Let me show you what I know!

Well the sick bug has decided to stay around at the Harmon house. Last Saturday, Mollie woke up VERY sick and continued like this for about 2 hours. Finally around 3 Sunday morning, she finally fell asleep (in our bed) and woke up later like everything was fine. Well, Monday night John got home from baseball and wasn't quite himself. I guess Mollie decided that when he told her he wished he could have her virus she gave it to him. Tuesday I woke up feeling not-so-great so at 5:30 in the morning, I called my parents and my dad came over and got Mollie. The last thing we needed was for her to get this stomach bug again. She stayed at my parent's all day (thank goodness for grand-parents) and John and I spent the day sleeping and trying to feel better.
We thought everyone was back to feeling good until I woke up Friday morning and saw that Mollie was very hot. I took her temperature and it was 101.8. So, here we go again. John took her in with him to work that morning and I took a 1/2 day off that afternoon. We thought she was feeling better that night but yesterday I checked on her and her temperature was 104.8 so motrin and tylenol went in full-force on the Monkey. Every 2 hours I would rotate the two and finally last night she seemed to be back to normal (fever too.) However, this morning she woke up and was coughing, had a fever and her right ear was draining. So we knew that she possibly could have an ear infection or the tubes had come out. Luckly, we have a pediatrict urgent care by us so off we went. Yes, it was an ear infection (first one since we had the tubes put in over a year ago) and we are now on ear drops, cough medicine and an antibiotic. So to show everyone that Mollie is feeling better I took a little video of her tonight to prove it. Please pray that our little Monkey gets to feeling back to normal!

All my tricks

Mollie's saying tons these days so I thought I would share. I took this, this past Saturday morning and hope you enjoy!

Long time, no write

Not so sure about all the noise.

A cool float

Like all the beads?

Pre-Parade
Yes, yes....I know it has been far too long since I've updated the blog but we have been so busy that I think I finally caught my breath last night for the first time in a month. John's sports schedule is in full-on go mode right now. He has basketball (3 teams), soccer(2 teams), wrestling (1 team), baseball (3 teams) and track going on. He is so busy and and will get even busier the next few weeks. For the next 4 weeks, he will have something every week night except for Wednesdays. Needless to say, Mollie and I will be going to Clear Brook High School a lot over the next few weeks so she can see her daddy when she's awake. It's tough on John to not be able to see her but at least I can bring her up to him and they can spend some time together.

School is going well; I love my kids and schedule this year so that helps. I have been studying big-time for a major test to have another endorsement on my teacher certificate and I took that yesterday. I should know the results in the next 3-4 weeks. Keep those fingers crossed!

It's been cold here (nothing like our East Tennessee family has experienced) and I am now at the point where I miss our 95+ degree summer weather. I am a coastal girl and I miss my sunshine!! Bring it back....

Mollie's doing SO well. She's running, talking more and LOVES to color. I can give her crayons and a coloring book and she'll sit and color for a good amount of time. She's really into the movie "Cars" right now so we've been watching that a ton around here. However don't worry, she still loves Elmo.

Speaking of Elmo: we are going to see him live today. I can't wait to see the look on her face. No worries, pictures will be provided later.

We went to one of the Mardi Gras parades last night in Galveston so there are pictures from that. Hope all is well and lots of love to everyone!

Santa brought me....

Getting ready to put our PJs on for bed but couldn't resist this cute picture.

We actually had our fireplace on after we got back from Christmas Eve service! :)

What a cutie!

Daddy and Mollie before heading out to church Christmas Eve.

a NEW SLIDE! Enjoy the pictures from this morning.

Helping Mommy go through her stocking.

Helping Daddy go through his stocking.

Mollie's new fishing pole :)

Ready to go down.

Her first "ride" on her new slide.

Our little Sugar Plum Fairy

Mollie has this little Christmas house that plays the "Sugar Plum Fairy" song and she loves dancing to it. Here is a video of her this evening dancing in her Elmo Christmas PJs my parents got her for tonight. ENJOY!!

Children's museum and FIRST haircut

Mommy and Mollie

Mollie, Drew and Trenton

FIRST Haircut!!

Trenton and Mollie

"Who's vain?"

My little scientists...I'm so PROUD!

Well with all of us being out of school, I refuse to have Mollie sit around the house the whole time so yesterday she and I and our friend Gretchen and her son Drew and one of our friend's little boys Trenton, went to the Children's Museum in Houston. We had SO much fun! Mollie loves being around the "big" kids and does very well keeping up with them. Here are some pictures of our adventure yesterday.

This morning we took Mollie to get her first haircut. Her bangs were covering her eyes and getting on my nerves so Ms Gina got her in the "big girl" chair and went at it. She pretty much just cleaned up Mollie's hair but it looks so cute! Her curls are really starting to come out on the bottom and it's so cute! Enjoy!

Mollie meet Santa

After being very sick Thursday evening through Saturday afternoon with a bad cough and fever, Mollie felt better on Sunday so we decided to take her to meet Santa at the Bass Pro Shop. She did really well waiting in line but once we got up to see Santa things turned pretty bad. We sat her down in Santa's lap and the tears (and screams) started coming. The poor man tried so hard to make her happy but finally he just said "Take the picture." Needless to say, this will be shown at her wedding one day!