What a Week

This is my brother, Chris or "Uncle Chip" and sons Jax and Brigg.

Ash was making her debut coming down the stairs in her princess nightgown for her pajama and pancakes Valentine Party at school. I was so lucky I got to help out with her Valentine Party!

Cousin Jax! What a cutie. Now Jodi and Chris are spending time in San Diego. Very jealous.

Austin lost his 6th tooth this week! It was a scary moment when I'd forgotten to put the money underneath his pillow until about 6:30am. He woke up only 15 minutes later and gave me the money and said, "What's the point?" He'd seen me. So I thought! I told him I was in his room checking out how much money he'd gotten because I was so excited too. He was upset it was only $2. Phew. First the toothfairy. That's a precursor to knowing Santa's not real. I dodged this one, but for how much longer? Sniff sniff.

Also this week, I sold the van! My beast. I was sick of making 2 car payments while Jonathan is away. So I sold it to a wonderful family and am very happy. The accord is smaller, but much more economical with the 2 kiddos and one driver. I will have to change my plates from FRITZ to GOOSE again.

This week Austin for the first time decided he didn't want me to tell him what to wear. I always laid out clothes for him or told him what to wear, etc. He always gave in, didn't care, could care less about clothing. But when I told him to put jeans on with his plaid shirt, he said, "No. I want to wear my Red shirt." I told him I had his plaid shirt out and not to argue, just do what I ask him to do. "When are you ever going to stop telling me what to wear?" Wow. I guess now. I never knew he was just going with the motion but now he wants to take a stand! He proudly went to his room when I told him to pick out what he wants to wear to church today. He came out looking like a million bucks and I know he felt that way too.

Another first this week....Ashley's ear drum ruptured. She has had 2 sets of tubes in her ears. This last set, the L tube is still in place but her R tube was out just hanging in her ear canal. On Friday, it ruptured and we went to the Dr Edy Spaghetti to get antibiotics. Later that day, her other ear was draining (the one with the tube). Then last night (WARNING: GROSS content) in the middle of the night she was coughing and sneezing and I went to blow her nose and when she blew, it blew snot (infection) out her EAR!!!! Literally the pressure from blowing made the draining SPRAY out her ear. She screamed as it hurt her and I sat there for a second and didn't know whether to be completely disgusted or think it was cool that I saw such a sight.

Today while I went to church, Grandma stayed home with Ashley and they had a Princes party. Complete with finger painting, reading princess stories and even making princess cupcakes with her princess oven and a tea party. That made us forget about our painful ears for awhile.

My Mom has been here since January 28th. My parents came to visit for a weekend and my dad had to go back to Florida because he teaches marketing at University of Florida. But Mom stayed around another week. And another week (due to the snow storm). And another week (till Valentines Day) and another 3 weeks till Dad comes back up again the second week of March for UF's spring break! It's been WONDERFUL having mom here. Someone to talk to, we have slumber parties EVERY night, a buddy to play cards with, help with the kiddos, we're going to the temple together, lunch dates, BUNKO buddy, shopping, and Relief Society Enrichment together. I'm so thankful she's here spending this wonderful time together with us. I know Florida is a lot nicer than this nasty winter we've had here so far in DC, so I'm very grateful for our relationship and bond we have. Moms are the best!