Our first stiches

Thursday I was taking the kids to school and as I was dropping off Hudson in the baby room I always shut the door so no babies escape! Hudson apparently had his little fingers in the hinge part of the door and I shut the door. Hard. Poor Buddy! ***Don't read further if you can't handle blood!*** Hud's little fingers nails were both out the nail beds and there was blood everywhere! I picked him up and took and took him straight to the car and called our pediatrician's office on the way. We went straight in and our wonderful nurses and pediatrician came right in! We lost one nail when cleaning off his fingers and the other wasn't looking so hot. Dr. N pushed both nails back into the nail beds and sutured them on! After a little bit of TLC, brownies, and motrin Hudson was fine. They look terrible but it looks the nails have taken. His sister pulled off his bandages and he is using his fingers like nothing happened!

Once Upon a Time Princess Tea

The Junior League's Spring Fling was this weekend and once ag ain, I got to take my little princess to the Princess Tea! This is the third year for us to attend and it gets bigger and better every year!

Sick again!

Last week Hannah had a little accident. I am not sure exactly what happened because I wasn't here but it had something to do with running into her room? It has all cleared up now and her nose is looking a lot better!

I kept Hudson home Tuesday, he was much better but I did not want to expose anyone at school to that bug. I picked up Hannah a little early and when I walked in she was laying on her desk and very pale. Her teacher said she had been fine all day and all of sudden while playing outside she crumbled! She said her throat her and almost threw up. She was crying for Mommy and Daddy. She fell asleep instantly in the car and the second we walked in the door threw up (in the trashcan, thank you!). I put her down for a nap and she woke up feeling fine. I was at Junior League Tuesday night but Stuart said she was whiny and didn't feel good. I let her sleep in a little on Wednesday instead of going to school. She felt warm and I took her temperature. It was like 99.8 so I we went to get haircuts. She said she felt fine. When we got home she had a 102 fever so I took her with me to work and swabbed her for strep, sure enough it was positive. One Bicillin injection and an oral antibiotic prescription later, she is on her way to recovery. The rule is, 24 hours free of fever and 24 hours after injection and she isn't supposed to be contagious anymore. She stayed home with me today and we had a fun Mommy/Hannie day.

Hudson came to the doctor too because he had a weird little rash and his ear hasn't cleared up (they just got off antibiotics for ear infections on Friday!). Because of the weird rash he got a CBC (blood draw) and swabbed for strep too. His strep was negative and his blood work was fine. He is now on the same antibiotic that sister is.

Saturday Hudson started with that viscous tummy bug!

Daddy has it now!

I am ready for winter to be over with!!! We went from 8 degrees to nearly 90 degrees in days! This warm weather is getting me excited! Hannah has loved jumping on the trampoline and swinging in shorts and t-shirts like its May!

Haircuts

Hudson needed a haircut and Hannie wanted a haircut so they both got them yesterday!

Give Huddy a sucker and turn on Dora, he is a happy camper!
Sister loves getting her haircut (I think this is both of their 3rd haircut)

Handsome brother with a haircut!

Happy Valentines Day!

Happy 30th Birthday!

This cake is amazing!

Henley sits at the big girl table!

Earlier in the month I turned 30! It was a big birthday and we celebrated all week! Monday night Stuart took the kids and sent me for an hour and a half massage! Tuesday, my actually birthday I had lunch with my bestie. I was overwhelmed by the amount of texts, Facebook messages, and calls I got! Boy does having a Facebook account make you feel special on your big day! I had two Junior League that night and my sweet committee surprised me with a cookie cake and sang Happy Birthday! Wednesday night we celebrated with a couple of families at Pasta Night at the Country Club and Thursday I celebrated again with my girlfriends for lunch! Friday, after consuming my weight in Fat Jack's iced sugar cookies, cupcakes, cookie cake, and cake...I started a diet! I am 30 ya know!

Visitor Day at Dance and more jibber jabber

We were invited to come watch Hannah's dance class on Monday. This was the first time I had seen her as it is closed off to parents. I choose this because if I were present, Hannah would not participate. It works out well. Thank goodness this was not another "MDO open house" experience. I feared it would be so didn't invite the grandparents or anyone else. Although there was not hysterical crying, she didn't exactly participate. She wondered around with her hand in her mouth, acted like she had never been there or done this before, and was the only child who wasn't eager to impress their parents. Now, Hannah is the youngest in her class and she is almost on the end of the line in their recital dance. After observing, I see why. Her teachers assured me that she knows the dances and participates when we are not there. She loves dance but I am not sure exactly how talented she is. I was never in kid in the middle either. Always on the end or in the back! hehehe! However, she is the cutest kid in class with the biggest bow!

They do tap, ballet, the bar, and then tumbling. This is where my girl shines! She did front rolls all over the mat! And did them over and over and over. Even when everyone was finished and Ms. Dani was talking to parents. We were only slightly distracting until Hudson got out there to the mat too. We are going to stick with dance though. Hannah really enjoys it and I am really hoping she "performs" at the recital so I can see her dance. I think I will put both of them in gymnastics this summer.

Tuesday morning was MDO Registration. I am only bringing this up because I have alluded to it every year on my blog. Year one, Hannah was 6 weeks old and I was camped out at church at 5:30am. The last two years, even registering as "in house" I was there by 6:00am. This year I am on the Early Childhood Ministry Committee. I was able to get there at 9:00, put my registration in the basket and then collect all those others packets from those Mommies who had been there since 6. This board and my position on this board is a big job and I have leave work early one a month for meetings but boy was it nice to sleep in, not fret, not worry about the weather, and know my babies are registered for next year.

SNOW SNOW SNOW! It has been FREEZING and snowing, and icy, and freezing since Tuesday. Monday was in the 70's, we went into dance and came out to 40 degree temperature drop. By Tuesday temperatures were down to 16 degrees and have stayed below that the rest of the week. We had power outages, school cancellations, meeting cancellations, and cabin fever!!! I cannot remember a time in my life that is has been this cold for this long in Midland. Sure, it snows every year but this is brutal cold snow! Today I had to get out and noticed there are no snowmen out! It is just too cold for kids to go out there and play in it.

Of course my kids haven't been out there. But, they do both have ear infections! Hannah's is bad and hers hasn't cleared up since last time. Hud's other ear is now infected. Both kids are now on another different antibiotic. Ughhh!