Christmas Firsts

My first attempt at making Gingerbread cookies:
(These were made from scratch - I recommend buying the dough to save some time)



Stephen's first attempt at putting a bike together:



The first year I did something creative with the Christmas cards:



Brody's first spin on a car:
(He cannot walk into a room but he can DRIVE into one!)

Croup

Brody's been sick since Tuesday. Fever on-and-off. Sometimes low grade, tonight it spiked to 103.5F. Today he had trouble breathing, was wheezing. Took him to the pediatrician.

He has croup AND an ear infection. His first infection. I tried a breathing treatment tonight and it was more like a wrestling match. The medication was all over me, rather than in his lungs. Bracing for another long night.

The night before last when I was rocking Brody to sleep for the third time - at some wee-hour-of-the-morning time - and I was convinced I couldn't hold my head up much longer. I was reminded of something Adrian Despres recently told me, "THIS too shall pass. But this too shall PASS."

Don't want to miss God in it or miss the sweet time rocking my baby to sleep. This too shall pass. What a gift the present is.

Yabba-Dabba-Doo

My kids eat Flinstone vitamins everyday and have no idea who these strange bone-wearing characters are. We tried a long time ago to find it on television but it was no where to be found. So, today, I had the bright idea of searching YouTube. Have fun!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpab0a3W4Ec

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOUf5y0XHO0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6qZxSTOeN8&feature=related

Pics for Brody's Word Book

We made a Word Book for Brody. It was a recommendation from our speech therapist. My friend, Sabrina, snapped the pictures quickly at Moe's. Thought I would post them since I haven't in a while.

Brody's Vocabulary Lesson

We made a Word Book for Brody. It was a recommendation from a speech therapist. My friend, Sabrina Lewis, snapped the pictures quickly at Moe's. I thought I should post them since I haven't posted pictures in a while.

Abby:

Sydney:

Brody:

Mama:

Daddy:

Cup:

And lastly, photograhed by me because dogs aren't allowed at Moe's...Carrie:

Brody's Crawling!

Brody started crawling last Wednesday. He's doing it more than he's commando crawling now and seems quite proud of himself! I've also added several posts below that I back-dated.

Email - Check!

I didn't have access to DSL for a couple of days and was already behind in emails. I just successfully checked, read, and responded to about 60 legitimate emails. I also fed my kids, did school, unloaded the dishwasher, folded a load of laundry, AND called AT&T about the DSL. Now I need to go get dressed. :)