Sick Day (sort of)

I have a cold so we didn't do much of anything.  Although at Costco yesterday I found great workbooks that they enjoyed working in for a while today.  Actually, I've barely even looked at them so I don't really know how great they are, just that my kids think that it is fun to do worksheets (like real school.)  On days where they have nothing to do, I notice that they are a lot more whiny.  I remember being a bored kid and asking my parents "what is there to do?"  As a mom now, I can't stand it when they ask me that, so, sorry mom and dad.  I always suggest to my kids that they can go clean something. Tonight Isabel learned how to ride her bike.  She probably would have learned sooner, but Joey vowed Safety Nerd was going to ride his bike before Joey started teaching Isabel.

After each of my useless pee in a cup appointments, my doctor always ends with saying, "Make sure you watch your weight there."  AND today Luke said to me, "I know how you can lose weight after the baby is born!  You can eat less calories and exercise."  Luke then suggested that I could exercise now, while I am pregnant.  Have you ever heard of such a crazy ridiculous notion in your life?  Can people just leave me and my fat butt alone!?

Neon Ocean

Isabel has been enjoying learning to write in cursive. I am impressed with how well she is doing. Luke isn't very excited about it which is fine with me if he never learns. I would like to get a good "learn how to type" program for kids that has games etc. while teaching typing. I think he would like that. So let me know if you know of any. Today he scanned his Neon Ocean (sea chart) and marked yellow where there are monsters.

Nesting

As Joey would say, I was "nesting" today. With every pregnancy I am convinced that after the baby comes I will never be able to organize again. I started organizing my closet, then decided to make room in the closet downstairs for a few things I didn't want to be in my closet and then somehow that got me organizing the school bookshelf. Luckily everything got organized and cleaned up except for my closet which was what I started working on in the first place. As you can tell I am not very organized about organizing. During all of this I was able to throw a few things at the kids for them to do. They created a large Don't Eat Pete game on poster board creating their own drawings in each square. Isabel watched a show about and practiced cursive. Luke worked on a new Xtreme Boy book and finished a couple of Math worksheets. They then played Go Fish together.

It was a productive day although I ruined it by yelling at them for not helping me out after I asked them to take their things upstairs. In my defense, I already feel so huge and by the end of the day the last thing I want to do is to go up those stairs one more time.

This weekend poor Joey is roped into helping me work on my nesting (I mean organizing) list that I've made. He will soon regret his new, only forty hours a week, job and beg to go back to working overtime instead of at home with me.