Tonight my girls had gymnastics. They do so awesome. I’m sitting with two friends and my parents (their my friends too, honest) watching the girls do their things. They rocked tonight. I’m so proud of how far they’ve come in a short months time. We sat watching them try while holding on to the bar flip their legs up over the bar and do a backwards flip. They all struggled. Even the best girl in their class had trouble. I kept thinking, could it be that difficult? It seemed like it would be easy to me.
So, my friend Trisha said its like a pull up, looks easy but its hard. I said, pull ups aren’t hard. She insisted they were. So, I said I can do them. Maybe 5 or so. She says if you can do 5 I’ll give you $20. .. hmmm, a challenge. could it really be as hard as she thinks? I mean she works out almost everyday. Really workouts with weights and stuff! Maybe I’m wrong and it is hard.. So after the class finished I asked if I could try and do a pull up.
I did it ! Not only did I do one but I did two!!! I’m so proud of myself.
She challenged me to 5 pull ups by the end of the year. I told her I could do it in 2 weeks. Am I in trouble?!
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My Ruthie goes by the book. If there are rules/guidelines on doing something she follows them to a T. No straying, if you try she’ll bust ya.
So, we’re trick or treating last night. She needs to take a potty break at a neighbors house. The other kiddos take off with other nieghbors and run ahead.
Matt and I hang back with Ruthie. The first house we hit the guy comes to the door.
She says “trick or treat”.
He says “Happy Halloween” dropping the candy in her bucket.
She says “um, you’re supposed to see my trick first”.
She’s the bestest. 
I guess I earned a new job title. sigh.
You heard it right, I’m soo outta here. When I tried to cancel our Chicago trip I found out our Hotel room wouldn’t be refunded. So We’ve decided quite last minute that Matt and I are still going! So tomorrow after putting the kids on the bus, we’re hitting the skies to fly to Chicago! I’m so excited! I’ve have the BEST parents in the whole world. They are willing to come take care of my “hopefully” fully recovered children. I’m soo THANKFUL!! I promise to bring back good stories and fun pictures!
This trip I blogged about here is officially canceled. H1N1 has officially won over my household. 3 of my 4 kids have either had it or have it now. The odds of my last kiddo getting it next week is too great for me to keep the trip booked. Also, I’m scared to go the Chicago and get sick myself.
Thankfully I have insurance on the flight. I’m hoping I can work out a deal with the hotel, I booked through Priceline, and reschedule for early Nov. I’m just so bummed!
I volunteered to paint two cutouts for Ruthie’s Fall Class Party. Their theme is Cowboys and Indians.
Another parent had a GREAT idea of having two cut outs so kids could get their pictures taken in them. BRILLIANT.
“Hey, Robin doesn’t you mom paint?”.. and so I volunteered..
My brothers and my mother are fantastic artists. I’ve always ran to them for help with things like this. But, after talking to my mom (who really has enough to do with her own things she’s “volunteered” for), I mustered up enough courage to find pictures and attempt to do it myself.
She said I could do it…. and I CAN!!! Look!!!
Here are the pictures that I found online and the hand sketches I did.
Here’s the finished products..
Reagan has H1N1 aka Swine flu. Here’s the low down… Yesterday (happy birthday to me!) Reagan ran a low fever. I gave her ibuprofen. Within 230 mins she was in intense pain with a headache. 15 mins after that the medicine kicked in and her fever and headache were gone. Her friend’s family had a small fever bug last week, I just figured that was it. So we went out to dinner ( I KNOW!! BAD!!!)She was fine. After we got home her headache returned. I gave her more medicine and she went to bed. This morning she woke up late and clearly still had her fever. I gave her medicine. She couldn’t hold it in and threw up. Just a tiny bit. She slept ALL morning. Woke up 7-8 times and I gave her Popsicle. When I took her temp at lunch it was 102.5. Her lips were purple, eyes red and watering. She also was sneezing a bunch and had a tough sounding cough. I decided to call the school nurse and see what other virus’ maybe going around. It was a substitute nurse (guess ours was sick?) she told me that I should have her checked out. That our school already had one confirmed case of H1N1. So I took her in. They only swabbed her because she’s considered high risk (she’s had pneumonia 2 times and uses a neutralizer). They swab and it comes back positive. Sooo, we expect 7 days of bad. 24 hours after her fever is gone she can return to school. BUT sometimes the virus still sheds itself even 5 days after the fever is gone?! Everyone should stay 6 feet from her. I have to give her breathing treatments every 4 hours. She also needs to take tamiflu, that most likely will make her puke. If she pukes once I’m not giving her more. Right now she’s feeling good. As long as the ibuprofen is in her and working she’s find just a little sleepy. So think of us this week. Pray it doesn’t get much worse then this for her. Pray my others don’t get it. Madison has a big history of high fevers and seizures from them. the nurse said some fevers she’s heard are as high at 105! Lord help me!!
To celebrate my birthday, Matt and I are taking our first trip without kids!
We’re going to Chicago!
I have been a couple times with a friend but Matt has never gone.
As much as I’d love to get away this weekend, we’re going in a couple weeks!
We’ll fly out Friday morning and return Sunday night.
Besides the normal sighting seeing who has fun recommendations for me?
Seriously. 27, I mean 28 (I’m wearing a pair now.)
I need serious help.
