A Good Ending

Today was a tough day, Alex has been sick with a flu-like illness and very fussy as to be expected.  Brooke woke happy this morning but upon coming home from school had a fever and felt pretty crummy herself.  We all tried to get some fresh air in our back yard this afternoon, once we got everyone to stop crying.  Then, after everyone had been feed and had a nice warm bath we came back downstairs to relax a little before bedtime; while I was getting some cleaning up done Alex brought Brooke his Whales book which she happily read to him.  It couldn’t have been a cuter ending to such a down day.

https://youtu.be/ozGp3Inedq8

Brooke’s Christmas Program

At the end of the fall semester Brooke’s school had a Christmas program where all the 3 year olds dressed up and sang several songs that they have practiced for weeks.

https://youtu.be/OWEmsCZoUqs

Walk Through

Today we did our final walk through for our new house that we are closing on tomorrow.  Everything looked perfect, especially seeing the kids playing in the yard as we checked out the house.  Alex, like a true boy, found his way into the garden box and promptly started eating the dirt… he was the first to make a mess in our new house 🙂  Brooke loved showing Deb, our real estate agent, her new room.  At the end, Brooke was so excited to be getting a new house she asked if we could move in tomorrow.  We are all ready to be in a place that we can call our own, we’ll just have to wait to move in for another week and a half as we get everything ready for our move.

After dinner tonight we all went out to celebrate our new house for the first time with some ice cream.  As I was getting into the car, Brooke was sitting on the steps in the garage putting her shoes on and happened to see my feet and said “Daddy, you’re wearing your slippers.”  In my excitement to get some ice cream I had forgotten to change out of my slippers, thankfully Brooke caught this and saved me some embarrassment.

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