New Cuts

Finally the girls both got their hair cut tonight. Long overdue. They are lookin fine!

Soon to come: Winter changes to Spring by Brooklyn. Watch for it :)

Later that night....

I guess it is because I don't like taking pain medication myself unless I absolutely have to - but it didn't occur to me to give Brooklyn some tylenol until she was tucked into bed and still complaining about her arm(s) being sore. So I gave her some and she went to sleep fairly well. Julia on the other hand is not adjusting to the time change. She is normally asleep by 7:30 and was still wide awake at 9:30. At this point she started calling for me (again). I went in and she was sobing 'I don't know if it is drink time and Brooklyn won't wake up and tell me'. They take water to bed every night. And I guess they were playing a game where Brooklyn would announce when it was time to take a drink out of their sippy cups. I tried to explain that Brooklyn was very tired and that she (Julia) should try to get to sleep too. But it was past the point of reason and she was on the verge of hysterics. Now we have always been very against lying to the kids for convenient reasons (like to get them to do things and we are just too lazy to take the high road and explain why it needs to be done and follow through with it). But I guess there comes a point in every parents life when they just want to go to bed. Sooo... after about the fifteenth time of telling her that she can go to sleep if she just lays still and waits for sleep to come and the 16th time of her saying 'I will never fall asleep and I will just lay there all night' (between wailing sobs that is). I caved. I went to the kitchen and routed through the treat basket looking for something that would pass for medicine. Finally settled for one peice of a candy necklace and took it to her. It was dark so I put it in her mouth and said 'here this will help you sleep'. I was very careful not to refer to it as medicine or outright lie. Five minutes later when I went in to restart their sleep CD - assuming she would start wailing at me any minute - she was sound asleep. So I would say I didn't lie. It did in fact help her to go to sleep. Some medicine is psychological rather than physical. And just to ease my own guilty conscience I have to add - if she should ask me what it is or refer to it as medicine I will definately tell her it was candy.

It's a beautiful day!

Spring fever has hit! We are soooo happy to finally have some beautiful weather out there. Mitch expressed his happiness by shovelling a path through the 4 feet of snow to the BBQ. He then made us steak and potatoes. Yummy! We were all very happy to eat BBQ'd food again. Earlier today we all went into the doctor's office and had our final dose of Twinrix. Poor Brooklyn was overdue for a couple of her regular boosters and had to get two other needles as well. She was completely brave and nonchalant as usual but she has been complaining all evening that her arm is sore. Julia didn't cry after getting her needle for the first time. Usually she wails and makes you feel cruel for putting her through that.

Is it Spring yet?

The winter months are almost over - yay! We have been very busy with swimming, ballet and skating all on Saturday mornings. They are all finishing up this month and then we hope to have more free weekends to get out and do some visiting. March 25th the girls will be preforming in a skating year end carnival. Spectators are welcome.

Brooklyn is excited that March Break is almost here. And after March Break her class is planning a 100th day of school party.

For now we are just hiding out indoors and waiting anxiously for some warmer weather.