Happy Sick (I mean sixth) Birthday!

Yesterday was Zachary's sixth birthday. He stayed home from school with a sore throat and a fever. I wasn't sure how the party was going to go with a sick birthday boy, but as the day progressed he seemed to be doing better. We had the party as planned, and he had a lot of fun. After the party, however, Zachary crashed on the couch and his fever came back. Brad took him to urgent care. Turns out he has strep throat. He also has a rash all over his body. Apparently when you have strep and a rash it's called scarlet fever. It sounds really bad, but it's not really any worse that strep and it's treated the same way. He is on an antibiotic now, and is feeling much better. By tomorrow or the next day he should be able to go back to school. It's amazing to think that children used to die all the time from this. All they needed was an antibiotic. I feel so blessed to live at this time in history. Here are some pics of my sick little boy at his party.

Lydia Update and New Table

Just thought I would share some cute recent pictures of Lydia now that she is 5 months old. She is such a sweet baby. She was 15lb. 5oz. at her 4 month appointment. She's definitely my biggest baby so far. She is doing really well. She's rolling over, and sleeping through the night!

In other news, Brad and I decided to buy a new kitchen table. We had outgrown our old one, and we got a great deal on this table. We both fell in love with it at the store. I love it, and it has the ability to expand to seat up to 10 people.

Christmas at Crown Center

This year for Christmas I have really been wanted to get some traditions going. Zachary is at that age where Christmas can be really fun and memorable, so I thought it would be fun to start making some Christmas memories. With the help of my awesome sister in-law we have some great things planned for this Christmas season.

Our first activity on the list was going to the Crown Center in downtown KC. That is where they have the mayor's Christmas tree up. I wasn't really sure what to expect because I have never gone down there during Christmas. Not only did they have the beautiful tree, but they had a whole playground of life size toys to play on. Zachary was in heaven.

Here we are in the life size train. Justin liked it, but he was too cold to really get into it. After a little while Justin and Lydia went back inside the Crown Center with Grandma to get warm and listen to a cute little brass band made up of a bunch of cute little old men. Justin loves music, so he was having a great time inside with Grandma.

Here's Lydia trying to keep warm before going back inside with Grandma.

Brad and Zachary posing by one of many of the fully lit trees. It was beautiful.

The three of us actually fit easily in the large sized Radio Flyer wagon. So much fun!

Here is the beautiful scene. It was so much fun, this is going on the list of permanent traditions.

I love these things. They make me laugh.

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

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My Little Trick-or-Treaters

Here they are. My little trick-or-treaters. We went to Brad's grandma's neighborhood to do our trick-or-treating. They had fun and got lots of candy. As you can tell Justin was less than thrilled. Zachary was the same way when he was two. I don't know what it is with toddlers and Halloween. They just don't want to wear their costumes.

My little baseball player. He was so excited about his costume this year.

And here's Tigger. He was okay with it once the candy collecting started. The funny thing was that he would say trick-or-treat, get the candy, and then he would try to go into the people's houses. So funny.

Lydia stayed at the house with me where is was nice a warm, but she was a very cute little ballerina thanks to Aunt Renee who provided the costume, and Aunt Jenny who made the adorable head band.

Jack-o Fun

Last Monday night for family night we carved pumpkins. We invited Brad's family to come enjoy the fun with us. This was the first time that Zachary has carved pumpkins. I don't know why we haven't done this before. Time gets away from me, and last year by the time I thought about it all of the pumpkins were gone at the grocery store. So this year I decided to get the pumpkins early. It was fun.

This is Zachary's pumpkin. He designed it and I carved it. Then he proceeded to write every word he knew how to spell on it. Funny boy. I guess he wanted it to be unique.

This is Brad's pumpkin. Again, he designed it and I carved it. He is not terribly comfortable with knives.

Here are all the pumpkins lit up.

And here is dessert. Yummy!