Rough Week

We have had a rough week. I had class last Friday and all day on Saturday. Then Sunday had to go to work for a dinner event. As I left, Jeremy also left with the babies to go to church. We only got a couple miles from the house when Major lost it all! Jeremy went back home since Major would have had to be around several other kids in the nursery.
By Monday morning he was even worse. I made the call for them both to stay at home and called the doctor promptly at 8:30 when they opened. The soonest appt. was at 4:00 that afternoon. Jeremy swapped places with me at lunch and I went to work, and class Monday evening. The prognosis was flu for Major, bronchitis for Ella Grace.
Jeremy stayed home with them on Tuesday and Nana came down Tuesday afternoon. Thankfully, she has been able to stay with us all week. This evening Major seemed to feel better after a bath (which he has had a lot of this week). He giggled, crawled to be chased and marched like a dinosaur. However, he soon wore himself out.
We're praying they both continue to improve and are back to normal over the weekend. It's definitely been a rough week here!

Bibbit

Major is learning so much now, I can't keep up with him. One morning while on his changing table he kept saying "ah-it" and I had no idea what he was referring to as I looked around the room. Then it dawned on me, "Jacket" he was saying, because it was on the table beside him! Then, Wednesday morning he again was saying something, however this time I thought I had a good idea - I thought it was "dog." Wrong again! My little man was saying "frog," calling his cozy little frog laying on the floor. I picked it up and asked him what a frog says, really not expecting him to know..."bibbet" he said, so clearly! Then he proceeded to give the frog a big hug and held out for me to kiss. He is so sweet!

And She's 3!

Ella Grace and Major calling Roscoe one evening

Just overnight our little Ella Grace has grown-up and changed into a little lady!

Her Bumblebee birthday party was a lot of fun, which we had at Nana & Pop's house. Dress-up clothes and shoes were a common gift, but she LOVES them! She dressed up just the other night in a gown Grandmother & Grandaddy gave her, along with some fairy wings, a purple purse and purple shoes - what a doll!

Here are a few pictures from her party:

Daddy loving on Ella Grace her birthday night with an ice cream cone in hand!

Ella Grace didn't want to have her picture made with me and her cake, so I took one by myself.

Make a wish!

I think her comment here was "Money!"

Loving the scissors and crayons.

Ella Grace and Nana went shopping the Friday before her party. Ella Grace got a backpack as a belated Christmas gift from Nana and Pop.

One of Ella Grace's teachers has been brave enough to keep Ella Grace and Major two evenings for us. She has been really sweet. Thursday night Jeremy & I went to a basketball game and when we got home she had them fed, bathed and in bed! When I picked Ella Grace up from school on Friday Ms. Holly said Ella Grace told her she couldn't take a nap. When Ms. Holly asked why Ella Grace explained that since Mrs. Ashley was out (another teacher) Ella Grace needed to pat David so he could go to sleep. I guess Ella Grace just wanted to step-up and help out in Mrs. Ashley's absence. What a helper!

Almost 3!!!

The Bumblebee Party will be here soon! I made Ella Grace a cake for school today. Well, I made the cake last night and let her take it to school today. She was able to share with all of her friends, and from the pictures it looks like they all had a really good time. We will be heading to Nana and Pop's house in the morning and then coming back home Saturday after her party there.

Ella Grace and her cake

Lola and Ella Grace
(Is this something from a Will Ferrell movie?)

Kylie, Lola and Ella Grace

(The only girls in the class)

I'm Thankful for...(belated)

I had this saved as a draft - seems I forgot to finish it around Thanksgiving! Now, flashback a couple of months:

Daddy picked Ella Grace up from school one evening when I had class. Ms. Mallory, her teacher, mentioned she had asked the kids what they were thankful for this year. Ella Grace, being the sweetie that she is, didn't say it was her Daddy or Mommy, not even her little brother. Ella Grace is thankful for her birthday.

So many people have birthdays this time of year, I believe she starts feeling left out. Ella Grace asks several times each week when her birthday is, although she knows it is January 9. After leaving a birthday party last Sunday she told me she wanted to eat her birthday. She wants candy corn and tootsie rolls.

Now, fast forward to January!

So, her birthday is here now. Ella Grace is pumped about her bumblebee birthday party. She told me this evening that she wanted Papa and MawMaw (the family she and Major first stayed with) to come to her party. Coming home from a basketball game Saturday evening she announced that she wanted Grandmother to make her a bumblebee dress to wear to her party...seems Grandmother has made a little girl's wish come true! We are so excited to see our party dress!

Tagged!

My friend Aishlea tagged me in the Scattergories game.

So here's the rules and the people I'm tagging are listed at the bottom!

SCATTERGORIES.. it's harder than it looks! Link to this post, erase my answers, enter yours, and tag 10 people including the one that sent this to you.Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things. Nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial.. You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question. And you can not use the same word twice.

Your name: Lindsey

BOY NAME: Luke

4 LETTER WORD: Lego

GIRL NAME: Laurie

OCCUPATION: Lawyer

A COLOR: Lime-green

SOMETHING YOU WEAR: Um, linen

BEVERAGE: Lemonade

FOOD: Linguini

SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: Lotion

A PLACE : LA

REASON FOR BEING LATE: Lost

SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: Later!

So...I really don't know anyone that blogs, so I guess I'm ending this chain! Sorry, Aishlea!

Pirates??

Pop and Nana took me and the kids on a little adventure today. We went to find a pirate! The adventure began at our house. We left in the van and stopped by Burger King for a drive-thru breakfast and were quickly back on the road. When we arrived at the destination the Pirate's "store" was closed. So, we moved on to a visitor's center right down the road where we got to tour this house built in 1985 to resemble something much older.

There were some animal exhibits inside, which the kids really liked.

When we finished up there, we went back to see if the pirate had arrived...he had - well, he was kinda there the whole time. Ha! Ha!