so to start off the day was the dance between mother and son to the tune of "to go to school or to not go to school". It started actually last night with Cole complaining of a woozy head and some other symptom and I told Cole that he needed to go to bed or I did not want to hear tomorrow morning about not being able to go to school. He actually went to bed and fell asleep and with his recent record of staying awake an hour after bed time this was notable. So I did have a heads up this morning when he kind of crawled into the living room with similar symptoms as the night before. He felt slightly warm, maybe (we dont' have a reliable thermometer), but I determined it wasn't a fever at the time and gave him the no playing while not in school speech. Well a few minutes pass and I start really looking at him and his eyes are starting to look glassy and he's not holding his head up to well. So I decide he needs to stay home. Five minutes after his bell rings at school we start to get in the van to take Laura to school and he's freaking out because he wanted to go to school. Somewhere in all of that he remembered he had a pokemon battle to be present for. I still thought he was feverish. The rest of the story is he seemed mostly fine the rest of the day. I heard coughing a few minutes ago, I'm sure there'll be some kind of mambo in the morning.
For the record I do think he may be coming down with something, but today it was certainly not full blown.
Moving on....
We get back home from taking Laura to school and I decide that Cole seriously needs his hair cut. He's so not in the mood for this and we tussle and negotiate and we get that kind of hair cut. Tussled and negotiated.
and later that day..
the kids had a dentist appt. and with Cole not feverish if there ever was one, we all pile up in the van with everything but the kitchen sink except the keys. So we hang out in the backyard for a couple of hours waiting for Brandon to get home. We played freeze tag, charades, eye spy, treasure hunt, ran and timed sprints and just enjoyed each other. Cole mentioned how much he enjoyed the afternoon. I spent a good amount of time in an adirondack chair Michael made and I really think those types of chairs should be called lazy chairs because it's a marathon to get out of them so you just as soon stay in them. While I was sitting there Laura crawled on top of me and said that she wanted to be comfortable. That she wanted to be on something soft and that I was really, really soft. I'm taking it as a compliment. Hannah nana played around most of the afternoon. She's so easy going. She didn't start to get cranky in the least until about five minutes before Brandon got home. At one point she went to the door and wanted to go in. She was probably wondering why it was the opposite of most other times where she wants to go out and can't. She likes to play in the little house Michael made for the kids cause she can just get her eyes above the little window and she likes to tiptoe up and yell at us to look at her.
And finally.....
as Laura's getting dressed after bath she finds her gown that I laid out for her that she pitched three fits and cow for last night and we couldn't find it. She said oh here's the gown, how did it get here and I said I put it there for you to wear and she said awww Mom you're the best, you're the best! Can you ask for much more than that? Kids are great!
Below are pics from the afternoon, we happened to have the camera in the van. Maybe we'll lock the keys in the house tomorrow too.....oh wait it's supposed to rain, that would probably make for not as pleasurable memories :).
tried to get a pic all together and we got pieces of good ones
sitting pretty
she was saying something but it turned our good, I tried to count her freckles :) she thought that was funny
hannah has an obsession with belly buttons this picture is of her telling my belly button hi
do you think this would make a good album cover? The new carpenters...minus the sad stuff
I've got business to take care of
places to go people to see
just an ole' softy
shootin' the breeze
