Events of the day

This morning Emily got her new glasses. She put them on and everything was clear! Her vision is now 20/200. It was 20/60 with her old glasses. Later the kids and I elicited help from the neighbor with bikes. Karen has a little bike with training wheels that she can sort of ride. Eric's training wheels were all bent and broken, so they were removed. Eric now rides without training wheels and is happy for the freedom. Emily and Caitlyn have their bikes all fixed so that they can ride too. The neighbor also removed our metal pole where the mailbox used to be. Emily had her dance dress rehearsal. Benjamin can now say "momma", "no", "yes", cacker" (cracker), and tries to imitate many other words.

I have the pictures from the play to share:






Here's Caitlyn's flower crown that she picked the flowers for and I made. Then it went bad an hour later. The flowers were on their way to death in the garden anyway.

The Play was Saturday. Eric had a solo part. He came out by himself, saluted, and then was stuck in a box. He was sooo cute. I'm sure he was picked for the part out out of the cuteness factor. Caitllyn said her "mama"s well and Eric saluted well. Those two just followed around with the other kids in their group without any other speaking parts. Emily's group was huge and she was probably picked to help fill the ranks. She was the smallest kid of the bunch, but given the biggest clothes. It was wrong of them. She spent the show holding her vest on. She did have one line and said it well- for Emily anyway. Aaron claims to have pictures- not sure when he'll get them uploaded though.

Illness has attacked our family. I can't complain since no one got sick all winter. No barfings at all. In fact- not even a cold. This is some sort of cross between cold and flu. Emily started it out. She was feverish, then developed a cough. Next was Ben who first had a runny nose, then cough, and fever. Last night it was Aaron and Eric. Eric was really weird last night. He cried and cried. I went in to find out what was the matter and he was incoherent. I had him get out of bed. He got down and then started to climb in to Ben's crib. I stopped him and sent him to the bathroom. He did his business, then started crying because I wouldn't let him out of the bathroom. So, I sent him to the couch with blanket and pillow. He slept the rest of the night. I bet he felt better having his head elevated. Ben is still coughing. Emily is hard to tell. So far Karen, Caitlyn, and I are still well. Hopefully we will stay in such a state. Caitlyn has viola lessons tomorrow and she already missed last week.

One day I cleaned the whole front room. I got the corners and behind furniture too! I vacuumed, but that didn't do much. Dh approved the purchase of a vacuum, so now I have a new toy! I filled up the collection container just from the living room. The vacuum sucked dirt out of my carpet. Then I went around and vacuumed clear areas. i filled up the container again. Now my carpet is fluffy! I need to get everything else cleared up and vacuum all. I love my new vacuum. It isn't the greatest, but it is way better than the old one ever was.