Sick Week

Last week was a little rough. On Sunday, Evie started throwing up and Sam had a really runny nose. On Monday, all 3 kids had fevers, and poor Sam was acting really lethargic. As things progressed over the next few days, we realized that Sam and Nora had foot, hand and mouth disease, since they got blistery rashes in those areas. Evie continued to throw up for several days and never got a rash, so I have no idea if she had the same thing with different symptoms, or a different thing all together. Poor kids! After a few days, I started getting cabin fever, but couldn't really take a bunch of sick kids anywhere. I am glad to say that they seem to be over it all now!

Nora using the nebulizer with her buddy, Brina

After Sam's fever went away, he was a pretty happy little guy. He just had the rash and sores all over his legs, arms and around his mouth.

His poor legs got it the worst

I was working on the laundry, and noticed as I was taking back another load that Sam had dragged the step-stool out of the bathroom and put it right in front of the TV cabinet and was sitting there to watch his show. It looked so uncomfortable craning his neck like that, but I guess it didn't bother him. I put him in the sleep sacks again to keep him from scratching his legs.

Uh oh, Sadie is in need of rescue!

After I got Sadie back, Nora wanted to hold her.

Awwww. 

Mom's Birthday

For my Mom's birthday, we went up to a fun birthday dinner at my Aunt Dianne's house on Sunday evening. Unfortunately Evie and Sam were sick, so just Nora and I went.

Nora made this cute little card with a birthday cake on the front

Yummy Backer's cake

Mom and Nora - I love Nora's posing skills

Dad cutting the cake

Nora and her cake - she was pretty funny. She ate all the parts with frosting first, which was the opposite of what most of the adults did. Hehe

Then it was time to open presents, and Nora was Mom's little helper.

Nora pretending to be asleep

One of Mom's presents came in a little fabric bag, and Nora used the empty bag to make a little hand puppet named "Beauty". 

Beauty giving a secret message to Kate

Giving a secret message to Beth.

Swimming Lessons

Last week the girls finished their two week course of swimming lessons. They both had a good time!

Book Club - Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

This month's book club meeting was about the book "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" by Mark Twain. Originally, this book was printed as a serialization in Harper's Magazine, then later published in book form. It was interesting discussing Mark Twain's fascination with Joan of Arc and how he spent so much time researching for this book, as well as as talking about the story itself.

Decorations:

The French food:

 As always, the food was wonderful.

Group picture

For a favor, we each got a bookmark with a gold feather on one side, and a quote on the other

Nora's Friend Party

On Saturday, Nora had a little party for her friends. We just left all the decorations from the day before.

 We had a little craft where each child could decorate their own foam frame with stickers

Each child got to dress up, and then we took their picture

 While I was doing the games with the kids, Mike took the camera card and printed out all the pictures of the kids dressed up so we could put them in their little picture frames they made. The finished frames with the pictures in them were really cute.

 For our first game, we played "Don't Eat Pete!" The kids really got into it.

Next we played BINGO

Opening presents

Cake time

Silly boys!

Nora had a fun time with her friends!