We had a busy weekend! Addison and Fischer's 3rd birthday party was on Saturday, and we had family and friends in town for that. I will be posting about their party soon!

Today I wanted to wish Scott a Happy Anniversary! I can't believe we've been married for 8 years!!! We are getting to have a date night tonight so I'm excited about that! Good thing because things are about to get  (or stay) quite busy around here... including 2 separate trips to Japan for Scott in the next month.

Here is a picture from our 5th anniversary, 2 days before Addison and Fischer were born. I let myself off of bedrest for about 15 minutes to enjoy the delicious meal Scott cooked. I had been craving a salad with crab meat on it for weeks and he made that along with steak. Sadly I was sort of in pain throughout the whole meal, and couldn't eat much since the babies were taking up all of the room in there, but it was still delicious and a nice way to celebrate our last anniversary as a childless couple! :)

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Addison and Fischer had a party at school today - they brought home lots of goodies and cute little valentines from their friends!

When they got up, they had little treats waiting for them. They each got some new jammies, new undies (always exciting!), little bottles of ketchup (Fischer's most favorite thing right now), stickers, and a few other small things. They also got cute little gardening rakes that Scott picked up for them!

I was thinking about their first Valentine's Day... they were almost a year old! One of their favorite things was chomping on pizza crust if we happened to be at a pizza restaurant. So, we decided to go to Pizza Hut for lunch that day so they could chomp away! Romantic, right?! Here they are before lunch that day:

We might as well make it a family affair - all 4 of us are now on antibiotics. But hopefully this means we can finally get rid of whatever this is instead of passing it back and forth!

Because of all the sickness, I keep forgetting how close we are to Addison and Fischer's birthday! It's less than 2 weeks away - I can hardly believe it. Their party is planned for a few days before their actual birthday so I'm not sure what we will do on the actual day. They don't have school that day so I need to come up with something fun to do!

We finally got a call about Addison's ENT appointment, and we will be going there on February 23. At least they were nice enough to make it the day after her birthday! That's also the day they get to celebrate their birthdays at schools so I'm sure it'll be great fun to take a sugared up 3 year old to an appointment like that.  Oh well! :)

Anyway, it looks like we'll be taking it easy this weekend and trying to rest and finally get healthy. I hope you all have a great weekend!

Here is a picture from last year's birthday party - how is it possible that an entire year has already passed?!

3 years ago, I broke my bedrest rules and headed to Bi-Lo with Scott to do a little grocery shopping. While it was nice to get out of the house, I definitely had many more contractions than usual that night as I was hooked up to the contraction monitor. Oops! Luckily the kids didn't end up coming the next day or I might have felt a little guilty! :)

I really wish our pediatrician's office had some sort of frequent-visitor program. Or "pay 10 copays, get 1 free." Something! We have been there so many times since November and we have to pay $30 each time. Ouch.

Anyway, we were back there this morning for Addison. She started running a fever yesterday, along with a very runny nose and nasty cough. She told me her ears hurt, which isn't shocking to me anymore. She continued to have a fever all night, so off we went this morning. Sure enough, she has an infection in her left ear.

The doctor is referring us to an ENT, so I'm just waiting on the phone call from them to schedule the appointment. The first appointment will be a consultation/2nd opinion, but the outcome will most likely be tubes. At this point, I just want to hurry up and get it done because I'm tired of pumping medicine into their little bodies! Speaking of that, the doctor went ahead and rechecked Fischer's ears this morning since we were there. Monday he had an infection in his left ear and now it is in both ears. He's only had 4 doses of his medicine so far so hopefully it kicks in soon. It won't surprise me if he ends up at the ENT soon too... maybe they'd give us a Buy 1 Get 1 deal?! I'm always on the look out for deals.... :)

So, we are taking it easy around here again today. No school for the kids tomorrow - we are going to all be a little stir crazy very soon I think. Hopefully we'll have nice weather this weekend so we can get out and do something fun!

I should have known that it was too good to be true... we hadn't been to the pediatrician in over a week, and the latest visit was just for a recheck of ears so it wasn't an actual "sick" visit.

Our luck ended today. :( Fischer started coughing last week, and over the past few days his cough has gotten worse. His nose has started running and on Saturday he had a fever. So today I took him to the doctor. He has an ear infection in his left ear and an upper respiratory infection (a bad cold).

He hasn't been himself today so I'm hoping tomorrow is a better day for him. I hate when they are sick and there isn't anything I can do to make them feel better. He started his medicine tonight and we will have a lazy day tomorrow (no school!). Unfortunately I'm not feeling great either, so I think the lazy day will do us all some good!

You know my little (29 pound) man doesn't feel good when he's actually sitting still and I can get a non-blurry picture of him! He was happily playing with his Leapster in this picture as we waited on the doctor to come in.

Last Friday, I had to take Addison back to see the doctor to make sure her ears were all clear. The doctor just wanted to make sure that once she finished her antibiotics, her ears were actually fine and nothing was still lingering.

Fischer got to tag along this time. Luckily we had the 2nd appointment of the day so we didn't have to wait long. In the waiting room, they had a great time staring at the 6 day old baby that was there. I'll admit, I stared a lot too. :) He was so cute and tiny - I couldn't even believe that Addison and Fischer were even smaller than he was. They are so big now! Addison was 28ish pounds when they weighed her.

I still think that pediatrician's offices should line their walls with rubber. I don't know about other kids, but mine get a weird burst of energy when we get there - even when they are sick. So when they are healthy, you can imagine how it goes with both of them in that tiny little room. They had a good time on Friday - and I've given up trying to keep them off the floor, out from under the chairs, etc... Gross, I know.  Anyway, at one point, they decided they were going to hide from the doctor and surprise him. So here they are, hiding...

The doctor came in, checked Addison out and said she looked great. So now we know that her ears actually do clear up when she takes medicine. Hopefully these ear infections stay away now. When Addison's turn was over, Fischer started saying "check me! check me!" Dr. Finch let him hop up onto the table and get checked out too. It never hurts to make sure things are all clear! He looked great too. And Fischer even got to listen to his own heartbeat, which he loved.

Afterwards, I treated them to a doughnut at Krispy Kreme and then we headed to the park for a little while. They enjoyed using this picnic table as a stage!