Sick Sick Sickeroo

Shayli is such a spectacular girl. I couldn't have asked for a more amazing step daughter. She is working so hard to get the grades that she deserves. She is putting 100% effort into a school that she dislikes so much and Derrick and I are so proud of her.
She is so much fun too! It has been SO freezing cold here. So cold that we were all thinking that they might cancel school. I was hoping that they would! Shayli and I have been having so much fun together playing board games and Mario Kart on the Wii and doing crafts and baking that I just wanted her to have some extra days to add to the weekend so that we could play play play! I just love that girl.



I just love Derrick's family, really I do. His Mom is such a sweet, kind, gently and caring lady. His dad is such a kick in the pants. I love him. He had a heart attack and heart surgery a few weeks ago and is bouncing back quite well. This is a picture of Rad and Papa Wayne playing with a neat-o toy Grandma and Grandpa Hanson gave him.

Rad... oh Raddle Daddle... On Friday Rad spiked a fever out of nowhere. Then he started into this nasty nasty cough. The cough was so horrible that he had a hard time breathing all Friday night. He was totally fine, not even a runny nose up until Friday afternoon. So I took him in to see the doc on Saturday morning. I actually called and gave them his symptoms and they had me there in 10 minutes. He was diagnosed with the Croup, given some steroids, no big deal. The steroids did not help for long though. So I took him in again today and he has Croup even worse now, an ear infection in each ear, an eye infection in each eye and a sinus infection. Man oh Man. Did you know that the average child between birth and their 4th winter gets an average of 14 viruses between September and April of every year? Yikes huh?

Cade has an ear infection in each year. He has had the runs for so long that his rear is raw. Poor little guy. For having two ear infections he has been quite cheerful. I took Rad to the doc today and the doc decided to check Cade too just to be on the safe side. That is how we found out about the ear infections... I really had no inclination that his ears were bothering him.

Cade was never a blanky boy until recently. The kid is hilarious with his blankets now. He wants to wear them on his head and then wrap the rest of the blanket around his body. It really is quite adorable.

One of his other new tricks is to walk or crawl backward. The funniest is when he dances (he loves to dance) he does a few moves, then walks backwards until he runs into something, then turns around and dances some more and then repeats the walking backward move. He sure is an adorable little boy.