Mostly Amber pictures

Sunday night seems like a good bloggy-woggy posty-wosty timey-wimey. It’s probably a bad practice to sit down to write a blog post without knowing what it’s going to be about, but…welcome to the world of blogs. I got about 2+3+.5+.25+.75 hours of sleep last night starting just after midnight (the + symbols indicating interruptions), so a cohesive planned-out kind of post doesn’t seem to be in the cards. But I still feel posty (plus I have a backlog of pictures), so I shall post nonetheless. With that stellar introduction, here’s what I’ve got:

First of all, we finally have last week’s sickness on the run. Antibiotics and movies to the rescue! All five of us went to church today together for the first time in 3 weeks. Amber and I were feeling a little crazy after so much time cooped up with sick people. In fact, one day this week I seriously considered starting a “my husband is sick” support group. It was a low point. Ugh, sickness, STAY AWAY from now on, please? I hope I don’t jinx it, but Amber has pulled through healthy and strong, thanks to mountains of motherly prayers and a large bottle of hand sanitizer.

Jay ended up missing 8 days of school for The Sickness. He zigzagged between healthy and not the whole 8 days. So I kept him home. Minus the sick part, it was wonderful to have my sweet boy home for all that time. In spite of their health, Jay and Rose played and played, with plenty of breaks to rest on the couch and watch movies. I loved having the freedom of no-school-no-schedule while we were all sick. Of course we were all ready to be done by the end of it, but the middle was cozy in its way.

Watching Frozen.

Playing and resting. I try to get Jay to dump his Legos onto a sheet so they’re easier to pick up—just pick up the sheet and dump it into the box instead of lacerating our hands trying to scoop up millions of tiny razor-sharp Lego bits. He remembers the sheet about 50% of the time so far.

Jay and Rose are both wearing size SEVEN in this picture—my tall kids. And Jay likes taking pictures of his Lego creations. In this one, he’s taking a picture of a Lego cat he made.

Every night last week after Jay and Rose were in bed, Jeff retreated to recuperate in the basement while Amber and I snuggled up on the couch to watch a few episodes of Gilmore Girls on Netflix. It was a fun mother-daughter chick flicky time, and afforded multiple low-light pictures of the Ambaby:

Strrrrretch! I love it when she folds her little legs up, reaches her arms up, squinches her cheeks, and puckers her lips in a luxurious stretch.

Those Gilmore girls are crazy! What’s going to happen next?

And here are a few [ahem, a LOT] more Amberfaces:

Thus ended our January.