New Year's Whimper

Well, instead of welcoming in the new year with a bang, we definitely welcomed it with a whimper.  Amy had a four day weekend off, so we joined Bergherms and Hilliards at the Science Center on Friday, which was very fun.  The kids had fun at the bug excitement, the cars activities, the dinosaur floor, and of course eating lunch at the Subway! :)  One scary moment, we lost track of little Maddie and couldn't find her anywhere.  Beginning to panic, Amy prayed and no joke, turned around and there was Miss Maddie - where we had just come from.  Thank you God!

We then went downhill, thanks for nothing.  Saturday the boys both ended up getting fevers, which weren't anything much to write home about other than it wrecked our plans to go with Hilliards to SeaWorld for New Year's Eve.  Bummer.  We were up part of the night off and on - not from celebrating but from listening to our neighbor's fireworks going off - even until 2:30A.  We know this as we were up with Kaleb, whose fever woke him up at 2A.  Why do people think that it is acceptable to still be sending off fireworks at 2:30A??

The highlight of the weekend was that we opened presents with Grandma.  The kids thought they had reached nirvana with all those presents to open and play with!

Monday, Amy ended up falling prey to a severe head cold - probably from the lack of sleep from the weekend.  The boys recovered nicely and Amy has marginally improved each day - with several days being in quarantine to try and keep the boys from getting the cold!

So all in all it's been a relatively quiet week, although the big event is that Zachary has a new bike!  It is two sizes bigger than his last bike, so our fingers are crossed that this won't end up in a broken bone, but Daddy believes that he can handle it just fine.

Phrase of the week:  Inhale breath, tilt head up into the air, put index finger on pursed lips and say "Hmmmmmmm."  Not sure where this new "trick" has come from, but both boys now have picked it up.  It is funny to watch, so we parents have a hard time keeping a straight face! :)