Peek a Boo

Mother's Day

This past week's "theme" at Seth's school was Mother's Day. They did small crafts and learned songs for a Mother's Day Tea Party on Friday. I managed to trade my lunch break with someone else so I could go and enjoy the time with Seth. I ended up being 10 minutes late because I was stuck behind a slow moving funeral procession, but was SO glad to get there because Seth was the only kid left without a Mommy or Grandma. They served sandwiches and sweet tea and cake, and sang us songs like M-O-M-M-Y to the BINGO song etc. It was really sweet. Seth presented me with numerous drawings of hearts and flowers, but this one was my favorite.

WW

So I did actually check myself back into cheeseburger rehab (ie. Weight Watchers) last week. This Friday was my first weigh-in and I lost 5.8lbs!!!! Yay!!!

All Better

John slept in until after 830 this morning. Seth and I took advantage of the one-on-one time and not having to rush out the door to work and had breakfast in bed.

When John did wake up his temp was down to 100. Then we took Seth to school, stopped for a few minutes at Target and he passed out again for another hour. During that snooze his fever broke. His doctor wasn't able to find any ear or throat infections or anything, so he must've just been fighting some sort of virus. For the rest of the day he was his happy normal self :-).

But that means I have to go to work tomorrow. :-(

Sunday

Sunday was a beautiful sunny warm day. Perfect for sprinklers!

Baby John

Last night I came home from work to find this......

Poor John spiked a fever, which got increasingly worse as bedtime approached. :-(

So, I am home today with him. :-)

Saturday

We had a fun, full day today, as the boys woke up before the crack of dawn.... at 6:30am! (Yay)

BUT I decided to take advantage of the earliness and get out and hit some yard sales. Dave was very nice to bring me a newspaper on his way home from work, and off we went. Then after burning more money in gas driving around than I saved at the yard sales, we hit a few more stores to do some shopping for Dave's birthday next week.

Then we had lunch at McD's so the boys could play for an hour (and Mommy got to sit and rest.. whew), followed by a trip to the park for another hour. By 1:30 they were wiped out (Yay!) and we headed home for naps.

Later on we went to Elianna's 1st birthday party and spent another 2 hours playing at the park with friends. The boys were really good all day, despite being dragged around shopping for much of the morning, and I had a great time.

Here're some pictures

Julie with Elianna and James, James enjoying the cupcakes

Clockwise from top: Winter, Seth, James, Benjamin, and John