Pluto's Return! Night 1

Messy and exciting return!

Tired Girl

Today was the last working day before Thanksgiving break. Daycare lost power midday and someone had to come home. Missed naptime. Technically they could have napped without power right?

My Momma-Their Grandma-Our Joan

I remember being sick as a child and my parents telling me that they would gladly be sick in my place-that they would take my germs, suffer the symptoms if it meant that I'd be healthy and pain free. This happened probably every time I was sick and miserable with ear infections, eye infections, stomach bugs and more. I think all parents wish that for their kids. Of course, it's one of those things that you probably never really understand until you have kids of your own. And even having kids of my own, it's not that easy. It's a type of magic that one can't do-I could never take away germs from Sidney Kate or Embree Claire and make them better-but I tell them that I would. If God allowed me such power I would be all over it.

However, over the past three weeks my mom has come as close as anyone could to making this happen. She has sacrificed herself, and indirectly my "Deddy" to help take away the germs of my household. For some strange reason, our home has been bombarded with germs, upon germs, upon germs...nonstop the past THREE weeks. I'm not talking little sniffles and tickle coughs...I'm talking "belly hurts," high-endless fevers, stomach bugs (and all that comes with it), more, random high fevers, sore throats, eye infections, ear infections, body aches/pains and runny...everything. But not once, when she was phoned, did she say no to my calls and requests for help. "Help keep a child so I can go to work", "help keep a child so I could heal myself", "help me not lose my mind because everyone is sick and there is no standing adult left in this house to properly care for a toddler." Every time she was needed she said yes and, in turn, sacrificed her health, knowing that more than likely she would be sick next. She said yes to help us survive the illness so we could get better-faster. She couldn't take away the pain and make us healthy but she sure made being sick a lot easier. Talk about a bright spot during a storm-that would be her. What a blessing from God: to have a mom who is a caregiver by nature...just like her mom. 

Now that we are on the mend...she's sick. The picture above is Embree Claire cleaning at Grandma's...I wish we could just arrive at her house and clean those germs away for her. Since we can't-let's all say a prayer for Momma-Grandma-Joan...BEST MOM EVER! :)

Entertainment

I'm glad someone(s) feel well. After two weeks of the stomach bug followed by Mommy and Daddy having sinus mess-the girls are back to playing.

Last night I had a 103 temp (after my dr visit of course) and...Kevin happened to be in Charlotte watching the Panthers beat the Patriots. So this is how my "Mom-of-the-year" night began. I picked up the girls, fed them McDs (Dr. Fuhrman and I shudder), put them in the bath with directions to "bathe yourselves," after putting their hair in ponytails bc we were skipping that, then pjs for all and every girl in the house was in the bed at 7:30.

Overall the parenting part was a success. The girls took great care of me-only fighting over who would take more care of me.

Today Kevin was off-I guess you get rewarded for a night of NFL that way. He handled kiddos and noticed ECVs eye was red so he took her to the dr. She's had an infection from drainage and will be clear for school tomorrow. These were taken when he got home from getting SKV.

Ugh...

TEETH! Vampire teeth!

These teeth might be the best Halloween thing they could have gotten. They have enjoyed them so much!!!

Pumpkins 2013

Here are our carved pumpkins!!

First LOOSE Tooth!

Oh my goodness someone has a loose tooth. This is HUGE!!!! She discovered this today and she has let us both wiggle it-she's so impressed with her tooth-all moveable and stuff! Now we await the big fall/pull out. I sure hope whatever fairy she gets has been pinning ideas on Pinterest because I sure haven't. Hope that fairy also knows two children sleep in that bed. Good luck toothtfairy-FYI she's expecting round coins-so you're lucky it's not paper. I know the government is currently shutdown-not sure how that impacts your business.

So behind

I know I'm behind on blogging. Sorry. :)

Going Home Morning

Heading home-last golf cart ride for pancakes, ECVs "How you do?" handshakes and a little truck malfunction-but Deddy had it fixed in minutes. I'd still be there waiting on someone to come fix it.

Day 7

"Momma I'm comin' home!!!!!" Since she's with us I guess we can sing "Mama or GG or Papa or Gran Mary...and especially Mrs. Spencer!" SKV has talked about how much she misses Mrs. Spencer and how she wants me to send every picture to her-she's so excited for Monday. Even has her outfit picked out-her newly tie dyed shirt from Ocean Lakes.

The collages below are from our finishing the watermelon off at lunch-ECV went to potty and came back with no clothes on-how else should we eat it? I vividly remember eating watermelon at Papa Marion's-he'd have watermelons and cantaloupes under the big oak tree and all of the grandkids would wait until he cut us big pieces with his knife. I just had clothes on in my memory. 😋

Wednesday the girls made shirts-awesome!!
Today they napped with Papa and we found them snuggled.

The second is my families weak attempt to cheer for me after my run. After three days of no love I got this from the girls. And our last cruising night....like our driver? Cutie.

Day 6

Another fun day at the pool. ECV wore some cool googles and daddy photobombed our girl picture! Pretty funny stuff.

We finished the night with Barefoot Landing and dancing at Smoking Hot BBQ. ECV wanted to dance twice and Mommy had to go up with her. It's amazing to see the differences in these girls.

What?!

Oh my-this is what we have subjected the girls to nightly. Cruising Ocean Lakes.