Great Party!

Today we celebrated "PaPa's" 80th birthday today! His actual birthday is not until June 14th so this was a little early, but when you make it to 80 and are as healthy and active as he is....what's a few days here or there!!

So many people came to honor him and he seemed to be on cloud nine all afternoon and evening!

I wish I had more opportunity to visit, but Jode and I spent most of the party corralling the girls. The party was at The French Quarter on Lake Conroe's Clubhouse which is an upstairs facility next to a swimming pool. So we were either trying to keep the girls upstairs and off the staircase or we were downstairs trying to keep them out of the pool! Now that Victoria is mobile...we have double the trouble!!

Alexandra loves parties and was most excited about her dance and PaPa's cake!

Happy Birthday PaPa!

What a week!

Alexandra laid down on the living room floor with her "blankie & winkie" and fell asleep at noon on Tuesday. This HIGHLY unusual behavior for her. So I felt her forehead and sure enough, she was running fever! Tuesday night she threw up in our bed twice and ran a fairly high fever all night. Wednesday was much better and she insisted she was "well", but that was only because she wanted to go outside for a walk! I think we watched the same movie at least 4 times that day in addition to two others, just to keep her occupied!! Thursday her fever was better, but her throat was hurting and then Victoria starts running fever that afternoon. They went down the tubes fast and we ended up at an urgent care clinic sometime around 6PM. Both girls were diagnosed with Strep throat! So for the first time ever, they are both officially sick and on antibiotics. Thankfully they both seem to like their Amoxicillin! Thursday night was grueling for Victoria. Poor baby felt so bad and just didn't understand why. She woke up every hour on the hour and cried for about 10 minutes then went back to sleep. Friday consisted of a lot of holding and rocking, but thankfully Alexandra seems to be on the mend! She says she is "better" and says she is "happy"; however, if I mention that she needs to be gentle or quite because Victoria is sick, she will remind me that she is sick too! It has been a learning experience having two sick babies, but I guess it will always be like this since they are so close in age. The doctor said it was almost impossible for one to be sick without the other one getting it!!

Victoria Walks!

Where does time go?? It seems like she was just born and today she started walking! She has acted like she was going to walk for the past six weeks or longer, but today it all came together for her. She seems very pleased with her toddling self. I think she looks kinda like a penguin or a duck. She definitely has her own little proud waddle. Yea Victoria! Momma loves!