A Sick, Snowy, Sunday

Last night Hunter slept in my bed and Gookie slept in her port a crib in my room and we had the humidifier going full blast! Poor Brad was banished to Hunter's bed. Yes, the kiddos and I have colds. The miserable part seems to be 2 days and I am on day 2. Hunter and Gookie have runny noses and just started last night horrible coughs. I also twisted my back yesterday by getting out of the back seat of the truck! Pretty lame! So the kiddos and I will stay home from church and luckily Brad is able to go and teach the lesson.

Right now Gookie is napping and Hunter is watching Peter Pan. Bethany and Beth rented it yesterday for him. A little bit ago he came to me so sad and he said "Mom, I cant fly. I dont have any sparklies (pixy dust)!! And he threw himself on my lap and laid there for a while.

Big snowflakes are falling as i type this. And I am loving it (because I dont have to drive in it)

Hunter's Tail

I used an old monkey costume and changed it up to be a bear this Halloween. I cut off the long tail and put on a short fluffy one. Since then, Hunter plays with the monkey tail everyday ALL DAY. I love hearing him and what he imagines up. He will either wear the tail and be a different animal, or the tail itself will be some animal. He is so imaginative, I LOVE IT! So yesterday he was wearing the tail and I took pictures to show you what it looked like. And yes, he wore it this way to "McCicles" (what he calls Arctic Circle). He asked me to take it off for him after it was hindering play time by other kids stepping on it.




Here Hunter is shaking Gookie's hand and saying "nice to meet 'cha!"



Gookie's Crazy eye. How can Brad NOT notice? Definitely taking picture to the doctor on Thursday. BIG difference.

Kiddos

Playing computer game with Beth

We have had it really easy with our kiddos in every way, but especially health. But with Gookie I feel so bad for her, it's like one thing after the other. First, it's her crooked legs. She has had ugly corrective shoes which straightened out her feet, now we have seen a orthopedist for her legs and will see him again in 6 months. She has an appointment with a neurologist to make sure she isnt having seisures. I have noticed certain things that correlate with eachother and could possibly be seizures, hoping i am totally wrong on this one. And her eye is drifting. Brad never notices it and i know its there and it has been frustrating to me to not have anyone else see it. Yesterday I asked bethany, "have you noticed this eye..." And she finished the sentence for me. So that felt good to know i'm not the only one seeing it, and yet i feel so sad too. Poor Gookie, crooked legs, crazy eye and possible seizures. So she has an appointment next thursday.

I know I still have no room to complain about my child's health, and how blessed we are.

18 Months Old!!

Brooke is 18 months old and has been able to go to nusery for the past 3 weeks! She does great!
She had her well baby check up on friday. She started a fever Thursday night. She has an ear infection and her tonsils were red and inflamed the Doc said. SO she is on anti biotics. She has been miserable. Last night she has a fever and would wake up from laying on her infected ear. She got a blessing last night and her fever broke about an hour later. The real miracle, for the first time in A WEEK she slept in! She slept soundly from 3;30 AM to 10 AM!! Which means I got that much sleep too! Plus she and I got GREAT naps today thanks to Bethany. She took Hunter with her to run some errands and to the park. Gookie has now had 2 full days of anti-biotics and we are on the up and up. She still isnt her perky self, but she will be soon!

Here are her stats:
21.8 Pounds 14 Percentile
31.5 Inches 44 Percentile


Words she is saying (that i can think of off the top of my head)

Hi
Mine
Me
Dadda
Ally
uh oh
no
hat
baby
ball
up
yup
nope
Mimi (grammie)
Papa
Shoe
Sock

and signs More and Please

We sure do love her!! She is such a sassafrass and so funny!

Trick or Treat!

Halloween this year has been fun because the kiddos are older and Hunter is really into it. We went to a fall festival with trick or treating on Tuesday in Driggs with my parents. Then last night was the annual family Halloween Party and that was fun. Hunter was a lion, gookie was a tiger, i was a bear and Brad wore a shirt that said "Oh my"...."Lions, tigers and bears OH MY!" We thought it was pretty clever.

This evening we went trick or treating. Unfortunately Bradley had to work. So i am glad he was able to go last night to the party with us. We live in a town where there is Brigham Young University- Idaho. A church school, thus living in a predominantly Mormon community and so the trick or treating was done tonight instead of tomorrow. Bethany, her boyfriend Joe, and Beth were all able to come and we had a blast! Hunter kept asking "Another house Joe?" Bethany and Joe were "Sunny and Cher" and Beth was Edna from the Incredibles! And I made sure not to be in any pictures =P.
We lasted for an hour, Gookie wasnt too happy thanks to her ear infection and Cher's knee high boots with high heels were killing her!

The kiddos and I came home and Hunter went straight to sleep! Happy Halloween!

SNOW!

Today we went to my parent's house and it was like a different world! We dont have any snow here by my parents have a total of 7 inches with more expected to come! It sure was pretty and Hunter was very excited to help Grammie and Papa shovel the snow.