What a Weekend!

Saturday morning I dropped Eric off at work and then spent the morning lounging at Mom and Alan's house. In the afternoon, Mom, Eric, and I helped Alison and Zach move into their new apartment.  For once, I was actually careful to rest and not overheat - I'm usually a work until it's done sort of person.  Then I went to church and left after the homily because I was feeling beyond sick.  I've had a cold since Thursday and I just can't breathe.  So I went back to M&A's to sleep, and Eric watched Kill Bill 2.  I define sleep loosely, because I was up ALL NIGHT coughing.

We woke up at 5:50 for the North Face Endurance Challenge.  Mom, Eric, and I headed to the Plaza for our 5k race.  Mom had a plan to run every other song on her phone, and my plan was to have my Runkeeper app prompt Eric and I to run for .2 miles, walk .3 miles, run .1 miles, walk .2 miles.  We kept that pace for the entire race, with the exception of one .2 stretch that we had to cut short because of a hill.  Mom's time was 36 minutes and 45 seconds.  Eric and I both ran it in 42 minutes and 59 seconds - Woo!

When we got home, we rested for a bit, and headed to St. Thomas to lead our first Financial Peace University preview.  However... nobody showed up.  No big deal though, the class doesn't start for three weeks.

So then we went home to make lunch for our game afternoon with Mom, Alan, Paul, and Deb (and then Shannon).  That was to introduce our news that you can hop over to read about on agreenbabyblog.blogspot.com!  Then we spent the evening running around to grandparent houses and making phone calls and Skype calls.  Phew - I was so glad to go home and go to sleep!

 Vicks tissues - best thing ever when you have a cold!

 I moved Zach's bookshelf across the parking lot on a Razor Scooter!

Eric, carried the desk like this.

 Mom and I before the race.

 My sweaty shirt before my free screen printing.

My sweaty shirt after the free screen printing!

Mom, Eric, and I finished the race - woo!

Yea!

 Shannon and Deb playing Apples to Apples.

Paul and Eric.

Eric and Mom.

Alan, Me, and Shannon.

Day 348: Well This Bites...

Today I had to quickly find someone to watch Andrew because he had bitten Jack once and Bryson twice!  Watching three boys at once is a little trickier than I'd hoped, and Andrew got his teeth on one kid while I was tending to the other.  I had a few panic attacks about it throughout the day, you know - how did I let this happen, what will their mom think, ARGH I suck, etc...  But everything ended up working out fine.

Alison watched Andrew for the rest of the afternoon (and he only bit Zach twice, oops!).  The rest of my nannying afternoon went well - a nap for Bryson and a movie for Jack.  After we all got home, we went on another walk to the park, and went about our evening routine.  Eric and I had TV dinners, and Andrew had hot dogs and cheese, mmm.  Then, this was the first time of his 2x/day breathing treatments that he was grumpy.  It was a long day, so I imagine he was tired.  Eric and I did bedtime stories together, and had a really good time watching him giggle.  It's too bad tonight is his last night with us, he has been such a good boy!

I took the boys on a walk after Andrew nibbled on all of the kids - a good way to keep everyone separate while figuring out who could watch Andrew.

A demonstration of how to squish two babies and a 7 year old into a hatchback!  (And my genius "Andrew, you may not grab Jack and bite him while I'm driving" wrap.)

Bryson's leg...

 Bryson's wrist...

Jack's stomach.

 Andrew on the big slide!

Mmm, toddler dinner!

 What a sad little boy!  Even while crying, he still sat criss cross and didn't pull it off his face.

Bedtime stories!

Our final round of baby laundry for this visit, it was too cute out on the lines!

Day 142: Lunchboxes Galore

Hola, Eric here. Today was pretty much the usual. The gym, and Eastern Religions at 6. Then after class I stopped by Alison's to drop off some of Jae Bird's homeopathic remedies we brought back from New Mexico. She's been feeling a bit under the weather lately and we suggested maybe these could help. After dropping those off, I went home and got settled in playing Fallout 3. On the Play Station Network, one can earn trophies for accomplishing certain things in games. I'm collecting Fallout trophies right now, and one of them I'm close to getting is creating all the custom weapons. One of these is called a Bottlecap mine. It's made up of sensor modules, bottle caps (in game currency), cherry bombs, and of course a lunchbox! Playing Fallout always makes me thirsty, and it just so happens that at that time I had some beer and orange juice. All we needed was Amaretto, and we could make a tasty drink called...a Lunchbox! These sound like odd ingredients, but when you put it all together it makes an interesting and delicious drink. To make a Lunchbox: Pour half a glass of beer, drop in a shot of Amaretto, and top with orange juice, and chug! Alternatively, you can make a Lunch Bucket. This is just mixing the beer, orange juice, and Amaretto in the glass.

 The components of a Lunchbox

 Polishing that one off

I ate an apple down to the tiny core