Winter Wrap-Up

My blog posts seem to be coming quarterly now which is an indication of how much free time I really have and how much time we have spent in the Hospital.  Here is the scorecard for posterity sakes.

ER Visits: 4 (Britney twice with Chrohns, Lucas once for getting caught under the tractor trailer (not kidding), and Scott once for 5 stitches from a picture framing accident)

# of Days Hospitalized:  I think about 15 over 3 visits, all thanks to Britney and her Chrohns.

# of Prescriptions Filled: I lost track, I swear the pharmacist thinks we sell the stuff on the side.

$ Spent out of pocket: None, thank you Microsoft!

Here are a few posts to catch us up from the past few months.

We spent Thanksgiving in Georgia with Britney's family and had some good rest and fun.  The highlight for the kids was the rope swing at Dave and Andee's cabin.  The highlight for me was watching Britney's older sister Linzee try and pull her back and launch her on the rope swing :-).

Most of December Britney was recovering from an intestinal re-section, equivelant of fixing a bad section of sprinkler pipe for all you do-it-yourselfer's, so we did most of the Christmas traditions without her.  Here are the boys and I (not sure where Grace was?) waiting for the Santa Train.

The train ended up at an old train station where the kids got to meet Santa.  He was the real Santa, not the imposters they have at the mall and other commercial establishments.

I also just realized that we didn't take a single picture of Christmas Day, but we did get one shot a few days after while returning some stuff to the store. 
Parents will understand this, but sometimes you just have to pick your battles and on this particular day Charlie was adamant about wearing what you see below, and we gave up the fight.  Yes, we shopped the entire day like this and he was the happiest kid in Seattle.