He's 3!

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Dominic turned 3 on Feb 14th! We had a quick little party at lunch time with my parents and sister and brother in-law.

Dominic was thrilled with the magnifiying glass Nani and Papa gave him.
He loves it and kept looking at things and laughing and saying, "it's getting BIG BIG BIG, it's getting BIGGER!" It was the perfect gift for him. He got a dollar from my sister and he bought a sword from the Dollar Tree and has that thing in his hand all the time. We got him a backpack and some new shoes. He wasn't excited about the shoes because they weren't "his tennis shoes".
Cole asked him to get his shoes to go on a walk and he ran and grabbed his old ones. Cole convinced him to put on his new ones and while they were outside the old ones were hidden.
Doms has become quite particular about his clothes lately. He gets dressed all by himself and refuses help. About 90% of the time he's got everything on backwards, including his underwear. He also only wants to wear jeans or pants that he can wear his belt with and has ALWAYS wants to wear his green shirt everyday (luckily he can't reach into the washing machine and get it out). He also changes his clothes ALL the time and it's drving me crazy, but quite funny and cute at the same time.
He is also a HUGE story teller and talks with his hands - well he usually puts up one hand or finger by his face while he talks. He says lots of funny things, but a common phrase of his as of late usually includes . . ." we don't do that because that's not good."
He's a fun little man, who LOVES to be at home (he complains all the time when we are in the car or store that he wants to go to "his house"), loves to wrestle, play bad guys, watch animal videos on YouTube, and do playdough!

Happy Birthday Little Doms!!

Double Time

It breaks my heart that these cute pairs of ears can cause so much pain and misery. A year and a half ago Dominic had ear tubes put in because he was having chronic ear infections and could barely hear! They immediately brought relief and hadn't caused a problem until last weekend. He would wake up at night crying that his ear was hurting. I could see his tube when I looked in his ear and it was obviously ready to fall out, but was stuck by wax. So we went back to the ENT doctor this week and after 3 of us pinned down my screaming boy the doctor used tweezers and got the tubes out of his ears. One ear had a lot of fluid so Doms in on amoxicillian to clear that up.

Tessa has also been extremely grumpy, feverish, had no appetite and not been sleeping well this week. On Wednesday she was absolutely inconsolable and would scream and couldn't be comforted no matter what I did. I definitely suspected that she too had an ear infection. So to the doctor we went and sure enough . . . she has a double ear infection. So now both kids are on amoxicillian and are improving! Tessa loves the pink meds and gets so excited when I start shaking it up! I love these kids and hate to hear them suffer and I'm grateful for Doctors who will actually give me prescriptions for ear infections, because I know that there are some who won't!

Father Daughter Date

Macie's perfect attendance in school got her a free ticket to a Blazer game and the parent got one at reduced price.




So last night she and Cole got to go to the Blazer game against Oklahoma City.

Cole said that Macie was kind of scared at first with the large crowds of people all around. She was kind of tired the first quarter because the game started at 7pm and her bedtime is 7:30. But he cured her with a soda that cost a crazy $5!
She really started to enjoy the game after half time. Cole said that Macie had so much fun chanting with the crowd, sitting on his lap asking him question after question about the game, and cheering on the Blazers! Cole said that he got teary eyed several times because it was so fun to be there with Macie and to see how much fun she was having! He's a very sweet dad and they have a special bond.

Well the Blazers managed to finally get way ahead, had hit the 100 point mark (which gets the whole crowd free Chalupas) and with a few minutes left told Macie it was time to go. She said "No, Papi. There is still 2 minutes left and I want to stay!"
They had such a fabulous time together and I was thrilled to hear all about it!