Update

My kids are precious. ;-)

Nathan is growing like a weed. We went through a couple of weeks of some major attitude; but, now that I think about it, he's been much better this last week. I don't know if I get lax on him or what, but I went through a day or two of being "military momma" and that really seemed to help him. The thing is, I really have to have a lot of energy to be military momma. ha Military momma isn't mean, just very, very on top of things AND (and this takes the most energy) has a good attitude. I guess the good attitude isn't really part of the military persona. ha It's much easier to repeat myself several times or raise my voice than it is to say things one time and give immediate consequences if I am not obeyed. I feel badly since most of my Nathan posts have something to do with discipline, but that is just where we are right now. I'm currently trying to figure out how to train him to pay attention. He does really well obeying us when no one is around, but as soon as circumstances become overly stimulating...we lose him. Then he'll start talking about something that really interests him, and he is SO STINKIN' CUTE! :-)

Pardon the loud, random piano-playing; Evan was playing random songs from a Disney piano book I got from a garage sale. ;-)

Noelle, I suppose, is growing. :-) I think she's taking after her momma's size. Dinky-dot. She still isn't walking. She can stand up on her own, and she'll sometimes crawl to the middle of the living room and stand up. She just doesn't want to move her right foot. ha Every time she takes a step it's with her left foot. She makes barking noises whenever the dogs bark. She claps. She kisses (when she wants to). She will start yelling at her daddy if he comes in the front door and doesn't appear immediately. If she's on the floor, she will start crawling quickly to wherever he is. :-) She eats like crazy and loves to make a mess. She loves pea soup, yellow squash, broccoli, potatoes, okra, egg yolk, sweet potato, her meat cubes (ground beef, onion, garlic, & liver), and most any kind of fruit. The girl just likes to eat.

Well, that's all for now!

Nathan and Noelle

We got a lot (to us) of snow today, around seven inches. Nathan was very excited yesterday that there was a possibility of snow, but around 3:45 this morning he was standing by my bed with fever. I got up, took his temperature (101.?), and got him some water to drink. He said his throat hurt, so I made him some lemon stuff and read him a book. He went back to bed and slept until 7 or so. The first thing he said when he woke up was "Is there snow and icicles?!"

He has had a fever between 100-101 degrees all day, although this evening was the first time he really started acting like he really didn't feel well. He kept saying, "I don't feel well." Poor little guy. I've made him lemon stuff, vegetable soup, and apple juice jello. This evening he really did not eat a whole lot, but I did get a cupful of soup down him by standing next to him while he played a game with his daddy and spoon-feeding him. :-)

He did get to play in the snow some today. I went outside and scooped up a big bowlful for him. We even made a little snowman. Evan and I went outside tonight after both kiddos were in bed (we took the monitor with us) and tried to make a snowman, but the snow really isn't the right consistency for that. It is like powder. We made a huge mountain, anyway. :-) It's crazy how bright it is when everything is covered with snow! I told Evan that snow is nice but that I really don't care for it all that much. Around Christmas-time I like to see it, but after the first of the year I just start wanting Spring to come!

Here is a video of Nathan. Can you tell that he is not up to par?

Noelle video