Kidney Stones, Crystals, Pillow Pets and Mimi's House

This week we have had to spend $500 dollars on car repairs and $200 on fixing our water heater......Merry Christmas and I hope a happier New Year. Oh well, things could be worse. The kids aren't sick anymore and Jason is feeling better. After he got sick with the same thing the kids had, he got better and then Christmas evening he started passing a kidney stone (which he does periodically...He finally stopped naming them because he has had too many to keep track of). He also had a fever and was throwing up, possibly with a stomach bug on top of it. Ugh. Well he is better now.

The kids and I have had fun playing war, go fish, Hedbandz, Sorry, and doing puzzles. We have also done some cool experiments with Max's new crystal growing kit. It is great. It was something he had been asking for, for Christmas. It has 13 different crystal growing activities to do. We have done three. We grew spikey yellow crystals on a paper cactus we cut out and made stand up. We also made some pretty blue crystals grow on a rock and we made a geode shell and are now growing glowing crystals on it. The geode shell we made has glow powder we put on it before it dried and hardened so now after the crystals grow it will glow in the dark!!! Really cool. I will show you pictures of them later when they are all done growing. And we still have 9 more left to do! Lots of Fun! The only draw back is that the crystals don't grow as big as you would like, but still I highly recommend this kit. It is "Ultimate Crystal Growing Kit" by Scientific Explorer.

One of the things that Sam wanted soooo badly was a dog Pillow Pet. He has wanted one for forever (at least 6 months) and talks about it all the time. We tried to talk him out of it, thinking he was too old for it and wouldn't want it once he got it, but to no avail. Santa brought it to him for Christmas and he has slept with it and played with it ever since. He named it "Hershey" and it is a "girl" dog, his first girl sleep buddy (stuffed animal). He says it looks like a girl dog to him (Maybe because our dog, Maizie is a girl?). Anyway, it is so funny to hear him walk around the house constantly singing the song, "It's a pillow. It's a pet. It's a pillow pet!"

Today Mimi came over and picked the boys up at around 10:30 and took them to go rent some movies, then to go see a movie and then to spend the night at her house. She will drop them back off tomorrow sometime. Oh sweet Mimi. I do hope they are good for her and don't fuss too much. I am sure they will have lots of fun. Mimi makes everything fun! This morning they woke up and both boys were singing the Sponge Bob song, "It's the best day ever...because we are going to spend the night at Mimi's house." It cracked me up. Yes they were excited. The last two times we planned for them to do this, they were sick and had to reschedule. Thank you Mimi and Papa for everything!