The flu: type A

Well Paige has the flu! It is type A!  When they said that my first thought was " oh good it's not h1n1"  Then they said that h1n1 is a strain of the type a flu and that she probably has that strain!  So i thought that there were 3 types of flu but still there is only two!  I don't think that she has it to bad because a couple of years ago alex had type a flu and he was A LOT worse than she is!  This puts a huge damper on our halloween plans!  She may or may not be feeling well enough to go out on sat.  If she's not i think i will still dress her up anyways and take her picture!  We will still be able to do some things like paint pumpkins and decorate cookies just no parties!  They said that it is highly contagious so keep her away from other children!  We will need to watch her close to make sure it doesn't get any worse because the flu can cause her to get a bacterial infection that would need to be treated with anitbiotics!  So i think if we just keep a close eye on her and keep her indoors we will be fine!  We already have been staying indoors for the most part and we kept both kids home sunday so i don't think that we have been spreading it really to much!  The only thing that i am really too concerned about now is Alex getting sick he had a cough last week but hasn't really coughed much since last week so i will just watch him and his symptoms and make sure everything is going okay!  Well that's really all the news for now i hope that paige will do better at least to go trick or treating around our neighbor hood!  We'll see!

first day in nursery

Well yesterday was paige's first day of nursery!  I think she did pretty well!  When we first got thier she was really clingy to me and so i took her in a little further and showed her a little toy and she just kind of looked at it and then i just said good bye and left and she didn't cry at all and then between classes i looked in the little window to see how she was doing and she was sitting there and smiling at one of the teachers so i think she will do pretty well in nursery!  I was a little nervous that she wouldn't do very well and would be crying the whole time!  With paige i knew that it could go both ways because of her personality and i think we ended up with the best case scenario!  It was a very busy Sunday for us so i was relieved!

costumes

Well we have the kids Halloween costumes Paige is still going to be a lady bug but we had such a difficult time finding a cute lady bug costume that didn't cost $20 or more we decided just to go for making our own!  I think it will work out pretty well she has a red shirt already and so we got her some black sweats and a black jacket and then we got so of that material like what you put under a skirt like!  I have noticed that a lot of people have been making like little toutou's out of it so i thought that would make a cute lady bug skirt but to buy on already make was like at least $12 so we went and looked at the fabric and it was only .77 cents a yard!!!  I was shocked there was no way i was going to pass that up so we got some!  Those people making those little toutou's are making a bundle on them i couldn't believe it!  For the little antenna's we are just going to fix her hair into two pigtails right on top and then spray her hair with the black spray!  We don't have wings yet but i think we can just get a wire hanger and some nylons and some black paint for the dot's We just have to find the wire hangers and then wal-mart has some knee highs for .33 cents and i have paint so i think everything will workout well for her!  

Alex decided that he didn't want to be batman anymore and we went through an array of other ideas and then at wal-mart we were looking for stuff to piece together alex a costume too!  Then we saw some football jerseys and i asked him if he wanted to be a football player and his face just lit up he was so excited so that's what he is going to be!  It was the only thing he got this excited about!  so he picked out the color of jersey he wanted and we got him some sweat pants and we have a long sleeve shirt already that will look good underneath and then all were going to do is get some black make-up and put the lines under his face!  I think I'm more excited about him being a football player than batman!

As for brett and me we still don't have anything for us for halloween  but i'm not really to concerned with that!

the holidays

i am so excited for this i feel like these last two months we kind of got a little break for our family from all the business july brought!  Now it's time to get in full swing again with the holidays!  I love being busy!  First up halloween which i love because i get to dress the kids up it's so much fun i get to go shopping and be creative and it's like my kids are part of my decorations =)  i love dressing them up for all occasions i think my absolute favorite is thanksgiving it's like a great big dinner party that the whole country is having all at the same time!  For halloween paige is going to be a lady bug and alex is going to be batman and his cousin emily i think is going to be catwomen!  sweet!  We'll have to get their pictures if it all works out!  I am way excited!  Brett and I don't ussually dress up but i think that i might get some of those little head band things that are cute and wear i don't know what brett will do!  This year we let alex pick his own costume and he only mentioned superhero's before he decided on batman!  So far he has stayed with his decision!  Now all that's left to do is to get the costumes!