Plague hits the Kellogg house again!

Isn't that cute? Ethan just loves that huge penguin we call it his "Big Friend".

So we are all sick again. And of course not Brian, he never gets sick. At least not often, and that's good. First it was Stephen, his fever was at least 105 but I swear he felt hotter than that earlier that day. Then Ethan started climbing. I stayed on top of keeping him drugged up and kept him under 102 most of the time. We did do to the Dr. she said there is some funk going around, everyone is testing neg for strep and influenza. She did test Stephen, no point in testing Ethan too they obviously have the same thing. Stephen was negative. Well they started being better. They have snotty noses. (I think they ALWAYS do lately.) Friday I started feeling hot and dizzy during the day. By evening I was on the couch, couldn't get up at all and had chills and sweats. My fever got up to 103 but wasn't staying really high, just sorta up and down. I'm still taking it easy. My throat is super sore. If Stephen hadn't gotten a neg on his strep test I'd swear I have strep. I guess it's just "Kid Plague", that's what Brian and I are calling it.

BATHTIME!

Arn't they cute! I took a ton of pics of this. This is the best where they are both smiling. There is a funny story, I took a streaming video too and it's cute and all and I was gonna send it to some of yall but two things: 1. Stephen keeps standing and he's all naked so that's not great, although I could have gotten over that but 2. At the end of it Ethan who was standing falls down and it looks TERRIBLE in the video. In real life he was fine, laughing the whole time, not going under water or hitting his head or anything and I was right there and got him up and he laughed and laughed so it was fine. But in the video you just see him slip, his feet go up and then the camera turns away and turns off all fast (because in real life I'm catching him) So just imagine he had a great time!

This bath is in direct relation to the last post where Ethan eats his first pancake, What a mess!

Online exclusive!!

Ok, I'm not telling anyone in emial or on the phone about this. Well maybe Marcia as she does not have a computer so she has an excuse. But the rest of you, if you don't come to our blog you won't know. Just this very minute Ethan ate his first pancake! He loved it as you can see. I just had to give him a bit more because he was getting frantic looking for it. Looks like a bath is in our future.

Oh and for the record Stephen is not being ignored, he just loves the camera so much he won't let me take his pic, he wants to be the one taking the pictures! He gets all nutty as soon as I take the camera out. I will try harder and get some cool pictures of him.

Playing together!

Well it's getting cute around here. The boys play together all the time now. Stephen thinks he can ride Ethan's back like a pony. Thank heavens he doesn't put his weight down on him, and that Ethan thinks it's super funny. Actually Ethan thinks everything Stephen does is great. In this pic Ethan is tearing up this book, which is a favorite pastime of my boys. Stephen saw him and joined in. Ethan does get on Stephen's nerves sometimes, he just seems to want to be involved in everything Stephen does. Stephen only has so much patience. Stephen does love him though, gives him lots of hugs. A favorite time for them is bathtime, they go at the same time and they get in a big splash war, I'll tell you too, Ethan holds his own in the splash contest!

Stephen is adding new words to his vocabulary all the time. I think about 5 words a day most days.

Ethan pulls up now and also eats crackers if you break them up. He's pretty proud of that. He still won't drink out of any type container. We continue to work on that.

Clear the roadways I'm on the loose

I just got of the phone with Geico I restored full coverage to the second car and am on the go again. Tomorrow I'll make Brian take the car without carseats in it and I'm gonna go somewhere! Probably the boring post office but just to get out on my own.

This picture is totally unrelated of course, Ethan wouldn't stop messing with my craft stuff so I stuck him in this tote so I could finish putting away my inks and stuff and it was just too cute for words! Doesn't look like he minded one bit, you can't see but I put a book in there with him.

No, Stephen please don't put your brother in a box!

Stephen thinks he can pick Ethan up, he can't. He wants very much to put him in one of these big Huggies boxes and drag him around the house. Ethan is up for anything his big brother does! He never ever leaves Stephen's side. They are just too cute, it's giggles all day around here. Stephen calls Ethan "Broder" or "EEEEEE" which are both adorable. Oh sometimes, "Baby" too, but usually the Broder.


Update on the diaper taking off and general nakedness. When I got Stephen up he had taken his diaper off, but he had the snap together type PJ's on so he couldn't get his pants off. So the diaper was just hanging out in his pants, but not on his body. It was not a poopy mess as I'm sure you are imagining so that's good.


Did I ever share that Stephen's favorite special snack is ice cubes? He loves them, he will stand in front of the freezer and say "Cubes Please, Cubes Please" over and over. He actually eats them too, crunch crunch. Very strange. Thank heavens we don't have one of those door mounted ice cube things where he could get them all he wanted.


Ethan still doesn't drink from anything except nursing. I guess I'm done trying bottles. He's very insistant that he's not going to drink from one, but he doesn't really get drinking from a cup. I'm ready for him to drink some water and even juice now, I'm always afraid he's going to get drhydrated.


Oh and Stephen loves salad! I think that's really cool. So we have been having salads with our dinner. Just me and Stephen, Brian won't touch the stuff. His loss! Right now Stephen and I are into this iceburg and blue cheese salad I totally copied from this resturant Brio I went to. The salad was the best part and now I can make it myself. Yummo! (Did I really just say that?)

Well tonight I'm going to a "Crop" at the Local Stamp Store. It's where you pay $5 then can hang out there all night and use their tables and supplies to make your scrapbook pages or cards or whatever. I don't have anything specific to make but it will be nice to get out of the house and hang out with friends. I'm going to try to go once a month from no on. Ethan can be without me for that long now so I'm doing it!


Oh I can drive again in two weeks! I have been on short trips twice but very soon I'll be totally free again! We got a new car during this time and it will be the car I'm driving so that's sorta funny, I'm out of practice and now have to drive something new. But it's a good car, a Camery. Is it Camery, or Camary? Anyhow you know what I mean. (Yes, I did hear about my spelling errors, you must just move on and pretend you love me for other attributes than my outstanding spelling.)

Well that's all the news for today I think.

Have you all checked out my craft blog ErinKCreations. You can see some of my latest projects and also hear about companies I dig and stuff on there.

Back from our trip, and back from our colds

Well me and the boys at least. Brian has a cold now, He always gets them right when we are getting better.

We had a good time. I wished we had more time to spend with the family but it's "season" down in West Palm so they had to work. Jobs, they just get in the way of life. Anyhow we had a good visit. Brian did all he wanted with the Superbowl and got a bunch of signatures. Stephen said "Gramp" and "Sue" and "Gram" which made everyone happy. My mom gave him some Elmo stuff so he loved that. I was pleased, most days they did nap in spite of not being in their own beds.

Ethan is getting into all sorts of trouble, at least once a day he finds something on the floor to choke on. Today it was a leaf that came in from outside, yesterday it was a scrap of paper. It doesn't even phase me anymore, I just reach in and get the junk out of his mouth and move on. He and Stephen are having some issues, Ethan is all over Stephen and Stephen doesn't always have the patience for it. They are both sweet though. I think it will be fine.

Stephen went crazy today and took off all his clothes and ran around naked for about an hour. He kept sitting on his potty so maybe he's ready to potty train, we will see. Finally I had to put him in clothes it was almost nap time and I knew he was gonna have to go to the bathroom during his nap. He was so offended I put clothes on him he sat in his room crying for over 20 minutes! I talked to him but he didn't want to see me. Crazy nudist kid! Someone tell me this is normal... All kids have days they can't stand clothes right?