Ah, October!

It seems like every October of the past few years has been a challenging month.  This year has been no different.  Of course, during this month of gap insurance, everyone has been sick.  Sam started us off with a sore throat and fever.  She was out of school for 3 days.  Then Zoey kicked it up with a higher fever, she got up to 104.  In the end, I am pretty sure she had fifth disease since she got the red cheeks that looked like she had been slapped and the lacy rash.  Then Nick got viral conjunctivitis.  And I got an excruciating sore throat, which I think was just post nasal drip, but my nose never got stuffed.  And Zoey got a splinter that ended up becoming infected in just a couple of days.  I put a bandaid on it when she complained to soften the skin and she took it off, so I ended up forgetting.  She then complained again and it was swollen, red, and had pus.  So we went to CVS to check Nick's eye and Zoey's finger.  Turned out they do not fix finger issues, so Zoey and I went to urgent care for that treatment.  I am glad there are only 9 more days in this month and hopeful that we will all be healthy soon.  Sam did have a very short fever last night, but nothing this morning, so just a day off school and she seems fine.  I know that I will be doubly thankful for health once everyone gets there.

Here is Zoey after the finger treatment.  She was a trooper.  I know it had to hurt, but she stayed still and barely cried.

We have also had some fun in this crazy month.  Here are the girls in silly outfits putting on a concert.

Zoey and I went to a nice pumpkin patch.

And Sam had a sock hop at her school.  I did not find a poodle skirt, so I threw this together.

I wish everyone a healthy and wonderful rest of October.  I hate to ask time to speed up, but I am so ready for November!  Although I would appreciate being able to enjoy the rest of this month too.

A month to celebrate!!!

There has been a lot of rain lately, and many days it comes during pick up time.  We are so close, we walk to school to get Sam.  So there has been a lot of rain gear.  This is just when Zoey wanted to dance in the rain.

Here is where Zoey drew a sun.  I think Sam helped her with the person.

Here is Zoey being a busy mom.  She has a stroller, grocery cart, and is on the phone.

September includes both Nick's birthday and mine.  For his, he went into work.  We went out on his actual birthday.  I baked him, from scratch, a salted caramel apple pie.  He loved it.

I wanted a picture of the girls and Nick.  Zoey was not feeling cooperative.

But then she felt bad and jumped on him.

My birthday fell on a day that Nick had to work until 10.  So we celebrated the night before.  He made me a special dinner.

The girls are sometimes rough, but sometimes they play together so well.  This picture is when Sam said she wanted to paint and Zoey said they could pretend face paint.  So they did.  It was so sweet and imaginative.  

And some close ups.  Zoey is hard to get in focus as she is a perpetual motion machine.

 Sam poses better.

Zoey making a mad face.

And the other big news from September is that we sold our house!!!!  It closed on 9/30.  We are so thrilled to be back to only one mortgage.  It has been rough, especially since USF had my paperwork wrong and UHCL does not pay new employees until a month after official start, which was September 1st.  Our current struggle/worry is that we are on gap insurance for all of October.  We are lucky USF's lasted as long as it did.  But UHCL requires 60 days after hire to start coverage.  So we bought gap insurance, but please send thoughts/prayers/etc for us all to stay healthy and have no accidents.  There is never a good time, but this is an especially bad month for a broken arm.


Happy Fall Y'all!