The Days of Our Lives: October 2009

I used to write stuff about my kids and what we were up to. I think it was called blogging but it has been so long I am just not sure. :P The kids are playing together, I think they are having a tea party, so I am going to try to write.

I will start with a quick round up of what has been keeping us so busy (some of this might be a repeat, bear with me please). Starting at Labor Day, we did the Chicken Wing Thing, my parents were here we visited with Rick, Gina and Noah, we visited with Jim, Julie and Molly, oh yeah and Dave and I had gone to a wedding. This was the first time Freddy did his random throwing up, an act that has been repeated since. Anyway, the week after Labor Day Dave had a cold which he gave to Lucy, very mild no big deal. Lucy then kindly shared with Freddy and I. We were stuffy and didn't feel well but not too big a deal. I got better, Freddy stayed stuffy. I think it was Thursday of the week after he and I are were sick together he spiked a fever. I took him to the doctor's and they said he had an infection and prescribed him some antibiotics. He was doing well, getting better, so the following Wednesday I took him in for his way overdue 6 month check up. The doc said he was perfect (I knew that already but it was nice to have it confirmed). :) That night I gave him his medicine and he tried plums for the first time, which he actually ate, he hadn't been interested in food since he got sick, so I was psyched. However, the next day he broke out in a rash! :( Back to the doctor we went because he had had shots, antibiotics and a new food, and he was covered in little red dots. The doctor decided that it wasn't the shots because he had had them twice before with no reaction and it probably wasn't the plums. That left the antibiotic, which I am allergic to too. So we stopped the medicine and they wrote it down on his chart that he is probably allergic to it. I was told to stop plums for now but try them again in a few weeks and see what happens.

I then spent the weekend running around getting ready for our trip to Massachusetts. Dave took my car to get inspected and we found out it needed to have the gas tank replaced. :/ Fortunately I had taken the car seats out of it before he took it, just in case. On Tuesday I had to borrow Oma's car to take Lucy to get her flu shot (yup, that made 4 trips to the doctor in less than 2 weeks). Then early Wednesday morning we left for MA.

The trip was great! The kids had so much fun playing together! We went to the Aquarium in Boston, and apple picking near J, J and M's house. We also visited my Aunt Ann Marie and Uncle Tim who live one town over from J&J. The hotel was nice, we all went in the pool there so that was fun. The traveling itself even went surprisingly well. We got home late Saturday night and all went straight to bed.

Sunday morning we went to Ganny and Poppa's house and had another tie dye day with the Aunties. This time we did red and green to make shirts for Christmas. To answer your question, yes we are a bit crazy. :) I then did laundry and a bit of grocery shopping and repacked for yet another trip. I just realized I forgot a trip. The week of Freddy's checkup, the three of us went to my parents house overnight. Wow I can't believe I forgot! We met my parents at the Syracuse zoo, then went to their house, stayed the night, got haircuts, and hung out all the next day. I've been so busy I can't even keep up with myself. Okay where was I? Our last trip, we went to Old Forge overnight. Grandpa and Daddy decided they wanted to go look at a cabin that is for sale on Twitchell Lake. Twitchell is where they used to go for a week every summer when Dave was a kid. So we all went up and saw it. There was snow on the ground when we got there so we were freezing but the cabin was really nice. I can't get into describing the whole thing, but I will someday get the pictures I took posted. Their was a pool at that hotel too so Lucy and I got to go swimming, Oma and Freddy chilled on the sidelines and Grandpa and Daddy went back to the cabin to hike around a bit. Fun but exhausting!

We came home on Thursday in time for me to go to pottery class, which I had missed the week before. Then I collapsed into bed and got up in the morning to do laundry again. Yeah! Laundry took up Friday and Saturday we went to visit Dave's cousin and his family. They live about an hour away,and Dave didn't just get to visit he took one of the guys from work with us and they helped Jim replace his furnace. Super fun for them! Lucy, Freddy, Marc, Colby and Luke had a great time playing together and Jen made us some delicious chili for lunch. Since the guys had a job to do we had gone in separate cars so I took the kids home after lunch to make sure they got naps. :) Oh yeah, and Friday night we had Kim over for dinner so Lucy and I baked an apple pie that afternoon.

