Never Leave a Two Year Old Alone With Finger Paints!

Obviously Ayden is my first child because I am still doing stupid things like leaving her alone with finger paints. What was I thinking? I don't know... actually I was thinking that it would give me ten minutes to make some phone calls that I have been putting off all week. In the end I did not get to the phone calls and Ayden's finger painting time gave me ten more minutes of something to add to my daily list and that was to clean up her mess! Oh well...
You can tell she is proud of herself. Look at that grin!
Since my table is black these pictures don't really do justice to the mess that she made. It was all over the table and the chair.

Finger paint soup, Anyone?

Sorry I have not posted in a while. I have a couple of excuses. First, I have not been taking any pictures because our camera isn't working so great anymore since Ayden decided she wants to be the family photographer and it does not help that we lost our case, extra memory cards and batteries is Park City. I guess it is time to get a new camera. My second excuse is that we have all been sick. Ayden has had two ruptured ear drums this month from her chronic ear infections and we were both sick with the flu this past week too. The good news about Ayden's ear infections is that I finally switched pediatricians and found one who really knows what she is doing. Ayden has had bad ear infections since she was a couple months old. She has probably had at least twelve in her life and six since last July. That is lot of antibiotics for a two year old. She has had more doses of antibiotics in her short little life then I have in my whole life. Our last pediatrician just kept writing the prescriptions and sending us away even though I begged for more options. I hit the end of my rope when she got two ruptured ear drums within two weeks so I switched doctors and our new doctor could not believe I was never referred to an ear nose and throat doctor for tubes before. She said that any kid who has more then 6 with in a year should definitely get tubes. So she recommended them for Ayden if for no other reason then to give her body a break from antibiotics. She has chronic diarrhea which makes things like potty training impossible and who knows what else the antibiotics are reeking havoc on. I wish we did not have to go as drastic as surgery but at this point we are desperate for a change and I am happy to be doing something about it. Thanks Brad for giving Ayden your ears!!! (he also had bad ear infections and tubes put in at least once but maybe a couple of times)

On to some other news... We had a great time last weekend in Burley. We went for the super bowl and I have to report that even though Brad was extremely disappointed his team lost he was a great looser. I have never been more proud. Sure it probably helped that we worked out a deal where he did not loose either way if you know what I mean, ahem, but he was great about it. We also had a really fun day skiing with a ton of family and friends. It was a really great ski day and it was fun to ski the resort (sorry Marsha and Lori "hill") that Brad grew up on. Thanks Marsha for watching the girls so we could go! Ayden and Alex had a lot of fun with their cousins. Ayden and Caleb played really well together and she also loved the attention her older cousins gave her. Thanks to everyone for making it a great weekend.