11 months old

Eleanor is 11 months old today! I sure wish she was feeling better. This is after 4 days on the 2nd round of antibiotics. Doesn't she look miserable? Not too miserable to cheese for the camera, of course! We're headed back to the doctor tomorrow...

And I thought this was so cute of the 2 of them playing together. It's kind of a rare moment for them to actually be playing together and not taking toys away from each other.

Still fighting the good fight

Poor Eleanor is still fighting illness. She had a terrible time sleeping (in her bed anyway, she did fine on J or I) this past weekend. Sunday night, she started having goop in her eye. I knew what was next - pink eye. Will says she has googly eyes. :) So Monday morning when she awoke (after sleeping on the couch with me for 4 hours) her eye was matted shut. We headed to the doctor - one day before we were scheduled to go back to recheck the ear infections and pneumonia. Indeed, she did have pink eye which was caused by the 2 ear infections that were still there. Thankfully, the pneumonia is gone and her lungs sounded great. She's on more antibiotics now, pink eye has spread to both eyes and she has a very runny nose. Last night she was only out of bed for a little over 2 hours, so we're making some progress there. I'm just hoping these drugs kick in soon. She looks miserable!

We had a lovely dinner at Melting Pot on Saturday for Dad's birthday. All 4 of us girls, 2 of the husbands and Dad & Kit all having fondue - it was quite a spectacle! Thank goodness for great family who stepped in to watch W & E at the last minute. We appreciated it so much!


Will has figured out that he can now get out of bed on his own in the morning. Both Saturday & Sunday last weekend he got out of bed and came to greet us. We will be getting him a clock soon and setting some rules about what time he is allowed to come out of his room. I am so scared of being awakened with his little face right in front of mine at 4 a.m.! He's doing great a preschool and learning so many fun things. He also picks up on some really random things. Last night he said, "Mom, I'm lergic [allergic] to you." Really?! He didn't know what it meant, but he must have heard someone say it.

Thankfully we have a low-key weekend this weekend. Here's hoping for improved health and good nights of sleep!

Mr. What?!

Will's teacher and I were discussing his day yesterday and she told me that he was doing math (addition and subtraction) in his head all day yesterday so she asked if she could call him Mr. Math. Will reponded in a very cool way, "No, you can call me Mr. Big", prompting his teacher to ask if he'd been around when Sex and the City was on recently. (The answer is no, by the way.) Geesh!

Will & Justin were talking last night and Will informed his dad that he was practicing spelling at school. Much to Justin's suprise, Will followed that up by spelling Mom, Dad, cat and dog. He's been "praciticing" spelling by putting a lot of letters together and asking us what it spells, but this was definitely the best he's done at actually spelling words. Then Will says, "Daddy, I can spell Addison, too." And then he did. Followed by Seville. (These are two of his friends at school.) Apparently his own name is too easy now, so he moved on to more complex ones. I think our days of spelling out words we don't want to say in front of him are limited.

Love all around

Happy belated Valentine's Day! Thankfully, Eleanor is feeling better so we had a much better weekend. She is getting better every day and getting back to her usual smily self.


We had a fun weekend! Will got a special treat on Saturday and got to see Playhouse Disney Live with Grammy & Daddy. He loved it and told me all about it when he got home!


While they were out, Casie, Eleanor & I went shopping and out to lunch. Casie stayed for dinner and to watch the basketball game. Though Will was a little confused - "Daddy, do you know why Aunt Casie is here?" Haha - I think he enjoys her company, he just wasn't expecting her this time! She made some yummy chocolate covered strawberries for us while she was here. We've all been enjoying them!
We've been watching a little bit of the Olympics ("Limpkicks" if you ask Will). He loved watching the ski jump. "Wow! That guy's flyin'!"
And it appears as though we are off to another eventful week. Will lost his pants at school today. Literally. Lost his pants. They can't find them anywhere. He wore his PJ pants home today. (They change into PJ's for nap time.) It's alway something...

To answer a previous question: Yes

...this is an infirmary. Justin & Eleanor were feeling miserable most of the weekend. Mostly just cold symptoms, but still not fun. Thankfully, Will was well on the road to recovery. Sweet Eleanor was trying so hard to be her happy self, but she was just miserable at times. She would just lay her little head down on my shoulder like she wanted to sleep. We ended up taking her to the doctor today - double ear infections and a little pneumonia. Poor baby! Hopefully the antibiotics will kick in soon and she'll be feeling much better. I can't believe this is her first round of antibiotics - amazing! We'd had several rounds for Will by the time he was this age...maybe that's the difference between a spring baby & a fall baby.

Luckily everyone was feeling well enough to go to Justin's brother & sister-in-law's house for a Super Bowl/birthday get together. Will had a great time! They have a really fun bounce house in their basement. Will was timid at first, but grew to love it!

New teeth

I just love this picture of Elle! And you can see her top teeth a little.


She's been much more mobile lately - scooting and on all fours rocking. (Her brother is "helping" her in this pic.) It's so interesting to see the difference in kids. I know at 10 months she's probably "late" for doing this, but Will never was one to be on all fours rocking and he didn't crawl until 14 months.

Are we an infirmary?

Last Thursday Botchie had his teeth cleaned at the vet. For those of you unfamiliar with the process, this is not like a quick teeth cleaning at the dentist. Poor Botch was at the vet all day, under sedation for the procedure and ended up having 3 teeth pulled. He was totally out of it when we picked him up and was so mellow all evening. By Friday he was finally eating again and getting back to his normal self. While it was sad to see him like that, Justin & I did jokingly discuss how nice it would be to sometimes inject him with some of that sedative to calm him down!

Will had to come home from school early on Friday due to a cough. Neither of the kids slept well Friday night and Will had a cough and runny nose Saturday. He did fine playing while Grandma was there Saturday morning, but went downhill fast after that. He had a fever most of the day and was generally just not feeling very well. Thankfully, he slept better Saturday and has not had a fever since. This picture is from Sunday when he was feeling a little better. He's feeding bunny (who now gets to sit in the high chair and eat Eleanor's food).

We're crossing our fingers that this will be the end of our illness stretch for a while!