Opening Night

So Opening Night for the Av's was last week and Craig was so excited to pull out Chloe's old outfit for Linus to wear. We didn't have anything for Chloe, so Craig put on one of his shirts on her and she wore it as a "dress". It was an exciting ten minutes of our day, cause then they went to bed after that. :-) Too bad the Av's lost that night.

I had to add this picture in- if you can see, Chloe slept on her braids one night and woke up with one of them sticking straight up out of her head. She didn't quite know why Craig and I were laughing at her that morning anc kept scowling at us through breakfast as we'd snicker at her hair.

So Linus had his four month check up about three weeks ago and I never posted about it- he's in the 95% for everything. He weighs over twenty pounds already. I have giant callouses on my hands from lugging that stupid carseat with him in it everywhere. I thought Chloe was a chunk, but she didn't weight 20 lbs until she was nine months old. He still drools like a leaky faucet, but he's also testing out his vocal capacity with loud piercing screams whenever he feels like it. I swear I hear all the metal in the house ringing at the same timbre when he's through. Good news is (or bad news, depending on who you are) his horn is slowly fading away. Unfortunately the magical powers associated with it are also diminishing...
...but at least he doesn't have to get it removed, for the next little bit anyway.

Chloe has croup right now. Well the doctor said it was croup, but I always thought croup wasn't contagious and whatever she has, her cousins had it the last couple of weeks too, so we're pretty sure she got it from them. Everyone tried all we could to keep it from her (cleaning toys, being watched during the day at our house instead of theirs, keeping her out of her cousins' play areas, etc...) but how do you keep three very active toddlers from interacting in the same house day in and day out? It was inevitable, pretty much. Friday night when I picked her up to go home after school, she excitedly ran across the lawn to our door and was wheezing audabley and gasping for breath by the time we made it inside. That night she started fevering and didn't sleep much and worried the heck out of her parents with her death rattle breathing. She's doing much better now- still has no voice, but she's breathing fine and running around getting into trouble as usual. But now Linus gets to sleep in our room until she gets better- we are crossing our fingers that he doesn't get it, I'm not sure how well a five month old would take a viral infection like that, even a twenty pound five month old.
And that's our update. Hoorah!