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The Longest Drive Ever!!!

we got back from our trip from Utah on Monday morning at 430 Am.
we left Sunday morning at 10 am.
under normal circumstances, we should have gotten home by 10 pm on sunday night.
we got caught in a blizzard and had to
use chains for half of the trip. it took six hours longer than normal.
an ear infection, a car full of sick children who were sick of being in the car all day,
and a migraine later---
we were home.
i have never been so grateful to be in my house, with all my stuff and
my problems.
it was joyful to drive down our street.
our cat was overjoyed to see us too.

Late Christmas Card

so,
here is our late christmas card picture.
i am trying to get a valentines card out, but cant decide what picture is best.
i will post three pictures and everyone who sees, tell me which one is the
best likeness of all of us.

my second question to everyone is,
should i include a picture of the baby on this card?
i know you cant see her in any of these pictures.
but i dont know if its really that big of a deal.

yo gabba gabba rules!!!

I stumbled upon this kids show a while ago.
and we love it.
its so bizarre and creative that it makes me want to go in my craft room and
start making weird stuff.
i love that it gets kids into dancing too. watch this video ---its awesome.
if you ever get a chance to watch the episode called "fun"---its our favorite.
there is a song called "party in my tummy"
its how i get ruby to eat her vegetables.

NO WAY Ezra!!!

Ezra has gotten into this little habit, or , i dont know what you call it, but he says NO WAY instead of a whole sentence.
i took this picture of him crying because it was right after i asked him " Ezra, do you need to sit on the naughty chair because you cant stop crying?" and he said "No way, naughty."
he wont say the whole sentence---he'll just say "no way" instead of " i dont want to" or " stop, or dont do that" or just instead of the word no.
he thinks that "no way" is the way you say no.
the other morning i was feeding him breakfast and he was having his typical freak out when the food was not coming fast enough. i said "Ezra, Chill out" and He said "NO way chill out"

the year of the GOLDEN pig

2007 was the year of the pig, according to the chinese zodiac.
and it just so happens that last year was the year of the "golden pig".
im not quite sure why its golden, or what makes it golden---but i do know that this only happens
every 600 years apparently , if you have a child born in the year
of the golden pig---you are set for life because that pig is going to bring you wealth and prosperity.
so, im so glad that Lucille was born on the year of the pig. cause we're gonna be rich!!!

if you google "year of the golden pig" youll find all kinds of funny articles about how chinese people didnt
need to manufacture birh control for this year and so forth.
everyone in china wanted a baby in 2007

Id like to know more on this subject if anyone knows anything.
i would like to know why the year is a golden pig, and all about where this theory came from in
chinese folklore.

Conan the Lover Cat

Conan was feeling left out of the love .
so he decided to get back into things and make his way back on my lap, no matter how intrusive.

CHRISTMAS 2007

So, its taken me a while to get christmas posted-SORRY!!! Here is a cute video of Ruby after getting her gifts on Christmas. It was only fitting that she should write Santa a letter of thanks. she felt it was her Duty.

poor sick little baby

So apparently--when you have a newborn ( under 2 months of age) and they get a fever, you are suppose to rush them into the emergency room.
Lucille got a fever yesterday when we came home from the store. I pulled her out of her carseat and she was hot. so i called the pediatrician, and he told me that its quite serious when newborns get fevers. i told him that Ezra had just recently got a fever followed by a cold. But he still said that i have to take her in to the ER if her temp was more than 100.4. her temp was not quite that, so i watched it all night, finally at six am , after no sleep all night, an irritable baby, i decided to take her temp again, and it was 101.
so i got up , got dressed and took her in. the hospital staff told me i did the right thing.
but i was not very happy that i rushed her in when it took them four tries to get an IV placed------and then they said she had to have a spinal tap!!! i was not happy about that at all. i know they were just trying to rule out menengitis, but i told them that if at all possible, i did not want that test.
its funny because when you tell the people in the hospital that your daughter previously had leukemia, they are much more sympathetic about not putting you as a parent through any more needless or traumatizing tests.
and its not like i wouldnt have let them do a spinal tap if there were enough legitimate reasons to. but i find it ridiculous to do needless tests.
Lucille was so traumatized by the needles that had four times been unsuccessful. it was really stressful for her and for me.
but her fever went down and the ER reluctantly let us go home. ( we are still waiting for the blood test results.---but over all she is still feisty and eating well---so they are not that worried. )
the moral of the story is, dont let your newborn get a fever.
i feel like its my fault. i have let kids hold her, and my kids have been around her kissing her on her face and such.
im going to be a little more protective from now on.

i love Ezra too