Our Easter Present

We had an eventful week. Gabe was sick with a 102 fever on Tuesday and threw up all over me and himself. Luckily, the throwing up only lasted that day. His fever is gone but he is coughing a lot since then. Come to find out a ton of others that were at our Easter family gathering have also been sick. Eric's mom's voice is pretty much gone. I'm so paranoid that Amelia will get sick that I take her temp. about five times a day. So far so good but we'll see. So, with a sick and whiny toddler who just wants mama it's been pretty crazy. We are surviving though. We've also had snow all week. Isn't that crazy! It's almost April for crying out loud! It's not like we are in North Dakota. I'm ready for sunshine and spring and pretty flowers.
I have absolutely no desire to do any gardening this year though. In fact, I've been wondering if there is a way to make our tiny little yard less maintenance. I just can't water it all this year. I don't have the time or energy. I also feel a lot of pressure to make it look nice since we live in the middle of camp. We've already had our landscaper ask us if he could clean up the beds some. I told him go right ahead and that I do not have the time. He said he knew I was busy and that's why he wanted to help. I'm still embarrassed though. Eric said he would help me this week on his day off. It just can't be Monday though because that's the opening day of baseball and he has plans to sit in his sweats and eat doritos and watch every game possible. Yay, I now have Dorito breath to look forward to.

Happy Birthday Little Boy

It's strange how I can go weeks with nothing to write about and now after one busy weekend I feel like I have a lot to write about. For the sake of time though I'm just going to write about Gabe's birthday on Saturday. We planned before Amelia was born that Eric's Mom would get the privilege of doing his bday because we figured we would be overwhelmed with a new baby. That was when we thought she was going to be born early March but kept it that way even when she came early. So, we got up Sat. morning and just Gabe and I went to church for their Easter Eggstravaganza. He loved the Easter Egg hunt and was very cute. Then we loaded up the whole family and drove to Eatonville. Two of Gabe's cousins came over for egg dying and the small party. Grandma and Grandpa got him the largest rocking horse I've ever seen. Eric says it's like the ones we had when we were kids but on steroids. It's huge! Gabe needs a chair to get up on it and we had to take the legs off to get it into the back of our rig. He loves it though. He gets going on it and starts yelling, "Faster horsey, faster!" This morning he woke up and kept saying to Eric, "Ridin the horsey?Ridin the horsey?"
He is so cute! He loves all tractors and things with wheels. I love how he says most things like they are questions. He also does this funny thing where whenever he gives us something he says thank you. It started because when he helps me unload the dishwasher I say thank you when he hands me a dish. Then he started saying it when he would hand me a dish and now he just says it when he hands us stuff. One day I told him we were going to WalMart and I needed to remember to get juice and milk. So now when I tell him we are going to WalMart he says, "juice?" nods his head and then says, "milk" very matter of factually. I cannot believe how much you can love one person. I wondered if I could love Amelia as much and remarkably, I do. It's unbelievable. Well, speaking of Mia, it's time to get her to bed now. Oh ya, Gabe's nickname for Amelia has rubbed off on me. It's funny how we decided that we would call her A.J. for short before she was born but we never call her that now. Maybe it will start sticking later on but for now I've been calling her Mia. Love ya all, and we'll post some pics of our eventful weekend soon.

Attempt at Pictures

Well, we took the kids to Sears yesterday to try and get some pics. for Gabe's 2 yr. I'm also going to make announcements for Amelia. We got a couple of good ones of them by themselves, but it was impossible to get a good one of them together. To get them to stay still and look in the right direction or to get Gabe to smile and not wiggle around was so hard. I've heard other parents make this comment but until now I hadn't experienced it. I think the most frustrating thing is that you know you went through so much to get everyone dressed and cleaned up and to the place on time. I'm not going to leave there without buying some pictures so I better get some good ones. I feel like the ones I ended up getting were boring but at least the kids are either smiling or looking in the right direction. Oh well, 20 years from now, all I will care about is that I have the pics. not if they were creative or not.