Sickness and such . . .

The kids are sick . . . AGAIN. Z and S have both been running pretty high temperatures. This morning S woke up with a temperature of 105.4 . We didn't panic . . . much. We went through this with K not long ago, so Dan ran a cool bath, I grabbed the medicine and we had it down in no time. A few hours later Z was complaining that his chest hurt. So, we're currently in another round of sickness for this winter. Sad thing is, we're missing some great spring weather! We aren't the only ones who have struggled this winter. One family we know started taking Modifilan Pure Brown Seaweed extract believing that a lot of the sickness comes from all the mold in our homes here and that this would help. Anyone heard of it or know anything about it? The following picture was right after the cool bath, trying to get S's temperature down. She's still posing for the camera. What a mess!

So, after being stuck at home for 3 days, when Dan once again started talking about shaving his head, I said, "Okay!" Pretty handsome if I do say so myself!

Dan went and had his knees looked at finally. Apparently 25% of the knee is missing the cartlidge that is supposed to be covering it. Ouch. No wonder he hurts when he walks too much.

Growing up . . .

A couple of weeks ago, Zeke asked if he could go to the bakery and buy some bread for his breakfast all by himself. As Zeke gets older we have seen some different parenting instincts between us. Whereas Tami is more likely to think, sure, go for it, Dan is a little more reserved. So, Dan walked Zeke to the bakery, taught Zeke what to say, and Zeke bought us bread.

Yesterday, Zeke again asked if he could go get us some bread for breakfast. This time Tami went with him. She stood across the street and let him go the rest of the way by himself. When he got to the bakery, he didn't weigh enough to open the automatic door! The baker came and helped him with the door and greeted him excitedly. A few minutes later, a proud little boy exited the bakery with two different types of bread, exactly what we had all asked for!

Later in the morning, we decided to let the kids play out in our enclosed garden on

their own. They are both pretty careful around cars, so again, Tami was going to let them walk themselves through the parking garage to the garden. But, Dan decided he would walk them out there and teach Zeke to use his cell phone to call us when they were ready to come in. About 10 minutes after they got out there we hear Zeke yelling at the cell phone. He couldn't get it to work. So, Dan called him and Zeke informed us there were stinging bees out there. About 5 minutes later, Zeke again couldn't get the phone to work and started yelling. Dan called him back and he said that Kaiyah needed help to get on the swing. Haha! So, the phone thing didn't pan out so well, but it was nice to get them outside a little even when we didn't have the time to take them!

Sierra has earrings!

Today, after I picked Zeke up from school we went to the park to play. When Dan got home, he decided to walk down and meet us. On the way home the kids were asking for ice cream. So, we decided to stop and get Sierra's ears pierced so we would have a reason to celebrate. She wasn't a fan of the experience, but as soon as it was over, she was good! What a cutie!