Weekly Happenings: This week was really a mixed bag. It consisted of Joseph getting sick, recovering, a trip to the Kiddie Park (a cool kids’ amusement park downtown that’s from the 1920s), Joseph’s awards ceremony, Paul getting sick, a trip to the zoo, Abigail getting sick, and finally ended with me getting sick. Let’s just say that stomach bugs will take their toll on EVERYBODY. Luckily we all seem to be better (I’m still quite weak, but recovering).
The Weekly Weather: warm, humid, breezy, and the like. Pretty typical for late May.
What Paul’s Been Up To: He has been busy with his normal stuff. The aforementioned stomach bug attacked him right as we got to Joseph’s awards ceremony. He was able to hold it together long enough to see Joseph get his award, but then went home. He got better just in time to take care of me a few days later.
What Sarah’s Been Up To: I spent most of the week taking care of the sickies before I got sick myself. At least the bug had the decency to kind of stagger itself so that there was at least one of the adults well at a time.
What Joseph’s Been Up To: He was the first to get sick (a week ago). He enjoyed our trip to the Kiddie Park, liked hanging out with his friends at his awards ceremony, and enjoyed getting to leave early that day to go to the zoo.
What Abigail’s Been Up To: She got sick the same day as Paul, but later (after we got back from the zoo). I mostly cuddled her for two days and then just waited for it to hit me, haha.
This Week in Pictures:
For a while now, I’ve wanted to print up some snapshots of the kids and frame them. I finally got around to doing it and I love how it turned out. Our life is not formal, so it’s only fitting the pictures represent that. 🙂She crashed while watching a show.I moved her around, thinking I’d wake her up, but no dice.When she finally woke up, she almost immediately asked for “the shark”. This is a very popular cartoon song with toddlers right now, but I didn’t realize she would remember it well enough to ask for it. I think she’s seen it two times.Okay, this beats all. I was standing on our back porch and noticed movement coming from inside the bird feeder. My first thought was that wasps or bees had moved in and made a nest.Well, while it was a nest, it wasn’t for insects. It’s a bird’s nest. INSIDE my bird feeder. The movement I saw was a gaping baby bird’s beak. Pretty soon, the momma flew up and I watched her wedge herself down to feed her baby the bug she had brought back. Our current plan is to leave them be since we don’t really know what else to do.Kiddie Park fun.This was the first time Abigail has been able to go on the rides (the last time we went she was still a baby).She had so much fun!Riding the Ferris wheel.They both really enjoyed these planes.I love that all the rides are original.Joseph was shooting pretend enemies out of the air.I think this one was probably their favorite.Riding the school bus.Joseph had just gotten over his stomach bug, so we were watching him closely to make sure the spinny rides weren’t too much for his tummy.Rockin’ the boat.Abigail liked it whenever there was a steering wheel of any type.She also kept trying to reach over to touch the water…luckily she didn’t actually touch it.Her face says it all in this one.These metal cars were a favorite, too.Joseph loved seeing how much Abigail loved the rides.On the carousel.Hey! I got him to smile!Can you spot the baby? She thought she had hidden so well, haha.At his awards ceremony.One of his new friends.These two were happy to be in the same class this year (they had been in pre-k together but were in different kinder classes last year).He’s going to miss this guy, who will be moving soon. They’ve been friends since we moved here.Another of his new friends.I couldn’t help but snap a picture of him and his cupcake-loving pal.Another fun friend.Checking out the kangaroos.Yet another shot of my favorite animal at the zoo: the okapi.Abigail loves elephants.Checking out the Nile crocodile.The miniature mongoose were super curious.They both really loved checking them out.Zebras!Checking out the lions.Learning about feline bone structure.Checking out the giraffes.The ostrich was rather curious about us.After such a fun morning at the zoo, I was not expecting a sick baby.She was better enough the next day to ask for noodles for lunch.The day after that, she was asking me to put onion rings on her fingers.This was from this morning. After I was down for the count all of yesterday, Abigail was a bit clingy this morning.I love how much she loves to play with this thing. And last, but not least: we’re officially into June!
Weekly Happenings: This past week was a blessedly slow one. I was still recovering from a cold, so I was grateful for the extra opportunity to rest. The title for this post comes from literally one evening where I brought the bubbles out and turned the kids loose in the back yard to chase them. Luckily, I’m almost all better, since Paul now has it. The kids so far have seemed to dodged the bullet (fingers crossed it stays that way).
The Weekly Weather: It’s been off-and-on rainy with mostly overcast skies in-between. We’re right on the edge of all the severe weather that is hitting parts of the country directly around us, so we’re getting cooler temps, humidity, wind, and occasional rain showers, but no crazy thunderstorms or tornadoes (thank goodness)!
What Paul’s Been Up To: Work and yardwork, haha…those two keep him pretty busy.
What Sarah’s Been Up To: Survival! Dealing with a rambunctious 2YO while dealing with a bad cold is exhausting!
What Joseph’s Been Up To: He’s working his way through these last few weeks of school (we have just two weeks left ahead of us now). He’s also a huge help with Abigail while I teach piano.
What Abigail’s Been Up To: Ev.er.y.thing, haha. She is so, so busy! Luckily, she’s also super cute and sweet, so that makes up for the busy-ness.
