Pics from last weekend

I took Lauren to a birthday party last weekend. The little boy in the middle was the guest of honor. I think Lauren is a little sweet on him. She's made friends with these two at church and at school.
Check out this big playhouse!!! The church rents this out for $50 and it's well worth it. I lost count of how many times Lauren slid down. No wonder she was wiped out when we got home. Up she goes!!

Look out! Here she comes! This was one of her first trips down. She had a blast!
Look at her face! A word to the wise...if you rent one of these machines, only allow 2 or 3 kids to go up at a time. At one time, there were several of them climbing up on one side which made that side heavier...yes, you guessed it...this monstrous thing fell over!!! Thankfully, no one was hurt and thankfully Lauren had just gotten off to come tell me something. Talk about scared...I saw it all happening, but there was nothing I could do.

Pictures...finally!!!

One of Lauren's favorite things to do after school is to get in the bean bag and let Tiger crawl all over her.

He can get a little out of hand at times, but she still loves it!

I think at this point I was probably telling him to settle down. I know he's just a puppy, but I'm scared he'll accidentally hurt her.

Isn't he pretty and hasn't he grown??? He goes back to the vet for his booster shot on Tuesday and we'll see how much he weighs. Remember last time he weighed 22.9 pounds which was about a month ago.
Nana came to visit and you would have thought Tiger had known her all his life. He hasn't seen her since Christmas. He was literally ALL OVER HER. He couldn't get enough of her.

I told you...he was even climbing behind her head...and on top of it too! :-)
I think by this time she had had enough. I had to put him up. Her hair WAS fixed when she got here.

I told you Tigerman LOVES his daddy!!! He just can't get enough sugar from him.

Update!

Morgan was in our room at 3:30 this morning and said she had already been to the bathroom 3 times in a row. We let her get in the bed with us...I told David that I could not miss another day right now so he said he'd stay and take her to the doctor. About 10 minutes passed and here comes Lauren. "Mommy, where's Morgan...I'm scared." Soooo, here I go with my pillow to her room to sleep with her. It's a good thing I went to bed at 9:00 last night. Yes, I said 9:00. That's a record for me, but I was tired and just wanted to lay down. Long story, short...David took Morgan to the doctor. They checked her wbc again and it was fine. He said that normally they don't do a stool sample until they've had trouble for 2 weeks, but with salmonella cases he would go ahead and do that. Hopefully we'll find out something soon. Just pray that it's nothing. Bless her heart...it has to be miserable going to the bathroom so much...especially when she's at school. Enough about that...just pray that her results are fine. I'll be back on here this weekend uploading pics. Bye for now. By the way, I'm sure she would appreciate me getting on here and telling all of her business! LOL :-)

I know...it's been a while!

I haven't posted in a while so I thought I might give you an update. I've been busy lately and haven't taken the time to post any new pictures. I have some, but haven't uploaded them to my computer yet. I will...I promise. We were a little busy last weekend. We usually go out to eat on Friday nights, but I actually cooked last Friday night because I didn't feel like going anywhere. Lauren had a birthday party from 2-4 Saturday so I took her to that and Morgan stayed home with her dad. She's still having tummy trouble. I think we'll be making another trip to the doctor tomorrow after school to see what's going on. Anyway, David and Morgan went to see Hotel for Dogs and loved it. They left when we got here so I stayed home and graded papers while they were gone. When they got back, we went to eat at Cowboy's (a good seafood restaurant here in Monticello). Sunday was our usual...Sunday school, church, out to eat and home. David left for Louisiana (just for the night)around 5 and Mom came up to stay the night with us. Monday night, I had a little girls night out with some girls from my Sunday school class. We all met up at one house and had pizza and desserts from 6-8 and laughed our heads off. I needed that. David meets up with the guys from our class on Thursday nights. Last night was parent night at Morgan's school. They served chili from 6-6:30, but I wasn't much on eating chili so we ate at Ameca before we went. The actual meetings in classrooms took place from 6:30-7:30. It was very informative and David was able to see what Morgan's day consists of. I still can't believe that Lauren will be starting Kindergarten next year. She just seems too little. Anyway, we don't have much planned for the weekend other than cleaning house and resting. Morgan is having a sleepover next weekend for her birthday. This will be her first sleepover ever so I've limited her to inviting 3 girls (that doesn't include Lauren). Lucky for David, he will be leaving for his annual ski trip with Dr. Teed on Morgan's birthday (which is February 6th) so he will miss out on all of the fun and excitement (which is why he took her to the movies...just the two of them). My mom will be here and Elizabeth said she'd come over and help too. It'll be fun and Morgan is so excited. She sure does miss her friends from Prescott though. She wanted to invite them all, but I had to explain to her that we live a little too far now. Well, that's all for now. I'll try to make time to upload pics this weekend. I have some cute ones!
Until next time....

