Stitches

Stitches seemed to be a theme in our house last week.  I spent a few hours getting crafty with the sewing machine and Aidan ended up with his eyebrow stitched together. Thankfully the two had nothing to do with each other.

Aidan was invited to a Chronicles of Narnia themed birthday party.  Boys were supposed to be kings and girls were supposed to be queens.  We've got a lot of princess gear in this house, but are short on king attire.  Thank you Joann Fabric for having a sale on felt last week.  For a grand total of $6.99 I bought a yard of red felt and fuzzy trim.  Then came the hard part.  I had to break out the sewing machine manual to figure out how to thread the darn thing.  Not that it was hard.  It had just been a long time.  In the end, the cape turned out nicely (although I doubt it will stand up to much rough housing).

The other stitches came on Tuesday.  I walk in the door after work to hear, "Mommy, I got stitches!"  Aidan sounded excited, so I guess cracking his head on a bookcase at the YMCA and spending a few hours in the ER wasn't traumatic.  Taking a band-aid off, on the other hand, brings tears and screaming.  You'd think that would be the least of his worries.  The stitches come out tomorrow.  I think we'll take the band-aid off before we get there to avoid all that commotion in the doctor's office.

King Aidan, stitched up from his most recent battle with the bookcase

I Work Out

I'm not implying that my husband needs to work out, but this video is just too funny.  I could see this really working for Kyle.

Sanitize

It ain't the holidays unless someone gets sick, and since there were two holidays within the span of a week, we got double the sickness.  Aubrey came down with an ear infection and pink eye on the way home from IL on Tuesday and Aidan got a double ear infection on New Year's Eve.  Happy 2012, indeed.  Aubrey feels fine now; Aidan is on the mend.  I cannot fathom what people did before antibiotics.  I've been washing and sanitizing my hands like I've got OCD in the hopes that I don't catch whatever is making the rounds in our house.  *knock on wood*

Other than the sick bugs, the holidays were fantastic.  We spent time with both of our families, the kids got lots of toys that they are having a blast playing with, and best of all, I actually found some time to relax!!!

Of course there are more pictures that I know what to do with, but here are a few of my favorites.

Say Cheese!

SO excited to get Tickle Me Elmo from Santa!

Reese would have rather worn a  sweat suit on Christmas Day

Watch out, Hells Angels, Aidan and Aubrey are coming your way

Princess Aubrey is holding court

Trying to get a decent picture of the two of them

Love this picture of Aidan, Aubrey looks a little special

FINALLY!!  We all smiled and looked at the camera at the same time!!!
Success.