Vicks, Kleenex, and Daddy Bears

If you couldn't tell by the first two items listed in the title, I've got a nasty cold. The house is just littered with the smell of Vicks. I've got it in the jar, the humidifier, and even in the Kleenexes. In fact, I'm in a panic because I'm almost out of Kleenexes. I must by more before I need to resort to scratchy toilet paper. I was really bummed because this past weekend was the last 4 day that Jason would be home with us and we had some stuff planned but that all got scrapped when I got sick. I'm hoping to be better by next weekend.

We did check one thing off our pre-deployment list when we took the kids to Build-A-Bear workshop to make their "Daddy Bears". This was something that I really wanted to do and no matter how sick I was, we were going to get it done. The kids got to pick out their own animal, dress it, and Jason recorded a special message for each one that they can play when they really start to miss Daddy. Jorden picked out a pink bear and dressed it in a Tinkerbell outfit (of course, she's a Tinkaholic!) Chase picked out a brown bunny with camoflage boxer shorts (which he called "daddy undies") and a leather jacket that looks just like his. We do have to take Chase's back to the store because the voice recorder stopped working when we brought it home. Other than that, the kids really like their special bears.