Silly faces and Peek-a-boo

A quick update because I am avoiding doing work.  We're surviving.  When I picked up the kids today, both of their teachers told me they had fevers of 100 degrees.  Seeeeriously.  I'm so over it.  I am strongly considering locking the two of them in the house from December to April and not allowing anyone to come over.  Or clearing out the house and power washing everything because there must be germs and other things hidden everywhere for all of us to be constantly sick for two months straight.  I don't know.  But it's killing me.

And, the other reason both kids are sick at the same time is because Carmen is in L.A. all day tomorrow (until well past bedtime) and then leaves for Vegas Thursday morning and is gone until Sunday.  And of course I have a court hearing on Thursday afternoon.  So I have to figure out how to manage all of this.  And that might mean making an emergency call for backup to Gramma Barb.  She's on standby and we're making the final call tomorrow morning.  Fingers crossed for no fever and a little more energy.

Dakota has turned into a complete ham.  She loves music, as I've posted about before.  She also has figured out how to make a silly face and crack everybody up.  And she plays peek-a-boo with me.  I don't have a picture, but her peek-a-boo usually means her hands covering her forehead and her eyes peeking out from underneath them, watching me.  It's pretty awesome.  And she'll do it about 25 times in a row.  Luckily it never gets old...

Dakota's favorite silly face.  LOVE.  LOVE. LOVE.

Daddy and Jayden during our dance party.  Since Dakota loves music so much and Jayden has started taking a dance class (oh yeah - Jayden is taking a dance class - offered at his preschool once a week.  He's in it with mostly younger kids, but he seems to really enjoy it, so I'm not worried about it at this point) we have been having more and more dance parties.  It's quite a bit of fun.

More dance party.  Did you catch the Duke theme?!?

With some crazy funny poses too.  Jayden is turning into his own version of a ham.  

Dakota danced in my arms, so it was harder to get a picture of her "posing."  This is pretty standard for her, especially when in my arms, looking at herself on my phone.  :)

These are not great pictures.  But this is what happens when you leave your phone on the breakfast table and go get Dakota's bottles and food ready for the day.  Your four-year-old picks up the phone, finds the camera and starts taking pictures of Dakota (and our yogurt containers).  Please enjoy Jayden's artistry:

This one actually wasn't so bad, if you zoom in on Dakota and crop out the table.  :)

So we're deeper into a survival mode this week.  We'll make it.  It'll be a juggling/balancing act.  But we'll make it.  Jayden has been super tired (I blamed daylight savings time until he came down with the fever - but who knows), but he has still been decently cheerful.  And Dakota has been mostly cheerful too.  And both of them are cute, which helps too.  Dakota has been sleeping much better - to bed between 7:45 and 8:30, sometimes waking up once before midnight, and then sleeping until 7 am the next day.  Jayden, of course, has been waking up once or twice a night, around 10:30 pm and again around 3:30 or 4:00 am.  And he's been having accidents at night too, which is pretty unusual.  I think he's going through something, and I think we're just going to have to weather the storm.  In the meantime, I'm seeking out nighttime pull-ups that hold more and fit bigger kids so hopefully we have fewer nighttime bed sheet changes!

Oh, and twice this week (so far) Dakota has peed after her bath, before I can get her diaper on her.  So I am currently doing a load of laundry that solely involves clothes that have been peed on.  Luckily none of my clothes are in that load!

Life with kids is always fun...