Many Firsts

i've been feeling rather scattered lately and haven't had the energy to blog, but hopefully i'm back to being more regular here!

there have been several firsts for us in the past couple of weeks. the happier first is that Claire claps! here is a movie of me trying to capture Claire clapping. do watch to the end because it is quite rewarding.



the next first was Skye's ear infection. she woke us all up in the middle of the night last week complaining her ear was hurting. since we've never dealt with ear infections before, we had no idea what was wrong. plus, Skye didn't have a fever so i didn't think it was an infection. when we got to the doctor's office the next morning, we discover there are ear infections without fevers. i decided to hold off on the antibiotics to see if the ear would take care of itself. i kept a rather disappointed Skye home from school and she had to miss a field trip to an apple orchard. by evening, Skye said her ear wasn't hurting anymore and was in good spirits. i was really thankful the infection cleared up so quickly.

phil and i also got new phones which means the kids can finally play with the phones they've been so eager to play with. but now they've lost interest of course and would rather play with the brand new ones.

Skye continues to love her ballet classes. i asked her if she'd prefer to go to gymnastics class instead of ballet and she says, no, i like ballet. and Claire is doing great in kindermusik. she gets really happy whenever we play the CD from class or i sing the songs to her. she also does this really cute dance whenever she hears music. i'll have to try to capture it, but very difficult to do.