Praying to be a "better Mommy"

Okay I hate to even write this, but some day when you girls look back and hopefully read my rambling thoughts on life and love -- how much I love you guys! I want you to know I have these days.... days where I think the only thing I've done right all day long is pray over and over till I can't ask for help any more... TO BE A BETTER MOMMY.

Today was just one of those days, I felt lost in a maze - ever turn I took was the wrong one... Eva didn't feel good, wanted to be held all day long. That is until Daddy walked in for like 20 minutes, then she was all giggles and smiles (so of course it looks like she was like this all day when she TOTALLY wasn't). Grace didn't want to take a nap, and I fell into the trap, should have seen it coming but I thought she's 4 1/2 we can do this. Plus I didn't want her to wake Eva up who soooo needed to get some sleep.

I kept trying to do what Eva wanted, only to be bit, scratched, pinched, slapped and on the receiving end of getting my hair pulled. It's hard b/c I know this isn't her - it's that she is in pain w/ no way to communicate it. But that dark part of your Mommy mind says, "a good Mommy would know how to handle this better". At one point I had to just put her in the pack-n-play and walk away for a few minutes feeling like a total failure.

Then Grace had a meltdown over dinner - she didn't want a waffle, she wanted Barbie cereal. Of course, who wouldn't.... I so don't want to be my Dad when it comes to dinner. So I'm not going to make her eat the waffle, but I'm also not a short order cook. Ugh...

Some days you just need a total DO-OVER... this was one for me. So tonight as I go to bed, I'll fall asleep hoping tomorrow is better, and praying for the strength and guidance to be a better Mommy. And when I wake tomorrow, I know it will be a new day.

A double ear infection... ugh!

Okay so I just ass-u-me 'ed that once Eva had tubes she wouldn't get ear infections, or if she did I would know b/c as gross as it sounds there would be stuff coming out of her ear. Well no, she's had this awful cough (got worse over night) so when Matt dropped Eva off at Brenda's she was like, "she needs to see the doctor!". Which makes me feel bad, I would have never sent her knowing she was that sick, but then I don't get to see her in the morning. So got her in to the doctor, picked her up early, and shockilgly to me anyway -- she has a cold (duh) but a DOUBLE ear infection! Poor thing, no wonder she feels so crabby.

They put her on an antibiotic orally for cold, antibiotic drops for her ears and prednisone for the cough. The prednisone tastes awful so she will barely take it. And I was surprised, but the drops must hurt her ears. Poor baby! I hate it when she doesn't feel well. And it's so hard to get her to go to sleep b/c it hurts to lay down, and she doesn't want to lay on her ears b/c they hurt.... it's just awful:-(

I am very special...

Grace is SO cute! She came home from Sunday school singing, "I am very special, I am very special, God made me. I am very special, I am very special, God made me. I am VERY special Mommy!" Giving me a huge hug, I told her I already knew that:-)

Just like Poppy...

News from Brenda...

News from Brenda, "Eva is cracking me up. I was in the kitchen packing Jarod's lunch and she came to me and was making a yucky face and saying ewwww. I said what's wrong? She took me in the play room and showed me that Alyssa's nose was running. It was too cute."

Grandparents Day...

Today at school was Grandparents Day!!! Both Gram's (aka: Pat) and Nanni (aka: Pam) went to school for Grandparents Day. Nanni wasn't able to make it in time to go to church w/ Grace's class (Rob had an interview she had to get him ready for), but Gram's went. During mass, the preschoolers sang the following song -- I heard a repeat encore later in the day, and several more times that evening;-)

Grandparents are made for KISSES and HUGS,
Chasing RAINBOWS and catching BUGS.
For telling STORIES and READING books,
For songs to SING and

Okay so I know I acted like I heard it a GAZILLION times, but I can't remember the rest! I'll have to have Grace sing it again:-)

After church, the children and their grandparent(s) went down to the cafeteria for snacks - Nanni said Grace enjoyed that the most, b/c they had donuts! She's my kind of girl:-) After snacks they went back to show their grandparent(s) their classroom.

