenaline kicked in, because when we got home, there was only three drops on the carpet and some smudges on the kitchen floor.

Funny note, when we picked up Anna from my Aunt's house she asked me what was the "new red colors on the floor..."

We are all fine now... (sorry, no pics of the event). We ran out of the house with no coats, no diaper bag and Emma-Grace was barefoot. I did not remember the camera.

A Blog Worthy Fortune

We had Chinese for dinner last night and I wanted to share Ken's fortune with you all from his fortune cookie. We have both been stressed out about jobs, economy, work and all that, but this puts things in nice perspective:

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."

I love how God helps puts little things like this in our way.

Temper Tantrum, the Donald Look, Catching Air and Extras

Here is a bunch of random stuff...

Emma-Grace has Donald Trump hair in the front and a mullet in the back... business during the day, party at night! Aunt Sara got Anna a "sign peace" (as Anna says) shirt. Anna loves peace signs... This is Grammy's influnce! Thanks Aunt Sara! Anna loves the shirt!

This is what Emma-Grace would look like with hair.

Emma-Grace also learned how to stick out her tounge on cue.
Just a left over pic of the girls on Halloween.

Saturday night, Anna and I went grocery shopping at 7:00 pm. Emma-Grace, who goes to bed at 7:30, did not want us to go and had a tantrum that Ken taped. Notice that when he says "bottle" how fast she gets up and goes to the stairs. He thinks she is getting the Kitty, but she wants to have a bottle and go to bed!

Here is Emma-Grace roughing up Gus. She loves him and we are lucky that he is a dog trapped in a cat's body!

Check out the air Anna gets on her purple Ariel bouncing ball.

Stats & Movies

Yesterday I took the girls to the doctor's office for Anna's 4 year (a little late) and Emma-Grace's 15 month check ups. Anna and Emma-Grace are doing great. At our office, they give you this little packet of information about your kid and the age they are at. At the top the write the height, weight and head circumference and the percentiles that the kids are in... Well Emma-Grace is 90% for weight and 90%-tile for head size, which means that she weighs more and has a bigger head than 90% of the kids out there that are her age. Then I noticed that she is in the 100%-tile for height... so what does that mean? That she is taller than every kid out there? She is the tallest 15 month old EVER? Should I give Guinness Book of world records?

Hmmm... It makes sense, she is only 15 months old and most of her 18 month clothing is too short... She also thinks she is four and not 15 months old so when the doctor was asking all the things that she does the answers were all yes.

Here are some videos of the girls. This first one is of me last weekend taping Emma-Grace going down the big slide. Apparently, Ken has been doing this with her for a while and I didn't know it. You can hear my apprehension in the background.

Although I am guiding her, it is just for her protection. I had nothing to do with the bucket on her head. She did this all on her own.

Anna and I play this game where we take a song that she knows and make up new words to it... usually the words are about how much we love each other. Here is one of Anna's songs. Lucky you, I will not be performing on this video. She is my favorite singer.

I love this one with Emma-Grace sharing her sticker. Good thing it wasn't too sticky! Ouch!

This is Emma-Grace being "warm and cuddly". She loves doing this. Even though Anna thinks she looks like a "bag".

Halloween Surprise

On Friday the four of us went to Kohl's to spend some Kohl's Cash. On our way home we were going to go to Boston Market to use our $1 meal coupons, but it was packed. So we decided to go to Kroger to pick up some dinner. They were having a Halloween party and giving out candy and whatnot. So Ken too Anna to go get free stuff and Emma-Grace and I went shopping. One of the events they had was a skittle candy guess. The prize was a light up Halloween yard inflatable. "Anna" guessed 1,526 skittles in the jar. I finish shopping and we go along our merry way. Around 9:00 pm that night we get a phone call and I answer. They ask for Anna's mom and tell us that we won the Halloween yard inflatable! "Anna's" guess was only 5 skittles over the actual number! So this is our Halloween surprise:

The ghost goes up and down in the pumpkin and it lights up... this was a HUGE hit with the girls. Clearly, it is also a promo for Hershey's candy. But, whatever, it was free!