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This is a coversation I had with Emily Monday night in the car:

Emily: Will we take the crib with us if we move?

Me: Yes, we'll take all our furniture.

Emily: But what if we don't have any more babies?

Me: Papa Jim built that crib so will will save it and your children can sleep in it.

Emily: What if I don't have a baby?

Me: Then Ethan's kids will sleep in it.

Emily: Ethan isn't going to get married.

Me: Why do you say that?

Emily: I know it.

Me: Then maybe Emerson will have a baby who will use it.

Emily: I think I will marry Emerson.

Me: You can't hon, that's not how it works.

Emily: Well, who can I marry?

Me: One of your friends, maybe Sebastien or Ben.

Emily: Ben. And now he doesn't have to call me "Friend" anymore.

Me: What should he call you then?

Emily: Honey.

Then today Emily comes into the living room with my drivers license.

Me: Hey! Where did you get that?

Emily: From Ethan.

Me: Ethan! Where is my wallet!

Ethan: I don't know.

I found it on their kitchen toy in the play room.

Me: Ethan, what were you doing with my wallet?

Ethan: Looking for dollars, my need some dollars.

Me: Ask your father.

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So once the pediatrician read the radiologists report she decided the foot needed to be casted. I had called the orthopedist the previous day but had not heard back yet. The doctor had her nurse call and Voila! I had an appointment within 2 hours. Interesting.

I run over to the hospital where the x-rays were taken to get his films to bring with me to Children's Hospital. I hadn't packed anything for the kids for lunch so I had to stop at home to get some food and rush into Boston to make my appointment.

I get there and all the way up to the orthopedic department only to realize I had left the x-rays in the car. So I check in and the girl tells me that it will take her a few minutes to prepare his chart so I have time to go get the x-rays from the car. I go do that, and it didn't take as long as I thought, but as it turned out they wanted new x-rays. Thankfully the radiology dept is very close to orthopedics and we didn't have to wait. It was pretty much in and out all day. When we got back they were ready to see Ethan and talked about what type of cast he would need and right into the casting room we went.

He has a "buckle" fracture of his first and second metatarsel in his left foot. So the bones are fractured on one side only. Because he is such an active kid they decided to put a waterproof walking cast. Its pretty cool. It can go in the bath, pool anywhere. He picked a cast with soccerballs on it. He thinks it's a big band-aid.

After that we just came home. He's doing fine, hobbling around a bit but not slowed down too much. He has to wear it 3 weeks then he should be back in business.

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Lately we have been letting the kids fall asleep in our bed then move them into theirs when we go up. Ethan likes to sleep next to Emily and we think it's sweet so we let them. This is what happened when we went up to move them to their own beds tonight.

First of all, Ethan was in only his diaper....He was put to bed in fleece pj's. David picked him up and put him in his bed. I picked Emily up and she started talking:

"put that down........no,no,no,no,no.... Ethan!......stop that"

She was sound asleep.

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Two days ago Ethan and Emily were playing in the living room with David. Ethan jumped off the couch and, we think, banged his foot on the leg of the coffee table. He cried and we iced it and he seemed fine. It didn't seem swollen and/or red or bruised. But the next day he was limping on it. We watched him and although he was limping he was not complaining and was still playing as normal, more or less.

Anyway when he woke up Monday morning he was still limping on it and it was a little bruised so I called the pediatrician and brought him in. The doctor sent him for an x-ray, although she didn't feel it was broken. She wanted to be sure because fractures can be hard to diagnose. So off we went to the radiologist. Ethan was great. We had to take a couple extra pictures, because he moved. But at the end of the day he did great. He was cute and sweet and behaved -- which is pretty good.

When the doctor called we discovered there is a fracture. So he will have to see an orthopedic doctor and who knows what he will say. How do you get a 2 year old to stay off a foot long enough for it to heal? Hopefully they have an idea about that.

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Well, where to begin? It's been crazy since my last post.

Emerson has been suffering from ear infections for the last month off and on so he has been taking various antibiotics. He ended a cycle the 22nd of December and we headed to NY for Christmas on the 23rd. We drove down to New London to catch the ferry as we usually do and it was an uneventful ride. As we reached the Long Island side Emerson began to fuss. By the time we were in the car and underway he was crying like I had never heard him cry before. It was a horrible sound. He continued to cry for the next 40 minutes solid, and could not be consoled- we tried everything! So we drove straight to the emergency room in Riverhead.

As many of you know I have spent alot of time in the Riverhead ER in my last few trips to LI , so much so that I am beginning to wonder if we should continue visiting there or just insisit my parents always come to us, haha.

To make a long story short his ears were still infected, and now he is back on antibiotics and has to see an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist to possibly have his ears tubed.

Christmas was really nice. We spent it with my parents and the kids had a wonderful time. We brought less than half the gifts the kids received but there was a huge pile under the tree. It was so much fun watching their faces as they opened the gifts.

The weekend was tough for Emerson. He was uncomfortable and battled a fever all weekend. So David and I headed home with the boys on Tuesday and Emily stayed with my folks 'til Friday.

When Emily got home on Friday we had a second Christmas with the gifts we had not brought to LI. The kids were pretty excited, and maybe a little overwhelmed too. David and I are definately overwhelmed by the amount of stuff we have to finds room for now!

The other news is that we have adopted a second cat. Alot of people were shocked we got the first cat, since we are dog people, but we can't have a puppy yet with the kids so young. Anyway Finley, we thought, needed a friend and our neighbor's cat had just had kittens so we decided to take a calico. We took her home when we got back from LI-- and Finley was not as pleased as we had hoped. He tries to pounce on her at every opportunity. I think they will grow to love each other but we will see. The new kitty is named Orla.

We wanted a name like Finley that had sentimental origins, but nothing really fit. So we decided to go with another Irish name. The decision was between Orla, Sinead and Molly We ended up going with Orla since it was the most unique.

David and I are such huge partiers that we were asleep by 11 PM on New Years Eve. That is what having 3 kids and 2 cats will do to you! But we do have some resolutions. They are mostly involving fitness, reducing clutter and getting more sleep. The kids are both in swimming for the new year and David is going to get Emily on skis in the next week or so. There is a small ski area about 2 miles from us.

So, that brings us up to date on the family. I'll keep you posted on ears, swimming and skis.

Happy New Year!!

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