First and foremost, I am a fabulous mom. A better mom than I was yesterday. Wait - let me back up a bit. Friday night we went to the members only event at the Dallas Zoo. We had a great time and I will post some pictures later. We rode the dart train and missed out on great amounts of TRAFFIC! Yippee! It was fabulously fun, but a late night for the kids.
Saturday was Ben's soccer game. I stayed home with the girls for much-needed naps - only to miss Ben's first (and second) goal! My cute little boy scored! My mom said a few people in the stands said they, "needed to watch out for little number 8!" I'm so sad to have missed it! Saturday night was dinner group at church, so the kids were up late with Aunt Jamie babysitting and after we came home we all watched the end of the Mavs game.
Sunday morning Andy has meetings starting at 7am. Annie wakes up somewhat happy but just gets honeryier as the morning goes on. We finally make it to church, which starts at eleven. Around noon Annie is laying in my arms like a baby (totally Atypical). Her body went heavy and her eyes close. I'm thinking this is going to be a great church day because I was going to get to cuddle Annie! All of a sudden, her body tenses and she throws up - all over me, the bench, the bag Andy puts next to us. Thankfully the closing song was just beginning, so I got up and walked out with my head turned away. I took Annie outside, stripped her down and am just standing there covered in barf - not so good. However, I am a great mom because I didn't throw up too!!! Last time I was holding Ben when he threw up, I joined him and Andy got to clean up after both of us! What a day!
Here is our fun train ride. Annie and Brynnley were getting to the boredom point as we rode there!
Annie was sick this past week and continued throwing up into Tuesday. That translates into naps! One day Ben and Emily were coloring so cute together. I can't even describe how much he loves his little sister!
This is my very favorite site - clean, fed, happy children just waiting for me to read to them. When I had Annie I called a friend in Austin and jokingly was mad because she hadn't told me how much fun two kids would be. She just laughed and said 3 was even better! It totally is. Sometimes it's a whole lot harder, but we love all being together! I love seeing the kids interact with one another and how they play together. I love how they take care of each other and make accomodations when necessary. Emily got out the kitchen stuff this morning and it has occupied the majority of our time inside the house today. I was doing dinner dishes and the 3 of them played restaurant. At one point Ben told Annie to leave and read a book. She looked at me kind of hurt and confused. I just explained that Ben wanted her to leave the 'kitchen' and read a book while she waited for her meal. So, she went a got one of her favorite dinosaur books and read until he 'served' her meal. It was so heartwarming to see. It's moments like this that make the fighting forgotten!!!
Oh yes - Andy turned the big 3-0 this week! It was a very anti-climactic day, but we did end it by watching the western Once Upon a Texas Train! We also had our 8th anniversary this week. I made a 'fun' dinner (read there freezer meal - although I did make the cucumber mango salsa to go with it!) that we all ate at 7:30 after Ben's soccer practice. Then we watched a little bit of Bell Cosby's stand up comedy and were asleep by 9:45 - what a party life we lead!
Yes - Andy got rakes for his birthday!
To finish out our week, we did a 5K with the 14-18 youth for Youth Conference this afternoon. They were running to raise money for those who couldn't - run that is. The money is for the humanitarian services to buy wheelchairs and is completely 100% tax-deductible! Ben rode his bike, Andy pushed the double-jogger, and I failed miserably at keeping up with them! We all finished (one adult pushing 3 kids in a double jogger and the other adult a little bit further behind) and had a great time. Although with the yard work all morning and doing more when we got home, I don't know that either of us will be walking very fast tomorrow! Andy is now chaperoning the dance and will hopefully be home soon with some ice cream to go with the homemade hot fudge I have waiting...