taco and tacos

Monday, Monday, Monday. It was a rough entry into daylight savings time for most of us. Sammy slept so late that, I looked at my meeting schedule, and decided I could take the kids to school which gives them an extra 25 min to get ready. It was a good call for all of us.

I promised the boys I’d take them to swim on Monday, while Sophia stayed home to pick up Amaya at Girl Scouts. Steven and Sammy don’t think it’s fair that I regularly take Amaya to her (6:50pm) swim class so I try to take them to their 5:10pm class on days it works out.

Our Bubba remains creative in his reading logs. Now we have “30ish” and “20ish” minutes. 🙂

After swim, I dropped the boys at home and went out for a dinner with work colleagues. As I was wrapping up I got this text from Steven. No question, I hightailed it out of there to get home to these kids. Who wouldn’t, if they could, after a text like this?

Amaya got two more badges at her Monday meeting – the snow adventure badge she earned from her snowshoe scavenger hunt and a cookie badge for this year’s cookie sales.

After school art is still going strong. I love seeing how the kids interpret the same project in their own ways.

Steven

Sammy

Amaya

A little bit of sweet Sal on Wednesday afternoon.

Post-swim Amaya, wrapping up her wet hair and excited to be one of the last kids at the place.

Wednesday was a weird one! Sammy said he wasn’t feeling well before school – his stomach hurt. He ate some breakfast, took some tylenol and got on the bus with my promise that I’d come and get him if he didn’t start to feel better. Sure enough, around 10am I got a call that Sammy was in the office and he felt sick, but didn’t have a fever. As promised, I left the office and picked him up.

This did not look like the face of a sick guy! In fact, after about an hour at home, he started getting bored and asked to go back to school. Sounded good to me! The school called again at 3pm because he was back in the office – still no fever but didn’t feel well. We spoke on the phone and he said he’d just wait until 3:45pm and come home on the bus.

Well, he came home on the bus, went to sleep and, by late evening, did have a fever!

Sick, sleepy Sammy with a fast-passing viral fever. (And a precautionary puke bucket handy in the bed.)

Meanwhile, Amaya and Steven got busy making leprechaun traps for St. Patrick’s Day. I don’t know when this became a thing but it’s definitely big now.

Amaya invited “Lepy” the Leprechaun to visit and tried to think of all sorts of foods he’d like. She sorted them in health order from green to red, the same way her Daddy organized the pantry.

Steven, on the other hand, built a legit trap for the poor green guy.

Sophia: What are you trying to do with your trap?

Steven: Kill a Leprechaun.

Sophia: What do you want to find in the trap in the morning?

Steven: A dead Leprechaun. (Duh.)

Sammy was home on Thursday, but these two were ready in green for school. (But sad that they didn’t have any live Leprechauns – or dead – caught in their traps.)

Amaya left this note, hoping Lepy would return.

Sammy’s fever was down by morning and this kid lived his best sick day life. He stayed in bed all day watching videos on his iPod along with 3 or 4 Star Wars movies throughout the day.

March is Reading Month has unlocked our readers! The goal of reading at least 20 minutes really pushed the kids into picking up books and, now, they don’t want to put them down – especially Steven.

Friday was “wear a shirt/hat with words” day at school. Steven made a word of his own with his Cheerios. ❤️

A couple of pictures from school this week.

We also got the kids’ class pictures. It just hit me that their alpha order is backwards birth order – which doesn’t matter but it’s the opposite way I always take their pictures. 🤷‍♀️

I’m realizing that they talk about most of the boys in their class. It seems like a really nice group of kids. Steven and Alex had some conflict at the beginning of the year but it sounds like that’s totally resolved itself.

Milan Pierce is Amaya’s BFF but she’s also close with Sara and really likes Maia, Hannah and Stella.

With dinner on Friday, Sophia served kumquats. I’ve never had one and it was quite the adventure for the kids. Sammy thought they were too sour. Steven flat out didn’t like them. Amaya liked showing how she could eat them with 0 reaction.

After dinner, Sophia took the kids to a playground. I love, love, love that it’s playground weather again.

Can you even handle this cat’s cuteness? She sure loves her people.

On Saturday, Grandma Sunshine and Aunt Annette came to visit. There was a re-watch of the Sparty ground one tournament game, board games, and Kiwi Co kit and lots of reading books on Epic. Lots and lots of reading books. (In fact, Amaya and Sammy both read for 2+ hours and Steven read for over 3 hours on Saturday.)

Five dollars for everyone, from Grandma. 🙂

Steven took a picture with Grandma in front of her door and wanted to recreate it in front of our door.

Sammy, cleaning up, and coming in for the bubble attack on his poor defenseless Mama.

The kids even passed up on bedtime shows on Saturday night to keep reading their books on Epic. And wanted to read at breakfast this morning! There’s a gamification element to it which is doing a great job triggering the reward centers of their brains. 🙂

Today, after Hebrew school, the kids geared up for a visit from May May, Taco and Eden. Those girls are getting so big! Five years old and three next week! Time is just flying by.

Steven and Sammy had some epic battles while they waited for Megan to arrive.