Christmas with kids

It was an eventful Christmas week with the kids. We were all sick with one thing or another, but managed to pull together on Christmas morning to open presents and drink eggnog. I have to say, Christmas is a hell of a lot of fun when you have kids.

Maeve surprised us all on Christmas eve with her first crawl across the kitchen floor. Yet another first for the list (though we're still waiting on her first tooth).

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Happy New Year, ya'll!

Here comes Santa Claus

It's been a tough couple of weeks, but we are ready to welcome Santa into our home. Here are a few weeks worth of photos to pore through before the Christmas photos hit the net.

It's tough being a socialite:

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It's that time of year...

Why so quiet you ask?

To begin, a very sick baby who was treated to her first ER visit at All Children's Hospital after spiking a 105 degree fever. She was not happy:

But the rattle and a big syringe of Motrin did cheer her up a bit:

The diagnosis: RSV, a 2-week long fever ridden severe respiratory infection.

Reilly, who had a 103.5 degree fever the day before, was fine. That is, until today, when she woke up with a full-body rash. Shawn, who kindly mothered and cuddled Maeve while she was sick, is now sick herself.

I was the proud holdout on the sickness bandwagon, but succumbed today.

Tis the season!

The trials of being #2

The other day Shawn was driving Reilly and Maeve to see a show at the theatre. At some point, she noticed that it had gotten awful quiet back there...

When she looked back, here is what she found:

Reilly's excuse for graffiti-ing up her sister?

"I wrote the M so that I wouldn't forget her name, Mommy."

That excuse did not cut it, and when they got home, Reilly went straight to time out. Maeve, for her part, didn't seem to mind at all.

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