Whew! I haven't "blogged" for quite awhile. However there is a very good reason for it! Looking at the calender today, I realized, I have had at least one sick kid every day for a month! One minute they are fine, the next they have come down with some bug. Connor and I were up all night Sunday, throwing up. We woke up yesterday to Harmony throwing up. By the end of the day Connor and Harmony had stopped throwing up but Ethan had started. When Harmony went to bed last night, she had a really high fever. Will this ever end? My goodness! I am so tired of washing sheets covered in throw up! I am anxious for Spring, and letting them play outside and get over some of these sicinesses!
I heard from Ben yesterday. If his flight didn't get canceled again, he was on his way to Kabul today for a conference. I believe that he will be there for 2 weeks but I am not too sure of that. It could be only a week. I know he was looking forward to going because in Kabul they have a Burger King! I wanted to let people know that of the packages that I am aware of, he has recieved all. I know he has recieved his card from TJ, the pkg from Mom & Dad Kennedy, the pkg from his parents, his Grandma and I am not sure what else. He appreciates them all. Right now, I guess they have run out of mayo out there, so I have to go and get some to send. It makes you think how lucky we are over here, that you can just run to the store and get some mayo where there they have to wait weeks for shipments.
Harmony is doing well. She had a big timeline project that she had to have done by last Friday. She loved working on it. Cutting out pictures, using glitter and stickers and everything else. It turned out cute! She is a hard worker and I have been very impressed with the work that she does at school. I had to have a conference with her teachers about her handwriting last week. She kept getting marked down and her reading teacher told me that sometimes what happens is kids that are really good in all of their subjects sometimes the handwriting is ignored,thinking that it will come later but if you don't fix it now, it won't happen. So her regular teacher, her reading teacher and I have all been working with her and I can't believe the changes. She showed me some of her work that was up in the hall at school and I couldn't believe that it was hers. It looked soooo good. She really worked hard and I am proud of her!
Pre-school was canceled for the boys yesterday. You would have thought the world had ended with how much Ethan cried. He loves preschool. Loves it. His teacher Ms Skees is so sweet and he just loves to be there. He has so much fun. The last time that he was throwing up, I told him he wasn't able to go and he cried and said, "please Mommy, if you let me go, I will bring my bowl to throw up in". Precious. Ethan is getting really excited for his birthday. I remember how long the time felt between mine and Tommy's birthday. Even though it was less then a month it seemed forever. I am sure that is how it is for Ethan. Ethan so far has a list of 28 kids that he wants to invite! I can't get him to trim his guest list so I said no to Chuck E Cheese. There is this really great park here called Mt. Trashmore and so that is where we are going to be going. I know he will have fun. I keep telling him that I am not going to let him turn 5. He is just growing too fast, so he looks at me with his little Ethan smile and said, " Mommy do you know what? When I turn 16 I am going to get my driving license." Don't remind me...
Connor is still obsessed with Star Wars. The other day there was a 2 hour documentary about the making of the original movies on the history channel, and they watched a good hour of it. The other two like it a lot too. Last week, I was really behind in my laundry and so horror of all horrors, no clean star wars shirts or underwear! He cried and threw a fit. He was so mad, and said he would just wear his jammies to school. I finally convinced him and put the load in that morning, with him watching! He did get to wear his Darth Vader shoes though! When I dropped him off at preschool one of his teachers asked him where his star wars shirt was. I just said please don't bring it up again! That kid. He has been sleeping with me since he has been sick and he is such a little snuggly guy. He looks so sweet when he is asleep!
Ivan, is constantly on the go. You can not turn your back on him. Yesterday, he managed to push the screen door open and go outside. Then while I was upstairs, he got an almost completely full bag of goldfish...and dumped them all over the floor. He keeps me on my toes for sure! However he is learning some fun stuff. He has learned how to play peek-a-boo. It is precious because half the time he covers his face, the other half he puts them on his head. He has also learned to clap and wave and has been weaned from his bottle. No walking yet but I do find him standing up all the time. So I am sure it will come soon. However, I don' t know if I am ready for that!
I can't believe it is almost spring. 2.5 weeks will have Ben gone for 3 months. We are halfway through! It is hard to believe. The weather here the last few days has been so warm, hitting 83 one day, and has been confusing for the kids. They keep asking me if it is summer, knowing that is when Ben comes home. It makes me sad. We are getting there though and the time seems to be flying. Soccer starts a week from Sat. and the kids are anxious. This past Sat. a strike group came home after a 6 month deployment. One of the ships had 5000 sailors on it. It made me happy because a couple of my friends husbands were on there but at the same time it made me very jealous. I can't wait until Ben comes home!
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