Good bye Narnia....

She was bound and determined to get it to the road......

This is hard mom!

I had to help and of course the dang thing had a flat!But the girls had fun in the wagon anyway- more exercise for me. :)

If you don't read then you won't get the Narnia reference, but finally our world is melting! Yes!

So after a month of major sickness in our house I am proud to say that we are all healthy. Kalin turned one and decided to be sick, sick and sick some more. It first started with her puking up hot dogs.... that Jon tried to feed her again the next day (no not the regurgitated ones, gross! Those were fed to the dogs....) So Kalin doesn't like hot dogs anymore- FYI.

Next my poor baby had an ear infection in her right ear (first one ever) fluid in her left ear that developed into a double ear infection over a few days.... with a 102 fever too. On top of this she had to have three X-rays to see how bad the fluid in her lungs was getting- so after our FOURTH visit enough was enough and she had been sick for as many days as we could take it. Finally Kalin was put on a series of three shots and that did the trick; her nose cleared up, she was finally eating again, sleeping, and allowing us to put her down for more than two minutes at a time.

Phew. Feel sorry for me, it has been a rough month. We are finally getting some warmer weather- and I hear that the sun might show up today or tomorrow. Even though we are getting a ton of light- from about 7 am until 11 ish, it has been doing a lot of raining and snowing so we aren't out to enjoy it. But I broke out the wagon and Kiley's bike and we took a short walk in between snow and rain showers.

Spring Alaska Style......

I think Mother Nature has forgotten that "April Showers Bring May Flowers..." because yesterday when I woke up it was TWO degrees at my house. Today it was snowing, as in a BLIZZARD snowing. Not just light flakes here and there- snow like I had to brush off a foot of snow from my car kind of snow. We have the reverse of Global Warming- we have Global Freezing, or something like that. Seriously- even in Alaska we deserve some rain and mud, don't we? Well enough griping, I'm going to Colorado in May and I will hopefully soak up enough sunshine to last another cold winter!
So the Clouses took advantage of a beautiful spring day (even with all the snow) and we semi bundled up and went for a gorgeous walk. We have so much snow it is crazy! We have snow almost half way up our windows- I am starting to feel like a little clausterphobic..... Kiley had fun climbing up "mountains" and jumping off of them (and just getting outside!). She even got her Dad to pull her in the wagon instead of a sled, with Kalin on his back. What a man!

BFF's in our House!

Kiley and Jon traveled to Washington and visited Papa and Gram for a few days. Kiley lived it up going to "Old McDonalds", riding her bike and scooter, and swimming with her dad. She really enjoyed spending time with her grandparents and taking a special trip with her Dad. BUT.......

She was excited to come home - especially when she found out that Rikki and Oliva were going to be at our house! Karen and the girls flew to Dillingham for about a week and stayed with us- we had so much fun while they were here. Through pukey flus, Fifths Disease, runny noses, coughs, and fevers we still managed to enjoy a great week. We miss them now more than ever though.... :(