Month In A Minute

The past few days have been a bit crazy–more sickness and then Kai’s birthday–so I’m a little behind with the March recap. BUT! I have a few entries for Kids Say this month! So those will be at the end of the post. So without further ado, here’s the recap for March…starting with some iphone photos!

These kids–they’re the cutest, I tell you! But if they could just stop passing germs back and forth, I’d really appreciate it, ya know?

This picture of Evangeline reminds me of a Glamour Shots photo haha. Raise your hand if you ever had Glamour Shots taken **hand raised–yep, #noregrets//The two bottom photos on this set pretty much sum up most of March–sickness and sleeping.

These pictures below were all taken on the same day. Clem’s fever shot up to 104.7 on a Saturday night and she was not on our insurance at that point. So I frantically texted my nurse friend to figure out what I should do. Ultimately I decided to stay home and wait it out because she was eating well and wasn’t dehydrated so I didn’t feel like the hospital could really do anything except for charge us thousands of dollars for sitting in a room. Thankfully her fever went down the next day. But I did take advantage of her sickness by getting some pictures of her while she was sleeping unswaddled. She’s officially 6 months old now and still will only sleep if she’s swaddled up–unless shes very sick, of course.

While we were battling the flu, we also were trying to make a video for the beddy’s contest (voting ends tonight at midnight!) Only the top 10 will move on for judging and unfortunately, I don’t think ours will make it 🙁 I am pretty positive that people are buying votes (did you even know that was a real thing?! I didn’t find out until yesterday!) But the contest hosts aren’t really doing much to stop it. I have to be real with you, after they told me that they couldn’t do much about it, I briefly considered buying votes to give us a chance. I know–that’s horrible. But I realized that just because other people were getting away with cheating, it didn’t make it right for me to cheat as well. I’m kind of nervous just admitting that here–my sinful, tempted-to-cheat thoughts–but I’m just trying to be real with you. I’m just an ordinary person, with faults, like everyone else. Anyway, after that long paragraph–if you would like to vote for us and share it with your friends, we’d really appreciate it!

Oh, and that ^^^chubby baby in the sink with our new Tubby Todd in a huge pump bottle!! It makes bath time sooo much easier now. (I feel like I always have to follow up with “**not an ad” after a post like this but it really has been so helpful!

The many faces of Clem. Her smiles are the most contagious thing ever!!

So, a little story–I keep going back and forth with wanting bangs/afraid to get them. So I bought a $5 clip in set from ebay. I kept laughing at myself because I feel like they make me look like the female member of The Beatles. But Clem rocked them, for sure!//and that bottom right picture–Desmond found the steamer and was cuddling with it and we couldn’t stop laughing. I’m so glad I was able to capture a picture.

Even though I’ve been discouraged a bit with our never-ending sickness, I can’t help but be so thankful that these sicknesses are just little sicknesses. We landed in the doctor’s office a few times this month but we were sent home with nothing much to worry about. My dear friend, Rose, is sitting in the hospital right now with her 3 month old baby, who has Trisomy 18 and is currently battling for her life with RSV. To babies with T18, even a tiny little cold can be fatal. I can’t imagine being in Rose’s place right now. So if you could pray for her and her precious baby, I would so appreciate it. You can also follow along with her journey on her Loving Lavender Facebook page.

A couple weeks ago we were able to celebrate at my Grandma’s house for her 86th birthday! I’m always amazed by that woman and the energy she has. And her house/property is one of my very favorite places.

I apologize for being long winded today! So much going on in my mind right now. Anyway, if you have a minute (or two 😉 ) here are mine and Don’s videos for March. And below, a few quotes from my kids from March. I REALLY hope to get back to blogging more regularly–I have lots to share.  But I always say that–so we’ll see.

I hope you’re having a great week!

Kids Say

As Don unswaddled Clementine…
Don–“Are you free now?”
Evangeline–“No, she’s zero!”

Kingston–“Is it snack time?”
Me–“Yeah, you need to have something healthy for a snack.”
Kingston–“So, like, can we have another piece of chocolate?”

Liam–“All of the Lovings have had their arms fall off before!”
Don–“You mean they broke their arms?”
Liam–“Ohhh…yeah.”

I took Evangeline’s temperature and it was 101.1°. When she saw the thermometer light up red, she got excited and threw her fists in the air and said “yes! I have a ‘Justin Bieber!'” (She meant fever–not sure how she got that wrong)

Me–“Are you allergic to donuts?”
Kingston–“No. I’m not allergic to anything…except everything that I don’t like.”