Jbird was home sick on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Not really sick enough to go to the doctor, but sick enough that I felt he would be sent home anyway. Always a low grade fever - yet up and moving around quite a bit. Every afternoon I would tell him he was going the next day to school and he would wake up with a 100 fever.
JB has not yet had an evaluation for OT. They are really backed up and not sure with spring break if they have any openings for next week. The boys all go to the dentist next week and B goes back to orthodontist. We are about 7 months in and I think he is finally getting his appliance tightened for the first time.
Today JB had a tea party at school for one of his teachers. They each had to bring 6 cookies and wear party attire. He chose to wear a button down shirt and tie! He looked so dapper. I tried to get a picture of him but he just wanted me to get a picture of him doing the splits.....
For probably the last 8-9 months we have been saving....
Saving our change for some fun. We ended up with $126 worth of change. Whenever I spend bills, I save the change. So, next week we are getting a hotel room with some friends of ours so the boys can swim, swim and swim. Since it also coincided with Jbird's birthday, figured we would have a few other kids and make it a party! So, will be fun next Thursday! Our jar is now empty and I guess we will start saving for 2014 spring break!
Tomorrow JR and I are heading to the ski hill with the older two. Will be fun to have an almost 'family' outing. JB will be hanging with a friend of his. B is excited to get on the hill with dad. They will have several hours together in the afternoon. The weather has been really nice lately, sure hope the snow holds until end of March for all the lessons.
Tried to get a good picture of JB but he was goofing off....
I started a 400 page book about a week ago and almost done with it. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (who wrote Seabiscuit). Unbelievable book! A true story about WW II and one of the POWs - . Before being drafted he was predicted to become the first man to run the mile in under 4 minutes. In the book, he at one point survived a plane crash along with 2 other guys and they spent about 45 days adrift at sea. (Interesting that two of them fought to keep hope and their mind active and those were the two that survived the raft ordeal - the other guy had hopelessness from the beginning and he succumbed to it while in the raft). The things they did to survive and how the elements racked their bodies. Then they thought they were being rescued and turned out the rescue plane was a Japanese plane that made like 7 passes over them, every time smothering them with enemy fire, yet they survived and managed to repair their raft. They eventually were captured by Japanese ship and became POWs for 2 years. The treatment they were subjected to is hard to read. How any human being could treat another human being like that. Sure makes me appreciate our armed forces more and what they do for us. I think it is easy to be like 'oh, those vets...' but reading first hand what is endured....unbelievable. I am not yet finished with the book but the war has ended and it is talking about all the statistics, psychosis that the men lived with, hunting down war criminals, etc. An excellent, eye opening, sober read.
Off to get in a few more chapters.
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