The Week in Review.

This past week we have been fighting sickness and trying to keep it from spreading. Maddux was not feeling well on Thursday and actually ended up throwing up a couple times that night. We were just hoping that this wouldn't spread through the house and cause the other kids to get sick around Christmas time. Brooklyn has been sick more times than not on Christmas so we are looking for a healthy Christmas this year. Maddux being sick did get Jennie out of having to watch any kids on Friday as nobody wanted to take the chance of their kids also getting sick. It actually turned out that he was fine on Friday. We then went to my grandparents this weekend in Indiana and he wasn't throwing up but he definitely was back to his normal self and still isn't. He isn't eating a lot and has been laying around all day. As long as it is gone in the next couple of days and no one else catches it we will be fine.



This is what happens when you are sick and fall asleep in our house. The other kids will take stickers and stick them to your forehead. The funny thing was that he walked around with them on having no idea that they were even there.



Here is Brooklyn doing one of her favorite things, coloring. She is such an artist and amazes Jennie and I at the stuff she does in school. I don't know where she got it as Jennie and I have no artistic bones in our body.



Nolan is growing up quite fast. He now loves to say prayer at dinner and is becoming very independent. Sometimes this is a good thing but a lot of times it is not. This means that he also likes to try and do everything by himself. This weekend at my grandparents house he helped himself to some water from the fridge. They don't drink the tap water but instead buy the jugs from the store with the spouts that you pull and push in and out to get the water. We tried to keep him out of there all weekend but he managed to go undetected and tried to get himself some water. He did get himself a glass but then also forgot to push the spout back in before he closed the fridge door. The next thing you know there is water all over the kitchen floor and in the fridge. When we opened the door the jug was all but gone as it had all poured out. Just one of the many things that Nolan gets into. The other morning he got our of bed and was out in the front room. The rest of us were still in bed and we hear him having a good ole time. We get up and he has a spatula in his hand teeing off on the ornaments on the Christmas tree. He is swinging at them like they are on a tee trying to knock them all off. It was one of things where you want to yell at him but it is also funny so it is hard to get mad. What are you going to do? We just hope he grows up fast.



These last ones are some of my favorites. Payton has a chair that she can stand in and gives Jennie a break every now and then. She has figured out that she loves to jump in the chair and loves to look at herself in the oven window. The other day she was standing in front just staring at herself and going crazy. Well I guess that can be quite a workout as she fell asleep right in the chair. It kind of looks like she is trying to suck on the toys but she is actually out like a light.



I am hoping to have all the pictures from this weekend at my grandparents up by tomorrow so I can post them online. Our visit was short and quick but we were able to see both my grandparents and my Uncle Steve so it was well worth it. It was the first time any of them had seen Payton.