Our Sunday Sickness

I thought I should send out a blog to update about Ellie's "bite". While it still looks really gross and swollen (it has also been oozing, but I won't go into detail about that), it looks better than yesterday, so I think she is on the mend. We have been giving her antibiotics which seem to be helping. I sure am glad, we didn't really want to go down to the children's hospital and have her admitted with a staph infection.

We stayed home from church today. I wasn't feeling well and since Ellie's hand looked pretty gross, we figured we shouldn't put her in nursery.

Here is Ellie coloring. We bought a couple rolls of paper that we lay on the kitchen table that Ellie likes to color. The whole family got in on the fun that night. We continue searching for things to keep Ellie busy so she won't find herself in trouble. It seems these days that anything and everything that she is not supposed to be in, she is in.

Just a couple weeks ago we were at her friend Adam's house and the two of them disappeared upstairs (not an uncommon thing), when we went to go check on them they were playing in Adam's parents' deodorant. One of them had taken a big bite out of one of the sticks!!! Not sure which one it was, but Ellie does have a weird fascination with our deodorant. Yuck.
Owen likes to eat the crayons, so he got to play with some kitchen utensils instead of coloring. He still seemed happy even though he wasn't able to color. Owen has been a handful lately. Just in the past few weeks he has not only gotten to be quite the momma's boy, but he has just been whining almost non-stop. I feel bad complaining since he has been such a dream baby up to this point, but we are hopeful it is only a short phase that he will quickly get out of! Here are our babies playing nicely together. They really are good about playing with one another. Ellie makes sure that when she is doing something that Owen is able to see and be a part of the action with her. She is a good big sister---despite the fact that she is making her brother wash the dishes!