Ten on Tuesday

1. We are all still sick here and feeling miserable. Coughing, runny noses, chest congestion,  and little sleep. I will kill for a Z-pack at this point, but am on day three of my amoxicillin instead, which isn't helping at all. I have a sinus and ear infection along with a little bronchitis, fantastic! Needless to say we are all sick of being sick!

2. I can't remember the last time I had an ear infection and am really struggling with the whole, not being able to hear, thing. Not fun at all.

3. My holiday schedule has finally come out and I am working Christmas Eve and New Years Day. This isn't bad and I'm excited to have Christmas morning at our house. I usually would already have the tree and all my decorations up by now, but see number one with the crazy illness, that hasn't happened yet.

4. I'm done with most of my Christmas shopping. I only have Brent and stocking stuffers left on the list. I'm excited about the stocking stuffers, but have no ideas for Brent. Ideas anyone?

5. Have I shown you Zane's holiday apron. Check it out, it is a ginger bread boy, with little legs and everything. It took a little bit of convincing to get him to keep it on, but once he had it on he wanted to keep it on all day. He was sick so it was difficult to get a good picture. I think the fact that he had no pants on really added to the cuteness.

6. Zane is coming awfully close to being able to say outside. His little mouth makes an O shape but it just isn't quite there yet. It is too bad that it is freezing and rainy here so when he goes and stands by the door to practice his new word we can't actually go outside.

7. Yesterday Zane got new shoes, again. Turns out he had grown a size and half, which makes me feel really bad that we were jamming his feet into tiny shoes, they didn't seem that small at the time. We did find some wide Nike's, which seem to fit his fat feet better than his last pair of shoes. I sure wish he could wear the cheap Target shoes, but his new Nike kicks are really cute!

8. I am wanting to do a hand print craft with Zane to make him an ornament for this year. I bought one with his picture on it, but I think a hand print one would be really cute. Here are the ideas I have so far, this one is super cute if I could get Zane to put his hand on the ornament and not break it. Or I could do the salt dough hand prints, but I can't figure out if they would break/last. Ideas?

9. Currently Zane loves being in small spaces. He gets into my baskets, the storage cubes downstairs, and the many amazon boxes that have been arriving at our house. Once he is in a box/basket he goes on playing or recently he has started to get in a basket with Dale and read him books. A little strange but harmless I guess.

10. The other new phase that started this week with Zane is time outs. We had discussed when we should start some sort of discipline for when Zane hits, bites, throws stuff, or any other number of things he needs to know is not acceptable. This weekend Zane was continually hitting Zach with the metal measuring spoons and I randomly decided to sit him down in "time out." I was surprised when he sat there for his whole minute with little complaint. Maybe they do this at school. Either way he is been back a few times, mainly for running on the couch, hitting, or biting. He seems to know that he is in trouble and stops doing whatever he was put in time out for once he gets out. I hate it, but it was bound to happen at some time.

Here's hoping I feel better for next weeks Ten on Tuesday.