Night 9

Pluto must have had the same kind of day the rest of us had.

Night 8

I think Pluto is taking advantage of the toys. He seems to have a booming business though-making money and he's in high demand.

SKV celebrates 80 bear paws tomorrow with hat day-she told us NO HAT. Maybe Pluto can change her mind.

Night 7

Pluto's annual TP of the tree...

Night 6

Close call tonight! Pluto was not in his take off place, the bar, like usual. After searching high and low we had to go into SKVs room on a mission and failed horribly, waking both girls up. After we explained that Pluto might not be able to fly away and Santa might change the touching Pluto policy-everyone started searching. Kevin found him in SKVs closet and ECV fessed up by saying, "Oh I hide him." Then she went through the motions of what she did. Entertaining to say the least!

Night Five

Someone seems bummed he wasn't invited to see Frozen with the grandparents tonight. His response is gathering his royal friends for a midnight showing.

Night 4

Someone wants to go to school with SKV.

Night 3

He's opened up his own restaurant!

Night 2

Pluto missed the girls tonight. So he slept in their bed.

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...