Sunday we were just going to chill at home but it was so beautiful out we decided to go the pumpkin farm. (I think I posted about that from phone.) Very fun and well worth it. The kids took really long naps after that, which was a good thing for me because Dave had to go to work for awhile. We went grocery shopping that evening and we have been sticking much closer to home since then. On Monday we went to JoAnn's to buy yarn because you never can have too much yarn. :) We also had to get fairy wings for Lucy's Halloween costume. She is going to be a fairy like AbbyKaDabee (spelling? she is a character on Sesame Street). Lucy chose this costume because she discovered the tutu she had gotten for her birthday but never played with before. She wants to wear it always now, well not always Lucy really likes to be naked these days. Fun fun fun around here!

That about sums it up. My parents came on Tuesday afternoon and spent the night, and I have spent the week crocheting like mad to make a birthday present for Dave. I decided a bit late to make him something so I have been working like crazy when he isn't here. Last night I even left early for pottery so that I could sit in the parking lot there and work on it. I am sure Mike (the owner) thought I was crazy, oh well I am! :) I will post a picture of his present after I give it to him Sunday.

This weekend, Dave's birthday weekend, we are going to Beer's of the World to get stuff for him to make hard cider. On Sunday we are going to ZooBoo which sounds cool, there are tons of activities for the kids and the animal exhibits are supposed to be decorated too. Then since that is Dave's actual birthday we are having crab legs and brownies with ice cream for dessert, yum!!

Quickly I will mention the children. :) Freddy has six teeth and might be getting more right now. He is doing pretty well with eating now that he is better, oddly he really likes Swiss chard which is something I craved at the beginning of my pregnancy. Weird. He gets all around by rolling, though he is getting up to all fours and doing that rocking back and forth thing. I think our hard floor is slowing him down, his knees always slide out behind him and he only ends up going backwards. Dave claims that Freddy went forward last night while I was gone, but I don't believe him. I only leave my kids for 2 and a half hours a week to go to pottery, I am with them 24-7 otherwise and I don't think Freddy would do that to me! :) He sits up well of course, he just started waving and he has turned into a terrible flirt! He seems to like young blond women, like our favorite waitress Danielle! He flirts with here so much it is ridiculous! :)

What can I write about Lucy? She is crazy!!!!!! She is 2 and a half which sums it up. She talks a mile a minute, wants to know how everything works, loves to jump and run, plays all kinds of pretend games and today she created an invisible friend! The friend is a new one on me, she has told me about things I couldn't see before like the bear on our stairs (he is catching fish in the water, like in a book we have about bears it shows them fishing at a waterfall for salmon) and Tiger Tiger who lives out side her window in the sky (I think, I am not too sure about that one). But this one she said is her son, (!!!!) a little girl, whose backyard is in our living room. Her playground with swings and a slide is on our couch and the two of them were hungry for a snack earlier. I asked what Lucy wanted and she said her son wanted a fruit roll up. :) It took me a while to realize she wasn't talking about one of her baby dolls. At nap time Lucy said that she (her son) wanted to sleep in her bed with her. I said okay as long as you both go to sleep. It seems to have worked I haven't heard a peep since I tucked them in. :)

I did not get to write all of this in one sitting and it may have gotten so long you can't read it all in one sitting. :) I am done now. My squash is done baking so I have to go take care of it. Some of it will be Freddy food and some is going to make squash ravioli with sage butter sauce that Lucy I and are making for dinner (recipe from this month's Family Fun magazine). I am also using up valuable crochet time!

We spent the whole morning at the pumpkin farm and had a great time! We pet a calf, a couple of sheep, and a goat. We went on a wagon ride, jumped in a pile of hay, dug in some corn, crawled through a tunnel and more that I can't even remember. Both kids loved it and are exhausted now and so am I! Lucy picked out this peanutty pumpkin to take home. We are going to go get a few regular pumpkins later this week from a farmer we know. I think we will spend the week doing Halloween crafts.

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