Having fun while shooting senior pics!

Eva's finally getting a LITTLE better about letting me shoot Senior pics!

Aunt Kimmy, Eva & Daddy... okay so maybe she did okay b/c I stooped to bribing her w/ a sucker! Good thing her Poppy is a dentist!

Daddy's HOME!

Matt's finally home!!! Yeah, we're all sooooo excited! I love to pick the girls up from Brenda's - about the only thing I love more is staying home w/ them so I don't have to pick them up from Brenda's:-) But Matt called me on my way home from work saying he would be in town in time to pick the girls up, so I let him go get them; knowing they would be over the moon to see him. I sooo wish I could be there to see how happy they would be when he arrived.

But can't be there - it would take away from their moment. Brenda said it was too cute, Eva kept hanging on to his neck hugging him, and then she'd let go to look at him and hug him again. They were both so excited to see him. Then when they got home, I'd expected Eva to not want to let go of him, but she wanted to come to me. I think that shocked Matt some too - maybe even hurt his feelings some (not that you can do much about what they want or don't want to do - they are their own person). But here is the funny part, if Matt left the room for a minute, or Eva lost sight of him she'd start crying for him... looking everywhere! So I know she didn't want him to leave;-)

Saving her money for Daddy...

Okay so we are going on 9 days w/out Matt... he got called out two Sunday's ago and hasn't been back home since. I seriously thought this new supervisors job was going to mean he was gone less, but so far it hasn't. The girls miss him TERRIBLY. Tonight at bedtime, Grace told me, "Mommy, when Daddy gets home I am going to give him the money in my trophy (a dime I believe) so he won't have to go back to work." Isn't that sad????

We all miss him!!!!

My sleepy girl...

So another drop off at Brenda's w/ just little Eva by herself... of course she cried, which BREAKS my heart. Brenda did write and say she stopped crying by the time I was in the garage. Makes me feel better, but it's still crappy. She said she and Eva were in the playroom - Eva was at the table eating when she started to fall asleep eating - Brenda said her "head started bobbing down" (awww...). Jeff moved her to the floor by Brenda where she napped until someone came in a little after 7:00 a.m.

I guess the early mornings aren't just hard on me! But both Eva and Brenda:-(

TOYS R US... I think it's good therapy:-)

I had a senior photo shoot late afternoon, so Nanni & Poppy watched the girls until I got back... w/ Matt being gone and Jay's death neither Matt or Pat were available. I think Poppy had his fill of Grace being 4 - not that she was truly doing anything wrong - or right I guess I should say, just being 4. She was getting into everything, not listening well, you know - a basic four year old. So Poppy snapped at her... I took that as our cue to go do something and get out of his space. So where do you go on a rainy Saturday evening w/ two little kids? You betcha - TOYS R US!

We went to get Grace's Halloween costume, she wants to be Jasmine. I'm sure b/c that is probably the only princess costume she doesn't have - she's a smart cookie:-) But I knew I would leave the store w/ more than just a costume. We spent forever playing in the isle - Eva w/ the babies and Grace w/ the dogs, princesses - basically everything but the babies. Grace had picked out a Jasmine princess crown and new Barbie panties but she exchanged those for a princess dog (you know the type Paris Hilton would carry - only cuter and stuffed). Eva tried out nearly every baby in the isle, but went for a baby doll stroller w/ Grace's help. Here is where the problem may have started...

