Life is moving too fast. This week started with Irelyn complaining that her ears hurt which resulted in a visit to the Pediatrician on Wednesday which resulted in her having a double ear infection AND pink eye. Fun! Eye drops for a week and antibiotics for 10 days are the name of the game. Luckily she handles the eye drops like a champ, so that has made the process so much better.

R also started feeling sick on Wednesday, though he was fine by Friday. I hate him. He gets sick and it is usually over in 2-3 days. I get sick and it lasts for 2-3 weeks. Not fair. But I'm glad he is feeling better.

The Daisy Scouts hosted their second (and final) cookie booth on Saturday. We actually SOLD OUT of cookies! I am so ready to had in the money and be done with this process. Our troop proceeds were $612. Not bad for our first year, though we have nothing to compare it to. I'm very proud of all the girls.

Let's get on to the photos from the week:

3/2 Monday:

Irelyn had to decorate a  butterfly for preschool "homework". On the back she wrote her name - all by herself! I'm so proud and excited about this. She really just has no interest in the alphabet and it has been a struggle getting her to learn the letters. She does know the letters in her name and I think she did a great job writing it out.

3/3 Tuesday:

We headed to Plant City for the Florida Strawberry Festival. This is a tradition for me since I grew up in Plant City. No year is complete without a trip to the Festival. This was also Irelyn's first trip. We could not have picked a better day to go. There were no lines and we were able to buy armbands so the kids got to ride the rides as many times as they wanted. We were there about 4 hours and dropped $100, but the kids (and us, too) had the best time ever!

3/4 Wednesday:

I began the day with a Bone Density scan at Tampa General Hospital. I must tell you that this was the easiest test I have ever done. You just lay on a table and the machine hovers over you and scans your body for about 5 minutes and that's it! Awesome.

Then I had to get back to Brandon for an early release day (out at noon) for Georgia. This afternoon we took Irleyn to the Pediatrician where she was diagnosed with a double ear infection and pink eye. Luckily the Doctor faxed over the prescriptions and by the time we got across town to the pharmacy, they were ready!

Speaking of Georgia. We find little slips of paper with stories on them all over the house. She has a wonderful imagination and loves drawing and writing stories. She's just in Kindergarten but is doing really well with her writing skills. So proud of this girl! Here is her latest story that she created after reading Snow White.

3/5 Thursday:

Because Irelyn has pink eye, she has to stay home from school today (have to be on antibiotic eye drops for 24 hours before returning to school). She was in a good mood and wanted to play games on Noggin. This is probably her first real time playing computer games and she did really well. At one point I walked in to check on her and she had somehow clicked on Google and was just typing away! Too funny. A Google search for "ahtountiouhgoedmnkdkjjkdjdjd" or something like that!

3/6 Friday:

Happy Birthday to my Sister-In-Law Wendy! She invited the family over to have dinner and carrot cake. Yum! The kids had fun playing together and we had a good time visiting with the family.

3/7 Saturday:

What a busy day! 8am soccer game (that I had to miss because I woke up with such a stiff/sore neck. I was in a lot of pain and really disappointed that I had to miss the game). However, the other team were like little soccer nazis according to R. The score was 7-0 at the first water break and at one point the Referee let us play 4 vs. 3 because they were killing us. Final score 18-1. Thank God they don't really keep score!

Then Georgia had to get cleaned up and ready for her very fancy Tea Party Birthday Party that she was invited to. One of her BFF's from school had her birthday at a local Tea Room. They got to decorate hats, wear gloves and pearls, eat sugar cubes and listen to Princess music. How fun!

During the Birthday Party we also had our last Daisy Scout cookie booth. We sold out of cookies! Yay!

3/8 Sunday:

Georgia wanted to give the air rifle a try so R took her out in the back yard to shoot a couple of pellets. She did great and actually hit the target. Unfortunately, I must have ticked off some ants while taking the photos and was bitten 3 times on my foot! At least I got the pic..............