A little of this and a little of that...

Mommy kissin' Lola!

Mommy with Lola

Daddy snuggling with his two favorite kids!


Lola's first (non sponge) bath

Yep, still cries during the Happy Birthday song!

Papa with his 4 grandkids.

Oh it's been an interesting couple of days. It was Ryan's first day back to work yesterday and Teague had a 102.8 temp for the past two days. I took BOTH kids to the Dr office. Big deal, right?! Well not when both are not only crying, but SCREAMING and Teague refused to walk (who could blame him, he was tired and feeling really cruddy), so in I walked carrying the carseat and a 2 year old on the other hip. It was a total circus. And he didn't let up on his crying until home and in bed 1.5 hours later. We did find out that he has a double ear infection - which I will take. I was/am so worried about my kids catching the influenza. I was just hoping this winter sickness wouldn't start so early this year. But then again when they are forecasting snow for the weekend, what can you expect?! So after a good intro to life at home with 2 kids under 2, we are faring better today and Teague seems to be on the mend.

My mom is here helping me out over the next couple of days. I love having her here! We just lay around, she cooks and tomorrow we are shopping. This is the life....I need a full time cooking/cleaning person, but that may not be possible on one income I suppose! Until then I will just have to take my mom up on her visiting whenever possible - though I suppose the cooking for us will end eventually?!

Little Lola is growing leaps and bounds! She is starting to get so chubby and doesn't look like a scrawny little newborn any longer. I still can't believe that she is still smaller at 2.5 weeks than Teague was when he was born!! She is a blessing in our lives and we just LOVE spending time with both of our kids together.

Our weekend was nice. We took the kids to Oktoberfest in Freeport (it was cold - is that the reason for the ear infection?!), but Teague loved the petting zoo and jumping in the jumpy thing. They had good food - which is what I went for! On Sunday we went to church with my entire family and then to my parent's to celebrate "Papa's Happy Birthday". It was so nice to all be together again. Teague loved it because he got to go and see "the animals" like he does every time when he is at my parents. And he cried when we sang happy birthday - thought maybe he had outgrown that, maybe it was the fever spiking?! Regardless, happy "social security birthday" to my dad!

Have a good week!

Such a cute video of Teague....he is laughing at Ryan "pretending" to drop his cookie and then at the end he says to Lola "Hi....Good". I guess he is used to us asking him "HI TEAGUE, HOW ARE YOU?!"