Pre Christmas Fun

Pretty much the month of December:

Caroline finds the drawer in our coffee table the perfect lounging location.

Patrick finished framing, electrical, and HVAC in the basement--hooray! Time for drywall. We hired this part out. One morning a big...thing (crane?) came to drop off the supplies. We (and all the neighbors) got a big kick out of that.

Maggie has taken to decorating Caroline:

She's big into art of all kinds I guess:

We took a trip to Utah for my brother's birthday (I'll do a separate post on this). One day in and Caroline was throwing up. Super. After two days of puking we make the journey home. This is how she looked the whole way. At least she managed NOT to vomit the entire drive--phew!

I felt just awful for her! A day or so later we find out that cousin Meredith came down with it too (oh the massive guilt!). Sorry Mer!!

We thought Maggie had escaped. Wrong. Although she didn't vomit nearly as much as Caroline she basically slept for 3 days straight and had me pretty worried.

Both kids miraculously felt great for Christmas Eve and Christmas day. Then came something else...