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“Gas Day”, days where I get gas, have turned into “Gas and Doughnut Day”. I like the kids to have little things to look forward to, little surprises and such, and the last couple of times I’ve stopped to get gas on the way to work, I’ve gone in and gotten the boys doughnuts. They of course love that, and while I don’t get myself any, I do love hearing how excited they are all the way to daycare over something as simple as doughnuts.

Levi and Jonah have been saying more and more funny things lately. I can’t remember them all, but this morning, Levi was singing “Cars! Cars!” followed by what I assume to be the rest of the song, but I couldn’t understand it. After 4 times in, Jonah begins saying “Lebi, ‘ats noying”. I think that’s hilarious.

Last night, Jackie was correcting Levi and the way he says certain letters. As he came walking over to her, she told him to say something and shaking his hand left & right, he said “I can say it, don’t worry about it.”. We were cracking up.

10 new kid videos were just uploaded, as well as family pictures, and pictures Jada and Lana took. Be sure to check them out!

When Jada was in kindergarten, kids in her class started losing their teeth. Jada, however, did not. She has been waiting patiently for over 2 years to lose a tooth. She will be 8 in April! It has been wiggly since right before Christmas and today it finally twisted out! It happened while she was at school. She was pushing it with her tongue and another student told her to twist it. She did and out it came! She was very excited to show me when I picked her up from school. Bill could barely get in the door and she was rushing to show him!

Lana has a wiggly tooth as well. She really wanted to beat Jada and lose hers first, but it just didn’t happen. She has been wiggling it like crazy. I suspect it will be out by the end of the week as well!

Jada posted a story about it on her blog, read it and send her some comments!

On our way home from Wal-Mart, the kids were being very loud and driving us nuts.  We repeatedly asked them to be quiet.  Levi kept making a high-pitched weird sound.  Here is the conversation that occurred as a result:

Billy:  Levi, do you want me to spank you?

Levi:  You can’t

Billy:  Yes, I can!

Levi: No, you can’t.  You are to far away.  You can’t reach me!

When do the kids get smarter than the parents?  I thought we’d at least make it past 3!

We had a great Christmas break.  We had dinner at home on Christmas Eve and the kids were thrilled to get to eat off of “real” plates and not the plastic ones.  Then we listened to a recording by Grandpa of “Twas the Night Before Christmas”.  Jonah wasn’t overly interested in sitting and listening…he wanted to open his “pesants”.  We all got lots of goodies from each other.  Jada and Lana were very excited to get American Girl dolls from Grandpa and Gram.  Then it was off to bed to await Santa.  Surprisingly, the kids didn’t wake up until almost 8 am!  Lana got an Easy Bake Oven…which she and Daddy cooked with the week following Christmas.  Jada took lots of pictures with her camera.  The boys loved their train table!  Then it was off to Grammy’s….we surprised her by coming a day early!

At Grammy’s, the kids got lots of fun stuff and had  a blast playing with Tracey’s dogs…all we heard for a week was “Can we get a dog?”!

We made it back home mid-week and Grandma Nita came!  Then it was back to school

Since we have been back to school, I have had 2 snow days.  The girls still had school on those days.  Jada and Levi played in the snow quite a bit.  Lana did some, but Jonah wouldn’t get in it at all!

This week has been nutty too.  On Monday, Bill stayed home with Lana because she had a bad headache.  On Tuesday, we sent her to school.  The school called at about 10:30 saying that she was running a fever.  Earlier that morning, Levi woke up saying his ear hurt, and he had drainage.  So, Bill took Lana and Levi to Priority Care to get fixed up.  Lana is on antibiotic for a sinus infection and Levi is on ear drops for an ear infection.  Since Lana had been sent home with a fever, she couldn’t go to school the next day.  So…we went out to breakfast, then dropped Jada off at school and then went shopping!  On Thursday, everyone was where they were supposed to be, but on Friday….the babysitter called Bill saying that Levi had thrown up!!!!  He seems just fine now, but we don’t know what the problem was.

Hopefully, the weekend will be a bit calmer!

Guess what got uploaded? Better go check them out – Bill & Jackie’s, Jada’s Pictures, Lana’s Pictures.