4 and counting

serious loot. serious pirate. seriously toothless.

house of plague

eric has dubbed our home "the house of plague." during his short check in calls from work he, with concern, has asked how everyone at the house of plague is doing. nice. he is the only one who has come out of this unscathed... as of today. in my state of sickness induced coma like state i came up with a small poem. it almost brought a smile to my lips, that is if i had enough energy to smile.
i used to run
to clear my head
which is impossible now
as i lay in bed
wishing i wasn't feeling quite so dead.
hope your house has been missed by the plague. and if it has, get well soon! (and then let me know how you did it!)

personality overload

looking innocent after downing a chocolate heart


entertaining herself in a box

her favorite food, whipped cream

oral fixation? binki and lolly

when she concentrates, her tounge does too

her soft and her heart blankie too

when heavenly father was sprinkling personality and charm on georgia and her friends in heaven, i do believe an extra shake was given to my georgia. have you met the girl?

valentines recap

i love orange, did you know that? i do. it's become one of my favorite colors. it's happy, warm, energetic and jovial. what a word, jovial. doesn't it make you smile just saying it!? anyway, dear husband knows this about me and the day before valentine's a box of orange tulips surprised me on my front doorstep. thankyou for making my week orangalitious!

recycle day or end up in my yard day?

i don't know why, but it is a proven scientific fact that recycling day is the most windy day of the week. it has also been proven that the contents of every bin left out on the street will and do end up in my front yard. nice.

teeth

if you've ever walked into a crowd of six year olds, you probably have noticed odd behaviors. fingers in mouths, dreamy expressions, the tounge working in strange places in their mouths. it's not a new finagled thing, either. apparently this phenomenon has been around since the invention of the tooth! i have never seen my son with his fingers in his mouth more than i have witnessed in the last few months. i am so happy to have forced the flu vaccine on him, i'm sure it has saved us from many doctors office visits! since he has turned six, he has lost three teeth, with a fourth soon to follow. he is so excited to have his teeth falling out, but not for the reason you think, mostly for the loot the tooth fairy leaves behind. and i use the word "loot" because that is exactly what it is! seriously, where was this tooth fairy when i was six? i was lucky to get a silver dollar and one time i remember getting a two dollar bill. so how the heck has the price of a tooth gone up so much? well, enter in the loot giving tooth fairy who comes to our house with five dollars in gold coins to leave to a sleeping, toothless boy. seriously, what happens when a molar falls out? oh, another reason for calling it "loot" is for the pure and simple reason we have a resident pirate at our house. she is small and very cute with sticky fingers for anything shiny. andrew now knows not to leave the vast amount of gold coins laying anywhere within our pirate's reach. happy tooth wiggling!

florida

january came and left and so did we. our flight was scheduled for 6am so we donned our bonnets and found ourselves (yes all 4 of us) en route to the airport and quarter after 4. honestly. what were we thinking? we were thinking eric's sister could use some entertainment, distraction and a full house after her scary gallbladder surgery. so there we were, in alligator ally, driving in our rented H3 (inspired by my huge suitcase and episodes of csi miami) to relieve and entertain the troops in southern florida. needless to say it was a fabulous time, full of seafood, sand, sleepless nights and about a million pictures. did i happen to mention eric's gift to me for christmas was a fancy new camera? although it took about a week to get back on schedule and to catch up on laundry we would do it again in a heart beat. well, except for the whole 6am departure. oh, and as a very exciting bonus we were able to see and spend time with my cute niece lindsey and her husband and her very pregnant belly!