Best Week Ever? Nope!

Well, well, well how to begin telling you all about the week from...not a good place? Last Friday I took Mia into the Dr to get a flu shot and leave with a child who has a double ear infection, and is losing to much weight, then on Sunday mom and two kids are sick, Monday Ryan gets laid off from his job, Tuesday Ryan is applying for unemployment and every other form of help we can get, Wednesday Ryan is searching for jobs that are not out there, Thursday Ryan gets two rejections from hopeful jobs and Mandy screws up dinner group dinner, Friday Ryan falls down the stairs holding Mia, and Saturday take Mia to the ER and she has a fracture in her right femur. Can any of you top this week? Nope, I did not think so. Fortunately Ryan and I have such awesome sense of humors nobody has melted down, we are looking into bank robbery if any of you have any suggestions.

Here is Mia in her swing. She didn't even really cry unless we moved her leg. During the Xray she was not happy either. She even slept all through the night last night before we knew her leg was fractured what a good baby.

Look at that sad lag in her little cast. So sad.

There were a couple of good things this week.

The kids got a Wii for Christmas and Landon got a shooter Star Wars game this is all they want to do these days. I was about ready to throw the games out the door since I am not a fan of video games anyways, then we got our newsletter from the preschool telling us how video games hinder children's academic development, this confirmed my thoughts. So for FHE we made a chart of what has to be complete before games can be played, thirty minutes of reading, twenty minutes of practicing letters, and clean up all of our toys. Landon usually wakes up first thing in the morning wanting to read so he can play games. Isabel usually throws a fit and cries on the floor while Landon plays. One day they did not want to play games and wanted to color this giant firetruck puzzle that Aunt Ginger gave Landon like two years ago instead.

This is the greatest thing ever. They did not have this with my other two kids. You stick a piece of food inside the mesh and let them go to town gnawing on it. No food chunks will get out just juices. Mia absolutely loves it. When we walk towards her with it she starts holding her hands out and panting for it. We have done peaches and cantaloupe. We can hear her sucking on it from across the room, when she drops it she starts crying her eyes out.

Go get one if you have a young baby. It keeps her occupied while we eat dinner.

Hopefully our next blog will be a little happier, or maybe from one of our parents houses if the job market does not move. Please pray for us to have a chipper email from Boise.

Peace Out!