Layne finally has a loose tooth! He has been waiting forever to loose a tooth, so it is a happy day!!

We had a great weekend. Had our annual bonfire on Saturday night. It was raining and yucky so Tim cleaned the garage and we had everyone over anyway. By the time people started to come it was only sprinkling so we lit a fire anyway and the kids were able to roast marshmallows.

Scott and Debbie took the kids for the afternoon today so Tim and I went to K-mart to do a little Christmas shopping. Then we decide to use the gift card I got for TGIFidays for dinner. It was nice to spend more than an hour in the same place with my husband!!

Took Layne to the doctor tonight. He has strep throat and a double ear infection. He rapidly got worse after school today. When we left for the doctor he had a temp of 101. They asked Layne to wear a mask when we got there and he didn't like it. He said he it was to hot under the mask and he started to to hyperventilate. By the time we got back to the doctors office he was in full on panic mode. It took the nurse a while to calm he down. The nurse was great with him (he was a male nurse and had a 7 year old son). Anyway Layne is feeling pretty bad for himself, so now I will go and baby him.

It was a yucky rainy day here today, so the twins and I spent the morning cuddling and reading books. I had to peel myself off the couch to go to class. Next semester I have to try and not have an afternoon class, it is so tempting to not go!

Layne is not feeling well tonight. He is running a low grade fever (99.5), but it has me freaked out. We spent 30 minutes of my accounting class today talking about H1N1, all the deaths and the hospitalizations. So I will be praying for good health in our home tonight.

We hit another mile stone today. My MOPS group planned an outing today to the Mandan Community Center to go swimming. I knew Tim couldn't come but my friends assured me that they would help me. While, when we showed up at the center one only other friend showed up. So I decide to try and take the kids in the water myself. I was a bit nervous but it all worked out great. Logan did really well swimming with just a life jacket, and Brenden had made great progress by the time we left. It was fun and it is good to know that I can take them by myself now!

Katie, CJ, JD and Abbie came up this weekend. Katie took Layne and JD to the movie "Where the Wild Things Are" on Saturday afternoon while I was in Lisbon. Layne got a little scared, but overall he liked it. This afternoon we went to the pumpkin patch. It was really nice out today so Tim and CJ stayed home to clean out the gutters and mow the front yard. We had only planned to stay at the pumpkin patch for about and hour, but Brenden had a different idea. He got lost for about 45 minutes. I was sitting off to the side with Abbie while mom and Katie were up on the bale mazes with the kids. I hadn't seen Brenden in a while so I asked mom where he was. She didn't know. Mind you it is beautiful out and everyone and their brother is at the pumpkin patch. So we start looking around and I started to panic when he wasn't on the bales and wasn't inside the maze. So we start look around on some of the other stacks of bales and he isn't there either. By now 20 minutes had gone by, so I decide to go and find someone who works there to help. They ask me what he is wear and what he looks like and I try to tell them, but i can't because I am crying. Once I finally get it out they announce it over the loud speaker. Then I thought I should probably tell her that he is a twin and that Logan is wear the exact same thing. So we keep looking at this point I had run into a few people I knew and they were looking too. I had made a loop around where we were and I decide to go back and check with the ladies working there. I had just turned a corner and I see a beautiful little boy just standing there and a lady that had stop to look at him. She tried to grab his and and take him to the office, but he said no and ran away, and I scooped him up. He wasn't even phased! I asked him where he had been and he said "playing". He had walked all the way across the pumpkin patch to go play in the pumpkin house. We left the pumpkin patch right after we found him and I was telling my sister that I would have bet money that if Brenden were to get lost that he would sit down and cry and if Logan got lost he wouldn't care. I guess I was wrong about Brenden and I don't EVER want to find about about Logan!!

I finally got the laundry done, it only took me 3, OK 4, weeks to get it done! I am so thankful I have a patient husband who was willing to joke with me about it and then help put it all away!

Logan woke up this morning at 5:30. Tim tried to bring him to bed with us, put he was wide awake! I on the other hand was not, I had really wanted to sleep until at least 7:00, but all the boys were awake and in my room by 6:30. I might have been more upset if they were all being so cute and playing so nice!

I made some oatmeal banana breakfast cookies tonight to take to daycare and to MOPS. I put the bowl in the sink to fill with water while I went to the bathroom. I then proceeded to sit down and forget about it and the water over flowed the bowl and filled up the sink and ended up with water all over the kitchen floor. It then dripped down to the basement where I had 3 weeks of CLEAN laundry on every surface in the laundry room. Tim wasn't very happy about it. But we got it cleaned up and nothing was damaged.