We've Arrived and Thawed Out

We arrived last weekend and moved into our home on Monday ... just in time!! Tuesday and Wednesday the entire city was frozen and shut down!! This week has been crazy. There's nothing like a good freeze to keep you at home and unpacking. Its amazing how much was done!! The kids were actually crying and couldn't understand why they were locked up in the house and unable to visit with grandparents for two long days!! Here I had been touting(sp?) the benefits of living less than 10 mins. from both sets of grandparents and the roads to them were closed down!!!! I don't think they believed me that we lived close to them.

But Thursday found us venturing out and the kids spent the night at their grandmas for 2 nights. Its still surreal that we live here. Today (Sunday) I keep thinking I should be packing up to leave early tomorrow morning to go back!!!!

Isabelle had a hard time during the two long ice days. She kept saying she just wanted to go back home. What helped was that a cousin spent the night and day with us (school cancelled and my sister unable to get to us) and she had fun playing with her.

I probably won't be blogging much this week. School starts tomorrow. And I think Sophia is sick. And turns out the baby might be lactose intolerant!?! I need to find a doctor this week. She seems fine on the Lactaid milk (which I only got 2 days ago). I kept taking her off the milk and her diapers would clear up only to put her back on. I kept thinking she had a stomach bug and didn't want to give her any dairy while she was sick. After the 3rd time (poor thing) I caught onto the fact that she didn't have a stomach bug. She seems to be doing fine now. But her poor little toosh is painful to look at.

I went to Walgreens and bought 2 kinds of diaper ointment, baby sitz bath powder and corn starch. I feel so guilty!!! I'm still not sure this is the problem but figure I shouldn't try a 4th time to start regular milk again. I'm just wondering why she wasn't reacting like this months ago. Maybe it is a bug? Anyways, this has been my week. Ice storms, stomach bugs, unpacking, unhappy baby and lots of good times with family!!

And the computer withdrawal shakes have subsided!!