Musical Monday

Snowy weekends in February mean we need a return of Musical Monday. This one makes me think about all those wonderful seed catalogs about to come my way!!

The Evil Laugh

Watch the first 40 seconds of this and then proceed:



We live right next to our elementary school. This means that I can stand in my front door (usually in my PJs) and watch my kids walk into the door of the school building. It's a fairly fabulous part of my life.

A few weeks ago, Caleb was running late for school, so I was doing everything I could to get him out my door and into the school door before the bell rang. Finally, he left and ran to the school.

There are two different entry ways on the side of the school building; each of them set back a bit, making a nice and echo-y brick alcove. Caleb did not run to the doorway he was supposed to go, but rather first went to the other one. I couldn't figure out what he was doing there until all of a sudden I heard all sorts of evil laughter echoing across the street and into my front door.

Then, he came out of the alcove and bopped his little blond head happily along to the correct door to start his day at school.

I'm not sure if the practicing of the evil laugh was to get it out of his system for the day, or to prepare for the work ahead.

Either way, it's just so very Caleb.

Welcome to the world, Baby Girl!

Seriously. Tell me that picture doesn't make you want to rush out and make a baby right now. She was born a week ago. Apologies to all of you who were not immediately informed of her arrival via Facebook. I'm slow like that.

Introducing:

Lilyanna

8 lbs. 1 oz.

19.5 in. long

And, yes, she does have her Father and every single one of her brothers already wrapped around her tiny little fingers. And possibly her mother, too. ;)

Nesting

Guess who's nesting these days.

Yup, me.

Fellow broad, Dee, made me go and register at Babies R Us last week. As soon as we found a crib set to go with the picture that I bought a couple months ago, all of my decorating plans fell in to place!!

Tomorrow, armed with the picture and possibly a valance I will go to Lowes to get paint chips! I have also acquired a crib and dresser and had an epiphany of how to get it all to fit in the bedroom with the queen sized bed that is currently there.

Keep your fingers crossed that next week the weather will be kind and cooperative and I will be able to paint a room with the window open.

And then begins all of the OTHER painting I have planned...

Hallways and stairways and ceilings, oh my!

Sheduling Conflict!!!

JOHN GREEN IS GOING TO BE AT THE LIBRARY TONIGHT AND I CAN'T GO SEE HIM!!!

http://www.sparksflyup.com/weblog.php

WAhhhhhh!

He'll be at the Columbus Main Library at 6:30pm tonight for anyone who is interested and available. Take pictures and tell me all about how delightfully geeky is is, please.

Another Reason I Love Todd

He is succinct. He can say in just a few words what takes me hundreds. Here is a perfect example.

http://unchangingscepter.blogspot.com/2009/10/heat.html

I whine for huge, long posts about how hard things are, and he sums it up with a scripture and one-liner.

Amazing.

The Plague

Remember when a few days ago I rolled out my cleaning goals for Monday and said something silly like "unless we get H1N1..."?

Well, that's what I get, I guess. Our elementary school has had absence rates of 35% and 39% most recently. The "good" news is that they're not all H1N1. Some of them are whooping cough. So far it's just Nathaniel and Todd with the plague. Yesterday, Nathaniel had an appointment with his pediatric GI for an annual liver check up. She lives in our town and had heard about how badly our particular school had been hit. Her response to Nathaniel being so sick was, "He has H1N1. We're not testing. Go home. Be sick. Get better. Call me if he turns yellow. Here's a mask."

(Incidentally, the appointment was at the children's hospital which was so packed that we had to park in the staff parking lot because the parking garages were full to bursting. We walked past the ER, which was a room full of people wearing masks. It's not just our school. Columbus is hit HARD right now with this.)

Happily, my goofy kids, even while sick, do not lose their sense of humor. Here is what Nathaniel did with his dinner last night.

This picture is so pitiful to me. Poor kid.

Of course, three of the six people in our house are in the high risk category for H1N1. Two of them have it. I'm the high risk hold out right now, but judging by the response from the specialists of the other two, I don't particularly expect the doctors to care all that much if I do come down with it. It seems that the scary things being said by the CDC and the response of the doctors are rather at odds with each other. That being said, I appreciate the very level headed reactions by all of our doctors.

(According to the CDC, neither Todd nor I should have been within six feet of Nathaniel who should have been quarantined in his room away from everyone else and wearing a mask basically before he started showing symptoms. Yeah. I get the idea behind the recommendations, but I'm not about to let my son be sick without touching him. Sorry.)

Oh, did I mention that it was spread all over the school BEFORE the vaccine arrived in Columbus? And that the vaccine isn't even available yet to the general public?

I don't think the good people of Worthington will be needing that so much now, thanks.