Oscar Stew

OH MY!

What a week it has been! It started off with a nice summery bang. We went to the local sprayground and let the kids run around. Drew raced around and jumped over the water in true Lightning McQueen fashion.

Brinley ran through the water trying not to get her face wet. Can’t really blame her…she got sprayed up the nose once, and that’s all it takes!

We took a bike ride to Drew’s future school. We had to test out the playground and make sure Drew was ready for Kindy. What do you think?

I am pretty sure Brinley passed the test too, she is bummed that she still has 2 years to go. That’s okay…two more years to work on perfecting her fashion sense.

I think Drew is channeling his inner Spiderman in this shot.

Twiggy went along for the ride. She wasn’t too interested in playing so she caught up on her zzzzz’s…

And that brings us to rashes. What fun. Both kids has unusual reactions to their immunizations last week. Brinley’s leg swelled up, and Drew came down with erythema multiforme on his extremities. It is really quite lovely looking, although NOT contagious (whew!). Drew thinks he has polka-dots, that’s a much nicer way to put it.

To finish the week off, we attempted a trip to my happy place (aka Costco) only to discover that Sally (the minivan) wasn’t going to make the trip, she’s come down with an illness of her own. The kids were quick to offer a prayer in her behalf. We took her to the “doctor” today, and they will have her fixed right up. It’ll cost more than we’d like, but hey – it could be worse. That’s what I am trying to tell myself anyway.

Thank goodness for sweet, faithful children…

When I put Brinley to bed the other night, I noticed a funny lump on her chest. When I ask her about it, she promptly pulled out a heart shaped sponge that we had used earlier that day in a craft project. She told me it was her heart, and asked me if she could sleep with it.  I didn’t think there was any harm in letting her sleep with it. I figured it would be forgotten by morning anyway.

Wrong.

We had breakfast, goofed around and then I sent the kids upstairs to get dressed. Brinley came down and I could see the orange heart right through her shirt.

She pulls it out every once in a while, looks at it, and puts it back in her shirt. She is such a goofball…

We took the kids in for their 5yr, 3yr, and 2 week well child visits. We were a little late getting Drew & Brinley in, but we were right on time with Rowan.  We tried to warn D&B about the possibility of immunizations, they were pretty nervous about the whole visit.

Like any mamarazzi, I took my camera along for the ride. And I am glad I did, otherwise I would have missed this little gem…

Ryan went with Brinley to the room next door, and Drew was pretty concerned with the screaming he heard through the wall.

Turns out she wasn’t upset about the immunizations, she didn’t even bat an eye. She was upset that she didn’t get to write her name on a paper for the doctor like Drew did.  I wasn’t so lucky when it was Drew’s turn for shots. He screamed and cried, but after it was all said and done he was happy to be “cleared” for Kindergarten in August.

Rowan was pretty upset when she got her foot poked for the 7th & 8th time. The good news is, she weighed in at 6lbs 12.5oz, which is 2 ounces above her birth weight. And the jaundice has finally cleared up.

We told the kids if they were good at the doctors office, we would stop at Dairy Queen on the way home.  A Dilly Bar has the almighty power to make everything right with the world again.

They even sprung for the cherry Dilly Bar this time. Livin’ on the wild side…

Ryan thought he had done something worthy of an ice-cream cone.

Swapping spit. blech.

And they all lived healthily ever after. The end.