Happy Belated New Years

It has been quite a week here and it is only Wednesday.  Luckily Brian has been off the last two weeks because we have had quite a cold go through our house.  Currently I cannot breathe and my nose looks a lot like Rudolph.  Mackenzie and Brian seem to be pretty much over it.  Mackenzie was sick mostly last week with a fever on Wednesday and Thursday.  Isaac got a fever Sunday and he still had a fever today.  Brian took him to the doctor today and the doctor thinks it is viral, but if the fever is still there on Friday they are going to do a lung x-ray to make sure it isn't pneumonia.  Like I said, I am super congested but no fever so far. So hopefully Isaac's fever will break and I will be able to breathe tomorrow and we will be on the road to recovery.

We had our annual New Year's pasta dinner on New Year's Eve.  Friends and co-workers of mine, Sunil, Luis and Gopal came over with their families and we had dinner and did an early countdown with the kids.  If I do say so myself, my pasta was pretty good, the wine was quite excellent, and the kids seemed to have an awesome time.

Tonight Isaac was totally wound up because the doctor's visit was at three o'clock so he took a nap on either side of the visit.  Anyway, I was upstairs with him after his bath and getting him dressed and he was running around.  I went into the bathroom to get a tissue and Isaac runs in and I thought he said "Screw you" and then he ran back out.  I went out to the hallway and asked him what he had just said and he repeated "Screw you".  So I asked him what that meant and he says, "You burped, excuse you."  Evidently he thought the sound of me blowing my nose quite loudly was a burp.  I am glad that I asked what he thought he was saying instead of telling him that saying "Screw you" isn't very nice.  I can just see him running around and telling Mackenzie, "Screw you!"

Also in the way of interesting things my kids say, we have taught both kids to say "Go Irish", of course.  It really caught on this fall with Isaac.  Lately when they are home in the evenings Isaac will say "Go Irish" and Mackenzie will say "Go Buckeyes" and Isaac will say "NO Mackenzie, Go Irish".  This will go back and forth a bit and eventually one of them will switch to "Go Michigan".  Evidently the kids were saying "Go Irish" at school and their teachers have been helping them with some new phrases. It is hard for both Brian and I not to teach them some sarcastic phrases about the Buckeyes and their recent problems, but so far we have told the kids that they are allowed to root for whatever school they want, however I am secretly praying that neither of them wants to attend Ohio State.

A happy 2012 to all, hopefully it has been less snotty at your house.