Musings

Oh my the sickness must end. Kara got sick Sunday night... ran a fever for 3 days and then has been just irritable since. She cries and cries and cries and clings to me every time I move. I finally had reached my limit and took all three girls into the doctors office. I hate... hate going into the office when I have all three girls. It is literally impossible...

Perhaps I should complain that not one... not one of the drawers in the exam room has child safety locks. Not ONE. Which means when I get into the room the girls go from drawer to drawer to drawer... to computer... to drawer... to exam table. The entire visit I do nothing but chase down kids. Abby's licking the mirror, Kiley's pulling out the cord plugged in the outlet, Kara is climbing the one chair in the room, Abby is ripping the exam paper off of the table, Kiley is now hitting Kara with book.... Good grief I'm exhausted writing about it. This is the 2nd visit like this I've had... I dread going back. The doctor's and staff are wonderful but it is so HARD!

We attempted to go outside today but well the weather is just a bit much for babies with runny noses and crying complexes. Abby has done awesome and gone outside twice on her own with Feebee. Today she even brought her princess dolls with and played in the snow. She likes to stomp around in it and wishes we had more.

I let Abby stay up with me a little later tonight after K&K had gone to bed just because I was lonely. Tom was out with two old college buddies and the house was too quiet. We read books and watched Ooomi Zoomi... one of her new favorite shows. At least it teaches shapes. She now knows an oval and crescent....

It's always hard putting her to bed. She's better than before but still not as good at it as she had been. I've been doing pretty good with the Prevacid and it seems like giving her TUMS when she wakes up in the middle of the night seems to help her go back to bed easier. I just hope she continues to improve. She has been a little more off lately but I think that is understandable considering I'VE probably been off myself with all of the crying and screaming Kara has done... and the fact that Abby probably doesn't feel 100% herself.

Kiley & Kara are walking around like pros now and their new thing is giving things to me. Legos especially. I have a nice stack of them now. They sure like to get into everything too! On our way to Thanksgiving Kiley was saying her favorite word: "Nonononono" and Kara was saying "Yeahhhhhh" ... kinda funny. :o) The girls are starting to play with eachother more and more... I think that is my favorite thing. When they all play together.

OOO! New and strange thing.... Kara's birthmark is fading! Something I was suspicious of before... I think it is affected by the amount of sun she gets. The more she gets the darker it is... now that we arent out as much it starts to fade. I will be curious to see if it REALLY fades...

Dancing with my girls

Yesterday afternoon I turned on Christmas music and danced with my three beautiful girls. Abby spinning around laughing and Kiley and Kara holding onto me tight the smiles lit up on their faces... it was absolutely perfect and I never want to forget the feeling I had dancing with them... it still brings tears to my eyes.

My life is so blessed.

So...

What have we been up to? A busy Thanksgiving weekend that is what. We had two seperate such occasions. . Both had wonderful food and the girls enjoyed it very much. In fact we still have leftovers from the first celebration. I think I'm getting a little tired of digging mashed potatoes out of the girls ears, hair and noses... Abby is generally pretty clean it's the other two i worry about.

The second Thanksgiving was a little over 3 hours away and it was a lot of traveling. Abs rode in my parent's car because we just don't have a lot of room for three large carseats in the back of Tom's vehicle. (miss the van) It went pretty well. The girls even watched a movie or two there at the end... (anything to stop the screaming) But no they were actually really good all things considering. (Kiley is sleeping below, Kara was playing)

Sometimes it amazes me we can get three kids at all in this back seat... not much wiggle room that is for sure!

(Kiley loving her bottle)

(Abby playing with one of the toys Kiley & Kara got for their birthdays from one of my awesome aunts)

We have also been spending a LOT of time at home. With the weather chillier and the vehicle situation more complicated we just don't get out as much as I wish we could. Tomorrow is supposed to be nasty so I doubt we will be going many places then either. Thankfully no school for me! I may have to get more milk since the girls drank this last gallon so quickly. Hard to believe they go through a gallon of milk every other day! Abby never did that!

But as I was saying, we have to get a little creative some days to keep them entertained. Abby's room is a fun place to play occasionally but ends up being a mess when we are done!

                                                 (Kara is on the left, Kiley is on the right- they were playing in the chair)

Playing in Abby's room... she was really having a good time....