Many exciting and crazy things have happened since my last post.  The first one being that my little girl turned 6!!!  It's crazy how time flies... some days I feel like it was just yesterday that she was a baby in my arms.  It was the first year we didn't throw a crazy expensive birthday party for her and the first year Nee Nee and Pa pa weren't with us to celebrate :(  We still managed to have a nice time and celebrated with a mall birthday.  We went and saw Paranorman and let her go to the toy store and pick out a new toy.  She chose a Sweetie Bell baby pony that talks and the boys were excited because they got to pick out new toys too.  We also picked up cake at the store to have after dinner.  All in all, it was a nice day.

So it was a great day celebrating Caitlin's birthday, but unfortunately that same morning Miles broke out in spots and blisters.  His school had been sending out email reports that two classmates had broken out with Boston's disease a.k.a. Hand, Foot, Mouth disease.  I thought Miles would be fine because he made it the entire week with no blisters, but Sunday morning before we left to celebrate Caitlin's birthday we noticed his first spots :(  This really is a harmless virus but it is pretty contagious and the blisters can be a little painful if you have them in your mouth or on bottom of your feet.  There's nothing you can take, you pretty much have to let the virus run it's course and stay home from work and school.  By Wednesday Caitlin, Harrison, and Bill all had blisters as well.  

The pictures don't do the blister's justice, they were pretty yucky!

After being stuck in the house for almost a week, everyone was getting cabin fever and by Saturday the troop was ready to go outside and play.  Luckily for us, it snowed!  The forecast said snow and I thought "Okay, it will be like Texas and maybe snow for half an hour or an hour," but boy was I completely wrong.  This is Poland and it snowed hard for 12 hours straight!!  It was pretty amazing and I'm still shocked about how hard and long it snowed.  I made the biggest snowman I'd ever made in my life and the kids played in the snow for a while.  On Sunday, everything was covered in snow and it was a truly beautiful sight.  I'm writing this 5 days later and there is still some snow on the ground.  I'm beginning to feel a little nervous about the Polish winter.  We've had a few days of bone chilling cold weather here and it's making this Texas girl miss home a little :(

Bill cracks up at this picture because my hat looks like a nipple :)