Merry Christmas everyone!! We had a very good Christmas we were over at my mom and dad's house. I will write more later, but I want to get some pictures up while I'm here on my mom and dad's computer that has the pictures I can upload.Little Miss Lilly as a reindeer. I tried to get LC to wear it for a picture, but she wasn't interested so I put it on Lilly and she cooperated for me.

Here's LC "making" our Gingerbread house. I use that term lightly as all she was interested in was eating the frosting and occasionally putting a candy on. It was still fun though.

This is Colista performing at her daycare holiday party. She loves to sing and was the most involved and excited of the kids her age. She did pretty well with the songs too. It was way fun.


Lilly with Santa. LC wouldn't go see him. We got closer than last year where she wouldn't even come into the room when she saw him there, so maybe next year we'll actually get a picture with Santa.
So this may have been one of my favorite moments this year. We got the stockings out to get ready to put them out for Santa and LC started to put them on like socks. It was so cute. Then she tried to get me to put my stocking on my foot. She didn't understand why I didn't want to put my "sock"on.

These are the dresses that my Grandma made for my girls. LC calls it her twirly dress.
Lilly on Christmas morning. She did pretty good. I only had to open the last few presents for her.

Colista Christmas morning. She was not interested in looking at the camera, there was too much other cool stuff to grab her attention.
LC wearing her new Christmas dress.

Well, I need to get home and get my girls to bed to start a new week tomorrow. I'll give some actual information soon, but here's some pictures finally.

Here we go again.

Well, as I've said Colista has been struggling with an ear infection that won't go away. The last little while Lilly hasn't been acting like she feels the greatest and the last week she has not been sleeping very well, so I decided it was time to take her into the doctor. Well, low and behold, guess what, an ear infection! I'm so done with ear infections, if neither of the girls ever have another ear infection I'll be happy. Now while I'm dreaming how about a nice new car, a house that I don't have to pay for.....let's se what else can I wish for? It could be worse, I know I have good kids when I bring her back to the daycare and say she has an ear infection, they're surprised. That's just how happy of a kid she is and LC is the same way. I don't think anyone would think she has had a constant ear infection for a month now, she's happy most of the time even with all that. Well, I better get back to work.

Out of practice....

So apparently I have forgotten how to get to work on time without my dad showing up at my door when it's time to go. My dad is driving my grandparents down to their house in Missouri today in their car and my mom is working and then picking my brother up from college so to enable me to have a way to get to and from work, I just took my dad's car home last night and my mom and brother will pick it up from my house when they get into town this evening. Well. I woke up at the same time I do everyday and somehow didn't manage to get out the door until 8 am which is supposed to be when I get to work. Well, then came the ordeal of getting the girls to the car and there is some ice still and with my stuff for the potluck at work today, it was very difficult to carry Lilly and make sure that LC didn't fall as well. Well, I assumed that since we were past the ice and basically at the car, she was okay and I started walking a little ahead of her. Apparently she decided to walk around back to the ice and fell down. Then we finally got to the car and by the time we got the daycare it was 8:20 and I was really running late. I got out of there and into my car leaving my daycare at 8:30 and made it to work at 8:45. Ahh! I used to get to work on time by myself what happened? Did I just forget? Well, I just realized that since my car died before I went back to work after having Lilly that I haven't had to do it on my own with two kids, but still 45 minutes late? That's crazy. Oh well, at least since it isn't a regular occurance, my boss is really understanding about it, which I'm grateful for, but I feel really bad that I just couldn't seem to get here when I needed to.

Eating "Nothing"

So LC likes having a bedtime snack most nights and last night I gave her a blueberry muffin and she calls it a nuffin and it really sounds like she's saying nothing. So she tells me she's going to eat her nothing, and I just have to laugh it's so cute.

I can't believe that Christmas came so fast, where did the year go. I'm almost ready, but still have to go through what I've gotten and make sure I have everything and finish the things I'm making, not to mention mailing out the stuff that's for people that I won't see. Sorry everyone, it's not going to make it by Christmas, but I meant well and you will still get it. Well, I better stop finding other things to do and get back to work as I have definitely used up my break time for this morning.

Still?!?! Really!?!

