This Week at the Wheeler Home

Have you ever had one of those weeks that you just wish you could do over? That was how my week has been. As Danny was at his important meeting in Utah County last week, I was bringing Alyssa home from preschool and did this to her newly decorated gingerbread(actually graham cracker) house. In my defense, I was a little sick that day and not completely with it. Alyssa was devastated that her creation was ruined. I felt terrible and promised to help her make one another day with her. That wasn't good enough for her so I picked all of the candy off of the old house(and the floor), made some frosting and constructed a new house out of graham crackers. I so thought I was getting off the hook for gingerbread house making this year. No such luck. Here is the new house.

She was trying to make the sprinkles look like grass. I didn't realize it would take half of the bottle. After this fiasco, we were all happy to have Danny come home that night.

On Thursday, Alyssa was supposed to be honored at preschool for her birthday and we were to provide a birthday snack. There is a girl in her class who is allergic to eggs and Alyssa wanted to make something without eggs that the little girl could eat, so we made rice crispy treats in the shape of gingerbread men. Well, we got a little bit of ice Wednesday night which resulted in school being cancelled on Thursday. Unfortunately, I didn't realize this until we got to the preschool. Alyssa was heartbroken and we had two batches of rice crispy treats to eat.

We spent all week changing Ashley's very stinky diapers as she was sick with some kind of stomach bug. On the tail end of the stomach bug, she must have caught something else because she spent all day Monday laying on the couch. That is very unusual for Ashley, by the way. I took her into the doctor that afternoon after she complained about her ear hurting. She had a pretty bad ear infection. She was kind enough to pass that illness onto Alyssa who woke up Tuesday morning with a fever that lasted for over 24 hours. It was awful timing since she had a pre-surgery physical (we are still in the process of getting her cavities filled that we discovered back in September) with her doctor that morning and then a preschool Christmas Party and program that afternoon. She failed her physical, if you can call it that, and the cavity-filling surgery has been postponed. We couldn't bear to make her stay home from the preschool festivities since she has been talking about this Christmas program for over a month. Here she is looking pretty miserable, in my opinion, during the Christmas program. They sang 9 songs and used some props and actions with some of the songs. After looking at the picture I realized that none of the kids look very happy.
Fortunately, both kids are feeling better this afternoon and will hopefully be back to normal for Christmas and Alyssa's birthday.

On a happier note, here are some of the highlights from the not-so-fun week. Alyssa having a snack with her preschool class at their Christmas party.

Getting to meet Santa and Mrs. Claus at the party. She even has a smile on her face.
She had a dance recital on Saturday and did really well. She loves dance and performing.

This was her favorite dance and costume. It was a rag doll dance and she loved the part in the middle where she got to dance with a partner.

Here are the two girls after the dance recital. Ashley sat really well for the whole thing. Although my back full of snacks probably helped.

I would have included a video too, but for some reason I can't get them off of my camera. I'll see if Danny can figure that out and we'll post them later.

We hope you all have a Merry Christmas!!