April Vacation Week....

was last week.  The kids were with Shawn on Monday and Tuesday and they had all sorts of fun.  He brought them to the bike path and they all biked for 3 miles and then had a picnic at the train station.  They had a good time watching the trains go by and enjoyed some time at a local playground.  The next day Shawn brought all the kids and Luke to the skate park in Westerly where despite hearing some teenagers swear (Myles could not seem to get over this) they all had a blast.  Molly was so proud of herself for riding her scooter at the skate park and Huddy participated as well.  When  I came home at 4:30pm on Tuesday Shawn had four kids (ours and Luke) sitting quietly at the island and decorating Easter Eggs!  I was impressed. 

Wednesday the boys spent the day with Grandma at the URI pool.  Molly was invited to go out to lunch and to the movies with Elliott and her mom Kelly.  She had such a good time and was just delighted that she was able to pick out ANYTHING she wanted from ANY restaurant in the Food Court at the mall.  She thought that was just fabulous.  Kelly let them both ride on the carousel and they watched a puppet show in the mall and ended the day with "Rio" the movie in 3D. Molly was all smiles at the day's end. 

Thursday through Saturday Grandma and I took the three kids on a two night adventure in Plymouth, Massachusetts.  We stayed at the John Carver Inn which has an indoor water park that looks like the Mayflower and its very own game room (where Molly played ping pong one night with Grandma at 9pm) and a fabulous restaurant called the Hearth and Kettle.  In Plymouth we visited a playground, went out to several yummy meals at restaurants, went to the beach to chase seagulls and collect sea glass, visited the Mayflower II and Plymouth Rock, walked a bit along a river walk where Myles found a wing from a seagull (that he thought was so cool) and did a lot of swimming.  It was a fun two day escape with lots of activities.

Molly took this picture of us!

3 kiddos and the Mayflower II

Molly, Mommy and Huddy in the pool!

Myles coming out of slide

Grandma with Myles and Molly having fun!

This was our first trip without the pack n play as Huddy finally got just too long for it.  We brought along his new LL Bean super padded sleeping bag and he was delighted to sleep in between the two double beds in the hotel room.  The second morning there I woke up to, "mom help me there is a railing on me".  I looked down to the floor towards where he should be sleeping and no Huddy.  I was not too alarmed as I knew he was in the room and calling for me, but where was he?  "Mom help I am stuck", I heard again.  By this time I was on the floor and looking under the bed. There I saw two little feet sticking out and realized that he had rolled under the bed sometime in the night and spent the night on the dirty dusty rug and not on the sleeping bag!  Thankfully when I pulled him out from underneath he was not traumatized in the slightest and he did not appear to look like a dust bunny.   I thank goodness I did not wake up prior to him calling for me or I would have had a panic attack not knowing he was safe under the bed!!!

A Girls Grip to NYC

Molly wrote the following Blog entry on the bus ride home from NY.
(Gina, Hailey, Dotty, and Grandma joined us on the trip to see Aunt Barbara)

Once upon a time there was a little girl and her mommy they took a trip to NYC.  They took a long bus ride there and when they got thare they saw Aunt B. They took a long walk through the city all day and got presents for their brothers and stopped for snacks and lunch. We were tired but we had fun;  then we headed home we rested on the way home. We were so excited to see the rest of the family. The end.         Love Molly

Mothers and Daughters

A few of mommy's favorite ladies.

Father Daughter Dance

On April 9th Shawn was proud to accompany Ms. Molly to the Kingston Hill Academy Father/Daughter Dance.  They had a blast together tearing up the rug from 5pm to 7:30pm at the local Elks club.  They then went to a 7:30pm dinner at Shogun and ended the night with ice cream from Lickety Splits.  I was a bit envious as it all sounds like the perfect night to me but so happy that the two of them enjoyed their time together.  They did not get home until nearly 11pm.  Molly is a night owl so she truly does wake up in the evening hours and come out of her shell.  We are a bit nervous for the college years as the child likes to
P-A-R-T-Y!

All set and ready to dance.

Enjoying her flowers and showing them off.

Molly with daddy and her upside doll in her matching dress.

Germs Germs Go Away

What a week we have had at our house.  Sunday night after Shawn and I put the kids to bed we were down on the couch relaxing at 10pm together when we heard Huddy calling for us. Shawn went upstairs to see what was the matter and did not come right back down. I thought something might be wrong, and wouldn't you know it, it was.  Hudson had broken out in hives and the itchyness woke him up.  We have dealth with many things in our house from wheezing to rashes and from a broken leg to a broken arm but not hives!  Poor little guy was a swollen red mess from the waist down.  He did have a few on his arms but they were mostly on his legs and bum.  It was scary.  We called the doctor who told us to immediately give him Benadryl, which we did, and then I slept with him the rest of the night to make sure they did not spread to his mouth area.  Not only did they not spread but he woke up in the morning with only two little welts on his cheek and a just a trace of hives on one on his legs!!!  I could not believe it!  I brought him to the doctor that day and it turns out their is a nastly virus going around that causes a break out of hives~ who knew?

So, Huddy was home Monday with me (mom and Huddy day).  Tuesday Huddy seemed good to go, despite his cough, so Shawn and I planned to send all the kids to school and actually both work.  I was on the way to daycare with him when he vomited in the car!  I truly think this was due to coughing but needless to say we could not send him to school covered in vomit and coughing like crazy.  So, Shawn met me at the daycare and took Huddy home.  Tuesday Huddy was with Shawn.  Wednesday is Huddy's regular day with Grandma so this allowed him to relax another day and recover.

So Thursday one would think perhaps we could have all the kids in school and we could once again maybe both work (since we both do have full time jobs), right.....WRONG!!  At 4pm when I arrived home from work on Wednesday I arrived home to a Myles with a fever of 101 and a sore throat.  It does not end there.  Molly came screaming into our room at 11pm complaining of ear pain.  It was so so sad, she would not stop crying. This girl is one tough cookie, did not shed a tear when she was revoering from getting her tonsils out, not one tear when she broke her elbow in June of 2009 but sobbing in our bed over ear pain and just so uncomfortable. I knew it must be bad.  Finally we got her to calm down after giving her Ibruprofen and Tylenol and we all went back to sleep.  So I headed to the doctor for the second time this week (first was with Huddy on Monday) but this time with Mollly and Myles and Huddy in tow.  Apparenlty, Myles has the same virus Huds had and Molly did as well but it caused and ear infection with her and that resulted in a ruptured ear drum.  This explains the midnight sobs!!  My poor children. 

I am happy to report it is Friday and all three kids are feeling much better and are at at school today.  I am looking forward to getting some rest this weekend and hanging out with Shawn and the kids and simply taking it easy and hopefully starting next week on a good foot!