Strawberries ARE good

Likey? Cute huh. It always freaks me out when blogs change their template. It's like showing up at your friend's house and someone else answers the door. Or calling a friend's cell and their husband answers. "Oh Hi, Uh... am I in the right place?"

Let me reassure you... yes, you are in the right place. I intended to give my blog an updated look at my second "blogiversary" but that was back in October. So here we are... better late than never, right?

So anyways...

Larry has a doctor's appointment tomorrow. He started out with some skin on his arm that was sore. Then hives showed up in the sore spots. Then his hand on that arm started to get kinda numb and had sore joints. Now his shoulder is very achy and he is having some general fatigue.

Connor is also sick. He has a fever, but really nothing else. He has been acting fairly normal, but at night gets all hot and weird. Last night he started screaming in his sleep and when I went up there he wouldn't even respond to me. That's creepy. He was all hot and screaming. I couldn't wake him up. Finally he came to and asked me if I was going to go put my pajamas on. We took his temp and it was 100. So I just tucked him back in and he slept mostly fine for the rest of the night.

Then just now he called me up there. And by "called me" I mean started screaming at the top of his lungs. When I went into his room he was sitting on the end of his bed with both arms out to the sides. He seemed like he knew I was there but he kept calling for me. When I asked him what he wanted he was screamed at me that he wanted some strawberries. I asked Larry to turn the light on, I thought maybe that would make him realize that he was awake. That seemed to work. We took his temp again and it was 101. So again, a kiss and a tuck and back to sleep little boy.

Hopefully both my boys will feel better tomorrow.

Carnival

Connor had a field trip with is preschool yesterday. The jr high puts it on every year for preschool classes that have kids with special needs. Connor's class is a mixed class, which means it has both developmentally delayed kids and typically developing kids in the same class. So his class got to go.

The carnival was super cute. They broke the kids up in groups of 8 and had them rotate through the 20 different stations. So doing some quick math that means that there were about 160 preschoolers there. Phew! It took 2 hours to get through all the stations. I was wiped out!

First we had to throw bean bags at bottles. Then we went through the "car wash" where the kids rode tricycles though us while we sprayed them with spray bottles. Then we got to the parachute, but instead of a ball in the center it was a rubber chicken... which was hilarious as it bounced around and flipped up in the air. Then we went to the painting table, and then the obstacle course. Then we got fake tattoos and then blew bubbles. Then we had sponge races. They had a bucket filled with water and across the way some plastic cups. The kids had to get their sponges wet in the bucket and then run them across and fill their cup with water. First one to fill the cup wins!

After that we went to hula hoops and I learned the sad truth that I have lost my hula hooping skills. Then we got to bounce in the blow up bouncing castles. Then we flew "kites", which were really Walmart shopping bags with twine tied around the handles. But they were cute.

Then we had pop-a-goes (Popsicles). Then we went to the bracelet making station. Which we really just used this time to sit in the shade and eat our popagoes. Then we threw bean bags at cans. Then we rode scooters, and then we played hopscotch.

Sigh.

Was that 20? Don't count.... just assume it was. They also had a puppet station but we never made it to that one. Which was fine by me.

Then we went home and took naps.