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And why shouldn’t I, after 4 birthdays to celebrate this month? Not only does it deplete the checkbook, but you simply get tired of singing “Happy Birthday” and eating cake. Dylan had a delightful birthday though! *Wink* From the moment he woke up, until the moment he fell asleep, he was a complete monster grabbing things away from people, poking or shoving them all in the name of “It’s MY birthday.” Typical punishment didn’t work. I really think he though he was above the law on his birthday, because he is back to his normal, albeit precocious, lovable cute self. He insists he is 6 though. Everything is 6. When he counts, and he can count to 10 if he wants, the last number is always 6. Challenge him and he gets mad. And yet I’m crazy about the little charmer!

I took Alisa to the doctor for her 5-yo well child checkup and immunizations. Alisa is 44.25 inches tall and 44.25 pounds. She is doing very well. We do need to bring her into a pediatric ophthalmologist (not sure why that was recommended over an optometrist?) though. When she took her vision test she did fine with both eyes, and fine with one eye covered. But with the other eye covered she couldn’t identify letters or shapes up to the top line! I’ve noticed she is a little cross-eyed, and she absolutely hates reading practice, so I’m wondering if this isn’t all tied together. Part of me hopes she was just being shy at the doctors, but the other part of me things that a pair of glasses might help her to have the love of reading the rest of us have. Reese also went to the doctor, and her update can be found on her page.

The carpet is sitting in our garage. The painting is about half done. (And why does the carpet now look lighter than I wanted and the paint look darker? Stupid samples!) The trim just has to be stained and polyurethane’d. (And installed!) I’ve been allowing my house to get more and more messy as half the stuff I pick up belongs downstairs anyway, but it’s starting to drive me crazy. I think it’s time to pull a few all nighters and just get it done.

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I’ve decided that Dylan has too many gems to not have a few posts devoted to him. If you are a Senfield fan, you’ll appreciate this one. There is an episode devoted to ‘Bad’ and ‘good’ naked. Dylan hates clothes *(unless they are on inside out or backwards.) So we have plenty of opportunity to see lots of examples of ‘bad’ naked (looking under the bed for something, doing a summersault, etc.) Yesterday before church he woke up, took off all his clothes, and ran around the house 3 times screaming over and over “Bad naked, Bad naked!” He the proceeded to calmly get his church clothes on and eat breakfast.

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So I think I had the flu. You know, where you have a high fever and are weak and have the chills and headaches and congestion. It was awful, and at its peak I would have liked to disappear. But, it passed a week ago, and it appears none of the other children contacted it.

Luckily, it didn’t interfere with Mark and me going to the Home and Garden Show. I had a hard time dealing with 6 snow-bound children all week and Mark surprised me by taking the day off of work and taking me to the show. We had a lot of fun and got a lot of ideas about what we’d like to see happen with our home and landscaping. Last fall Mark plotted out our land (unscientifically) and we’ve had fun drawing on copies of it: where we want to put the garden, fruit trees, playground, etc. We can’t wait for spring to start!

One day, while I was in the bathtub, the school district called to ask about Alisabeth. Zach informed me that Ethan and Dylan were yelling in the background and the lady said that we sounded “Busy with kids” or something. That in turn became a fun conversation on what not to say when a person is on the phone with the school district”

“Sorry, you can’t talk to my mom, she’s at the Casino. No, my Dad’s not here either. He’s still in rehab. But that’s okay, because if he knew about Mom’s boyfriend he’d be mad!”

“Dylan, put that knife down!”

“Alisa, get away from the Vodka, you know it makes Mom mad when you drink her stuff.”

“Someone stop Reese from sticking the fork in the outlet”

I thought about the funny thing I wanted to mention about Dylan from the archives. He caught the kissing scene in Harry Potter 5 and said “EW, Yuck!” really loudly. And then as it continued on, he says “That is SO gross!” No idea where that came from.

I think that’s about it for updates. I’ll update Reese’s page with a few small items, but all in all we are happy, healthy, and ready for Spring. I’ll put in a picture of Ethan on his birthday next time. And here is a picture of Reese in curlers. She liked them for all of 2 minutes and then was ‘done’.

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