Entering January with a Bang!

We sure enjoyed a great time with some fun friends on New Year's eve.  Yummy food, games, and laughter!  All of our children are the same age and they play so well with each other.  What a great way to enter the year 2014!

 

 

  Katie and Bryson Fish, Mark and Alisa McLaws and us.

While we enjoyed fun times with friends . . . we also entered a new year with sickness galore!  We just couldn't seem to catch a break. 

 Poor Crew Boy!  We ended up taking him to the doctors office 3 times.  On the third time they drew blood from his arm (so sad!) and took his urine to run some tests.  Diagnosis: Double ear infection and back to back viruses.

  

 We found out the hard way that he is allergic to Amoxicillin.  He broke out into hives.

Once that cleared up . . . he got the hated flu bug and threw up for 2 days.

   

And if that wasn't enough . . . the poor baby hit his front gums on the t.v. stand and cut it pretty good.   With blood everywhere, I finally had to just put him in the car for a long car ride so he would fall asleep.  He kept chewing on toys that would reopen the wound and start the bleeding all over again. 

 

This sweet Boston boy fared the best out of all 3 kids.  He had a cold and the flu for 2 days but seemed to recover from both quickly.

 

 Sweet Lily got hit hard!  She just could not get over the yucky flu symptoms.  She could not eat or drink for nearly 3 days.  She just could not keep anything down.  The doctor prescribed something in hopes that it would calm the nausea so that she could keep something down.

 

 So sad.  She was just so lifeless.  (So unusual for this exuberant girl!)

 Only cute Crew boy could get her to smile.  He thought it was so funny to tease her while she was taking a bath.  He wanted to get in so bad.  So she let him!  Thank goodness for fun siblings!

 

 Lily trying to catch the water on her tongue while Crew tried to catch the dripping water into his hand.

 

 

 On a happier note, we made some New Year's resolutions to get into shape.  Garrett put my road bike on a trainer so that I could exercise inside during these cold months.  The kids thought it was so fun to try it out.