This Week in Pictures:
Buying this bubble gun was probably one of my best decisions. Joseph loves to blow bubbles for Abigail to chase and she loves to chase them!She loooooves bubbles.The joy on her face in this picture makes me so happy!She also loves that she has figured out how to slide on her own.He was blowing the bubbles so that she would run into them as she slid down.She was actually pushing him to make him go faster so that she could have her turn.The only other picture from this week: She grabbed this box, sat down in it, and said, “One, two, three…blast off!” She then started scooting forward and said, “I in rocket!”Paul got this shot. This girl sure loves empty boxes!
Bonus video: the video that Joseph worked on throughout the year in GT (the gifted & talented program). His video was about Mars.
Weekly Happenings: This week started off with Mother’s Day. I started the day off rather early because Abigail hadn’t slept well the night before. We had a regular breakfast since we had 9:00 church, but Paul handled lunch and dinner, which was a nice break. I got a new casserole dish (enameled cast iron) and a fun card from Joseph. On Tuesday, Abigail and I got to Walmart and have them do an oil change and replace a tire. When I was picking Joseph up from school on Monday, the low tire pressure light came on. I couldn’t see any issues, so I made a mental note to talk to Paul about it. Well, I forgot until we were getting into the car to run to the library that evening. A quick glance showed that one of the tires was possibly a little low, but again, there was nothing apparent causing it. Later, we stopped at Walmart to grab something and the tire’s pressure was super low. I pulled around to the auto center and even though they had already closed, they were nice enough to put air in it so that we could get home. Once we got home, Paul took a longer look, spied a screw, and got to have the fun job of taking the tire off and putting on the spare so that I could take it into Walmart to either get patched or replaced. Since the screw was right on the edge of the sidewall and the rest of the tire around it looked rather worn, they recommended replacing it. After that adventure, the rest of the week was rather average.
The Weekly Weather: warm, humid, muggy, rainy at times…pretty typical for May, actually. I’ll say this for the rain, though: it’s doing a good job of keeping us from getting into the really warm temperatures. For that, I am grateful!
What Paul’s Been Up To: Work, keeping up with the yards (now that warm temperatures are here, the grass is growing more), and being an awesome daddy and husband.
What Sarah’s Been Up To: Piano teaching, keeping kids happy, the whole lot. I’ve also fought a cold for most of the week, but am starting to feel better. I’m almost 100% today. Oh, and today I got to go to the temple and do a session with a few of my Relief Society sisters. That made for a great morning. One extra awesome thing that happened at the temple: I had been looking at my temple dress and thinking I might need to get a new one (my dress is almost 18 years old and starting to show its age). I was talking to my friend and I told her that I thought her dress was beautiful. She then looked me square in the eye and asked me if I wanted it. It didn’t fit her correctly anymore, so she had ordered a new one, but hadn’t decided what to do with the old one. It’s still in amazing condition and fits me perfectly! Tender mercies. 🙂
What Joseph’s Been Up To: He’s excited that he only has three weeks of school left. We’re getting ready for end-of-the-year awards, parties, and the like. I’m kind of looking forward to the break. It’ll be nice to not have to be so regimented with our schedule.
What Abigail’s Been Up To: She’s starting to say more three- and four-word phrases. One example of this is when we were in the car, getting ready to go to the library, she noticed that Paul had gone back into the house for something. She said, “Oh no! Daddy gone!” Another time, she climbed onto our big, long bench, got herself settled, and then yelled (in a very animated way, with flailing arms), “Get me DOWN!” (I think I remember seeing something similar on one of her favorite episodes of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse). She is very animated, to be sure. Upon seeing flowers in a vase on the table, she attempted to surreptitiously crawl across the table to get a closer look. When caught and told to get down, she settled for a lean and a HUGE sniff. Oh, and she has figured out she can tickle me by saying, “Tickle, tickle!” while poking at my toes. She keeps us laughing for sure!
This Week in Pictures:
My Momma’s Day presents: I’ve already used that dish 3-4 times this week. The card is awesome, too. When you open it up, the vacuum that the dog has starts vibrating and making vacuum noises. It’s exactly what a 7YO boy would pick out and I love it.I was playing with portrait-mode on my camera (where it brings the subject to focus and blurs the background).I may be a bit biased, but I think my subject-matter is quite beautiful.When we left to go get Joseph from school, she insisted upon taking her Minnie Mouse backpack (loaded up with some board books and play necklaces and bracelets).She found her “colors” (a mini Magna Doodle) and is channeling the ’90s a bit with that beanie.Another instance of “if I fits, I sits”. The funniest part about this was that at first, I didn’t know where she was. She had taken out enough of the stuff that she was able to lie down in there. When I called her name, she popped up like a jack-in-the-box. I screamed and she laughed.I had pulled out this hat with a mental note to check later to see if it still fit. She found it, plunked it on her head, and did my job for me. I told her I wanted to take her picture, so she sat down and said, “Cheese!”I’m telling y’all…this one keeps me on my toes all. the. time.I gave her the empty tissue box because, well…she likes to play with empty boxes. What she does with those boxes is always a surprise.
