Doctor, Doctor

Boy do the doctors office and pharmacy love us!  We are keeping them in business.  Stuart has had the flu.  Sam has had the flu and strep (he was pitiful for a couple of days).  Emma has had a cold and double ear infection.  I have had a cold for 3 weeks and had a virus for about a day and a half (not the flu though, thank the Lord).  Today Emma and Sam have both woke up with fevers so I guess we will be going to the doctor again soon.  I will be SO glad when Spring gets here and all this flu crap is gone.  Allergies will seem so minor this year.

Other than that the kids are doing great.  Sam continues to learn how to climb on things.  His favorite now is the couch.  He is trying to talk some – he says duck, quack, juice and sometimes it sounds like he is trying to say kitty.  He loves our cat.  He chases her around the house and lays on top of her.  He even likes to go head first into her side with his mouth wide open.  I keep waiting for him to cough up a hair ball. 

Emma is just growing up.  She can give some of the cutest looks.  She is really developing personality.  Her latest hobbies are coloring, pushing her brother down and taking toys away from him.  We have been trying to get her to sleep in her bed all night.  One thing we tried was to make a chart and every night she sleeps in her bed all night she gets a star.  For the past 2 nights she has said, “I want to get on the couch.  I don’t want a star.”  So I guess you can say that didn’t work for us.