Hugs and Kisses From the Boys

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Yucky Germs

On Friday Nathan came down with croup. It was so sudden and scary! Over the weekend, he was kind of quiet (which doesn't happen) and very clingy (which doesn't happen). On Sunday he was still running a fever, so he is home today. You know he doesn't feel good when he is laying on the floor watching TV. Normally he would be running laps and climbing furniture. Poor litle guy.

Painting Project

In June, it will be 9 years we have been in our home. It's crazy how fast time has gone. It's more crazy how much the paint has faded on the outside of the house! When the house was being built we were able to choose the colors and little did I realize that picking a white house meant prime real estate for love bugs! Now that the light blue trim is nearly all bleached out, it's time to paint! The back of our house looks like a colorful canvas since picking paint colors is not something I am good at. Now all we need is a healthy weekend of kids, good weather, and some umph to get it all done. Here's what we chose. The Slate Green (looks grey to me) will be the house color and the Parchment White will be the trim color.

Crazy Hair Day

It is school spirit days each Friday at school and once a month there is a special theme for the kids to dress up. This time it was "Crazy Hair Day". I let Thomas wear a mohawk to school. He loved it!!! I'm glad I remembered that I had my camera to take a quick picture in my classroom before the bell rang. (P.S. Those were the 100th Day glasses his teacher gave him, but they were so much fun to wear he even wore them on the 101st day!) ha!

Feeding Monkey

I am constantly amazed when I watch Nathan pretend play. His favorite toy is Monkey. Wherever Nathan is, Monkey is not far behind. He's one of those toys I should have bought two of, just in case we lose him. At dinner, Nathan gestured that he wanted Monkey. I gave him Monkey and he must have been hungry. Nathan had fun "feeding" him while he said, "Mmmmm!". When Monkey was "full" Nathan gave him a big kiss. It was so sweet! I'm glad I got it on video, too.

"Cheese"

I used to be able to capture such adorable pictures of Nathan smiling. Now he smiles big, but with his eyes closed on purpose! Here he is all bundled up going to "school".  



Getting Ready for the 100th Day

On Thursday, January 27th it will be the 100th Day of school. Thomas' weekend project is to collect 100 items and place them in his special baggie. Thomas knew right away what he was going to bring to school. He has been "collecting" acorns since September and we have accumulated buckets and buckets of acorns. They are in his backpack. They are in the car. They are everywhere!!! We drew 10 circles with sidewalk chalk in the garage and he placed 10 acorns in each circle and counted his collections by 10's. The 100th day is very exciting! (Plus, it means only 80 more days until summer vacation!)