Busy bees and Mommy got the flu

It has been a whirlwind week or so here.  We have been busy with our normal routine, but Brian went to New Orleans for the week and I came down with the flu while he was gone, boo!!  It is nice to know  we have great friends who helped out with the kids, and Brian came back a day early to rescue his damsel in distress!  The kids have been doing well, and thankfully no one else has gotten sick...partly because I pretty much quarantined myself off for 3 days and luckily got $95 Tamiflu prescription which seemed to make it a milder case since I caught it on the front end.  I thought this picture was funny of Annie who is 3 chugging a mexican orange soda at Escalantes...she gets to do so much more at a younger age just trying to keep up after her brother and sister:

 The Friday before Brian left, Jacob went to a high school basketball game with a friend and I took the girls to get their nails done.  Annie was very "into" it and was the only one who didn't mess her nails up and have to get them redone, she did great!

 Sweet little Gwyn messed both her nails up and her toes and the lady there was getting on to her but was speaking with such an accent that Gwyn couldn't understand and she just laughed...it was a little embarrassing:

 Precious little Annie Jaye:

 Jacob and Brian built this little pinewood derby car for his race with Cub Scouts.  This was the result from several workshops in the garage.  Jacob picked the gold color, his car was named Mr. Gold (who knows, he came up with that himself).  His car had a lego driver.  He came in 2nd, 3rd, 3rd, and 4th out of each of his races with 4 cars in each race.  Not the best showing, but he had fun doing it.  The car weighed a max of 5 ounces.  I think Brian was more disappointed than Jacob, he had researched all the tips on getting the fastest car.  The race only lasts 2 seconds.

 Here is a video of one of the races...


The girls of course got drug to check in which took a couple of hours and the derby race itself which took a few hours...I couldn't believe Gwyn could do the monkey bars all the way across...this video shows her doing it, but the next time she did it she went all the way across...must be those Air Jordan's she's wearing:



Annie is quite the fashionista these days.  She wears hats, layers, sweaters, skirts, and wants to change multiple times / day.  She is already worse than Gwyn!

I'm loving some of the things the kids are coming home with...here is Jacob's self portrait:

Gwyn drew me this at school when I wasn't feeling good:

Gwyn's artwork from her Turtle class:

I can't believe they are already learning the oceans:

Funny things the kids said this week:
Annie:  Diapers hurt you, panties feel nice.
Gwyn when I told her that her friend moved to Oklahoma:  It is going to be a long drive for her back to school every day.
Brian when asked by Jacob if they could go ice skating:  No, ice is hard and cold and it hurts when you fall (looks like we're crushing any dreams of being ice skaters!).