We're in the middle of one of those crazy weather weeks... blizzards, ice storms, wind storms and 60 degree days all in the same week. It's been interesting here. We've also just made it through a few weeks of like non-stop sickness. I'd like to personally thank the kindergartners in Easton's class for being sure to share every germ possible with him. I even got hit hard this time, not sure where my usual rock solid immune system was. I ended up getting a stomach bug while on antibiotics for a whole separate issue. Then there was the water park disaster of 2019, where a puking kid shortened that trip. We barely even made it to the water park because of a bad band of lake effect snow that almost caused an accident.
But hey, this is par for the course, and I'm not going to spend too much time feeling sorry for myself. Stomach bugs are survivable, and we can try the water park again in a while. God is good and we have literally nothing to complain about!
So besides that we're all doing well. The kids are growing too fast as usual. Easton's 100th day of school is today! I'm not sure when that became a thing but he was excited. Also, since it's Friday he gets to take snack money to school so he was extra excited today. He guilted us into starting that, and last week he spent his whole dollar on an ice cream cookie sandwich. I couldn't even be mad, it was an excellent choice. Butttt, once a week is suffice for those kind of treats at school. He's still doing great there, reading like a champ. We're currently in the decision making process with the twins and trying to decide on pre-k. I always overthink everything so of course I've gone back and forth about a hundred times. Jer got a chance to observe a pre-k class and loved it and wants to send them. I just feel like my boys are still so young to send out into the world by themselves! It's literally like 3 hours a day, but I don't know... we didn't send Easton to pre-k. We are only considering it because they seem pretty bored and could use some constructive activities. But anyway.
Hadley... she changes so much I always feel like I want to write some of her little antics down. Right now, she is literally 70% absolute heart melting sweetness and 30% holy friggin sass, girl. Sometimes Jer and I just watch her and look at each other going oh my gosshhhhh she's perfect. And other times, we look at each other wide eyed saying did she really just tell me to "go away"? She says I love you and sings twinkle twinkle and "prays" with us at bedtime. Then she'll turn around and say "stooppp" when we are touching her face or something she doesn't want. She screams at her brothers to "let gooooo" when she wants what they have and she screams "my mom!" at Jer when he tries to hug me. I'm not going to lie, I love her little attitude. At least it's cute right now. Another adorrrrable thing she does right now is she has to high five or give "knucks" to everyone. She'll go right around the room hitting every one up for a "five!" as she says. I know, these things aren't as cute to everyone else, but we are absolutely smitten by her.
She's still pretty small and her 18 month check up was kind of frustrating. Her pediatrician wants me to get her to eat more but you know, you can lead a horse to water but can't make it drink, right? I offer her food all day long and she just nibbles. She still nurses, but not that often so I don't think it interferes with her food. The doc suggested I wean her but it didn't seem like he had a good reason. Not that I'm against weaning, I just literally don't know how with this one. She's wants what she wants, haha.
Life is a bit mundane right now in this cold winter, but that's ok. I'm trying to soak up the kids and not wish time away. There are things all around that are wonderful, even though they are simple. Jer just had a good stretch of time off and sitting around having coffee watching the kiddos being crazy was pretty perfect. Well, Hadley is demanding some attention so I'm done here. 💚
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