Our weekend

After a relatively healthy winter so far, lately we have been hit by one round of colds after another. First Noah, Claire and Nathan...then Claire & Nathan....now Nathan and me. Nathan is on his second round of antibiotics for an ear infection in his OTHER ear. Apparantly when he gets these colds, the drainage sits in his ears and leads to an infection. As common as ear infections are, we have only had to deal with one from Noah when he was about 10 months old and that is it. Now at 2 1/2 months, Nathan has already had 2. :(
The great thing about having kids is that they stop for nothing. Illness, cold weather or just plain ol' exhausted parents doesn't get in their way!
We did go on our first minivan shopping trip Saturday. The kids did amazingly well for sitting in a dealership for 2 1/2 hours. They loved climbing all over the new cars, but John and I didn't do as well. I'm going to guess it's because the salespeople saw 3 kids in car seats and knew we were in desparate need of a larger vehicle and would do anything (or so they thought) to get one. They must have thought that we had not done any research whatsoever into the vehicles or their prices. Oh well, there are plenty of other dealerships to buy from. In the meantime we are nice and cozy in Big Blue, but are still getting around.
A stranger gave me a hug as I was loading the kids and groceries into the car on Friday. I needed it.
I was wondering if I would be able to find the time to write in this, and wasn't sure how often. Since I put Nathan down 10 minutes ago, I've had to stop writing 4 times and go upstairs to tend to Noah and Claire (once to put on a new episode of Little Einsteins, once to move them from playing on the stairs with a plastic storage tub, and once to break up a fight over the train track and one stop was down here to stop Claire form pouring her scrambled egg into a play tea cup).