April 24, 2007

I'm sure it will interest everyone to know that I got up at 6:30 today with no problems. But that was probably because I had a headache last night and went to bed with the boys at 7:00. Maybe I'm caught up on sleep now and this can happen every morning!

7:00 Drop off.

7:15 Breakfast - mixed veggies and hot cereal.

7:40 I took the boys swimming.

8:00 Swimming lessons.

Adam was very disappointed that I didn't get in the water with him today. He did fine, but he asked, "Am I done now?" several times. And I even took a video of him:



Alex did really good too. He didn't have the wet suit on today so he wasn't floating as well, but he was swimming really strong. I think I motivated him by telling him that as soon as he could do everything the instructor asked, then he could be done with lessons. I taped him too:



8:30 Met Jeremy and Ariel at the pool.

8:45 Got home, Ariel went down for a nap.

9:15 Started baking a cake for my class tonight while Alex watched Star Wars.

10:15 Pulled the cake out of the oven just in time to wake Ariel up and go to story time at the library.

10:25 Story time - we met Ellen et. al there. Her kids are a bit under the weather and Mae was done. I took Ariel and Mae around the library and they were entertained. Alex has Zevvy, the preschool wolf today:



11:00 After story time we all went to our Friday lunch spot. Having all 6 kids was very daunting. Try to imagine this as a panoramic of our table:





I gave Ariel some of Alex's french toast but she wouldn't touch it. She did have some apple juice though.

Ariel would be glad to take Zevvy home:



12:30 MS Training Walk #1


Ellen very generously took Alex home with her so I could go walk at the mall with Adam and Ariel. Because, guess what? I'm doing the MS 50 mile walk again and today was the first day of training. And luck would have it that it was pouring buckets ALL day long. And since I'm a bit OCD, I can't miss a training day, let alone the first one.


Anyway, I went to the mall and walked and it wasn't bad. Ariel wasn't impressed, but when is she ever?


I was going to take this picture on the outside of the mall but it was so cold and windy and wet that I chickened out. But I'm not complaining, we really need the rain:




The mall. For 7 1/2 laps (4 downstairs, 3 1/2 upstairs)




And I promised Adam a treat since he didn't get to go to Ted's house so they got cookies. Ariel took one bite before crumbling hers up all over the place. She didn't even eat the M&Ms:



2:00 We went to Ellen's to pick up Alex. Ellen put up the pack-n-play so Ariel could nap and we could stay longer. Ariel fussed for a bit but then went right to sleep when I gave her my sweatshirt:



The boys ran around and shot things with the lego guns that had just built. Then they watched Cars.

3:45 I had to wake Ariel up so we could meet Becky at the doctor's office.

4:15 Drop off Ariel with Becky at the doctor's office. Ariel is having an appointment to see why her nose has been running for a month and she's so grumpy.

And here is the cake from my cake class:





The next class is not offered next month so I'll be taking a break and have one less thing on my plate.