Wednesday: sick

Well, everyone was some degree of sick today.  It was nice that it mostly waited until after vacation, but still annoying.  I feel weird telling school the kids are still not going to be there after we just took a vacation...but it was definitely the right choice.

Isaac probably ended up being the most sick.  He wasn't doing all that well before school, but just complaining about being tired and we did get in very late last night.  He finally had a fever right before we left.  It was a low fever, but still a fever.  He proceeded to sleep for the next three hours.  He woke up for a bit, came down with a migraine, and then slept for two more hours.  He was doing well right before bed, but the medicine would have just been starting to wear off.

Joshua was the loudest.  He's had a cough the last few days that seemed to start all of this.  He also woke up in the morning and was doing poorly, but had a temperature right away.  Some ibuprofen quickly cured him.  Unfortunately, he did have a temp of 101F later in the day so he won't be going to school tomorrow.  He was doing ok at bed time.

Ben wasn't feeling great also with a very low fever and a headache.  He went to bed early and wasn't feeling well.

I've probably been the best out of everyone.  I was achy on and off throughout the day.  I ended up taking a five to ten minute nap after dinner and it really seemed to snap me out of it.  (Possibly combined with some ibuprofen, but that really should have kicked in quite a bit earlier.)

Here's hoping tomorrow goes better!  As a whole it wasn't terrible today, but it's hard when no one is feeling well.

Thursday-Saturday: Florida

We're down in Florida!  We left Thursday right after classes/school.  Our connecting flight was slightly delayed, so by the time we got to the house it was 1:30am.  (It probably would have been at least 12:30am without the delay.)  The boys did a really good job dealing with it though.

Friday the boys pretty much lived in the pool.  Ben and I lived on the couches reading our books.  (Except for a short break to get gelato.)

Saturday was similar.  It's a rough life.

The boys (and ducks) had a movie in the hot tub in the evening.

Wednesday: elements

Isaac is still enthralled by his elements book.  I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up reading it cover to cover at this rate.

Tuesday: car conversation

Isaac: what is your favorite kind of milk?

Amanda: depends on the day

Joshua: Thursday!

Amanda: No, it depends on how I'm feeling that day 

Isaac: sleepy

Amanda: sigh.  No, it just depends on if I feel like chocolate or normal milk.

Monday: tired

I was tired all day.  Thanks daylight saving time.

Sunday: goings on

A while ago Ben made a Lego H and filled it with greebling.  Isaac made an I shortly after and the two have been on our wall for a while now.  I finally made an A to join the family.

Isaac went down a rabbit hole today.  It started by looking at one of Dad's books on nuclides and wanted to know more about element 118.  He looked it up on-line and found information and continued clicking links.  I had happened to see a pictorial element encyclopedia at the library yesterday and grabbed it, not sure it would catch anyone's attention.  Well, it definitely caught Isaac's attention.  He spent an hour or two with it today.

Friday: around the house

 Isaac came out of his bedroom this morning with a pile full of single socks, some of them dirty.  Of course, I have collecting the single clean socks in a different location.  No wonder there seem to be so many singles in my clean, lost sock collection.

Horizon does a good job of telling us when the humidifiers are empty.  It's a bit eerie, honestly.  Ben is wondering if there's a sound it makes when empty that people can't hear but cats can.

I continued to work on the quilting area as part of O:CtH.  There's actually a place to sit on the futon now!  I also starting looking at the walls and noticed they were a mess!  I got a rag and tried to clean the spots, but only a few came off.  (This surprised me a bit, as a rag usually works pretty well.)  Next up is the magic eraser, but I also found the paint for the walls...there's a few spots that will need some touch up.