I have been terrible about updating the blog. Lots of sick babies and NO sleep at all. Just when Ellie started to recover from her horrible cold and Lizzie starting getting back to normal Annie came down with an even worse form of the cold. Molly and Peter stayed home from school on Monday with fevers and stuffy heads and noses and Bob and I....well, we're just plain exhausted. Someone at work asked me today how we do it all - have 5 kids and both work full time and manage to keep things together - the answer is - WE DON'T! We are just doing the best we can and hoping for a reprieve soon - like 5 hours of straight sleep. Poor Annie was up all night last night crying, wailing and just wanting us to do something - unfortunately there was nothing we could do - the Tylenol didn't work and we simply held her, rocked her and sang to her until the big kids woke up this morning.

3 Beautiful girls
Molly loves being close to the babies - as you can see - being with their sister makes them nothing but happy!

At the end of the day when we need some family time we spread a blanket on the floor and pile on - the babies get lots of attention and we get to talk to the big kids while we all sit around.

Playtime!

Poor Annie was exhausted but the night was going to be very long!

Our beautiful, smiley girl!

Ellie playing peek-a-boo! What a beauty she is!

Pete still wasn't feeling great on tuesday so we kept him home from school again. He and Annie made beds in front of the TV and hung out together. Annie loves when the big kids are home!

Annie was ready to go to the doctor today and Auntie Meg gave her a popsicle to help her throat feel better.

Auntie Meg was trying everything to make Annie feel better - including a jump in the puddles! It worked for a while but by dinner time she was miserable and having trouble finding anything that comforted her. Papa picked her up at 8 tonight and was taking her home for ice cream with Grammy! I'm sure that did the trick! Of course - it is after 10:30 and we still haven't heard from them! Maybe she finally fell asleep!

Pete playing basketball in the rain!

The week has been gloomy and rainy outside and sick and grumpy inside. We're hoping that by the time the warm weekend weather is here everyone is feeling better! We prayed over each child tonight with a healing prayer that a friend sent us! In the scheme of things - as bad as I feel for Annie feeling so awful and as hard as it was to watch the babies feel terrible last week - their general health is great and God has blessed all of us with health and happiness. I wouldn't think of complaining!

GNM - ILY!