This week has really just been all about Lucas. Poor thing has been so sick all week. He started throwing up on Sunday afternoon and was still throwing up Wednesday night. He did seem like he was getting better on Tuesday (even was eating pretty well), but then that night at the dinner table (yes... yuck), it all came back up. Let me tell you... by Wednesday, when he was still unable to keep anything down, I was on an emotional edge (borderline tears). I took him to the doctor on Thursday morning and was basically told that it just needs to work it's way out of his system (although she did give me a prescription for medicine to ease his nausea). Clara's sickness kind of ran a similar course, but she didn't seem quite so lethargic or puny... so I didn't worry quite as bad. I think Lucas may have been dehydrated, whereas Clara was more receptive to taking in fluids other than milk (Lucas only wanted milk... nothing but milk). I know that it's always hard when the kids get sick (they just seem so helpless and small), but I found it just so hard to deal with trying to comfort him and help him get better, all while constantly cleaning up after him. The anti-nausea medicine was a wonder-drug! After he was taking that, he was drinking and eventually eating. He was so improved in just a day's time that he even went to school Friday morning. Once I put some thought into it I realized that is was probably the Dramamine that ultimately helped Clara (as it is just an anti-nausea drug). If I had realized that earlier, could I have just given Lucas some Dramamine?
Once he got better, I was desperate for a break. The timing was perfect when I was invited to a Mom's Night Out on Saturday night! It was a relaxing evening of board games and adult conversation with a neighbor who's daughter is on Clara's soccer team.
Clara's homework this week is definitely worth sharing. One of her assignments was to write about something she did over the break. Out of all the things she did (saw her Grammy & Papa and her Nana, baked cookies, decorated a gingerbread house, played with friends she only sees once a year, got terribly sick, opened presents, and the obvious... traveled to Missouri), she chose to write her paragraph about Big Brutus (the second largest electric shovel in the world, used for strip mining in the early 1960s), which we visited one afternoon. Here is what she wrote: "I went to Big Brutus in KS.. It was for compelling people. Big Brutus did not dig coal. The huge bucket removed the overburden - dirt and rocks covering the coal seams." I especially liked the use of a period after her abbreviation of Kansas (because it only stands to reason that an abbreviation needs a period). And no idea where she came up with the "compelling people" phrase, but maybe she's right... maybe it really is only for people who are forceful or demand attention (probably not... as I enjoyed our visit there... and I am definitely not compelling). Also.. let's just reflect a moment... what 5 year old writes about "overburden"!!
Another part of her homework involved a Challenge (sort of a creative thinking exercise). This week her challenge was this: "The answer is 27. What is the question?" Here is what she came up with: "How many times did the star try to fly up into the sky into the solar system?" Very cute.
There have been a couple of job leads that came up this week for Jason as well... so may this be the start of something exciting?
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