So right before my girls got the bad flu bug before Thanksgiving, Colista had an ear infection and was finishing up her antibiotic. Well she went in for her follow up and low and behold, still has an ear infection. I thought maybe since she got sick in the middle of the treatment, maybe that was the problem. Well I took her in for a follow up last night and after a second round of stronger antibiotics, guess what, we STILL have an ear infection. So we're on one more antibiotic that if this doesn't work, we'll have to go see an ear/nose/throat specialist. So hopefully this one will do it. Funny story with this though, is apparently this medicine does not taste good. Both the doctor and the pharmacist warned me of that. Well, I gave it to her for the first time last night and she swallows it and then says Gross!! and tries to wipe the taste off her tongue. I had to stop laughing and then get her to eat and drink something else to get the taste out of her mouth. Then this morning, my dad picked us up (no car right now, good thing my parents are so great at helping me out, Thanks mom and dad!) and was talking to her about her medicine and she made a face like something was really gross. She's too cute. At least she still takes it. So hopefully this one will take care of this stubborn infection.

Christmas!!!

So I finally pulled out the tree and Christmas decorations yesterday. LC absolutly loved it! We helped Grandma and Grandpa Fletcher put up their tree and she had fun with that so I should have been prepared I guess, but she still surprised me a little. We have one of those trees that has the pole in the middle and then you have to put all the branches on. Well I got the "trunk" up and my visiting teacher came and I had to stop for a little bit and she was hanging ornaments up no the trunk part. (there is garland like stuff wrapped around the metal so it was actually possible) and then I got it put together and started giving her the ornaments to put on and she would put four or five together on one branch, it was cute. Then she was heartbroken that there were no more to put on the tree. She wanted to do more, she was having a great time. Then she was so wound up that bedtime was a nightmare and I was losing patience, but we did finally get there. And my little Lilly is crawling all over the place, I swear she figured it out way too fast. Life is crazy at our house, but good.

Finally!!

So I think we're finally over this bug that has been lingering forever. (knock on wood) Lilly got quite sick and then just as she was getting better, Colista came down with it. Luckily I only got mildly sick, nothing major like the two of them went through. Unfortunately we did share with my mom and dad. Sorry!! Then I took Colista in for a follow-up checkup up for the ear and eye infection that she had and she still had an ear infection! After a full round of antibiotics. So the doctor gave us a prescription for another antibiotic and we'll see how that works. That was a fun doctors trip as that morning she fell down the cement stairs that lead to our parking lot and totally scratched up her nose to the point that the daycare was concerned that it might be broken. I had thought she was fine and felt validated when they doctor looked at it for all of 2 seconds and said it was superficial. My mommy instincts are still good, Yay!! So I'm hoping that was the worst, but with winter just starting I'm afraid we have more sickness in our future. I would be okay with not though. Only time will tell.

Here I go!

So I am horrible about keeping in touch with people and documenting things that happen with my kids, so I finally decided to try keeping a blog. Until I get Internet at home, pictures will be posted sopratically because I will upload them when I'm at my mom and dad's house and can use their computer. So we'll see how this goes for me.

We're doing pretty good. My girls are growing like crazy, sometimes I can't figure out how it goes so fast. Lilly is 6 months old now, where did the time go, didn't I just get pregnant with her? And little Colista, is less little everyday. She's 2 now and I swear she's so grown up. She's been struggling a little with separation anxiety lately, (worse than normal) and I'm not sure what to do for her. It's hard. Every week my mom and dad watch my girls so I can have time to get some things done and have some me time (thanks mom and dad you're awesome) and for the first time, she did not want to stay at my mom and dad's house, she wanted her mama. I just wish I knew how to help her be more secure. It is now the exception rather then the rule, but there are still days that I have to peel her off of me screaming and hand her to the daycare teacher and leave. It's just hard to leave her like that.

Lilly is almost crawling, she is up on her hands and knees and scooting and almost moving forward, she actually did it once yesterday, so here we go, now I'll have two little girls to get into everything.

I miss my girls today. I'm glad since I have to work I was blessed with such a good employer that is very understanding, but it's still hard to not be able to stay home with my girls.

Ok, I'm stopping here because I don't want to get all melancholy and start feeling bad for myself. We have our struggles, but that's not the whole picture. I am extremely blessed to have my two amazing girls as part of my life and every time I need a little something extra, my Heavenly Father has put that in my path. I don't want to fall into feeling sorry for myself, so I'm doing okay. Life is crazy, but good most of the time.