Some kids color on walls...

Mine just happens to color all over her brother.
Someday I am sure I will appreciate this. As for now... sigh.

My Little Boy Turns One This Week!

That zipped by!! Elise's first year went by so much slower... Well, the blue-eyed blonde (how?) turns one this Friday. Now that he's walking, he gets into everything, climbs up couches and beds, eats strange things found in weird places, but he has the cutest grin in the whole world while he's doing it :) I really can't complain - he's one AMAZING little boy (how did I get so lucky to have two of the sweetest, cutest kids?)

Sick, Sick, Sick

And we do not like it, not one little bit...

Since a little before Christmas, the kids have been sick. It's never been this bad for Michael (granted he's only 11mos old) and for Elise, it's been about a couple of years. First, Elise and the rest of us came down with a cold. Then Michael came down with an awful ear infection. Following, he had a viral rash, medicine, an allergic reaction to medicine (scary!!), and then somehow, eczema? (Not a lot of snow and a whole lot of frigid weather = dry skin, apparently) Then, Elise came down with the virus, which caused us to pull out the nebulizer - she was having sporadic, long-lasting coughing fits. Thankfully, with the antibiotics, the cough has completely gone away and she's almost fully recovered. It was scary, though, for a little bit (we had no idea what was going on with her, since her symptoms were so different than Michael's).

Michael is cutting a ton of teeth, right now, so he's in a lot of pain, but other than this (as hectic as it was), it's not terrible for never, ever being sick :)

And yes, I think we are the MVP's (most valuable patients) for Upper Valley Pediatrics :)