January 31 - Push Down and Twist

Thursday morning marked day 3 of Julia's fever. I decided to take to the doctor and it turns out she has strep. She was back to her normal energetic self about 12h after the first dose of antibiotics and she was happy to be back at school today with her friends. Someone who is not happy he's not sick....

"Luke, what are you doing?" - mommy

"I'm looking for medicine." - Luke

"You don't need medicine. You aren't sick." - mommy

"Well...(he pauses and looks around)...I have a cough (he forces himself to couch). - Luke

"Hmm, that doesn't sound too good. I know just the thing to make that better." - mommy

I turn around to get some juice out of the fridge, then see the little rascal trying to pour children's Advil into a measuring cup...

"Oh my goodness. What are you doing? How did you get the lid off that? Get down right now." - mommy

"This? I just pushed the lid down and twisted and it came off." - my too handy for his own good 3 year old

"Here, drink this." - I hand him 1 tablespoon of orange juice

"You want me to drink this? This is just juice. This isn't medicine." - handy man Luke

"You can have this or you can have nothing." - mommy

"Well, I don't want it!" - now grumpy Luke

10min later....

"Where is that juice medicine? I want to drink it now."

Love these kids!

January 29 - Cold Day

Do you feel the chill in the air? It's 30 degrees in Houston with the "potential" for snow and freezing rain. All schools (and NASA!) were closed yesterday "in preparation." Nothing happened other than a little rain for 30min or so and school is delayed today for another 2 hours just in case. I'm sitting in my office and other than being chilly, it's a beautiful day. 

Watching Curious George

She insisted in helping me with the dishes the other night

Napping for the first time in years (she has a cold)

January 21 - Busted!

Luke is quite the chatterbox these days. His favorite questions are "How does that work?" and "How do you build that?" He also loves to use catch phrases that he doesn't really understand when to use. The popular ones this week are 'Busted!', 'You started it!' and 'Well, daddy (or mommy) said I could do it' (whenever we tell him no or not to do something). We were sitting down at dinner the other night and JD asked him if he wanted a napkin. Luke stood up in his chair pointed to him and yelled 'BUSTED!' Last week it was 'Do you want some more milk little buddy' and he responds 'You started it!' It is absolutely hilarious. 

Funny Julia story from the other day:

"Hey, when is Ella getting here" - Julia
"Who?" - Mommy
"You know, our babysitter, Cinderella? She goes be Ella?"
"Hmm...not sure. Who is she watching?" - Mommy
"Duh, Aurora. She's only 2 and cannot be left alone." - Julia
"Aurora, okay. I forgot about her. Is she watching you too?" - Mommy
"Me? Mom, I'm 18 and I don't need a sitter anymore. Ella, she's 16 so she's the perfect age." - Julia

Too funny! I love these two!

Valentine Project Julia and I worked on for the mantel 

Rock Star Girls (they named themselves this)

January 14 - Back On Schedule

Happy January everyone! Sorry for the delay in posts. Work has been crazy, crazy, crazy. After celebrating the new year (we celebrated the ball dropping at 9pm at a neighbors house), we spent the rest of our vacation playing with the kids and their new toys. It was fun and relaxing. The weather has been absolutely gorgeous (70 during the day, cool at night, very springlike). 

Now that vacation is over, we are back on our (mostly) normal schedule. Julia is back at kindergarten, Luke started preschool (he has to wear a uniform now, so adorable) while Amelia spends her days napping. I spent last week in Florida for work (and I'll be in Scottsdale next week) and JD's schedule isn't too crazy yet.  Enjoy these pics from Christmas and the last week. 

Luke loves this truck from Grandpa

Rock Star!

Headbandz (we have played this game for HOURS, huge hit!)

Pogo Stick (it's harder than she thought)

Birthday party for Julia's friend Angie

Greg, Jay and Bryan-remember these mugs? These are now our designated 'hot chocolate' mugs for the kids

Julia's new bag from Victoria and Andrew....I love it!

Cupcake time!