Weekly Happenings: Not too much out of the ordinary happened this past week. We mainly just trucked along.
The Weekly Weather: It’s been typical February weather: a mix of everything, haha.
What Paul’s Been Up To: He’s been kept pretty busy with work, school, and the like. He got to go hang out and play games with some other guys in Elder’s Quorum, so that was a nice break for him.
What Sarah’s Been Up To: I’ve been mainly keeping the kids relatively healthy and happy while fighting off quite the allergy attack. It seems to slowly be getting better, but man…
What Joseph’s Been Up To: He got to celebrate the 100th day of school which was a day full of fun, games, music, and the like. Paul made him another Pokémon shirt with 100 different Pokémon on it to wear.
What Abigail’s Been Up To: She seems to be on the tail-end of whatever has been bugging her. I ended up taking her into the doctor because she would be fine during the day, but then at night, her temperature would raise a bit. The doctor didn’t really see much amiss other than one ear that had quite a bit of fluid in it. It wasn’t infected, but she wants me to bring Abigail back in this next Thursday to check and make sure it’s draining.
This Week in Pictures:
Paul moved the living room furniture around a bit to give us some more open floor space.I like it a lot. Abigail does, too. 😉It’s fun to see these two play together. 🙂Baby Batgirl!A close-up of Joseph’s 100th day of school (hence the 100 different Pokémon) shirt.He was pretty pleased by it.Getting ready to go out into the chilly weather to go pick up “Buh-buh” (she seems to say that a lot when with Joseph) from school.She definitely is his shadow at times!Posing with the bronze Komodo dragon at the zoo. He’s really into pulling faces right now…can you tell? 😉Now for a “please look at us normally” shot. 🙂
Weekly Happenings: It seems like January just flew by. I could hardly believe it when I saw Valentines’ Day stuff starting to pop up (but here we are and it’s February 4th). We didn’t do too much out of the ordinary other than enjoy the nice weather by going outside (either to the park or to go ride bikes with friends). It was nice to get out of the house and into the sunshine!
The Weekly Weather: It’s been gorgeous! There have been one or two cold days thrown into the mix, but other than that, it’s been warmer, sunny, and breezy. I can hardly believe it!
I came across this on Facebook and couldn’t help but laugh. It rings true!
What Paul’s Been Up To: He’s been busy with work, school, church, etc. I forgot to mention it last week, but he installed a new thermostat in our house that will automatically switch from heat to AC depending on what temperature it gets to. It’s so nice not having to worry about switching it back and forth, like we’ve had to do on occasion in the past.
What Sarah’s Been Up To: Not too much on my part…mainly just keeping the kids happy and healthy and making sure the house doesn’t look a total wreck. I did weed both the front and the back yards…and made sure to take plenty of Aleve afterward, haha.
What Joseph’s Been Up To: He’s been enjoying school and has especially been enjoying their class pets: two hissing cockroaches and a guinea pig. It’s funny how one of the cockroaches got its name (the other one hasn’t been named yet since they just got it on Friday; the first one they’ve had for a bit over a week). Apparently Joseph’s teacher forgot both her glasses and her contacts at home, so she called her husband to see if he could bring them to her. The kids really loved meeting Mr. Adams. Fast-forward to the end of the day when it was time to name the cockroach: they were listing off name suggestions and were going to vote to find the best name. One of the kids suggested Mr. Adams…guess which name won? Mrs. Adams said that he (the real Mr. Adams) wasn’t quite sure how to take it, haha. The guinea pig’s name is much more conventional: Cocoa. 🙂
What Abigail’s Been Up To: She had a pretty good start to the week, but then had a bit of a rough ending to it. She picked up something that gave her a fever and then added goopy eyes to the mix. I’m still not sure if it’s allergies or an illness. If it is an illness, it seems to be viral, since she is slowly getting better without needing antibiotics…but it could also have been triggered by allergies. I really don’t know. Hopefully she’ll continue to get better, because she really, really doesn’t like getting her eyes cleaned out.
This Week in Pictures:
She loves hats…and I love the one she chose. 😉 She was trying to take it off when I told her I wanted to take her picture. She then stopped and gave me that grin…Is it possible that she understands? hahaAlas, my phone’s camera doesn’t do it justice, but the sky was super pretty one morning. That white dot is a huge full moon and the clouds were such a pretty shade of pinky-purpley-orange.Valentines’ Day door decor. I’ve forgotten just how many years ago I made this with stuff from my craft bins.I added some paper hearts (another thing I made a few years back) to my “rest of the year” decorations.I found some inexpensive signs to add to the Valentines’ decor a bit. I found these two……as well as this one.I started with a baby in a hat, and I’ll finish with one. 😉 A good friend gave me a bag of clothes her daughter has outgrown and this hat was in there. Abigail automatically tried to get it onto her head and was rather tickled when I put it on for her. 🙂
Weekly Happenings: The beginning of this past week was mainly spent trying to get over whatever gunk we all had. Paul had bronchitis and the rest of us had a bad cold. We stayed home from church to make sure we didn’t share our germs and Joseph ended up staying home from school on Monday. I took Abigail in to be checked out mainly because her appetite had been decreased for quite a few days. She checked out okay (no ear infection or anything else), so it was just her cold making her not want to eat. She also gained almost two pounds in a month, so I don’t think I need to be worried about her appetite (especially since she seems to be back to eating normally), haha. Yesterday we decided to go to the zoo after Abigail got up from her afternoon nap. It was so nice! I love having passes. Since we’re not paying for entrance for just one day, we can show up about an hour before closing (when it’s not crowded because most people are heading out at that point), wander around, and not worry about not getting to see everything.
The Weekly Weather: It’s really been a mix. Cold, dry, rainy, warmer…we pretty much experienced it all, haha.
What Paul’s Been Up To: I think he might finally be feeling a bit better, which is good. Other than that, work and school have kept him pretty busy.
What Sarah’s Been Up To: Laundry, disinfecting stuff, etc., haha. Toss that in with my normal weekly stuff and I found plenty of things to keep me occupied. 🙂 I also went to book club, which was really nice. I haven’t been for quite some time. It was nice to see friends I hadn’t seen in a while and to have an intellectual discussion about a good book.
What Joseph’s Been Up To: Once he got over his cold, he went back to school and had a grand ol’ time. 🙂 Other things that keep him busy: making his own LEGO creations, reading, playing on his DS and tablet, and watching Abigail for me.
What Abigail’s Been Up To: She’s been getting steadier on her feet (standing), loves getting into things she ought not to, and enjoys making a myriad of sounds accompanied by slobber, haha. It’s a good thing she’s so cute! 😉
This Week in Pictures:
Cute lil’ dino!She’s ready for her close-up!She kept trying to take them off…until I told her I was going to take her picture…then she stopped, looked right at me, and smiled, haha.THIS is the Texas January I’m used to! He’s blowing bubbles to entertain her. 🙂Entertaining themselves…Baby boots!She was NOT happy with me when I had to wake her up to go get Joseph from school, but she stopped mid-cry when I showed her the boots. She then reached for them with a little smile on her face. A girl after my own heart! 😉Posing with the bear at the zoo (darn sun in his eyes).Checking out the small cats (this was the caracal, I believe).The zoo is getting ready for a dinosaur exhibit in the summer. This animatronic dino was pretty awesome.Zoo train fun!The boys on the train.
