Dusting

I know I posted a few posts already today, but I just had to share this really quickly.

Have you ever wondered how toddlers dust furniture? Well, I found out today.

Brooke and I were in the kitchen washing dishes. And when we were done, this is what we found in the living room:

They emptied about half of that big container of baby powder. Then they were using baby wipes to wipe it up with.

Needless to say, they both had a bath after that one. I was just grateful that the dog was outside while the kids "dusted" so that I didn't have to give her a bath, too.

Anyway, today has been an interesting day to say the least. Hope all is going well for everyone else!

Mark's fun breakfast!!!

This morning, I sat Mark and Megan at the table to eat. I got Mark the rest of the Strawberry Frosted Mini Spooners. Being the last of the bag, there were a lot of crumbs in there. Jared and I love the crumbs, but apparently Mark doesn't. I left the room for a few minutes and when I came back, this is what I saw.




The pictures don't do the mess justice, but all those spots are globs of milky cereal crumbs!!!




I had to clean cereal off of Megan, all of the cereal bags, and the table. There was even cereal on the dog!! (Zebby always sits in the doorway waiting for her chance to go and find some scraps on the floor.) But the wall was the hardest to clean. There were milk streaks all the way down to the baseboards!!

It's a good thing Mark is so cute. When I saw the mess, I cried "Mark!!" He just looked at me and then went back to eating. I couldn't get mad. I wasn't exactly pleased with the change in my morning plans, but I got things cleaned up. It amazes me how kids seem to know when we "don't have enough to do!" It seems that they are always getting into something! But at least I can laugh at most of the things our kids do. They sure do make life more interesting!!!

Jacob's 8th Birthday!

Jacob turned 8 on 13 Feb. We threw him a birthday party - his first with friends. He had a lot of fun. He invited 12 boys, and 10 of them were able to come. With Joseph and Jacob we had 12 boys running around the house. It was pretty noisy at times, but they had a lot of fun!

Jacob picked Star Wars for his theme. We played a few games that went along with the theme. I think the boys' favorite was the "Clone Wars" where we borrowed the marshmallow shooters from Jared's parents and let the boys "fight" each other. Jared and I even got involved, and it was fun.

Then Jacob was able to open his presents as shown below. Jared taught the boys how to do "Heavy, Heavy Present." I had never heard of it before, but the boys thought it was fun to do. Jacob got hit on the head a few times with some of his gifts!



I had fun making Jacob's cake. I got the idea off the internet. It suggested using fruit roll-ups for the lava, so I did. I wished I would've just made orange and red frosting to use for it. Anyway, it still turned out good. Jacob really liked it, and all of his friends thought it was pretty cool.

It was a fun day! We planned it to last 3 hours, but the boys just breezed though everything. We sent them outside to play, but that didn't last very long. They ended up just watching "The Clone Wars" for the last hour, but everyone still had fun. It was fun to plan and put on for Jacob, but I'm glad we don't do one every year for each kid. That would be too much for me, I think.

Brooke in the hospital

Most of you know this already, but I'd thought I'd post some pictures. Brooke got pretty sick back in January, so we took her to the doctor on the 23rd. He thought her fingers and lips were pretty blue, and her oxygen levels were in the low-mid 80s. The doctor was concerned about her, especially with her cystic fibrosis, so he admitted her into EIRMC. This is what she looked like there.

She stayed at EIRMC over the weekend, but she didn't seem to be improving much. In fact they were having to increase the amount of oxygen she was on in order to keep her levels up. We were also not very pleased with how her respiratory therapy was going. After talking with Dr. Chatfield down at the CF Clinic, we decided to take her down to Primary Children's to do a complete clean-out. It was hard having her so far away, but it was the best thing for her. Jared's mom and sister, Angela, both spend time with her down there. Between them and Jared and I, she was able to have someone with her the whole time. Things just went so well down there, and there was so many fun things for her to do there.

Brooke had a lot of fun at PCMC, but she really was glad to finally come home on 8 Feb. I was worried that she was having so much fun that she would want to stay there or go back. But she is not anxious to go back. She shows everyone the scar from her pic line and tells them how much it hurt. (But at least it was far better than having an IV in like she did at EIRMC.) By the time we brought her home, Brooke's lung function was so much better. In fact her final PFTs (pulmonary function tests) were higher than she had ever got them at clinics before. I'm glad we took her to PCMC and got her cleaned out, but I hope it's a long time before we have to do it again - for her or Jacob!