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| well we had a wonderful thanksgiving (i dont have pictures since i left my camera at our hosts home and havent gotten yet). it was full of fun and food and good friends and love. and of course, when we went around the table to say something we were thankful for, i cried. i was the last person and the only one that did.
then last week lijah got sick. we thought it was the early parts of the chicken pox before the pox show up, but now we think its just some virus that gets around. anyways, today is day 7 of being sick and it has been hard. very hard. i feel so bad for parents whose children are really really ill. i can only imagine what thats like and i dont like it at all. basically the last week has been trying to soothe lijah and going to work. up until yesterday all we did was watch cartoons/movies and read books. he didnt wanna play, he didnt eat much, he didnt wanna talk. so ya, we did a lot of lying around in between bouts of coughing and throwing up mucuous and saying "my eyes hurt" and crying.
but then he started to get a bit more energy the last couple of days and he actually wanted to play
"i dont need pants, mom. i got my boots on"
and yesterday and today we have been doing more brain interactive activities. mom, hes LOVES those weekly readers! we have spent lots of time looking at those and he has the fire station one completely memorized.
yesterday i needed to get something productive done so i gave him a cup of flour (we had made play dough earlier and he wanted to see the flour again). i let him play with it while i washed dishes and would ask him questions about how it felt. "is it soft?" "yes" ..."is it stinky?" "Noooo!" and so on.
he loved it.
and yes, hes wearing crocs with no pants. its how he rolls.
so today when doing the dishes i gave him a cup of flour and a cup of uncooked oatmeal and a big mixing bowl. we talked about how they felt seperately and then when he mixed them. then when he started to get bored with it i let him add some water and we compared the before and after such as dry, soft, powdery, and smooth to wet, gloopy, sticky, and lumpy. it was really fun for him.
at one point he was "cooking" it and "made" me some "salad-pizza-peas tacos" and so i was sitting on the floor with him pretending to eat it and he said "this is the greatest, most nice day ever, mom!'
:o)
i love my sick boy and am so glad hes finally back on his way to health!
ps.
last week mike made crepes stuffed with strawberries, blueberries, and homemade whippes cream for us.
i had to show it off.
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| *a God that loves us and that is more powerful and intricate and huge than i can really even begin to fathom.
*a set of beautiful parents who love each other and who raised my sister and i to love and respect ourselves and others
*my husband who is 100x cooler and more awesome than i thought id get (and i had pretty high hopes too)
*my sister who is one of my best friends, without whom i dont even know how i would have survived last year
*my amazing son who enriches my life daily who i cant imagine life without (sure i can remember it, but now i cant imagine it)
*my friends back home whom i miss dearly but i am so thankful for the internet and free long distance calling, which allows us to keep in touch and see pictures of each others children as they grow far too quickly
*my new friends who have made me feel like nashville is home and that i am really investing in relationships that will be lifelong
*my adorable niece and nephew who are practically elijahs siblings at times. they help elijah to learn life lessons like sharing that arent so easy to learn as an only child but ever so important.
*my job that is just about everything i could ask for and more than i ever expected to achieve in my career outside of being a mom. that it allows mike to be in school full time and come home to his family and not go to work afterwards (thanks again to my sister, who watches elijah so that i can do this!) and yet i can still manage to be a stay at home mom half the week
*our house. i love our house. im so thankful that it feels so safe and we have sweet neighbors who bring lijah bananas wrapped in paper towels. that it is warm and cozy and feel so much like our home.
*for health. as i write this mike is sick with a cold, but im thankful thats all it is. im thankful that nothing has happened to put us in the hospital, nothing has kept us from earning an income to pay rent. nothing has happened to make us fear for our lives.
*that mike got up with elijah this morning and let me sleep in...even though i was still wide awake by 7:45am
*about a million other things and people that i havent mentioned.
thank you and have a wonderful day!
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| "dont do that, thats rude!" -what elijah said when i smelled to see if he was stinky
"ya, that would be a really good idea!" -what elijah said when mike suggested he eat his eggs while his hot cocoa cooled
down
"dont get out of bed or im gonna 'pank you" -what elijah told us when we were pretending "nightnight
"its not too cold, its bootyful outside, mom!" -elijah wanting to go play on the porch at 6:45am and i really did not want
to.
"i drink all my juice and then i can have some lots of chocolate milk, ok? ok." -he likes to make all sorts of "deals" with
me like this
lately we have been listening to The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear over and over on cassette tape and he will walk around the house telling us to be the strawberry and that hes the bear and he will creep into the room saying "he will STOMP his feets!" and sniff around for us.
the other day we were listening to it in the car and i had all three kids with me. lijah said he was the bear and asaiah was the strawberry and dia whispered to him "and auntie is the mouse!" they giggled for minutes thinking i didnt hear it.
silly kids.
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