Seven, take 2

Now there are two seven year olds in the house.

And this is the first birthday that we have gotten to spend with Allee.

I believe it was also her first birthday party ever.

Being six brought many challenges and changes for Allee.  Sweet girl.  I hope that seven is more relaxing.

Allee is smart and incredibly accepting.  She tries to be a family girl almost all the time, and is mostly easy to get along with.

And she has gorgeous black hair.  Her face lights up every time I tell her that I always wanted black hair.

Allee's birthday picks....

Chocolate cake

Snack artist chips

Orange and vanilla ice cream

Orange soda

Marshmallow cereal

Hamburgers

We are so lucky to have you in our family, Allee.  Love you!

The Girls

I cannot get this first photo to rotate correctly.  Sorry, you'll have to turn your head.

Abri and our neighbor who is like a sister. 

 Allee posing while playing her first game of miniature golf.

Allee on her first fishing trip.  You can tell she loved the fishing so much she hated to stop.  :)

Sick, sick, sick

Sickness has been moving through the family for more than a week.  This weekend there was a lot of sleeping going on and not much else.

Today, I finally took Colton to the pediatrician.  Turns out, he is okay, but did have an ear infection.

Also turns out that the car battery went dead while we were in the office.  I go to the back of the van to find the jumper cables.  They are not there.  We are twenty plus miles from home.  Luckily, a dear friend was able to come over and jump start my van.  It took us a bit of time to figure out where to put the cables.  Especially since my battery you can barely see!  Once we did, my van started right up though.

Then, we had to go to Walmart to get Colton's antibiotics, and a new car battery.  We had to go all the way back out to the van, which was still running with Abri waiting inside, and see what size it was because it came up in the book that my van has two possible battery sizes.  You can't really see the battery in my van, of course.  I made a guess and I hope the one I bought will fit.

By this time it is 6:30 and we had to stop for fast food.

It was snowing the whole way home, and we finally arrived at about 7:30.  I left work at 2:15 to pick the kids up from school.

Colton wanted to take a bath the minute he got  home.  After his bath, Allee had a bath.  As she was getting out I looked at her armpit because she had a scratch there a few days ago.  It is a big rash now with blisters and raw areas!  Ugh!  Now, I have to go BACK to the pediatrician.  I SO wish I had seen this earlier and we could have had both kids seen at the same time.

Such is my life.

The one good thing, is that we saw a new pediatrician today, and she was SO great!  She even told me that it has been proven that a teaspoon of honey works as well for a cough as cough medicine!  I am going to have to give that one a try for sure.  Usually, around here, we just use hard candy.

Allee takes off for the first time...

Sunday, Allee and I were inside my mom and dad's house.  The others were riding snowmobiles.  They were pretty far away.  I am cooking some pizza and snack food.  Allee wanders outside to the front yard, and then comes back in.  She is munching on crackers and checking out what I am making.  She tells me she's hungry.  I finish getting the oven figured out and starting the pizza.  I notice Allee is not in the house.  No problem, I go to the window to see what she's doing in the yard.  No Allee.  I get my shoes on, go out, and start yelling and looking.  No answer.  I yell and look some more.  No Allee.  I come back in to get my cell phone to take with me so I can call Tim while I am looking.  The phone rings.  It is Tim.  Allee has walked all the way down the driveway, across the street, and down the road to the field where they are riding.

Never once did she ask me where everyone went!

She needs watched WAY more closely now.

Last Night

Me:  Tell Allee to do something that I can't remember what it was.
Allee:  "I don't understand what you mean."
Me:  "Yes, you do."
Allee:  ~laughs~

School

Allee started school on January 20.  To say she loves it would be an understatement.  The following Monday, she did not have school and the other kids did.  She cried for about 2 hours.  Tim had to use Google Translate to try to explain to her that her class was not there that day.

She only has school 3 days a week and she keeps track.

In my rush, I totally forgot to take a "first day of school" photo.  :(

Right Now

The other kids are all busy, and I have been on the computer for about 1/2 hour.  For about 20 minutes of it Allee has been re-organizing our dvd cases.  Not sure about her methods but she seems to be enjoying it.  :)