Sick Day

Caroline's first sick day in quite a while, marked by fever, a tummy ache and suspiciously frequent and mushy products of the gastrointestinal tract. Not the most productive week for Mom. Ben and Rebecca just went back to school today after having two full days off and an early dismissal this week. Caroline had an early dismissal, a snow day, was sent home sick before noon yesterday, and now is home sick today.

Here is miss tummy bug looking pretty pleased with herself this morning. 

Poor Clara

Clara went outside last night to go potty and came inside hobbling on three legs. We thought she might have slipped on the ice going down the deck stairs. This morning she was no better, so I loaded her and all three kids up and took her to the vet. Turns out she tore the doggy version of an ACL, an injury that requires a fairly complicated (read: expensive) surgery with a lengthy recovery time. There are several surgical options so Joel and I are looking over those before deciding exactly how to proceed. In the meantime Clara is hobbling about pathetically and getting lots of extra attention from the kids!

Snow Day

Not much snow, but enough ice/ slippery conditions (and it does not take much) to give all 3 kids a day off from school. As you can see below, as of about 10am it was still a bit slippery on untreated roads, much to the kids' delight ;) Most of the ice has since melted though. The yelp at the end of the video is Caroline, right before Ben crashed into her. Whoops.

Snow

The merest suggestion of wintry precipitation yet again sends the South into a panic :) the over-reaction to what is currently about a half inch of snow included a two hour early dismissal from school and a snow day already declared for tomorrow! Caroline's preschool dismissed at 4PM and their decision for tomorrow is still pending. Caroline marked the occasion by trying to catch snow on her tongue, and then warmed up with a hot chocolate bottle.

Look! Snow! Panic, everyone! PANIC!! There is currently barely more snow than this out there. 

Hoping For Some Snow Today!

1-3 inches expected starting later this afternoon :)

School Project

Here is Rebecca hard at work on her 100th day of school project. Hopefully mommy correctly counted out 100 hearts ;)

TCBY

A little post-basketball victory celebration. The Pinkberry around the corner from us inexplicably closed and reopened as a TCBY. Very upsetting on the one hand because I personally love Pinkberry and despise TCBY, but Ben and Rebecca are not so discrimminating. Also, we had been staying away from Pinkberry because we were not sure how well the machines are cleaned between switching flavors and did not want to risk gluten-contaminating Caroline. But TCBY on the other hand has some hand-scooped flavors in addition to the soft serve  that are gluten free so I guess TCBY is in the dessert rotation now whether I like it or not ;)