I've had several comments on how Ada is all that active... hmmm... thanks. I think she's plenty active actually... here's our week... remembering that Sammy's had a fever and been extremely clingy and I'm sick and 7 months pregnant too...
Monday... I already blogged about... the aquarium, tons of stores, jumping around at the doctors office, and more stores...
Tuesday... Ada at school by 9:30... they made and flew their own kites... she loved it and has been wanting me to pull out our big kites ever since.... I'll leave that one to Jer since it's hard to run with a kite with 20 extra pounds of weight between my hips and carrying Sammy... (whenever I run away from Sam he screams... he thinks I'm leaving him... not playing... even when we chase each other around the house... I have to chase him he won't chase me. He chases Jer just fine though...) I spent the morning with Sam... since he's sick we watched Thomas. Went to pick up Ada (Sam screaming that he wants Thomas for the 10 min car ride.) Pick up some second hand clothes to go in our 72 hour kits that we're updating... Get after the kids the whole time... they knocked down a complete rack of clothes because they were playing tag between the isles...Lunch... an hour to hour and a half of kids telling me that they don't want what I made but they want something else and me cleaning up any spills/disasters along the way... Nap? time... put the kids to bed... spend the next hour trying to catch up on emails/mightyauthors work while having to go in and remind Ada to be quiet even if she doesn't want to sleep herself... and that she can't wake up Sammy so that they can play together... that never goes well. Wake up... calm Sam down from his usual "I woke up" fit... get the kids in shoes and coats and go play on the swing set...end up watching Eliza for 2 hours while her dad goes to the dentist. Spend the last half hour trying to get my YW New Beginnings assignments done before I have to go... Leave kids with Jer and go to New Beginnings.
Wed... Get kids dressed... pack a lunch and head out... we ride bikes to the park (1/2 mile away...) play with friends on the slides and swingset... eat a picnic lunch and keep playing. Go home and drop off bikes and grab diapers and head to Grandma and Grandpa's house... where Ada helps mom, grandma, and uncle Reid pick up and burn all the sticks in the back yard. Ada helps Grandma take dinner to Great Grandma... she's been asking if things are "Lovely in (her) hair" ever since... my grandma uses the word lovely instead of pretty. Get kids back home in time to have Jer and my dad take a couch out of the house... give the kids a bath... have Sammy throw up in the bath... clean the tub and clean the kids again... Take kids down to the Robertson grandparents so that Jer and his dad can give Sammy a blessing after they get home from the chocolate class they were taking.
Thurs... Take Ada to school where they put on a play with puppets that they made and she excitedly shows me all the spiders that she made during art time. Sammy and I try to handle the 20 million phone calls that I got that day... We pick up Ada, she and Sammy decide to wrestle on my bed while I get lunch ready... we "eat" lunch and put kids to bed... Ada goes to play with Lizzie at the Simmonsens instead of taking a nap. And Sam decides that his fever isn't gone... so he spends the next three hours crying... so we watch TaleSpin... Robyn comes over to exercise and Ada does a half hour of pilates with Robyn while mommy cuddles Sammy and tries to get him to drink something. I make dinner and Jer comes home to us watching Pixar. Get sick of that and take Sammy to play Plants vs Zombies on the computer instead.
So I don't know about you... but I think she's out and about more than I am... I definitely can't keep up with her. And as for active... she does all these things and then daddy comes home and plays "Bad Guy" or "Pillow and Blanket" with them. I think that she's plenty fine. If she had her way we'd be in the swimming pool or at the park all day long.
Rhees Family
This is such a fun family. They're sweet and playful. It's fun to get to know them and try not to freeze in the cold rain! It was...
3 comments:
It sounds like some one has said some unkind things to you. Just reading this made me tired. I hate weeks like this. I hope you can relax more next week and that Sammy gets better soon. Does he have some sort of infection or do you think it is influenza?
I hear ya! I feel like all my days are crazy busy and still people think we aren't that active. You sound like supermom! I hope you feel better, and sammy too. Colds are the worst.
Thanks... it did hurt, but more it made me mad that someone was judging her without really looking at her... me they can judge... I don't care... judge my kids and I get mad... go figure.
Sammy has a sinus infection that started with a cold and his first round of antibiotics didn't do anything... so he's on another one.
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