For your dancing pleasure…Enjoy!!

We have some friends who have bought a house about seven down from us. We’re excited because they have two little ones and one on the way.

Anyway, they haven’t moved in yet because it was a “repo” house and they had to do a lot of work to it (the previous owners took faucet fixtures, light fixtures, a toilet, and other things). So, their plan is to move in on Saturday. Carpet goes in on Friday and then move. Well, the mom needed a break and needed to get the closets painted (yucky ugly closets just don’t go with freshly painted walls…I love freshly painted closets it just makes you feel better to know your clean clothes are in a clean closet). Back to my story now, so I watched her two kids.

Yes, I had six children in my home five and under. It took them 15 minutes to have Zoe’s room so covered that you couldn’t see the floor. And in those 15 minutes I believe I broke up about 500 fights…I don’t understand how my kids can lose all social etiquettes when friends come to play. I guess it’s their age and their stuff playing a factor. What was so bad is that our visitors were somewhat descent. My kids were yelling and not sharing and hitting…ugghhhh.

Which I am not. But apparently Zoe is. I took her to a birthday party at a local “amusement” park type area. They had a little kiddie roller coaster and other thrill type rides on a preschool child’s level. Zoe got me on the roller coaster and I gripped the handlebars in fear. The second time she got me on it I was more relaxed and could talk some. She threw her arms way up in the air when we went really fast.

That’s okay, I got her back when we went on the balloon ride and I made it spin really fast…and I got queasy…but that was fun…roller coaster, not fun. Luckily, Daddy can go on the big roller coasters with Zoe.

I’m thinking a trip to Carowinds is in our future.

Liam had to go to the doctor yesterday because he has had a persistent runny nose and then he started messing with his ears. Fortunately, it’s not an ear infection but could have been one as the ear drum was sucked in and would have allowed fluid to build up in the ear. He’s on an antibiotic now for the sinus infection.

While we were there, Dr. B asked if we wanted to go ahead and get flu shots. I know not everyone is for all that, but we are especially since we are constantly on the go and around all those germs. Well, usually, when they have to get shots, I have some prep time and get them psyched up for the shots, etc. No time for that yesterday. Ace was pretty insistent that he wouldn’t get a shot. Dr. B tried to reason with him:

“You need to get the shot so you won’t get sick and have to go to the hospital”

Ace (frowning and generally grumpy): “I don’t want a shot. I want to get sick.”

Oh well! I even tried the big brother protecting little brother since he is too young to get a shot…still didn’t work. But he got one and he was over it in little while (like a day).