We got home - both girls happy w/ their selections, took me forever to get Eva's stroller put together... only made worse b/c both girls are like on my shoulder trying to watch. Grace kept telling Eva, "Mommy's doing her BEST" b/c I clearly wasn't cut out for stroller assembly... another Matt item (boy do we miss him!). So once the stroller was finally assembled, Eva was in LOVE - however, Grace really felt like her new dog needed to ride in the stroller. It was so funny from a non-parent view to stand back and watch Grace in action, trying to convince Eva why her baby didn't want to be in the stroller but rather the red Radio Flyer wagon. Eva wasn't going for it, but the minute Eva turned her back for a second... the baby would be on the floor and off Grace would go w/ the stroller. Generally w/ Eva' crying and screaming after her. I kept trying to explain to Grace - she got the dog and Eva got the stroller... 1:1 present wise, but that didn't seem to sink in... maybe I would understand better if I were 4.

It's a "honeybird a honeybird, I said!"

Awww... Grace couldn't be any cuter if she tried! I was trying to get Eva to take a nap when Grace comes running up stairs, saying, "it's a honeybird!" I was like, "what?" She says, "come on mom! it's a honeybird" Still not certain I follow her downstairs and out to the garage where sure enough there was a honeybird (aka: hummingbird) caught in the garage. Grace was so excited and nervous for the bird it was too cute, she was eating an apple and said, "I think the honeybird wants to eat my apple" she wanted to set it on the garage floor so he would come down for it. I said, "let's just hold on to your apple - I'm sure if you ask him and he wants to eat it he will come down".

Grace danced around yelling for the honeybird for a good twenty minutes or more... and at random intervals she would get so excited she'd accidentally call her honeybird a hollybird- this reference of course comes from the SMURFS.

After more than an hour the bird finally made it out of the garage safely!

We miss Matt...

Oh how I hate having to take the girls to Brenda's - no offense to Brenda:-) But it just breaks my heart leaving when Eva's crying. Matt's been gone since Sunday (9/14) b/c of the bad storms. Today is the first day I've had to take Eva to Brenda's w/out Grace. Grace has preschool this morning, and Poppy is taking her. I guess I normally feel better knowing Grace will make Eva happy once I leave, but oh how it just tears my heart out leaving her when she's crying and trying to use her little legs to hold on to me.

I wish Matt were home, apparently she doesn't cry for Daddy - or at least that is what Grace has told me.

Goofy girl...

It's L O V E...

Sunday we'd gone to Crackle Barrel for Pop-pop's birthday. And although it was Pop-pop's birthday somehow the girls both got presents (I was totally planning on buying these when he swooped in).... so any-who, they both got gigantic suckers. All Grace talked about Sunday and Monday was, "when can I eat my sucker???" I told her not until Eva could eat hers too, together... so after we picked Eva up from Brenda's that of course was the first thing Grace wanted to do.

While I knew they wouldn't be happy when we had to put the suckers up I clearly misjudged how unhappy... I suppose the happiness might balance out the unhappiness, so I'm sure it was worth it. B/c while eating them they had SO MUCH FUN! And they were constantly sharing w/ each other, which was very sweet. They both ended up w/ sucker nearly head to toe, and the amazing thing is we have enough sucker left for the rest of the year! I'll have to dole them out carefully though b/c Eva was so upset when it was time to put them up:-(

Grace's 1st Preschool Field Trip...

Today was Grace's 1st Preschool Field trip - heck her 1st Field trip every. I of course had to go along... I mean since parents were invited, I wouldn't embarrass her by going if we weren't invited. I would sit at home or work being worried SICK, but I wouldn't go. But luckily for me we were invited to go! I offered to drive but once I got there it appeared that since I'm not a van driving mom my services weren't needed. So Grace and I rode in a van w/ 3 other little people and Jackie (another mom). We went to the Anderson Apple Orchard, which both Grace & Eva have been to numerous times, but it was still so much fun!

Not sure what I had expected but when we got there, each child got a small bag to collect their apples. It was fun watching how they would select them... some would pick them from off the ground, others had to reach as high in the tree as they could to get theirs. Grace on the other hand was happy picking good apples as long as she was in good company - her friends and her Mommy near by.

