Tonsill update

Jackson got his tonsill's out on Tuesday and has been a champ since then. To my surprise, he seems to recovering very quickly! He doesn't want to drink hardly anything though so we came up with the idea of using a timer. Every 3 minutes when the timer goes off he takes 3 small sips of water. It seems to be working great. For some reason I'm mean when I ask him to take a drink, but if the timer goes off that's just what happens. Thank you GIANT Steps for one more helpful tidbit. He is supposed to take an antibiotic to keep him from getting an infection. However, the Dr. told me that he wouldn't have to if we could keep him from other people especially kids. Lucie and Daphne are fine but no neighbor kids or friends for the 10-12 days it takes him to recover. We decided to hold him hostage for a couple of days instead of trying to fight him on another medication. Hopefully, we'll be able to leave the house and see people in about a week from Sunday. Till then, I email, A LOT!

Adam's attempt at baking!

Tonight Adam and I were kind of in a fight so he decided to "surprise" me by baking peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. In the 8 years that I have known him he has NEVER baked once. He found a recipe in one of my cookbooks and some "all-purpose" flour and began cooking. Now Adam didn't know that we have taken Jackson off the GFCF diet but haven't bought regular flour so the "all-purpose" flour he was baking with was a gluten free mix of bean flours. It became obvious that something wasn't right when we started smelling the baking cookies. They smelled like beans. Adam was determined that they would be fine though. He let them cool and then took them off the pan for everyone to enjoy. They completely disintegrated. Don't they look delicious! Needless to say, you can't just take any recipe and make it gluten free. Sorry Adam. Maybe in about 8 years you can try again.

Why I LOVE boys!

The other day, Lucie was pushing me to my limits. Everything I asked her to do, she would protest and throw a tantrum. Finally at about 5:30 that evening I had enough. I had asked her to pick up 2 toys and she flat out told me "no". Needless to say I was furious by that point. My face began to turn red and veins starting puffing out as I started yelling at Lucie to go to her room. I was really losing it and then I turned to hear Jackson say "I'll pick them up Mom." and then, "Mom, you sure look pretty today." I could not stop laughing at that point. At first I couldn't figure out where he got that from and then I remembered that Adam says the same thing the exact same way! That kid listens to everything!

Daphne's First Birthday

Sunday was a busy day for our family. Not only was it Father's Day but it was also Daphne's birthday. Since this was her 1st birthday we decided to celebrate Father's Day on Saturday and then Daphne's birthday on Sunday. Adam's parents were nice enough to let us have her party at their house. We gave the birthday girl her own cake on her table and she didn't know what to do at first. As you can see though, she quickly picked it up and had a GREAT time.

Translation...

Jackson was sick last week and wouldn't eat anything. Finally on Wednesday he was feeling much better but I still couldn't get him to eat. So I decided to pull out all the stops and take the kids to Chick-fil-a, Jackson's FAVORITE food! On our way he started screaming out of pain that his stomach hurt. He asked me "what is my stomaching saying?" because he thinks I can translate all different languages. I told him it was probably because he was hungry and his stomach wanted food. He replied "FEED ME" in a devil voice while scrunching up his belly. After we got the food and he started eating I asked if he felt better. He again scrunched his belly and said "Burp! THANKS FOR LUNCH!". I couldn't stop laughing.

Jackson's Surgery Cancelled

Jackson woke up with a fever yesterday and he was sheduled to have his tonsills removed tomorrow. However since he is sick (ironically with tonsillitis) his surgery has to be postponed. It has been rescheduled it for July 29th. Let's hope he is healthy then.

One year old attacks her older sister!

Daphne loves to give kisses to Lucie as much as Lucie loves to get them. By the way, did you notice anything different about Lucie's hair? Jackson cut her some VERY short bangs on Sunday. Lucie got a short hair style the next day.