One day, Spring will come.

Brycen:"I will do dishes, Mom. You color my picture. C'mon Cian! Dishes time". 

Cian comes running, pushing a chair over as he does and asks, "How do dishes?" 

They amazing worked really well together. Cian handed the dirty dish to Brycen, Brycen washed, Cian then walked and dropped it (literally) into the dishwasher.

Result:  22 more (at the very least) gallons of water used than usual. I sat at the kitchen table, instagraming and coloring.

After a few minutes, Brycen asks,"...How's the coloring going?"

Upon completion of the dishes, Brycen then asks, "What other chores can we do?"

The snow has done all sorts of crazy stuff to us.

Last Thursday, at 2am (after getting the 9-10ish inches of snow as predicted), Brycen woke up not being able to breathe. It was accompanied with the croup barking cough. Which he has had before. Always scary. 

However, this time, he could not be comforted nor his breathing improved. Bryce rushed him to the ER. Within minutes of arrival, they were able to administer something amazing (inhalant epinephrine?) and he was breathing better almost instantly. Brycen's doctor happened to be the mother of one of his preschool friends. Brycen came home informing me that his next doctor visit will include shots, for shots are so much better than the yucky medicine he had to take (can you tell it's been a while since he has had one?). 

Brycen raved about his ER visit, loving every minute of attention. He will gladly scare anyone with the experience. The not being able to breathe part is always a great attention grabber.

However, croup has kept us indoors even more as he had to stay home from preschool and then Cian caught it. 

Absolute desperation has resulted in this:

"CANNONBALL!!"

It probably should be one of those "kids, don't try this at home" but they LOVE it.

We purposelessly share all sicknesses with our friends/basically family (since contagiousness seems to happen long before symptoms appear) so that thankfully, never keeps us apart. And it saves my sanity. Every day.

Current favorite Cian moments:

"Cian to the rescue!" As he goes off running.

"Me got it". Cian insisting on pouring his own milk, juice, sprinkles, cereal all over the table.

When he was sad on Saturday, Daddy asked, "Cian, do you want a hug?". I thought for sure that would be the last thing he wanted. He replied, yes and ran into daddy's arms for the biggest bear hug.

2 days later, he got bonked and came crying, "Mommy, me need hug".

Brownie Ice Cream Sundaes makes FHE a hit. Every time.Notice his multiple layers. He refuses to use covers as he sleeps. Sometimes I can't be quite sure he is my kid.