Poor Hazel

Hazel has an ear infection and has been fighting a tough fever. She had a febrile seizure last night and went to the ER in an ambulance. She is fine and home now, but her fever keeps going up and down. The motrin is working much better than the tylenol but when it starts to wear off, the fever creeps back up. She is happier today, playing and drinking plenty of fluids. She is sleeping peacefully right now!

Sickies

Morgan was home from school Wednesday(she was throwing up). Thursday she was better, but stayed home anyway, just in case. She is better. But now Madison and Hazel are sick. The both have a fever too.

The Reading Festival

On Saturday we went to the  Reading Festival
  It was downtown at Centennial Park right on the Caloosahatchee river.



We had such a good time. There were crafts to do and story time.  Every child got a book, too!
Even the Cat in the Hat was there reading some of his favorite stories.

Our Trip to the Slough

Yesterday we went to Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve

It was such a nice day.  We walked and walked the whole way around it!
















It was so beautiful all around!  We saw pretty flowers and interesting plants.

Sometimes you can see an alligator sunning itself out on this raft. There wasn't one there today though.

But we did see lots of birds!

And fish

And turtles


















And even a bunch of wild pigs!






And then there where the clues along the trail...

First you see some animal tracks...

Then you get a clue to help you out...

Then you make your guess and open it up...

It was such a gorgeous day!  You could hear so many birds singing and the sun was shining. 
It wasn't too hot out either!

Hazel is crawling!

Yes! On her hands and knees now. She has been doing what we called her "sniper crawl" for awhile now, but she is finally started to crawl the "real" way. She is still faster doing the sniper crawl though.

Introducing...Penelope!

Here is our new puppy, Penelope. She is Chihuahua and Poodle mix, called a Chi-Poo. She is very friendly and loves to cuddle and be held. Penelope is not going to get much bigger than she is now.

Our first beach trip this year(2006)

It is warm enough for the beach! We headed out for a few hours Sunday to play in the sand. The water was chilly but that didn't stop us from dipping in our toes. Of course that meant that Morgan and Madison left soaked! We even got to stop for icecream on the way home!

There were lots of birds flying around, especially seagulls and pelicans!

Morgan and Madison played together building sand castles! Then they found more kids to play with and had a blast.

Hazel finally got to play in the sand!


First she tried hitting the sand..

And then she got her first real "taste" of the beach!

After failing to stop her from ruining her dinner, back up she went to walk along the beach with mommy. We just love that fresh air and all the wonderful sounds of the beach. Very relaxing!

Daddy got some picture of the sunset. A wonderful end to a wonderful day!

Morgan's 5th Birthday Party

WOW! Morgan is FIVE years old. Here she is all dressed up in her new dress.

We had a birthday party and some of Morgan's school friends got to come.

Mom made heart shaped cupcakes. All of the kids got to decorate them with icing, sprinkles, marshmallows and different kinds of candy. Yummy!

Morgan got lots of wonderful presents.

Madison wanted to help open the one she got for her.

Not everyone could stay awake for all of the fun.... Hazel had way too much excitement for one day.

Christmas 2005

This year Nana came for Christmas! Santa brought lots of stuff(so did Nana)
Here we are all dressed up!

We used all of those yummy cookies we made to decorate our tree, the tree is bare already now!

Morgan and Madison Decorated their own stockings! Mommy did Hazel's this year.

Nana got us all new pjs!

Here is our tree before we attacked it!



And then we went to work on all of those presents!

Morgan and Madison got a Star Station, roller skates for over their shoes and a new dvd/vcr for their room(from Nana) They got toys and games and clothes and books! And Barbie's! They each got a Barbie case and 2 Barbie dolls. Morgan got a Barbie jeep and Madison got a pegasus, from Barbie's Magic of Pegasus movie.
Bubby got them both new beds! They have drawers under them to put clothes and toys.
They also each got a disposable camera and had a blast taking pictures of everyone.
Hazel had lots of fun trying to eat the wrapping paper.

We had a yummy Christmas dinner and they girls tried out their rollerblades. Then everyone wathced Polar Express.

It was a very good Christmas!

Suprise visit!!

Guess what daddy brought us for Christmas today? NANA!!! We were all so suprised! She is staying for Christmas with us!! We went to see lights tonight and then we took Nana to see our new house that is being built

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Cookie making!