Waiting for spring!

We are ready for spring in this house. Winter has not been fun for us. It seems every week at least one of us is sick. We've all had the stomach bug, a cough and various other fun things. We did have one more snow storm about 2 weeks ago. We didn't get to enjoy it though. Emily had a pretty bad cough that turned out to be bronchitis. I had my 6 week check up (I'm down 20-25 pounds since having Kaitlyn!!) On our way home from the check up, we were in a car accident. We are all ok. John and I were a little sore. Our van was drivable, but we got it into the shop the next day. As of today, our van is still in the shop but should be done soon.

Yesterday was Kaitlyn's 2 month check up. We ended up having to take Emily in also. She woke up in the middle of the night with a bad cough and a temp of 103.9. We saw one of the nurse practitioners. She checked Emily out first. While she was checking Emily's ears, James starting pointing at his ears so she looked in his ears. He has an ear infection. So we ended up having all 3 kids checked out! Emily has croup and a sinus infection. James lost one of his tubes (placed in Aug. 2007) and has an infection in both ears. Kaitlyn is "perfect", she has some congestion but nothing serious. She now weighs 9 lbs 8 oz, and is 22 inches long. She had 4 shots, and 1 vaccine that she had to drink.

James' speech therapy continues to go well. Our teacher thinks that next year he needs to see a therapist in one of the schools, rather than a teacher in our home. He has the vocabulary but he needs work on refining his words and sounds. He talks all the time now! Most of the time we know what he is saying....but not always! He is working on potty training....so any advice would be welcomed. Some days he goes all the time and wants to be in big boy underwear, other days he refuses to go and to put on the underwear.

Emily will start cheerleading this weekend. She is very excited and can't wait to use the pom poms! She is still loving school. She is starting to tell time (on a digital clock), she knows her coins, and is getting all of the words right on the spelling test each week.

John finished his 6th class of 12 last week for his Master's degree. He'll start a new class next week. While he is enjoying the program, he's ready for it to be over!

I'm still holding down the fort. Some days it's easy, but other days not so much.