We're still here!

Nothing much going on here.  Fighting off some respiratory bug.  Both Hayden & Liv had had some Albuterol throughout the last week.  Always thankful we have that stuff just laying around & it doesn't require a trip to the doctor or ER.  We're unfortunately that household where its normal course!  Today its transitioned into some sort of GI bug too.  So thats always fun.  A little bit more frequently crabby & sensitive, but otherwise pretty much their normal selves.

Still managing to have plenty of spunk & goofiness.  Reminds me a lot of her Aunt Molly, whom we have dozens of pictures of doing the splits on stairs at all ages.

 She really needs a gymnastics class!!

 I FINALLY got with the times & got myself a smart phone this week.  I'm so behind the times!  The poor kid at Best Buy who worked with me I'm sure is still making fun of me today!  I made him show me how to make a phone call & how to send a text on it before I left!  So far in playing with it, I've learned about 3 more things to do on it & have yet to load any aps, outside of the Facebook one.  The kids got LeapPads for Christmas & they have picked things up on them way faster than I am learning this iphone, which they call my LeapPad. 

The camera flash messed up the picture some, the best I could get.  But Logan brought this to me & said "I wrote my name!"  Totally free hand!!  What an awesome start!!!

He & Livi can spell their names so well.  Hayden, well, he'll get it eventually.  He usually gets an H, and an A or Y in there somewhere, but mostly just rattles off random letters.  H.A.S.Y.E.X!  Livi can even spell our last name!  She knows all the letters & can be heard walking around reading letters everywhere.  She "reads" words off boxes, pictures, signs, etc.  "Reads" meaning if she sees Trix, she will say "T.  R.  I.  X.  "And she is starting to sound things out a little bit.  Some serious pre-reading skills going on in her brain!

Someone got a hold of my camera....

 Surprise, surprise.  It was Hayden!

Before sickness set in, I was mid way painting Liv's dressers.  Yup, finally dug in.  Cleaned, sanded & primed.  Waiting for parents who have not been up with coughing, booger nosed kids to paint it.  And I have our office furniture all in the middle of the room to paint it too.  At a standstill for the moment with this crud. 

Playing with an idea of what to do in the office.