Sunday afternoons

Oh, How I love lazy sunday afternoons.
We go to mass almost every sunday morning, then try and do something fun with the girls. Like go to lunch, have a picnic, go to a park, go to the mall play area....ect
Well, today we went to Riverpark and had a nice picnic lunch next to the river. It was a perfect breezy day to do so. Then we walked a bit and treated the girls to ice cream for behaving so well. They played on the playground for a bit and then we headed home for naps and relaxing.
Sundays are our family time. I cherich it so very much. With the amount of work Joe does during the week the kids and I have little to no time like that with him during the week. But it is a sacrifice we are willing to take for a better future.

I forgot to mention that I took Blake to have his ears checked Friday afternoon. He had been waking in the night the weekend before last, I took him to the doc cause after the 3rd night of this he woke with congestion that was a little green and a low grade temp. He ended up having a double ear infection that was caused by a cold he showed no signs of having other then a very slight clear runny nose. They put him on amoxicillian and at the end of the ten days(friday) I took him back for a re-check cause hs started to wake in the night again and his runny nose came back. So, he still(or again) has ear infections and they put him on another form of Amoxicillian....I did not know that existed. They want to check him again in 3-5 wks.
While we were there I wanted Ally's ears checked as well cause she and Katie had apparantly caught the cold and had runny noses earlier in the week. Although Ally;s was worse and she was very congested and had a cough on top of it. Ally's ears checked our ok but Katie's (she didnt want to be left out of the ear checking!) were not so good. She also had double ear infections and never once said her ears hurt! So, she is also on an antibiotic and since we just finished 3 rounds of antibiotics jsut 2-3 weeks ago trying to rid her of an ear infection....she has to see an ENT specialist in a couple of weeks. She may have to get tubes like Ally did last fall.
My poor babies and their ear troubles.....

Point Park and the weekend

When I was a little baby my parents took me up on Signal Mountain to Point Park and took some pictures of me. When Katie was a baby we decided to do the same with her. Of course then I wanted to do it with Ally and last week we took Blake up there and took some of him as well.
We had fun walking down the little path with my parents and then looking over to see the beautiful river, river banks, mountains, trees, open sky and more from where we were. Katie and Ally thought it was great to be so high and get to see so much.
After that we went to coolidge park and the kids and I rode the caresoul and played in the fountains. Then took a LONG walk around the paths in the park. Finally we ate dinner at Mud Pie for an end to a nice afternoon and a start to a great weekend.
Saturday Joe and I took the kids to the pool. Spent a few good hours there, brought a picnic lunch and then ran errands while 2 of the kids napped in the car. Finally grabbed a bite to eat with some free dinner passes we had and let the kids play at the mall.
Sunday we went to some friends apartment for a cookout. They have 4 cats and 2 dogs in their tiny 1 bedroom apartment. I believe Blake had a same allergic reaction cause he woke that night with a stuffy nose, that went into a green snotty nose and a low grade fever the next day. I took him to the doc Tuesday morning to learn he had a double ear infection. Poor little man. Although I want to blame it on the animals, I think it must have been a cold that went into his ears(although he did not show any signs till sunday night) cause Ally went to bed last night with the sniffles and now has a runny nose and is sneezing. I hate it when my babies get sick. And it runs through all three of them and takes forever for everyone to get well again. And it is so hard to take care of three kids when you aren't feeling well.