We have been busy and sick lately. Yesterday we had a really fun day and the girls and I made valentine’s for Eric and Hadley baked her very first loaf of bread. She loves that it has “fingerprints” in it. This is the result of kneading the bread with your fingertips instead of your palms. She was very proud and did a very good job. Her Valentine’s also turned out very well, and we will be making more later on in the week. Dawson, Makai and Lael came over last night to play. The kids all climbed into Hadley’s closet and began to throw everything out of it. I do mean everything. I am sure Hadley thought it was fun at the time, until I made her put everything back into it before she went to bed. I put stuff back on the hangers and she had to hang it all back up. She then said, “mommy, next time, I will never, never, never do this again.” I thought so.

Today we did a bunch of chores, errands and took another trip to the doctors office. Hadley broke out in a rash, and since her cough is not too much better I thought we better get it checked out. The doctor said it looks like a strep rash although she doesn’t appear to have strep. I don’t know what that means, but he gave me an antibiotic to knock this out of her system. She has been one sleepy little girl though, so I can tell she is trying to fight off something.

Zoey is walking almost everywhere she goes and is now beginning new adventures with climbing on things. It has been really hard to keep up with the two of them, but I suspect my remaining baby weight is going to slide right off in the next couple months.