sickness and cranky kids

What a weekend! Aunt Claire came over to visit on Friday and we all had fun, she's a popular visitor over here. On Saturday we had some more popular visitors, Uncle Bill and Aunt Niki and come dinner time I knew Piper was overly tired from all the fun but then I felt her forehead and she was burning up. She had a high fever all Saturday night and all day Sunday with only a slight cough. Well this morning I thought the fever had broken but she got a glass of milk and about an hour later "spit" it up. She calls throwing up "spitting up". Well after her morning fun she started feeling better and even ate some bannana for lunch and two bites of toast. A good nap was had and now she's a whiny mess this afternoon and her fever seems to be back.

Reagan on the other hands seems to be feeling great and is even a bit bored without Piper torturing, I mean playing with her. That means Mommy is even more in demand than usual as Piper seems to have forgotten how to walk, how to put a blanket on herself, how to turn on the tv, how to find her water glass and just about anything else. Reagan on the other hand can not seem to keep herself busy without Mommy for more than 5 minutes.

If I ever get some time and concentration I'll post some more pictures. I have some cute ones of Piper and her friends from a playdate a few weeks ago.

I think Layla is comfortable

Now that Layla has moved back into the house and settled in she's found a nice comfy place to sleep at night. Before we go to bed we tuck her in with Piper and I don't think she's even woken Piper up, from what I can tell Piper wakes up in the morning and is surprised she's there and just loves it!

Happy Birthday Piper

Wow - where have the past 4 years gone? Our first baby is 4 today. She woke up to a pile of presents and requested a pancake breakfast. At school today I got to join in the celebration, they have about 15 minutes of picture sharing and a chance to show off their Mom's/Dad's. We celebrated her Birthday with Grandma Mary, Papa Miller and Jill, Papa Lonny and Grandma Robin, and Bill and Niki and Claire on Saturday but we will do something fun tonight as well.

I'm at it again.....

I wasn't making any new friends at the checkout lane at Cub Foods this evening but oh well, I saved $80.68 on my groceries this evening, well I still have an additional $15 off my next grocery purchase so $95.68 total savings. They are having really great deals on cereal/diapers/wipes this week and with my additional coupons I got 15 boxes of cereal and 1 cake mix for $10.10, I saved $44.40 on cereal. Yes, I have to store 15 boxes of cereal but it will be gone within 2 months (it lasts forever anyways) and it's hard to resist paying $.63 per box instead of $3.55 per box. For the diapers and wipes I got 4 double packages of wipe refills and 1 package of diapers and a cake mix (filler item) for $14.21. Normally the individual wipes are around $2.50-$2.99 and the diapers are $9.99 each. Call me crazy but I love a good deal.