Darn wind

Our poor swing set... ryan and his dad and brother built it almost exactly 2 years ago. Since then it was moved to put in the pool. Had the rock wall ripped off by wind... and now this. 

I'm starting to feel like it just wasn't meant to be. The girls are so sad. Lola just keep saying ut oh and Greta says don't worry, dada is gonna fix it.  

Greta's writing

Greta has been practicing writing lots and tonight wrote all our names with little help on spelling at all. Proud mama! 

Fun photos

Fun night out with mom and dad

For Christmas we got mom and dad tickets to see Steve Martin and Martin Short. We of course got tickets for ourselves too. We lined up Aunt Julie to babysit.

And what fun we had. They put on a great show. We had good seats and laughed a lot! 

And the girls had a great time too. They hardly noticed I was gone. And we came home to find this. So precious

Sick Lola again

Well today i get a call from day care that Lola might have thrown up blood again. Now knowing last time it turned out to be ketchup I was skeptical but I knew she was coughing a lot and had lots of green snot that morning. She I call the doctor and they have no openings. I plead my case that i don't want to go back to the ER. And they squeeze her in!

Yeah! I take the sheet with me to show the dr. And she confirms not blood! Great! But confirms a sinus infection and really bad ear infection. Her first. Lola's such a trooper you would have never known. No tugging, no fever, still pretty much happy and sleeping. Poor girl! So now some strong antibiotics and I hope the cough, runny nose and ear infection gets cleared right up!

Oh Lola

Lola is still doing a good job going on the potty. Well tonight I messed up. She peed on the potty so I just let her run around for a pit with just her onesie on because we were taking a bath soon. Well the girls were playing on their favorite kitchen stop - the panty. 

Lola comes over and says poop to me. I say do you need to go and she nods. As I'm lifting her on the potty I see skid marks and think so no. She's already pooped! I run into the kitchen and follow the marks... and yup on the panty a big pile of poop. Ahhhh! That was the icing on the cake for how my day went. 

Greta claims she can over to tell me but I wasn't listening. Guess I'll listen more. Haha.

First trip overseas in over a year

Well it was abound to happen.. I had to go back to Belgium for a full week of meetings. After much anxiety, I was ready.

First time... I got to enjoy one night in Amsterdam with 3 other colleagues and we stayed on a houseboat! So fun. We walked and eat our way around town for about 8 hours and hen came back to the boat and hung out and laughed- a lot! Then the next morning the owners of our boat took us on a tour of the canals and dropped us off at the twin station on by boat!

Then to Belgium for the rest of the time. Lots of work and meetings, but I'm happy to say also great bonding with my colleagues. So much easier to work with people that like you and actually have met you and hung out with you. 

So while I worked away... the girls enjoyed a mini vacation at grandmas and ryan enjoyed a bachelor pad. 

I think everyone enjoyed themselves but I was so ready to come home... and the squeal that Lola made when she saw me was the best feeling ever.