SOOOOOOOOOO much going on!

We are going through alot these last few days- some great stuff and some not so great stuff. Everyone is sick! Alaric has a cold, I've had stomach stuff and a terrible cough, and Bri has the stomach flu. To top it all off....we ALL have pinkeye! Yup! Alaric started it two weeks ago, then Bri, then Amara and I today. Here's a pic of Amara's eye right before I washed away all the yucky yellow goobers coming out if it- poor girl. She has no idea what's going on.
Mara started sitting up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She's even cuter now and has so much more personality. That means she can use her highchair finally too!

Before December begins, I wrap up 24 Christmas books we have ( the ones we read every year). Now that I'm not teaching, i probably have 60 Christmas books so we still have an extensive Christmas library even without the 24! Each morning, Alaric gets to unwrap one of the books and read it. He loves it. His favorite...Twas the Night Before Christmas.

HEre Bri is reading to both of them before breakfast.

Wait till you see the video below with Amara in the tub sitting up for the first time! She's completely the opposite of Alaric in so many ways- he hates the water splashing and she didn't even mind when she faceplanted directly into the running water. Here's our big girl!

SO, back to the sickness thing....I must update you on potty training. Alaric is fully potty trained with peeing but we've been struggling with the poops for weeks and weeks. He's been so constipated, it caused an impaction. He had to stay home from school one day because he was so impacted ( poop all backed up with loose poop coming out) we had to give him an enima ( doctor's orders). IT WAS THE WORST EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE!!!! I FELT LIKE A CHILD ABUSER!!!!! Alaric was a new man afterwards but it took me days to recover. Now, he's on a stool softener that causes super runny poops. We have had two to three big poops a day but his very first came at school in the form of a blow out- SO bad we got sent home from school with a "shame on you" for sending him to school on a laxative. So, we are trying to figure out a good balance with the stool softener. We keep him in a pull up instead of undies much of the time because of the poops. Our hope is after the new year things will settle down. For now, that seems like an eternity away!

So, good stuff and bad stuff all mixed together. 11 days til Christmas. It will all come together, it always does-right?