After picking apples, we got pictures w/ each preschooler popping their head through the center of an apple, and a group shot. Then everyone sat together to have warm apple cider:-) The cider concluded the trip, after the drive home we all headed our separate ways. Since I'd taken the day off from work to spend it w/ Grace she and I spent the afternoon having lunch, playing around and shopping together:-) GIRL things!

It was very sweet though, I had thought Grace might like the idea of having me all to herself, but she actually asked why we didn't pick Eva up at Brenda's. When I told her Eva was napping she was okay w/ that response but clearly missed having her along -- too sweet!!!

Maybe she needs a helmet?

Oh poor Eva - I say that all the time, or at least it feels like it. We were over at the house meeting w/ Cathy and Eva fell on the concrete in the garage... hit her head - right where she had the bruise from Wednesday! Ugh... maybe she needs a helmet:-) I feel so awful for her, huge knot and the bruise... poor baby! I need to teach her how to catch herself.

Grace's preschool collage...

Grace has to make a Photo Collage w/ her family members to present to her preschool class... no specific instructions other than family members and to be on a 12 x 18" sheet of paper. So we got out tons of pictures, colors (aka: markers), glue, colored paper and cutters (aka: scissors). We had tons of fun, I helped Grace cut some of them out - as instructed by her, she cut lots of them out too... she cut Kimmie's head off of a picture (I thought by accident - but apparently she thought that looked good, so I went w/ it.) The final product looks AMAZING, I hope they don't keep them at school forever, I'd love to have it displayed at my desk at work:-)







The final product...

Oh gosh, Grace is just like me...

Oh gosh, Grace is just like me, and I'm not sure if that is a good thing or not! She started getting pink eye on Wednesday - no surprise since Eva had it, and since then three other little people at Brenda's got it. So the minute I saw it starting I called and got her drops - but putting drops in her eyes is A W F U L. You would think I was pulling her fingernails off! And then there is little Eva who while I'm trying to get Grace to let me put the drops in, willingly lays down on the couch wanting me to do her eyes! Totally different - when I would do Eva's she would pinch her eye shut, but still let you put the drops in, clapping when finished:-) Grace I feel like I'm entering a rodeo, I have to practically sit on her - I hate it. Poppy came home when I was trying to get the drops in, and I could just tell by the look in his eye - this little sparkle that said, "yes, you finally got a child just like you..." ugh! Love her to pieces - I mean who wouldn't we're two peas, but on some things she might be better off if she wasn't like me...

After I finally got the drops in her eyes we talked about what would happen if we didn't put drops in... basically.... Grace could end up w/ a patch on her eye forever looking like a PIRATE! And of-course, there aren't many princesses out there w/ a pirate patch on their eyes... so tomorrow morning we're going to do a much better job getting the drops in our eyes, right? Grace said, "yes!" but I think I'll wait and see;-)

Oh how I L O V E my girls!!!

I think that is the only way to sum up the day, "Oh how I L O V E my girls!!!". The day started off w/ preschool... cute little grace in her fancy jeans heading off to school. It's one of the first cool fall mornings (love them - but it's a sad love b/c you know what is coming - COLD mornings, ugh!). Eva & I spent a good 30 minutes eating cereal before we had to run off and meet Matt & the landscape architect. While eating cereal, Eva who is sooo like me, spots the hat I was dying for her to wear last night - when she refused to have anything to do w/ it. She starts patting her head & pointing, so I'm like the hat? I get a nod, so I retrieve it, and shockingly she wants to wear it. When she has the hat on she grins, pulling her shoulders up w/ a look like, "see I did it - but only when I wanted too!" You have to just smile when they do things that you would have done, or heck, still would do! So after the hat routine we head upstairs to get ready. Poor Eva, either she's not used to walking in jeans or she's takes after her Mommy here too (huge - klutz!), but she's walking and the next thing I see her topple face first (like a tree falling), doesn't catch herself or anything and WHACKS her forehead on the hardwood floor. OUCH! Out come the tears, and a huge knot - later followed by a bruise... her poor nogging! If she's not falling, she's getting hit w/ a bar of soap - or something!







