This week we made playdough with the kids, and they are loving it! The recipe I used was really simple, cheap, fast, and the consistency is identical to storebought playdough.

Today was Jordan and Drews last day of school, so they invited us to Beth Marie’s for some Icecream!

Well, Lily is officially sick.
Brendan had a fever of 103 last week, but it quickly went down and stuck around 100-101 for a day or two before disappearing all together.
Then a few days later, Lily developed a fever of nearly 104. Again, it was gone by the next morning (after a cool bath, tylenol and motrin) but hung out around 100 for a day before going away completely.
Last night, though, she started complaining that her tongue hurt. After looking in her mouth, we spotted a few small white ulcers on her tongue
Today we took her to the doctor, and in the time it took us to drive to the doctors office, she’d developed a large white ulcer on the tip of her tongue
She’s complaining about the pain a lot, so i’m keeping her on tylenol and giving her lots of cold stuff like milk, icecream and popsicles.
It could either be Herpangina (which Brendan and I both had a little over a year ago) or Hand Foot and Mouth.
Evidently HF&M Progresses into lesions on the hands and feet, while Herpangina progresses into swollen gums and lesions on the throat and soft palette. So we are kind of waiting to see which direction this heads. Not that it really matters, since both are viral and little can be done to help it (other than ease the pain).
Here are some pics I snagged in the doctors office. She was not doing too bad in these b/c I’d recently given her Baby Orajel, Thank goodness.




(this amuses me. Brendan saw that the camera was on, stuck his pointer finger in front of the lens and shouted “You’re number one!” LOL)

We follow this awesome blog called Knock-Off Wood. Ana provides free plans for tons of kick-butt furniture that would cost an arm and a leg if you were to buy it from a store.

We built our first KOW plan about 2 weeks ago. We’ve had the wood sitting in the garage for a few weeks, but didn’t have the time until recently to get workin on it. The plans we used were for the “Big Kids Picnic Table”

While we knew the kids would love it (they’ve eaten dinner at it every night since it was built), we had no idea duke would be such a fan. *snicker*

This is our 2nd year going out and doing pics of the kids in the bluebonnets. Normally I take an entire day of sessions and fit the kids in during an open spot or my lunch time.
This year I did theirs before my appointments.

You can see the entire set here (flickr f&f only).

A few weeks ago, we hit up a parking lot Carnival with grandma and grandpa.
We rode on lots of great rides and the kids had a blast

Last time Josh, Amber and Cindi were in town, we hit up Babes near our house, and the kids all did the Hokey Pokey in front of the restaurant with the waitresses

A month or so ago, we took the kids to the arboretum to have Jen Mazy do their photos again. The last time she was us I was crazy pregnant and Brendan was still so tiny (about Lily’s size/age now)
Here are some favorites

Here is a link to the rest (you must be a flickr member/friend of ours to see these)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brendanmichael/sets/72157623516637231/

Several months ago we set up Brendan’s room space themed. Since then we’ve added several things, so I thought I’d share pics.
One of the things we added was a growth chart I made for him this week.
Here are some photos that show the entire room, as well as the growth chart.