Valentine's Day

Here's my Valentine's day present.  Logan had the soda truck deliver me a rose, a Dutchman's cookie, and a fancy Dr. Pepper.  I tried the blueberry and half and half and it wasn't very good:(

This is the only picture we got of Valentine's day this year because it was probably the worst Valentine's day ever.
 Logan got sick (kind of a holiday trend at our house).  He was super duper sick and he finally went to the doctor on Tuesday (meaning we also missed Presidents Day weekend and didn't get to use the free Parade of Homes tickets his work gave him) and got diagnosed with Influenza A.  Great.  Later on that day, Chap came down with a fever just like Logan's (102.5) and I took him to the doctor, since the doctor said that if you caught it early you could take Tamiflu.
 I went to get Chap's prescription filled and it was $275, so I decided not to get it since it doesn't cure the flu, it just makes it shorter (supposedly).
Wednesday night while I was at Young Womens, Logan called me and told me that Merit had a fever, though not as high.  She was only sick for maybe 2 days.
Logan is still coughing (9 days later) and Chap is still sick too. I think Chapter caught a cold too though, because his symptoms the last few days have been more cold-like.

My theory of why Merit and I are fine is this: I got a flu shot last year while I was pregnant.  Not sure if this is the case or just general female superiority (haha) but I'm very thankful that I'm well and that Merit didn't get very sick. I've never been a believer in flu shots and the only reason I got one last year is because my doctor made me (he said the flu was hitting pregnant women particularly hard last year), but after the week I've had, I think we'll be flu shot people in the future!

Ice Cream

Award

About three weeks ago, Logan's boss called me.  I, of course, believed that something horrible had happened and Logan was hurt or dead or something.  It about gave me a heart attack.  BUT, it was for something fun.  He told me that Logan had been nominated for an award and he needed me to email him a picture and proofread Logan's bio that he had written.  And this was all supposed to be secret.  Secrets are hard for me, but I did it!  I'm just as proud of myself as I am of Logan.  It was really hard when Logan came home and told me about this engineering banquet and that it was weird because the company was buying both of us tickets.  Haha.  Yeah, that's weird:)

So last night was the banquet.  We sat at a table with his boss and his wife and it was really fun.  Then it was time for the awards.  I was almost dying.  Then they announced Logan's name and I think he almost died.  He was super-duper embarrassed.  When he came back to sit down he asked me if I was in on it and I said yes, and honestly, I think he was a little upset with me for keeping it a secret.  Poor Logan, always being wonderful and getting awards, haha.

Congrats to my favorite engineer!  I'm so proud of you!

10 Months (The Many Faces of Merit)

 Here is the nose wrinkle smile.

 Here is the happy Chapter snuggle smile.

 This is the "Chapter hit me" face. :)

And this one might be my favorite of the month.  Swinging in the yard with her fluffy hair!

Merit is pretty much a doll.  She grew all 4 top teeth in a week this month.  It was a miserable week for all of us, haha.  This month we discovered that Merit loves to swing!  It was a pretty big surprise because Chapter HATED swinging (still kind of does) and it just makes Merit giggle and giggle.  

She still isn't walking, but I attribute that to her crawling prowess and the fact that we tore out the wall between the kitchen and living room so she is pretty much always locked up in a bedroom or in her high chair (or downstairs, but that room is so full of furniture from upstairs that there isn't much room).  This month we started styling her hair in a faux hawk and it seriously cracks me up!  I can't believe it took me this long to do it.  

And here's a picture of the Chap-man-do because he always wants a picture too:)

Goggles Save the Day (and my Sanity)

Chap has suddenly started hating the bathtub.  It is seriously like bathing a cat, not that I have ever done that, but he tries to climb out and he screams and thrashes.  It's not really a stretch to imagine him clawing and hissing haha.  He claims the water hurts his face. Not his eyes, and I use the same stuff on Merit and she almost always gets suds in her eyes and she doesn't cry, so I'm pretty sure that isn't the issue.  Anyway, after bathing him way too many times like a cat I decided to try goggles.

Long story short: Best $5 I've ever spent:)

He was still scared the first time we used them and he actually pulled them off mid rinse and he panicked but the times since then (and after I drilled it into his head that you DON'T TOUCH THE GOGGLES! Everything has went very smoothly.  Still not well enough that I dare put Merit in there with him again, but a vast improvement none the less.