Catching up!

Ok, in an effort to catch up and appease the family members who hunger for pictures of my sweet children, I am posting some rather belated pictures.

This Easter was hard, fun and miraculous! Clare came down with RSV a couple of weeks before Easter. She would cough so much and throw up her food. She turned blue several times when she was coughing and the doctor simply told us that we couldn't give her any medicine and to just wait it out and she'll get better in a couple weeks. Well forget the doctors! I gave my baby cough medicine, rubbed her up with vicks and I also gave her breathing treatments. We had a few nights when David and I took 4 hour shifts to watch her sleep and make sure she kept breathing. Needless to say it was scary for us. Clare is so sweet and she got so sick and she was only 3 months old. The miraculous side to the whole fiasco was that while I was taking my 4 hour shifts, I was sewing Easter dresses. My mom always made my sister and I matching dresses for major holidays and I thought it would be so fun! So I actually did it this year. The dresses turned out great and the girls looked adorable!

These next few pictures are just some cute ones that I snapped now and then. Ya know everyday kinda things. Josh sucking his finger, Clare showing of her super sweet ginning skills, Sammy with a normal smile, and Jake just as sweet as ever! Dang it, I have cute kids!

This picture shows Jake wearing the much loved Dragon costume. We first acquired this costume for Sammy's 3rd Halloween. She loves that costume still and when we first got it she wore it everywhere. Well she talked Jake into wearing it this time. He is only a year older than she was that first Halloween, but he is substantially larger than she was at 4 years old. You can tell by Jake's face that wearing that costume is just a little painful. He took it off shortly after the picture was taken, but I thought it was pretty funny. Jake will do just about anything Sammy puts him up to.