Sunday, January 27, 2013

January 27, 2013

 Here's Lily and Daddy doing their puzzles on Sunday night.  Although Lily seemed to be over her stomach bug by last Saturday night, we decided to keep both girls home from church last Sunday.  Daddy went to our meetings and then came home so Mommy could go to choir practice.  By Sunday evening it seemed we were all in the clear so we made plans for a family fun day on Monday.
 Jeremy had Monday off so we took the girls out to lunch at Applebees and then took them to a little arcade to play games.  The kids had a great time.  Eating out is a big treat for them since we don't do it very often.
Annie was mostly excited to have french fries and rootbeer.  Lily was happy to order off a menu and play all the kid games on the menu with Daddy's help.

 Lily loved getting all the tickets from the arcade games.  She chose candy bracelets and tootsie rolls as her prizes.  Both girls fell asleep in the car on the way home while trying to eat their bracelets.

 Just when we thought we were all healthy, Annie started throwing up.  It manifested in the same way as Lily's bug so we knew we only had to worry for 24 hours.  Once again, Mommy was cleaning and disinfecting and comforting and caring.  Annie threw up on me twice so I was really afraid of coming down with the bug since I didn't know if it would hurt the baby.  Luckily Daddy and I stayed healthy and we were free of the "tummy yuckies" by Wednesday.
 Annie even felt well enough to venture out in the snow.
 And by Friday we were all our usual selves.  The girls have been living in princess dresses now that they both have a Cinderella dress to wear.  Lily put them in matching headbands too - they call all headbands "crowns".
 Saturday we took it easy in the morning and played some games in between regular weekend chores.
 But it soon became apparent that we all had cabin fever.  So we packed up the kids to have a play date at the mall.  We played on the toys, went to Barnes and Noble, and just walked around to help get some wiggles out.
 The girls didn't want to leave the Lego table or the train table.  I wish we had room in our house for things like this.  They really are cool.
 Lily wanted to ride a motorcycle - just like Papa!

Jeremy has been working hard lowering the ceiling in his downstairs office (man cave).  All the vent work in this room meant we had to drywall around it and have a funky looking ceiling or try lowering the ceiling.  We opted for lowering and decided on recessed lights so that the ceiling wouldn't feel even lower with a light fixture hanging from it.  We're getting excited about installing the drywall in the downstairs bedrooms before the baby is born so that visiting grandparents will have more privacy.

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