My walking and getting into everything one year old

Well we finally celebrated Lindsay's birthday with the family. She did not dig into her cake. She had a few bites but was mostly annoyed that the icing would not come off her fingers. She kept trying to get it off and even tried to rub off the icing onto Julianne's shirt. So that was probably the funniest part and her reaction to the icing clumps on her fingers. That may be a little foreshadowing into her personality. Nathan is really particular about stuff on him but I can't really remember his cake eating experience. I guess I should go back to my blog and see how he reacted. She liked her gifts but like most one year old's did not really understand the older kids experience and was done with the first package.

She is checking out everyone and wondering why they are all staring at her and singing.



I can't get this icing off.


Here are some other pictures of Lindsay and her Santa doll that she loves but weighs too much for her right now. And her adventures outside since she is now mostly walking.





Julianne had a wax museum show at her school for all the 4th graders. She was Toni Morrison and she did an excellent job. So all the parents came to the wax museum and when you put money into their cups the kids came alive as their characters. We had a great time and the kids were very informative.



Mallory also had her class production. They had an open house in their rooms showing all the work they have worked on and it was followed by a singing production. She had a great time and it was great to see her with all her classmates.


Love her face in this one.

Well this past few weeks everyone, except for the adults, have been sick. It started with Julianne getting strep on a Sunday. D took her to the local clinic. She got medicine. Mallory and Nathan took a bath that night (the point for this comes later). Tuesday Mallory came home from school not feeling well so I took her into the doctor. Sure enough she also had strep. Nathan had a skinned knee that was looking a little funky. So during this week I was keeping my eye on it and putting medicine on it. On Thursday morning it was not looking any better and was actually spreading and looking pretty gross. So I took him in and he has impetigo which is a skin infection caused by the strep or staph bug. With four kids I thought I have seen it all but this was one that I was not aware of. So we got oral and topical antibiotics for that. So at one time I had 9 bottles of amoxicillin in my fridge. It gets better. Monday I took Lindsay in for her 1 year appointment and I thought that she may have an ear infection and she did. So she was also put on antibiotics. So everyone at my house is taking the pink stuff. I just took Julianne to the clinic this past Sunday and her strep is back so now she is on penicillin. So hopefully that takes care of all this strep. Julianne always gets strep so hopefully this will take care of it. Nathans leg is so much better and is really healed. Hopefully Lindsay's ear infection clears up because we are leaving for spring break soon and I don't really want to spend my time in a clinic there.


More pictures of the one year old.






Things I am grateful/thankful for:
-antibiotics-I would have a lot of misserable kids right now
-nice winter weather (70's this week)
-My comfy bed and quiet time to myself.