Busy few weeks

Computer was out of service for over a week, and just now getting back to what I had been working on project-wise before I decided to break our computer. Besides the computer problems, we were also all sick and managed to have two ridiculously large snowstorms in this span of two weeks.

Dan was stranded at work for two days during the second big snowstorm. It was fun being with my girls by ourselves, and yet a lot of work at the same time. But, we managed and still had fun at that which is what counts. Girlies have been busy "painting" the snow which is our new fun thing to do. Abrielle has been a riot lately. She looks so irresistible with her two little bottom teeth, and the girl manages to sneak up the stairs the second you are not keeping a hawk's eye view over her. She always has the sneakiest face too.

So much for vacation

We had been planning for quite some time to take the girlies to Disney this month. That didn't happen because our lovely roof started showing signs of leaking in October. Turned out to be the sunlight in the bathroom and not the roof, but it's still an expensive fix.

Then we had planned on taking a mini-vacation to Baltimore, and that was the reason for Dan being off this week. We had planned on leaving yesterday and seeing the aquarium and the awesome children's museum that we love there, and seeing the Disney on Ice show there on Friday. We figured Disney on Ice was better than no Disney at all. Turns out we will have to try for the Disney Princesses on Ice show coming here in April because of the story that is our life.

I started feeling some sort of strange feeling behind my ears yesterday. No idea what it is, but it eventually led to my entire throat being swollen by 9pm last night. My lymph glands are about the size of tennis balls, and the best way I can describe my appearance is to picture Joey from 'Friend's' when he was wearing the "fat suit" in one episode. If I didn't already like looking in the mirror before last night, it's even more unsightly now. I think my face has gained about 5 pounds! I did go to the doctor this afternoon, and they immediately sent me to the lab for bloodwork. Hopefully they'll tell me something soon, and I'm hopeful this swelling goes away very soon. It's quite uncomfortable.. not to mention, unsightly.

If my condition were not enough, they are also calling for about a foot of snow starting tomorrow afternoon. The Baltimore trip just wasn't meant to be. Hopefully we can still manage to get out to Harrisburg tomorrow to take the girls to a science museum that looks pretty cool, and if not we'll just have to wait for the inevitable snow tubing and sledding fun that should be Saturday for these little ladies.

Here and there

I used to be on the ball when it comes to picture taking, photo uploading, and photo editing. But, lately, I find that I don't have the time or the energy to do that all on a daily basis! I'm hoping springtime will kick my butt back into gear in regards to all of that!

In the meantime, little ladies have not been lacking in fun stories and funny things that they do on a daily basis. They are too much fun. In the Abrielle department my new favorite quote for her is "You are so easy to love in the daytime, and a little harder to love in the night." The joys of teething have set her back substantially in the sleeping department!! Dan is actually off this week, so he's been here to witness firsthand the incessant "Mooooooommmmmma" and her new one (which I personally love) "M, M, M, M!" (yep, she calls me with an initial) at all hours of the night. It's been quite nice to have him here to help, but yet he has the patience of a saint when it comes to the nighttime (which I will admit I do not have, then again, he is never here in the nights so I suppose that is why) and so I worry that he will be making it even harder for me when he does go back to work on Sunday night. She is such a darling little thing in her crib in the mornings though, standing up and waiting for her big sisters and I to come in and get her. Those little smiles are too much. Little stinker's been on the move even moreso lately also, and she climbed all 13 stairs yesterday by herself (with me right behind her of course).

Maddie is the little narrator in our house. She cracks me up with the way she narrates in third person when she plays. She plays the parts of whatever character she is playing with Faith at any given moment, but also tells the feelings and the the story at the same time. Today she was talking about Giselle from 'Enchanted' and saying "and Giselle so gladly accepted her prince's proposal. She danced away on her lofty feet and knew that this was true love." She is never lacking in the adjective department, and loves describing things to a 'T' although sometimes I don't know where she comes up with the descriptions! It's quite funny. The girl is a hopeless romantic too-- at the ripe ol' age of 5. The other day for dessert Dan told me that he picked out a custard donut for me at Giant, and I was laughing and telling him how much I don't like those donuts. Maddie goes "well, what we should do is rewind time so you guys can get married again and make this a better match!" Hahaha.

Faith keeps getting funnier by the day. There's always something else that she does every day that makes everybody laugh to the point of tears. Faith is forever the best little sister and best big sister. I never grow tired of watching Maddie and Faith together-- they are absolutely inseparable. They do everything together, and learn from each other. Faith was showing a little boy today in Maddie's dance class about the arabesques and pirouettes that she can do, and I was amazed that she knew the proper word for them and how to do each move perfectly. She learns it all from Maddie. And, at the same time, Faith and Abrie are such buddies. Faith is always wanting to go first for her "Beeba Show" in the mornings and after Abrie's naps. I don't want to hasten Abrie getting older, but I just love watching the two of them with each passing day. The three of them for that matter.