After meeting w/ Daddy we head out to pick up Grace & Jillian from preschool. It's so sweet b/c the minute the train of preschoolers come spilling out, Eva proudly yells, "Grace!" I carried her over to Grace, didn't want a repeat of this morning! Grace was starving when she got home so she had an early lunch, and wanted to go outside and play.... but by that point Eva wasn't on her best behavior. She got in trouble for scratching Grace for who knows what.... but when reprimanded she was so heartbroken she cried and cried, which exhausted her (or now that I think about it maybe being tired wasn't the result, but the cause) any-hoo, she fell asleep early. Grace fully planned on staying awake so when Eva woke up we could all go outside and play... but the next thing I knew when I looked over at her coloring on my bed, she was sound asleep! Guess preschool makes you tired as well as hungry:-)

After naps and a snack, we headed out back to play (finally I'm sure Grace though!).... after dinner we went for a long walk and a trip to the Playground Park. On the way back we stopped by Rick & Vickie's and both girls got a "pop-a-sickle" as Grace calls them... and happily rode home.

The topper or I should say floater of the evening arrived during bath time... on most occasions I would have just said GROSS! But the girls both though it was soooooo funny, who couldn't laugh right along w/ them! We were almost finished w/ bath #1 when I noticed a funny looking toy in the water - eick! Not a toy at all, but a floater! Ewww... Grace thought it came from a duck (when someone - aka: Daddy, lets a stinker he says, "someone stepped on a duck!"). After I fished it out, along w/ all the toys & the girls, cleaned the tub & bleached the toys we started over w/ bath #2 - the whole event would have been exhausting, but both girls giggled the entire time, so who couldn't laugh right along w/ them. So like I said, "Oh how I L O V E my girls!!!"

An evening at the park...

Gracie's cute new dew...

Gracie asked me to do her hair "pretty" we put it into two braids -- oh does she ever look cute! And Daddy L O V E S it - he thinks she looks like a little farm girl!

Poor Eva...

Poor Eva, she's always getting banged around... the girls were taking their baths together (as always) - except they were extra dusty! We'd gone over to "the castle" to see all the dry wall (they hung the entire house in one day! still need to do all the finishing work but wow does it look different!). So they both looked a little like they had been baking:-)

Grace went to put the soap up, and dropped it - of course it whacked Eva in the forehead... not sure how, but anything getting dropped, etc... and it will hit her. I felt awful for her - who would have thought she could but hurt so easily by a bar of soap!

Grace again wanted to know if a police man was going to come get her - she had to learn this at school!

Is the Barbie car okay?

So today when I left work & got to my car, my left front tire was flat.... or at least I thought it was flat. When I would stand up looking at it, it looked really flat, but then when I would squat down and get a side view it didn't look quite so flat. So I called Matt - its kind of funny b/c I'm always freaking out worrying that I have a flat tire. Like I curb it (which I didn't do this time!) freak, think I have a flat, pull over into a parking lot to check all of my tires to learn - nope they all have air. So today, when of course I didn't do anything, and what happens - flat tire. So I keep looking at it, thinking my mind is playing tricks on me... I called Matt... he said I should drive to the nearest gas station and fill it up w/ air. Not sure I really know how to do that but I was hopingit would be like putting air in a bike tire. So I try to leave the parking garage and the car is SO hard to steer. I'm certain this isn't how its supposed to be so I called my buddy Jeff:-) Asked Jeff if he would eye ball the tire to let me know if I should really be driving it - the little voice in my head was sounding a lot like my dad saying, "never never drive on a flat tire - you'll ruin your rim!" So by the time I got out of the garage - which wasn't a long drive, and drop the window to talk to Jeff I hear, "thump thump thump"... by then I know - no driving.

