hoooooooooooo boy....

Well today was interesting! Honey neeeeeeeeeeded me pretty much all the time today. She had a rough night last night & is the newest member of the flu club & hopefully the last! Lovey's still got a bit of a fever and took a long nap this afternoon. Everyone got up late this morning which I really appreciated! The clinginess and whininess is a bit hard to take but you have to feel bad for them, they're so little & when they're sick they're just about pathetic looking with those sad faces & tired eyes. That didn't stop me fro bolting for the gym after supper though, I was ready for some time away from home! They just want to be held all the time when they're not feeling well and even Sweetie who is all better now, was eyeing me as she walked into the living room while I was holding Honey in the rocking chair. I could tell she was about to stir up trouble so I quickly told her that Honey was going back to bed soon & I'd rock her before I left. That nipped that in the bud. Whatever trouble she was cooking up never materialized but the glint of it in her eye scared the crap out of me. lol

Not getting much done around here but I did manage to disinfect the kitchen & bathroom, in hopes of sanitizing our way back to health! and for sugary medicinal purposes, I baked a chocolate cake with fudge icing. It was much needed & I got a "woohoo" from Murray when he got home.

No new pictures today, we never made it outside but a few wedding ones for Aunt Cathy! (perhaps she'll leave a comment if she LIKES ANY *cough*cough*) I'm still working on proofing the rest but here are a few more for now! More to come but it's slow going this week :S

Bored Kids? Just add water!

I was determined to get OUT of the house today. We used to go out for walks regularly & with all the wet weather, we've gotten out of the habit. So today, around 10:30am, I told them we were going to hit the road! At 11:20 my foot actually touched some pavement. (better late than never?) Lovey wasn't feeling up to running around so we used the stroller & she stayed in the entire time (not a good sign!) Sweetie & Honey were the "Bunny Sisters" and scampered along happily. We went down to the main road & stopped to look at a garden at an old house on our street. The girls were picking some clover flowers when the caretaker that helps out the elderly man who lives there, came out. I quickly told her they were just picking stuff out of the grass but she said it was fine if they wanted to take some out of the flower beds so I let them have one thing each. Big score, woohoo!!!

It was drizzling here & there so we'd brought their umbrellas and they were in heaven! They skipped & hopped along, running and racing while Lovey watched from her seat. She seemed a bit chilled (next bad sign) so I covered her legs with a sweater and that seemed to help her. When we got home she went to bed for an hour (the clincher. that girl is sick!)


Sweetie & Honey had some lunch, spaghetti and meatballs out of a can. Sweetie gobbled it up & Honey ate most of hers without complaining so based on the mealtime fights lately, it was a raging success (much to Murray's disgust! lol). After lunch it really started to pour so we ran for the umbrellas & rubber boots and went in the driveway where they tried to catch drops on their tongue and just ran around enjoying the splatting raindrops on their lady bug-brellas. They were sooooo happy.

Lovey woke up while we were out there & we could hear her calling to us out the open window so we came in to see her but she didn't feel up to doing much. We put together some puzzles, a nice quiet activity and she ate a few crackers, had some water & then went back to bed til supper time. Before she crashed, I took her temp and it was over 101 so I dosed her up! Sweetie seems to have recovered from her bout with the flu over the weekend so hopefully Lovey will finish up tomorrow & Honey will either skip it entirely (is that too much to ask??) or go down in the next day or so & we can get this over with & out of here! (I'm being optimistic that Murray & I will avoid the whole thing, call me greedy!)

lots of pics today, after a session with one of Murray's coworkers (& family), I realize I REALLy need to master flipping around my focus points (I can choose to focus dead centre or a bunch of other spots on the frame by using my arrows on the back to slide the red dot around) Cool feature & when I nail it, it's awesome & incredibly handy, it just needs some work. So I was trying to whip around those points today, some were hits some were misses. (keep in mind, at least 2 moving targets at all times who often move faster than my 4th child can focus). Anyway, of all the ones today, this last one is my FAVE. Not sure if it's noticeable on this websized version but you can see the raindrops she's trying to catch and everything. Such a perfect moment of childhood!