The Doctors Wife

The McCuties

My little ones are finally on the mend! We have had two good days in a row, and I hope that we are through with being sick for awhile!! I have been going through pictures and look at these two little McCuties:

  

What a difference a year makes! I can hardly believe how little they were!  
 

The Stomach Bug From Hell

But seriously are they from anywhere else? All four of us have had a turn being sick, and I have to say that taking care of sick kids while you yourself are sick is just no fun. I thought that Hannah and David were feeling better, but they have both regressed and are just so pitiful. I am on a sanitizing streak, and my washing machine is working overtime (TMI?). Say a prayer for my little ones, I am off to take a shower while I have a chance...and throw some more laundry in the washing machine!

Almost Three

Hannah will be three and I can hardly believe it. We waited and prayed for her for so long, and now I can hardly remember what life was like without her. I was pregnant at the same time as quite a few of my friends (which was really fun, and it's so great that we can get together and our kids can play) and birthday season for our kids has rolled around. We went to a party over the weekend and as I looked around at all the kids I remembered all the baby showers, and then all the sweet little babies that would hang out at lunches in their car seats and could not believe that those little babies are now the big brothers and sisters running around and playing. It boggles my mind, it is true what the little old ladies at the grocery store say, they grow up so fast. Almost three, almost three.

 
 

Pants On The Ground, Pants On The Ground

Guess who walked right out of his pants?

 

 Yes, the Rover has been walking for a couple of months, and in the last couple of weeks he has stopped crawling and is exclusively walking! (or running- Lord help me!) And these little jeans were the right length, but (obviously) big in the waist. The Rover is up and running, which means I gotta go!

Mommy's Helper

I vacuum a lot. With two dogs and two small children, it is necessary, or my carpet will look terrible and I will be performing mouth sweeps on David every other minute. The only problem has been that Hannah has freaked out about the vacuum cleaner for the past couple of years. And trust me when I say, this does not make for an easy time. And she was showing David to be afraid as well, and having two screaming kids while you are trying to vacuum is not fun for anybody. Well, when I saw this little Dyson, I knew that I had to get it for Hannah. It looks just like mine, and she is no longer freaked out when I vacuum. In fact she will "vacuum" long after I am finished. Hooray for the mini Dyson!!!

 

  

A New Look

With spring rolling in, I needed a new look. I like it, it is light and fresh and I hope you like it too. I have also been cleaning up the links, some had been broken and are now fixed, and I have added a few more for your reading pleasure. (If you know me in real life and want me to link to you, let me know, I never know how people feel about this, some people prefer their blogs are more for friends and family and I don't want to link you without knowing that you want to be) Medical Mondays will continue to be on a break for a few weeks, but will eventually be back, but probably only every other week. Okay, I have been on-line A LOT trying to get this done, because good gracious I am not technically inclined AT ALL!  And now I am off to get some laundry going and my kitchen cleaned up. 

So it is March- and it has been awhile since i've posted. What can I say? I have been busy with sick kids, getting last years clothes ready to consign at a huge children's consignment sale, a sick husband, and all of the day to day that keeps my to do list never ending. Thankfully (fingers crossed!!!) everyone seems to be on the mend, and with any luck everyone will be 100% in a couple of days. I am hoping that March will be ushering in some nicer, warmer weather, or at the very least, sunshine. This has been a tough winter, between the weather and sick children, I am ready for it to be over! So bring it on March- unless of course you're bringing more winter, in that case, bring it on April!!

Umm, yeah, he has a thing for the washing machine too. (which I do clean regularly!) He gets in trouble when he does this (he didn't see me take his picture) and he has started to lay up a little with the washing machine, thank goodness! He's a funny boy!

 

Consider This Post A Public Service Announcement

A fair warning that this post is not for those with a weak stomach, and if you are eating, you might want to come back later.

This little Rover has a thing for the dishwasher. It's open and he's trying to climb in (or makes it in as illustrated below) He keeps me on my toes, the first thing out is always the knives, because a Rover and a chef's knife are not a combination I am interested in exploring.

 

 So a few weeks ago I was battling David trying to keep him at bay while I tried to unload the dishwasher, and he had wrangled out the basket that the utensils go in that sits on the door. And to my horror of horrors this is what I saw:

 

OH MY STARS IN HEAVEN!  I KNOW! I KNOW!!!! If you know me at all, you know that I am a bit of a clean freak, with a healthy dose of germ-a-phobe thrown in for good measure. And I seriously just about hit my knees with disgust over this. And OH MY I felt so queasy. Is that not the most disgusting thing you have ever seen?! A very thorough scrubbing later, all was right with the world again. It never occurred to me that this needed to be cleaned.  So now I have added my dishwasher to the cleaning routine, and if you haven't checked behind your utensil basket, consider this a friendly PSA and clean it today!

  
  The Rover says, "Hey Mamas- clean your dishwasher today!"

 

**I now take out the utensil basket and place it on the bottom rack unless I have a very full load, and  for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, this is how it fits on the door:

 

Ballet Buddies

Hannah started a a ballet class last week with two of her friends. I have to say it was one of the cutest things I have ever seen! Before class started I snapped a quick pic of these two cuties- they were so happy to see each other. I just love that Hannah is getting to experience this with her little friends!