So Jeff checks out the tire - he thought I blew out the interior side wall as flat as it was - since I don't currentlyhave AAA Jeff graciously offered to try and change it. So I helped - mainly facilitated for him, I wasn't much help! I had to empty my car, all those great Mom items you have to have (ie. diapers, snacks, life jackets - hey you never know!) I had to remove... maybe I should reconsider what I keep in my car:-) Got out the donut, jacked the car up and popped the old off and the new on... sounds easier than it was. So in the mean time Matt picked the girls up, and met me in town at Goodyear (I had to drive 50 mph the entire way home - I was being passed right and left, drove me nuts!).

When I got to Goodyear, Gracie was so cute... she wanted to know how the "Barbie car got hurt??" She was very upset - and wanted to give me a hug. Eva was so excited to see me. Got to love them. Matt gave them my tire, I then drove on to get my nails done - priorities, right? Then Matt brought the girls to Frances's, took my car - they plugged the old tire (thanks to Jeff's help - had I driven home it would have been RUINED)... Goodyear put the old plugged tire back on, Matt put everything away and returned my car to me. Perfect - right? Well as perfect as flat tires get:-)

Going to school all day?? No way!

Note from Brenda, "Grace seemed excited to go to school. She said my mom won't let me stay at school all day so I have to come to your house. I tried to explain that it wasn't your decision that she couldn't stay all day but when she gets bigger like Lilyann and Lexy than she can."

The funny part is I did tell her she couldn't go to school all day - I would MISS her too much! I said, "how about next year we go every day, but for just 1/2 a day... then the next year you can go all day.... after that we'll talk about this getting married business!" After the wedding we attended she's been wanting to get married. Often she wants to marry Matt, but on the odd occasion its someone else, I soooooo don't want her to. I want her to stay little longer;-)

Mama mama mama...

Eva's so cute - even if it is at 12:30 a.m. She was up crying, "Mama mama mama..." almost like a ringing telephone, you try to incorporate it into your dream... didn't work though. So up I got to go check on her. She's standing up in her crib and when she sees me, lets loose a HUGE grin (even in the middle of the night a grin like that has to make you happy!). I told her she needed to lay down - when I tell this to Grace now, or when she was Eva's age nothing would have happened - but Eva dropped to her little bug on her belly pose... SHOCKED me! Then she peeks over her shoulder to make sure I was still there. I stood there rubbing her back for at least 15 minutes, and she continued to lay there but wasn't going to sleep... so finally b/c I was just too tired I brought her into our room where she slept between Matt and I. If this were Grace, that would have been her intent all along, but I think Eva would have been happy to have me stand at the side of her crib all night rubbing her back.

Amazing how different they can be. I know she has a small - hairline, mean streak, but the rest of her is just so sweet!

Our first caterpillar...

Today we were out cleaning my car - Grace said, "it's filthy - from all our dirty shoes!" I had to agree w/ her:-) So we're cleaning away, when see a caterpillar creeping across the driveway. The girls were AMAZED w/ it. So we scooped him up in a plastic bottle where they could see him w/out hurting him - hopefully anyway! Eva would say, "ooooh" and so wanted to be in charge of the bottle... but Grace was certain Eva would kill it or let it loose, letting him loose might have been worse in her mind! They picked little flowers and stuck in there - even showed him off to Debbie when she dropped by to check out the cabinet color vs. the wood trim color. I L O V E listening to Grace say, "caterpillar" - when she learns to say it correctly I think I'll miss the way she says it now:-)

After dinner we let the caterpillar go so he could become a butterfly.... he wasn't moving, Grace was worried that he might be "DUD" - aka: dead. I promised that he wasn't, he was just a little scared in the bottle all alone. When I tossed him out into the grass, she looked everywhere wanting to know where the butterfly was... I said, "he won't turn into a butterfly that fast!"

I want to get married...

