ears

just a quick note to let you know everything went well.

i'm bummed that i forgot to take my camera.

tubes went in without any problems.

he's been pretty groggy all day.

we are already noticing little improvements in his speech. :)

so glad we got it done.

whew!

well, we are alive.  i must say that last week was wretched.  but now we are past the flu, and things are looking better.  corey, slade, and i have moved on to having regular run-of-the-mill colds and cash and jagger seem to be normal.  well, as normal as they can get.  hmm... what has happened that i need to update you guys on?  let's see...

1.  cash started walking.  thursday.  i was home sick, laying (lying?) on the couch, and i thought i was hallucinating because he just walked right across the room, like he's been doing it all his life.  i'm shocked.  i thought for sure that slade would be walking first, especially since cash didn't ever even want to practice walking with us, but he's been tottering around the house ever since thursday.  and you can see on his face that he is just so proud of himself.  i'm sure slade will be walking soon, too.
2.  jagger is getting tubes in his ears this thursday.  we had an appointment with our pediatrician yesterday, and were referred to an ear, nose, throat specialist because jagger (still) has fluid in his ears.  we were able to get right in with the ENT doc and schedule the surgery.  both the pediatrician and ENT doc believe that jagger can hear (which we knew), but that it's muffled for him and that would explain his speech delay and the strange pronunciations of the words he does say.  so i'm glad that we are getting this done.  how nice it will be for him to hear clearly!  he won't know what to think :)       

3.  corey is the proud owner of an accordion.  it is a birthday present from his parents.  tom and terry were up to visit yesterday and brought his birthday present with them.  can i just say hilarious?!  he was very surprised, and i know there must be a story as to why an accordion, but i don't know what it is.  my accordion boy.  he's been filling the house with some pretty mournful music, though.  he needs to learn some peppy tunes.  the boys are super interested in it and it's been fun watching them all play with it together.  how many people do you know can say they have and can play an accordion?  we take pride in our quirkiness :)                        

his reaction when he opened the case

the accordion is all it's glory

accordion boy

a plague on our house

sickness has fallen over the blair household.   all blair boys have taken ill. 

it's pretty gross.  i don't handle puke well.  but you don't have an option when you are the parent.

be back when everyone is feeling better.

out.

busy bees

sorry i haven't posted in a few days.   we have been busy busy bees and i just haven't had the time.

here are some pics from the last few days.

jagger looking snazzy after his bath

cash serenading us

trying to get the kids to cooperate for a valentine's picture

slade's new favorite way to stand :)

northern lights

the silver lining to the bitter cold around here is that every now and then, you get to see the northern lights.   by the time we got the camera outside, they had faded quite a bit, but you can still faintly see them in these pictures.  not nearly as brilliant as what you would see in canada or alaska, but we like them none-the-less.

as seen from our driveway:

are you ready to rumble?

cash and slade have started wrestling.

it's not pretty.

but it's kinda funny.

it usually begins over a toy.

slade does the bundy splash on cash.

jimmy "superfly" snuka would be proud.

cash does not appreciate and reciprocates accordingly.

slade usually wins (he's got more heft).

next time i'll try to capture it in pictures.

on a separate side note --

i'll give you a topic:

jagger has taken to calling corey "corey" instead of papa or daddy.

talk amongst yourselves.

cash and his climbing ways

two facts:

1.  cash is obsessed with the computer.

2.  cash is quite the climber and everyday he conquers new heights.

today, these two facts came together to bring you this set of pictures.

why hello there!

Good to see you! In case you haven't noticed, I kinda took the month of January off, blogging-wise, but now, now the blog's back for your viewing pleasure. I am (re)committed to bringing you many pictures of my crazy kids, and the funny stories that go with them. Thanks for being so patient.