Why is it...

... that when one of your children gets sick, you generally get it too???

Yep, I've got the virus or whatever it was that Blayden had. And if he felt HALF as bad as I do, I feel really bad for the little guy! I started running a fever yesterday, throwing up and all that fun stuff. I went to bed at 6 (thanks, Matt!!!) and didn't get up until 7 this morning. I'm still feeling bad, but nothing like I did yesterday.

The good news is that Blayden seems to be feeling a LOT better, and once he gets completely over his diarrea, we'll be good to go with him. :-)

Sick baby boy

Well, Blayden woke me up at 2:15 last night, crying. I figured something was "off" from the cry, and sure enough when I got in there he had thrown up everywhere. NOT a fun thing to find at 2:00 in the morning, as any mom will tell you! So I got him up, took him to my room, cleaned him up, gave him to Matt (Matt was thrilled too) and refixed his bed with clean sheets. Again, not the most fun thing to do in the middle of the night.

He's still sleeping right now though, and I'm hoping he'll feel better today. I'm praying it's just a 24 hour thing, or maybe just something he ate (although he didn't eat much at supper...)

I was supposed to have class at 8 this morning, but since he's sick, I can't take him to MDO, so I'll have to be with him today. I guess we'll hang out. :-) Crossing fingers he doesn't throw up in my car though- I HAVE to run some errands! This is my only day to do it!!

Random pictures

Here are just a few random pictures of the boys since I haven't uploaded pictures in FOREVER!!!

My little BB!


Jace and I had our first "date" together. We went to see "Cirque Dreams" at MSC Opus. SOOO much fun and so cool!!

Blayden's birthday

Well, Blayden's birthday was January 27 and I just haven't had time to even comment on it much less make a whole entire blog! I do have pictures uploaded though and I'll post some of those. He had his party at The Bounce and he had a blast. He's SOOO cute, but such a little two-year old. He throws some awesome tantrums and he has the CUTEST "No!" looks!! He has his two-year appointment today, so I'll post those stats as soon as I know them. I can't believe how fast my baby has grown.

Here's a few pictures from his party though:

Getting into the ball pit:


He LOVED the big slide:


Yumm! Cookie cake!


Everyone jumping!

First test of the semester...

Well, I'm up on campus, and I just had my first test of the semester. It was 5 short answer questions, and I'm just not sure how I did. Guess I'll see, but I know I just made some stuff up (but that's what partial credit is for, right?!?) Good news is that I got back a paper for the same class and I made a 20 on it (out of 20 possible points.) Woo-hoo for me! ;-)

Ready for Valentine's Day!!

Well, Kelton and Blayden had their Valentine's Day party at school today, and Daylon and Jace will have theirs tomorrow. I've gotten all of the boys class Valentine's cards done (except Daylon's- he has to help me do his this afternoon) and I got all of the boys teachers Red Hot Jelly that we made for them all ready to go.

I also went today and got all of the boys (even Matt!) their big mylar balloons. I get them one every year for Valentine's since they don't really like the "girly" Valentine stuff. So they each have a HUGE balloon that is taking up a lot of my closet space right now until Saturday morning. (I know I won't have the time to go get them before then, so I got them today while everyone was at school!) :-)

Matt and I have a romantic weekend planned in Kemah, looking at boats (reminder, ours went "down" in Hurricane Ike, and Matt has been looking every day for a new one! We're JUST LOOKING though, and have no plans to buy one. We're mostly going so I can see just how BIG a 53 foot or 60 foot yaught really is. I've never been in one that big!) We'll also get to sleep in, go to dinner without ordering 4 kids meals (or 3 and then having Blayden eat off of our plates!), and sleeping in. Oh, and did I mention that I get to SLEEP?!?! I think I'm more excited about that than anything else!! Susie (our nanny) is going to keep the boys for us all weekend, and they are SUPER excited about that! They LOVE Susie (or "Suey" as Blayden calls her!) and she's promised to make cup cakes with them, so they're even more thrilled. (But not as thrilled as me!! I love my kids, but oh-my-gosh! There's a lot of them!!!)

Schools going good for me, just a lot of work and time. In fact, I'm trying to talk myself out of skipping class tonight (it's a 3 hour long class that starts at 5:45 and ends at 8:35, and I just don't feel like doing it tonight AT ALL.) I'm tired, and I really just want to chill out tonight. We'll see though, as it counts as two absenses if I skip. Ugg...

I think that's about it. Hopefully I really can get pictures up soon! I promise, I do have them. It's just that I barely have time to do ANYTHING much less sit there and upload pictures, organize them, etc. I know I need to though!!!

Update

Sorry it's been so long since I've updated. Things have been SOOO busy the last few weeks since school started for me. I'm up at 5 to go to boot camp (except for last week because my shins were REALLY bad I could barely walk, and I've missed two days this week), I come home, get ready, get the boys ready, then head to class. Most days I'm done by 10:00, but on Wednesdays I have my "long day" and I have class until 3:30. Still not as bad as last semester where I was there until 5:15 two days a week.

Everyone is doing good. Blayden has figured out that he IS two now and has hit the "terrible 2's" hard. He's a little stinker!! He'll yell at his brothers (and Matt and I sometimes too) to "stop!" or "no!" or "mine!" And he's even laid on the ground for a full out tantrum a few times (yes, I just walk away and ignore him.) ;-) He still can be SOO sweet though, so it really makes up for the stinkerness of his 2-year old self.

Matt's been VERY busy with work which is just awesome. Things have really picked up in the last two weeks or so, and they've sold 4 pools lately. Which is really good for February. I just hope it keeps up (and continues to increase) for the rest of the summer. :-)

The older boys are doing good. I have a meeting with Jace's teacher today to discuss his progress so I'm hoping that goes well. Daylon is doing much better with his reading and spelling words, so that's good. Jace LOVES to read, I've just noticed him having a few problems with some things, so I'm sure that's what his teacher wants to talk about too. Kelton has been very good and sweet lately, but boy! can that kid argue!! He comes up with these really logical arguements too, so it's hard to not take him really seriously. I think we may have a lawyer on our hands.

I think that's about it though. I STILL haven't uploaded pictures from Christmas and now I need to upload pictures of Blayden's birthday party too. I promise I'll get those done today and post them. :-)