hush little baby

Sometimes my blog might make it seem like our day is always perfect and I do fun, creative activities every single day...I wish! To prove that I have crazy days just like everyone else, here's a (rather long) run down of my day:

~ Greet my beautiful kiddos while they show me the treasures mommy and daddy brought them from CA.

~ Get breakfast.

~ Go upstairs, make beds, get dressed, etc.

~ While getting dressed, doorbell rings...cleaning lady is here.

~ Start school.

~ Try to help girls with math with a not-feeling-so-good 2 year old on my lap...then on the couch...then on my lap again.

~ 11 am put baby on the couch again with a sheet for a blanket...he wraps himself up in it like a cocoon...like this... (I pulled it back so I could see his face in the pic...)

~ He whimpers while he tries to sleep.

~ Makes me feel like crying! :}

~ He stirs so I pick him up, unsuccessfully try to find the thermometer, give him Tylenol anyways because it is obvious he has a fever, take him upstairs and put him in his own bed.

~ Gather together the parts of school we can read together to take upstairs as we begin the process of playing musical rooms so the cleaning lady can clean the play/school room.

~ Grab hotdogs (with no ketchup!), cheese sticks, milk, etc. for the girls and we eat in their room as a "special treat"...since cleaning lady is in the kitchen and playroom area.

~ Let girls play for just a couple minutes while I prepare a lesson on compound words that Lauren still remembers from being in my 3rd grade class. ;)

~ Girls love compound word lesson...

(Can you figure out what compound word this would be: J ?)

~ Baby is coughing in his not very restful sleep.

~ Daddy comes out of his room (he's sick with a cold) to give a different medicine.

~ Baby is now awake and cleaning lady is gone so we head back downstairs.

~ Let meds try to kick in for a few minutes and finally get baby to eat a hot dog and some milk around 2:15.

~ 2:45...all food in baby's stomach reappears... on the couch and floor. GREEEAAAT.

~ Baby looks at me with a tear running down each cheek and watery eyes making me feel like crying again! :-p

~ Get him cleaned up.

~ Get couch cleaned up.

~ Make a "sick bed" on the other half of the couch and tell him that's what my mommy used to do for me when I was sick. He liked that.

~ Girls are giggling in the playroom while they put away their school papers. :)

~ Give up on getting anymore school done and put on the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything (Veggie Tales). Justification: it's a rainy day...the only day we really ever watch any tv anyways....

~ Find the thermometer. Temp is 103.4.

~ Give more Tylenol around 5.

~ Movie is over so girls decide to color "get better" cards for baby...and end up coloring pics of mermaids... :)

~ Take temp one more time (I just like to know the number...what can I say?) at 5:30... is up to 104! :(

~ Mommy gets home to take over sick baby duty.

~ Forget to call my mom back...she had called sometime during the afternoon...and missed going to eat a yummy dinner at her house...oh well...will go on Friday.

~ Eat dinner at my house.

~ Go mail an Etsy order...stop at Walmart to pick up juice in hopes it will entice baby to drink something.

~ Get home and write a rather long blog post! :)

Dear Father, Please help that fever to go down so my baby can sleep well tonight!