A Sickly Month

January has turned out to be a very cold, snowy and sickly month in our house. We have all had a series of colds, coughs, tummy bugs, fevers, and Claire even swallowed a portable flash drive (we think, we still can't find it and it didn't show up on the xray) which meant her first trip to the ER. We are hoping to get all this sickness out of our systems and have a healthy rest of the year! On a positive health note we took Claire to the specialist regarding her tongue tie and they just want to leave it until after she is two to see if it really even needs corrected.

Jack is doing really well with his new glasses considering he is four. He keeps them on most of the time without being told. He also has quit closing his eye to see, so we think the glasses are helping.

Claire has gotten six new teeth in the last 10 days. She was one grumpy one year old. This child has more teeth than any one year old I've ever seen! She now has 14 teeth! She can eat pretty much whatever we give her at this point. I don't think Jack had as many teeth until he was two.

We have booked our trip to the UK for the middle of March. We are looking forward to going, but also a bit anxious about travelling with two little kids, one of which hasn't figured out how to sleep through the night yet. We're worried about what a six hour time difference will do for that.

We are happy to report that we have officially obtained all of Claire's legal documents to prove her citizenship and get her social security number. We went round and round with the SS office to get her card as they said we didn't have all the required documents despite the fact that I had printed the instructions off their website and took them with me along with all listed docs plus a few extra. I eventually gave up after speaking to a manager. So, we decided to try our luck at a different social security office in Indy with the exact same docs. This time they happily issued her card with no questions asked and they didn't even require all the docs I took! Who knew the social security office functioned like a franchise rather than a federal office! So, we are officially done with adoption paperwork. I can honestly say it was the worst paper chasing experience of my life. It made Dave's immigration paperwork look like a piece of cake. We are glad it is over and that she is home.

Ok, off to fix some fun Super Bowl party food for the big game tonight. My guess is we won't see the end of the game as Jack has a 101 Fever and Claire didn't take a long nap this afternoon.