Sickies, Hail, and Skip Bo

Well the Power House has been wracked with illness for over a week now.
Ashlyn has been struggling with Pneumonia and on the verge of hospitalization since Thurs. Poor thing is on steroids, antibiotics and breathing treatments, lets just say she's a maniac right now, but at least we are done with the 103 fevers. I hate fevers. Then Christopher was out of work almost all week. He was out for the count on Tues and Wed with fevers, body aches. tight chest, and plain ole icky feeling. He almost stayed home on Thurs but dragged his butt to work to bring cupcake cheesecake for a bake sale. Then Friday I got hit pretty hard with a migrain and begged him to stay home. Sat and Sun I have been progressivly getting worse with a headcold and icky lungs. Katey and Brandon are coughing but otherwise are holding on pretty good.

Today, we were sitting around bored as can be as we are confined to home with sickies and all of a sudden it started to pour rain out of no where. It was awesome. It was raining, thundering, and then hail. The kids got so excited and couldnt believe how fast and out of nowhere this storm came from. Then as quick as it was here, it was gone.

Back to being bored... so we decided to break out skip bo and teach Katey and Brandon how to play. Ash is resting and watching cartoons, and we are gonna enjoy a game with the big kids.

Hope you all are doing better than we are at the Power House.
Love to you all,
Shel

Highs and Low's of the day.

Every night at dinner, we go one by one and say what our Highs and Low's are for the day. Its something I really enjoy, and I think the kids get a huge kick out of it. If I dont ask right away one of them brings it up. I like asking about highs and low's because I want to talk about everything, good or bad. Plus it's fun to hear what they classify as a low, or a high.

ANYWAY,
Today, my High's and Low's..

Low- doing laundry all day. I hate laundry.

High- coming downstairs to make dinner and seeing all 3 of my children playing so nicely.
They had all the chairs lined up and were pretending they were on a plane flying around the world. They ended up getting stuck in a hurricane, and it was so much fun to watch them and listen to them.

I told them how much I liked seeing them using their imaginations and how good it is for Ashlyn to learn to use her imagination. Then we thought it might be fun for each of us to start writing stories for Ashlyn. When we get done writing one then we get to read it to her as a bed time story. The kids are so excited about it. They want to have them put into books so when they get older they can say, "Ashlyn, I wrote this book for you when I was 8yrs old." (Brandon)

I'm really excited to see where their adventures take us.

Have a great week.
Shel

Just some pictures

Brandon and Capone

Ashlyn doing Yoga

Ashlyn and Daddy

Chris playing a game, and Ashlyn playing with Capone.

Hope you enjoy the pics,
Shel