We spent New Year's Eve & day at my sister's, Pamela, house in Wyoming.
We rang in the new year with the east coast--Benjamin thought it was awesome to be able to make so much noise (he won the hand-clapper at white-elephant bingo at Grandma & Grandpa's).
More noise (we saved the packing air pockets from Christmas)
Benjamin hanging out with Thing 1 & Thing 2 & big & little The Cat in the Hats.
the kids wrote Ben's name out of Aunt Pamela's ducks.
School started on Monday (the 7th). Brienna shut the passenger door on our van...
and the rear windshield shattered. So on Tuesday I called to find out how much it would cost to replace.
January & February always seem to be a bit of a struggle for us financially--and it also seems that is the time when additional expenses pile up. Wednesday I loaded the dishwasher & tried to start it with no luck. So Rusty tried--and said that his "surprise" repair a year ago (see post here) finally gave out & hopes to look at it in the near future.
And then on Thursday morning I woke up to the sounds of Rusty throwing up--and calling for a sub. He has to be quite sick to call for a sub. He felt like the world was spinning unless he was laying down. Thankfully he didn't throw up again, but he has laid around all day Thurs. & Friday.
Benjamin learns about a new letter of the alphabet each week at pre-school. This week was "R"--so they made robot (or Ben-bot) costumes.
Emmalee immediately wanted to make one too after seeing Benjamin with his.
And both of them decided to vacuum the couch after they took the cushions off to play "sapce" robots (jump from cushion to cushion & not touch the floor). It was extremely dirty--so they had a blast cleaning it!
Today was spent in town getting the van's window replaced, shopping & having Brienna's foot x-ray-ed again. The good news is the break/fracture doesn't look any worse--but the bad news is it doesn't look any better either. So it's another few weeks of wearing the walking boot before we get another x-ray. Dr. Baker wanted to know how she was feeling & was surprised that it doesn't hurt/bother her at all.