Tonight we went to a wedding - no one close, a friend of Matt's from work son was getting married. But you would have thought the bride was a close relative b/c Grace was in L O V E w/ her. She thought she was a princess and was truly disappointed when the limo drove away from the church w/out her in it! I had to explain that only the bride & the groom got to ride in the limo;-) At the reception, it killed Grace waiting for all of the standard dances to wrap up so she could then go out and dance on the dance floor w/ little Ms. Eva trailing after her. I too thought the night might never end, I think I'm fighting off the virus Grace had - my body is killing me & the hard chairs don't make it any easier. We were finally able to pull our party girlaway from the dance floor.... and spent the rest of the evening listening to how she wants to "get married". She's only FOUR I'm so not ready for her to get married!

Poor Gracie...

Poor Gracie, she's been saying all week that her throat hurt and she must not have been kidding b/c she's gotten some sort of bug. I was home w/ Eva today - pink eye, and Grace said she'd rather stay home than go to Brenda's, so I said okay. Around lunch time she said, "my stomach feels sick" - I honestly thought that she was just saying that b/c Eva was getting a lot of attention for her eyes, but rather than call her out on it I figured okay. So I said, lets get you a bowl then and sit down... no sooner than I'd gotten the bowl out and she THREW-UP everywhere! Oh, boy were my Mommy instincts off on that one!

Then, a few hours later and she was running a temperature! Poor thing!

Flower girl vs. Rainbow princess... hmmm...

Josh and Erin dropped by this evening and asked Grace is she would be the flower girl in their wedding... wouldn't you know it Grace said NO! I would have never dreamed in a MILLION years that she would say no. I think she didn't realize what a "flower girl" was b/c after saying no, she followed it up w/ "I want to be a rainbow princess". Once we explained that a flower girl and a rainbow princess were nearly the same thing she was all ready to be a flower girl and even said, "let's go!"

A rock star in the making...

Grace went to preschool, while I took Eva to the doctor... after we got home she decided to do her own hair - she thinks she looks just like "Hannah Montana ROCK STAR GIRL!!!" I personally think the bobbie pins w/ three headbands is a nice touch - maybe it's a style that will catch on:-)

Eva has PINK eye...

Okay so yesterday Eva's eyes had yucky stuff coming out of them, but I would never have imagined that over night she would look so much worse! When she woke up her little eyes were matted shut, and swollen - w/ a pinkish purple coloring all around. I took her to the doctor for walk-in's and clearly they didn't even have to ask why we came. Go figure! They said she has pink eye - a bad case too... I guess there is a strain of it going around that has been rather nasty and resistant to the normal antibiotic. But she was really good at the doctors office - flirting w/ some older girls in the waiting room. After her apt. I took her by Linnie's for a donut before we headed out to pick up Grace and Jillian.

Gosh poor Eva feels AWFUL...

When I got to Brenda's today Eva's right eye looked so yucky - turns my stomach! Yucky yellow stuff coming out of it, I have no clue how it didn't bother her more... I suppose it must have b/c as the night went on you could tell she just feels AWFUL. By bedtime both her eyes were yucky... it took forever to get her to go to sleep... she cried and cried. She even brought me the Tylenol bottle -- poor baby! We'll be going to walk in tomorrow (wish Dr. P was working but maybe Celia will be in), not sure if she'll be at Brenda's on Thursday, guess it depends on how she does tomorrow....

You bow, I bow...

Tonight Nanni watched the girls for half an hour or so while Matt & I ran over to the house to measure the windows... hoping to be able to get an idea of how much to set aside for window treatments. While we were gone Nanni, Grace & Eva were playing out back and Eva stumbled - didn't scrap her knee but Nanni kissed it. So Grace kissed it. So then (and this is just TOO CUTE!) Eva bent over and kissed her own knee too!!!

I mean that is what everyone else did, so aren't you supposed to???

I'll share w/ her...

Grace is so sweet! Eva wanted what Grace was eating, and I said "Eva ask Grace I bet she'd share" - Gracie said, "she doesn't have to ask Mommy I'll just share with her anyway...." too sweet:-)