Wow -- was that almost a week?

Sunday was not a good day for me so maybe that's why I disappeared for awhile. In the space of about 15 minutes I got the following comments: "You look like you're going to burst" "You're looking rolly poley" and "You look like you're going to pop." Lesson learned: I will not be wearing that dress ever again. I still have 15 weeks left people!

I then decided to go on a diet and cut all the bread and dessert out of my life. Until 7 pm tonight that is. When we finally rounded up the kids and Dustin was done working, we opted for pizza and Planet Earth. Oh and that yummy piece of toast earlier today. Who am I kidding -- we all knew I wouldn't last long. I've decided to bring that whole, "You look glowing" thing back. How come no one says that any more? You can be fat AND glowing, right??

Back to Sunday and Sadie: after I cried in the car for a few minutes -- I'm pregnant, I'm allowed a few hormonal moments -- we could focus on the fact that Sadie had been acting funny all day. She actually SAT throught Sacrament Meeting and cried in Nursery. Usually she demands to be taken to Nursery directly after the water. Two days later with a fever we took her in and sure enough it was an ear infection.

You know Sadie is sick when she'll just fall asleep in my arms. I loved actually getting to hold her, but she seemed to have an extreme case of paranoia. She'd be sitting there quietly and suddenly bolt straight up crying, "MY BABY! MY BABY! Where's my baby???" One morning she was having trouble sleeping so I brought her in bed with me around 5 am. Dustin was already off at the gym and Sadie couldn't not go back to sleep because she was so concerned about Dustin missing. "Where's my dad? I need my dad." Poor baby :( Please stop taking my picture mom.

2 doses of antibiotics later and good old wild girl Sadie is back. I tried taking her out for a run in the jogging stroller and she kept trying to climb out and pick flowers. The first day she was feeling better, she found a pair of Ellie's underwear in a laundry basket, put it on over her clothes and ran up to Nate, "I like your underwear Nate." Obviously she couldn't even see his, she was just waiting for him to compliment her back.

New favorite toy: Dora and her babies. It's a big sister Dora doll we bought for Ellie long ago as a reward and I think Sadie loves it more than Ellie ever did.

Nate is as passionate and funny as ever. I got out the Easter stuff and he was so excited to see the plastic eggs. He plays Easter Bunny over at his friend, Daven's house, so he decided this would be the perfect game to play with Sadie. It was not the perfect game. Sadie would not pretend to be asleep and she would not hunt for eggs. Even worse, when it was her turn she just ran away with eggs instead of hiding them. Poor Nate was really distraught over the whole thing, so the plastic eggs have disappeared.

Ellie had student lead conferences this week and I have to say -- that girl is such a joy! She's just so sweet and thoughtful and you can tell she tries so hard to be good. She wrote us the cutest letter:

Dear Mom and Dad,

I am so lucky you help make me a great *insert name of school here* student! Mom, I love it when you comb my hair so I look like a star! Dad thank you so much for helping me do my very hard homework. Mom and Dad I love it when you pack my yummy lunch. I love you as much as a beautiful rose.

Love, Ellie

When we were done with Conferences, we ran to Target to pick up some goodies where Ellie insisted that she needed black leggings to wear the next day for Black and White day. They've been studying penguins all quarter, so this was the big hoorah -- they got to wear black and white clothes and bring in a black and white snack. Of course I agreed to the leggings. My memory's not so far gone that I can't remember needing jelly shoes about that same age. We whipped up some heart shaped homemade oreos and then in an effort to get rid of the rest of the frosting forced cookies on our friends. La la la - beautiful day.

Fast forward to this morning. I can't find the leggings. Ellie has decided she doesn't want to wear the leggings so she hid them. It took every ounce of patience to remember what a good girl that kid is, but dang it if I hadn't bought those leggings on special request for today and she was going to wear them. I hunted them down and insisted she wear them. Meanest mom ever?

Lucky for me I was up in her class teaching Art Masterpiece today when she hugged me, "Thanks for making me wear my leggings mom." Drat, all that work and I didn't get a picture of the leggings!

And with that -- we're on break. WOO HOO!!!