This Week ...

As I mentioned in my last post, trying to stay updated on posts seems about impossible right now!

This week ...

... was just as chaotic as any other. :)

... Justin was out of town on Wednesday/Thursday. His mom stayed with me to help with the kids. Bless her heart, she slept on the floor in the girls' room so that I could get a few hours of sleep. Wouldn't you know it - Jaxon was up through the night though. I did get about 3 hours of consecutive sleep though.

... we took Jaxon to the doctor today. He is battling his first "daycare cold" and we get so nervous knowing that we are heading into RSV season. Today was his 9th day of daycare, and on Jordyn's 9th day of daycare and Jayla's 9th month of daycare, they had RSV. Jaxon was not tested for RSV, but he does have a double ear infection. I'm not surprised he has an ear infection - our girls had them constantly. Thank goodness for tubes! We'll see how Jaxon responds to an antibiotic first. Jaxon has been happy, but not eating as well as he usually does, so we felt it would be best to have him checked before the weekend. Good thing we did - especially because he is getting baptized on Sunday morning! We are so hoping and praying that this ear infection isn't the start of RSV.

... it actually snowed in SD! Not much, just enough to cause icky roads for a day. It's supposed to be 30-40 degrees this weekend. What a wacky winter for us! We started the week going without coats because it was warm, and by Thursday we were in the negative wind chills.

... Jayla has been a talking machine. She's been talking quite a bit for a while now, but she took off full-speed ahead with her words this week. She repeats everything we say. My favorite is counting to ten in Spanish - she repeats each one perfectly.

... Jordyn has decided that the show The Middle is her new favorite show. Have you watched it? I can't stop laughing when I watch it. It may not always be appropriate for a three year old, but sometimes we just need some "adultness" in our house. However, why is it that the one or two lines from a show/movie that you wouldn't want your child to repeat are the ones they always pick? Right now, Jordyn keeps repeating a line from The Middle from two weeks ago ... "You can't throw that book at me. I'm in detox." Oh dear, I'm just waiting for her to go to school and tell someone that her parents in detox or something like that. I crack up everytime she repeats the line.

... the kids have loved resting in their sleeping bags that they got for Christmas!

... I realized that I have a Christmas post to do yet (that we celebrated on New Year's Day). Oops! I forgot about it until I uploaded the pictures a few minutes ago!

... our house looks like it was hit by a tornado, and even though I have done about 8 loads of laundry since Monday, there is still a heaping pile in the laundry room to wash/dry, and a large pile in my bedroom to fold and put away (and it's not like they'll be wrinkled or anything - they've only been there since Monday).

I am working on uploading a bunch of pictures from the week. I am hoping to be caught up on the blog soon. Stay tuned. :)