Listen to the children...what they say..

I was listening to the radio the other day (through the TV of course) and there was a singer on with the deepest carmel, silky voice. I closed my eyes and said to Landon,
"This is what your voice will sound like when you're older, huh?"
He looks at me and says,
"Look at my face, now listen to that voice....does it fit?"
I said,
"I think it could."
He says,
"okay then, I guess it will." and walks away as if mom has spoken the gospel truth
Oh the wisdom of this child.

This morning as I am doing my daily bit of laying on the couch, Abby comes up to me and I give her a hug and tell her I love her when she looks at me and very matter of factly says,
'Mom, I'm an alien, and I have alien friends."

Well, okay then. Landon swears he was raised by monkeys until we found him, so I guess aliens are okay too.

Baby Update

I'm 34 weeks and 3 cm. What does this mean?? Will I go any day? Will I walk around this way and need to be induced at 41 weeks or so? Whatcha think?

Doc says not to worry about baby. He says if she is born now, she would more than likely be just fine. He also said he needed to complete the last bit of testing now instead of waiting the usual couple more weeks....Just in case.

Wow, yet another first for me.

Brain Power

Alright momma, this one's for you.
So I've been getting on to Landon quite a bit lately because he keeps "forgetting" things at school, or at least trying to, which leaves me each day sitting in the parking lot going through his backpack before we leave the school. Inevitably, each day he has to run back in to retrieve some "forgotten" piece of homework. I am not quite sure why he keeps attempting this, because when he "forgets", he is made to do double homework at home that I give. I tell him that it is sheer laziness and irresponsibility (yeah, he's nine...so what!).
Anyway, after a long talk with him and even a reminder note card glued to the front of his binder, he says, "Mom, am I better today?" I said, "As a matter of fact, I'm very proud of you, you've been 100% better." He says, "You know why?" Of course I didn't, so he says, "Well, I had a talk with my brain and told him to stop being lazy and just do my work, he got mad at me, but ...that's why."
I just looked after him as he walked away. This was right before he got the flu, so I guess his brain was really mad at him, but he continues to do better and hasn't "forgotten" since.

Valentine Prep

Sickness is still raging in this house. Now Landon and Abby are on the mend while Shem and Hailey continue to decline. I have yet to get it, cross your fingers for me and baby. Well, being that we are still stuck inside, I decided my poor children could at least start making valentines before they were bored out of their minds.

Since we make homemade valentines every year, each of my kids decided they needed seperate ones. Landon wants shovel valentines, Hailey wants the melted crayon heart valentines that we did last year, and Abby (although she really doesn't have any classmates to give these to) wants butterfly valentines.

We stripped crayons of wrappers, got cardstock and pipe cleaners, and started making a big mess in the middle of the floor. After a little while, the crayons were ready for the oven, and we had even made a few butterflies for Abby (Landon will have to wait for me to find sand shovels in mid February in Colorado). I decided to let them play with the crafties that were out and went to take a little break.

I guess this is what happens when you're gone too long.

Pros and Cons

First, the good news. Landon is doing great at the new school and is so excited to be there. He says that after home school with me, everything is easy....(okay, so I may have pushed a little extra and been a little crazy about it. I was just so worried that he would be the weird, pasty, dumb kid from home school when he got back and I just didn't want that to happen...not that home school kids are weird, pasty and dumb, but lets face it...we've all met them).
The bad news is that he just happened back at the height of a flu and strep epidemic, so I wake up to an orchestra of coughing as my alarm clock, gross noses about every 20 minutes, and now with the introduction of some serious antibiotics, a whole new set of bodily functions from my beautiful children that I will not discuss here.
Again with good news. We had one snow day this week, and Friday is set for Parent/Teacher conferences, so Landon has only missed two days of school this week even though he will officially have been home for four.
Oh, the beauty of it all. These are the days I dread ...I've already talked about the unfortunate parts of this illness, but then trying to get everyone to eat, repeatedly filling cups and trying to push juices, getting medicine down everyone at set intervals and the whole bit gets a little tiring....
Well, we'll be off and kicking soon, so I guess I'll just enjoy having all of my babies around me ...sick or not.