Whole family sick again!

As unbelievable as it is, we're all sick again!  Lili has tonselitis for the third time this year, she will finally get to see an ENT.  Hopefully she'll be allowed to have them removed.  Eric, the baby and I have had a cold.  Eric has been the sickest and when I took him to the clinic today his fever was 104 and his chest and sinuses are both infected.  Fei is just starting to sneeze so she's on her way to joining us.  Now, the worst hit here is little Dixie, she has pneumonia.  The vet gave her meds and critical care food and said it was 50/50 on her pulling through.  I just adore Dixie, I'm devastated.  She has to be force fed every four hours.  I've already set alarms for midnight and four.  The big girls are being super helpful about nursing Dix.  We just saw her eat a noodle and drink some water.  She got sick and lost weight so fast.  Who knew how medically fragile rats could be?

We're planning to lay low this weekend.  I sure hope we're done with all the colds!!

Trying again with a picture.

Playing duplo with Fei and Laurel.

Testing

Trying out a Blogger app on my Andoid. 

Pink computers and Chairs.

Can she even get any cuter?!

Hanging with Mom and our matching pink computers.

We found a pink recliner for Jia's room that is the same color as the big rocker in her room.  Actually, Jia found the chair and since it was a good sale price we let her bring it home.

Zoo Trip

The very start of our trip.  She wasn't excited at all.

Shopping for trucks on the ferry, she's such a Daddy's girl.

This is how I shop at Ikea, at least until the Ikea staff told Mom and Dad it was dangerous.  ?

Princess Potty and her new thrown.

Mommy, please stop taking pictures and take me out of this darn pack and play!

We've travelled all over BC and Eric is always looking for Moose, he thinks it's pretty sad that he had to see his first Moose in a zoo.  I'm just glad he finally saw one.

There were statues for the kids to climb up and pose on, they climbed on all of them of course.

Hang on Haley!

We even found one Jia's size!

Jade loved taking over with the baby while we visited with Cathryn and Marty.

Jia was thrilled to have a new friend.

Hey, this bunkbed is WAY more fun than my pack and play!

Captain Kids Adventure Zone.

To end the Spring Break we took the girls to the Zoo.  We went with Penny and girls and they all had a blast being together all weekend.  Jia did better in the hotel than we were expecting.  We were planning to go to Scienceworld on Sat. and the zoo on Sunday, but it was supposed to be a rainy weekend and when we got up Sat. and the sun was shinning, we quickly changed plans and went to the zoo Sat.  Which meant we were heading in the wrong direction re: reservations/ferries on Sunday so we changed our plans again and skipped Science World and went to Captain Kids Adventure Zone and then to a movie at the Colussus in Langley.  We split up for the movies.  I took Hanna, Lili and Fei to 'Mars Needs Moms'.  I thought it looked silly but man was I wrong.  One of the best Disney kids movies I've seen yet.  Plus I got to have popcorn :)  We're new to 3D, so that part was pretty cool too.  Fei hung onto my arm the whole time, she felt like we were moving.

The zoo was great.  Love the Vancouver Zoo.  Giant pens, natural settings, very clean, NONE of the animals look stressed.  Jia was thrilled.  She kept signing 'more', she pointed and babbled quite a bit.  One of the squirrel monkies has a new baby, OMG CUTE, and when we were watching she flipped the baby off her back and cradled it in her tail and arms and nursed the baby!  We also got to watch a racoon dig a hole and have a poop.  Good times.  The girls all walked for over five hours in there.  They're all eager to go again. 

On the Friday night we went to IKEA.  My first time there.  I bought a few things, but my list of items to pick up in the warehouse was huge.  I scrapped the list and have decided I need to measure and plan more.  There is a bus we can catch to take for a day trip.  It's now on my list of things to do.  The girls found stuffed rats in the kids section for .99 and all five of them bought one.  Miles of entertainment from those little guys.  Jia is still packing hers around, she tucks it in the neck of her shirt and gives it kisses over and over again. 

We were worried about getting Jia to sleep in the pack and play.  She wasn't keen on the idea and eventually we all just turned out all the lights and let her cry.  She was asleep pretty quickly once she realized she didn't have an audience anymore.  The second night went easier.  She was exhausted.  We're feeling better about getting her to sleep in the RV.  It might work after all.  She was pretty darned excited to see her crib once we got home!  She went in happily and didn't make a peep for a couple nights. 

We went and had dinner with friends on Sat. night.  They adopted their second daughter Lian the same time as Lili.  The girls had a great time visiting with Jade and Lian.  Dinner was fabulous.  Thanks guys!

Oh, and since we skipped Science World, Lili is on me to plan another trip!  She isn't going to let that go.  So, another day trip is on my to do list.

Spring Break

Right in that moment ya' know she was thinkin' her Daddy was the BEST.

Mmmm, Mmmm, I love jello.

I've been working these last couple weeks, but the girlies still had some fun on their spring break.  A couple sleepovers, playdates, museum, swimming, saw Rango, dance lessons, piano lessons, tons of screen time and this weekend we're heading to Scienceworld and the Zoo with Penny and girls.  Visiting with friends while we're there.  However...Jia hasn't been away from home since she came home...and she really, really likes her crib!  We've been trying all week to get her to sleep in the pack and play or in our bed.  Nope.  No way.  She wants her crib.  She has screamed longer than we can take it and won the battle.  The new game plan for the weekend is to get her as tired as possible and keep her up late and cross all of our fingers and toes and hope for sleep.  I'm not sure the other patrons of the hotel are going to like having us as neighbors. 

Miss Jia has a lot of new words, hugs, gentle, toys, play, run.  The other night in the sleep struggles she said "I stay up".  She had a dinner with Lili and Fei's at Gramma's and when we went to pick them up she said "Jia go home".  She calls herself 'Gigi' now.  I'm not sure where that came from but it's super cute and we're all saying it now.  The other day I found her at the top of the piano (tall grand), yikes!  Eric said she climbed up there again yesterday.  She's also figured out she can pull the oven door down and climb on that.  The stool in the bathroom gets carted around the house now too, so nothing is safe from her on the counter or island anymore.  She gets on the rocker and just gets it rocking back in forth like a wild child.  We are constantly chasing her now, she loves to run, great game.  She's soooo different than the first two.

We took Isabel and Lacie for a walk yesterday and I attempted using a back carrier with Jia.  Ug.  I told Eric to pass it on, I won't ever use it with her again.  It felt like she was doing acrobatics in it.  Throwing herself from side to side, standing on the bar and jumping, kicking my back the whole time.  Wow, this kid has energy to burn.  She walks too slow still so we'll have to go back to using the stroller.  I was hoping the back carrier would work for hiking when we camp. 

Speaking of camping, it's time to start gearing up.  We've had a couple nice days here.  I booked the Victoria Day long weekend.  Our first trip will be May 8th and then the Easter weekend after that.  Lili and Fei are sooooo excited and are talking about camping constantly now.  We're done our job right if they're that excited.  They so badly want to introduce Jia to all of the joys.

New bikes!

Jia call helmets 'hamas'.

There isn't anything more fun then running freely outside!

Lili on her new cruiser!

Fei on her new to her bike all girlified up!

She can't reach the pedals but she loved it anyways.

All ready for our 1st ride of the year, except Jia had to ride with Eric in the gasp 'baby' seat.

We're not sure how much she liked it, but she squaked when we stopped moving.

We went out on our first bike ride of the year.  It's still too cold and our hands and noses were freezing but we just had to let the girls ride their new bikes :)  Now the baby is napping and the girls and I are under blankets watching tv.