Day 2 was not near as exciting as yesterday and hopefully I remember it all as my first post didn’t go through :o( We spent the morning spring cleaning out the game & puzzle closet and all around the house. With gorgeous weather we were itching to get out for a bit. Off to our doctor’s appointments. 3 out of 4 of us had appointments – what better time than March Break? Savannah was getting caught up on her shots. The doctor was very impressed with her as she didn’t even cry after her two shots. I must admit she did snarl a bit at him after the first one. He was just really surprised as he said kids always cry. I attributed it to her rough and tumble brothers…and the sucker I gave to her in between the 2 shots. Alex didn’t even realize he had an appointment as he played game boy right through it. I am still hanging in there too. The one kid that didn’t have an appointment had a bad cold and so I just asked if there was a bad virus going around. Carsten was feeling cold and wearing a coat (in our nice 15+ weather). The doctor said it is going around and he was cold yesterday too. So off we went with our prescriptions for eczema cream, inhalers and headache medicine…thinking we were good to go. After a few errands and Carsten really not seeming to be himself (he only ate half his ice cream cone), we went home where he told us that he was cold and his head hurt. I took his temperature and it was 101.6 and I promptly got the flashlight out to check his throat…my guess...strep throat. Baffled as to why he didn’t tell me when we were at the doctors today, even after asking him. I gave him some Tylenol and waited for Mark to come home and off we went to the clinic. After a 45 minutes wait (and we were there just before 6!) we got our script and diagnosis…strep throat. We are planning to talk to our family doctor about it as he has had strep 4-5 times this winter, guessing he hasn’t really gotten over it a few times. Carsten is a great sick kid though!! He held in the tears until we got home (waiting almost 30 minutes for script filling) where his complaint was his bad headache. I understand the headache thing totally. So now Savannah’s shots have caught up to her, Carsten fell asleep on the couch minutes after he got home and Alex is full of energy. I didn’t take any pictures until getting back and here is the 3 I took. Please excuse the water soaked pillow from Carsten’s cool cloth for his head. Hopefully tomorrow is better.

March Break - One Day Down, 4 to Go

We finally have something to update our blog with. Today we started our March break off by sleeping in till 7:00!!! (Thanks to the time change) After lounging around for a bit, we rushed off to the RCSS to buy rubber boots for my city slicker boys (Savannah still had some that fit - or so we thought). Then on we went to the Felkar Farm, where the kids all hung out for a bit and then off we went to Grandpa and Grandma Simpson's farm to check out the baby lambs. They even had a brand new one born yesterday. After having a great time there, we headed back to the Felkar Farm and after a delicious lunch and some more play, we headed out to the horse barn and had Alex (and Aunt Mel's) dream a reality, horseback riding. We even had time to play in the hayloft and help brush down the horse. The kids sure were tired when they got home, but no worries...THE KIDS ARE PLANNING THEIR MARCH BREAK PARTY...bowling, swimming, more farm play, movies, etc. Good thing March break is a week long. :O)

Our grumpy girls...attitude!

Thankfully not all day ;o)

We spent much of the day saying "Down Mater"

And the reason for our purchase of rubber boots...

Checking out our baby lambs

Some outdoor fun

Our horse adventures

New Babies in the Family

Congratulations to James and Cindy with the birth of another

baby girl Serena Grace. She weighed in at 8 lbs, 3 oz and 21

inches in length. All seems to be well with mom and baby.

We thank God for his great blessings.

We also are pleased to show a picture of a

"temporary" addition from John and Sue.

Her name is Destiny Skye (not sure on spelling).

She is a tiny peanut at 5 lbs, 5 oz.

Here are a few pictures from the last little bit. No real time to blog much.

Savannah is learning to skate (she does NOT like her helmet)

Carsten - My snow Angel
Alex getting a ride
Amanda and Jeffrey's Baby Shower

Savannah and her friend Nemo

Jen Z. building me a track

Disney On Ice

Carsten, Cailyn, Gerald and Sylvia got to go to Disney

on ice this morning. We made it tonight, weather and

even the right date :o) We had a great time. Here are
a few pictures from the show. I may post a few more

when I get some of Kim's pictures...my camera

batteries died and my memory card was full. Enjoy!

Pay it Forward :O)

Kim, Daniel, Beau, Tucker, Savannah and I were to go to Disney on Ice tonight. We figured out all our plans and arrived at the arena in decent time. We were to get our tickets from a guy from Down Syndrome association but he wasn't there. Upon calling he said it was for tomorrow. The kids were a bit disappointed but we left and decided to go get some supper. As we were leaving the parking, we decided to give our parking pass to someone. Kim and I were happy to let someone have it since we just paid for it and didn't need. Happily we left.

Fast Forward - We decided on Swiss Chalet as it was Kids Night and the Balloon Lady was there. All the kids got balloon animals and we enjoyed supper. As we were getting the kids ready to leave and we left cash for the bill. The waitress came up and said that someone paid for our bill. We asked who and a couple a little ways away took our bill. We were so shocked as we didn't know them. We all went to say thank you and we gave them some Tim Horton's certificates as a thank you. We were so blown away and we were telling the kids "Wow isn't that awesome that God sent this couple to us and how God provides" putting big smiles on our faces. When we got to the van our CD was on the song "Awesome God". Sure gave me chills at how God just works everything for good.

Maybe I will be able to post some pictures tomorrow and hopefully we get a chance to see Disney on Ice

Playtime

I finally downloaded some pictures and videos

the hard way (without Mark's help). So here

are a few pictures of the kids having a

"sleepover" in the boys room.

This first 30 second video is Carsten singing nicely this time and Savannah not to thrilled about it. The second is Savannah singing Twinkle Twinkle by herself.