Missed work again!

I got up this morning...got completely ready for work...went in the girls' room at 6:30 a.m., woke Lauren up and she felt pretty warm...took her temp and it was 101.7. I walked back in the living room and said to David, "well, I'm staying home today." He went ahead and got Morgan up, got her ready, fixed her breakfast and she was in the bathroom after her first bite. Let me back up...Morgan's stomach was pretty messed up when we got home yesterday from school. She couldn't even finish her supper. After their bath, she put herself in the bed at 7:15...you could tell she didn't feel good. She's been on Omnicef (a pretty powerful antibiotic) for a week now and it's been known to do this to your stomach, but I would think it would have done it before now. Soooo, she was back in the bathroom this morning with the same problem and I just kept her home too. I took them both to the doctor today at noon. Lauren has another ear infection and is now on Omnicef (she's so use to it though, it doesn't hurt her stomach anymore). He took Morgan off of the Omnicef and told me to give her Pepto Bismol as needed and also gave me a prescription for phenergan gel to put on her wrist for nausea if this turns into something else. He said he's seen a lot with the stomach virus lately...UGH! I'd rather have anything except that. I'm sending them both to school tomorrow unless Morgan wakes up like this again in the morning...then David will stay home with her. I hate missing work because it's more work for a teacher to be out than it is to just be there. You get so far behind on what you were going to teach. Oh well, the week's almost over. Hopefully we can all stay well. So long for now.

TGIF!!!

Thank God it's Friday...AND a long weekend. We are off Monday...YEAH!!! I'm always up for an extra day to "sleep in". Remember when I told you that I took Morgan to the doctor Tuesday and got her on antibiotics? Well, we went to school Wednesday and Morgan was fine...BUT I got sick. My throat started hurting a little that morning, but by the afternoon I could hardly swallow. I called David on my way home and asked him to come in a little earlier than normal because I was going to bed. I got home, changed into sweats, grabbed a thick blanket, and curled up on our bed. My temp was up to 101.8 that night. I honestly felt like I was getting the flu or strep throat. Needless to say, I called in sick the next day. I didn't bother going to the doctor because I'm already on 1500 mg of penicillin a day from the dentist for a tooth issue I had a couple of weeks ago. He gave me 40 pills so I will finally finish Sunday. Anyway, I didn't want more antibiotics so I just stayed home. I feel much better...no more fever, just a lot of congestion and sinus pressure. I know Tiger was glad I stayed home too. He was able to stay inside with me where it was warm and cozy instead of outside in his pen. It didn't get above 28 degrees here yesterday. Too cold for him to be outside. Speaking of cold...David's parents are working in Ohio and she said it was -10 degrees there this morning. She called me around 5 this evening and it had gotten up to 4 degrees there. Brrrr!!! Looks like I'll be cleaning house this weekend and making a trip to Lowe's to replace our kitchen sink light. I'm tired of not having a light over my sink AND of seeing an electrical cord hanging from the ceiling. I hope you all have a great, relaxing weekend.

Report cards are in!!!

Morgan got her report card today. All A's again! We're so proud of her...she had a 98 in reading, 98 in math, 100 in spelling, and 100 in language arts. She always gets excited when report cards come in...her Nana and Mimi always give her a certain amount of money for each A she earns. She was a little down today, though. She hasn't felt well all day. She went to bed last night with a stuffy nose and woke up this morning with a sore throat. I thought it might get better during the day, but when she came to my room this afternoon, she didn't look any better. I took her temp when we got home and it was 100.3. I took her to the doctor to get her tested for strep (since it's going around), but thankfully her test was negative. Her white blood count was high though which indicated an infection. He said it was probably a sinus infection and put her on antibiotics. I think she'll be fine. We haven't had flu shots yet so I'm hoping we can steer clear of that this year. Hope everyone is doing good and staying well.