What To Do... Number 2

What to do when the kids are sick and you have to stay home?  Well... I know gas prices are high right now, so hey, look on the bright side, you are saving gas!  BUT if you did take a short drive to Sonic for a "special drink" then that makes you feel like you really have gotten out.  At least from our vantage point.  We drove through "the country" on the way to our Sonic and saw this barn that has a collapsed roof.  When Gwen saw it she said, "it just needs a few screws to fix it.  Hey!  Maybe I could fix it."  I told her maybe she could and that she was always a good helper.  :) 

I think also you have to make ordinary things a big deal if you are home all the time.  St. Patrick's Day?  Usually not a holiday I really celebrate... but we made a green lunch today.  Everything had to have some green on it.  The kids enjoyed it.  Our menu consisted of:

ranch spinach pasta
watermelon (at least the outside is green)
edamame
green apples
and dessert- lime Popsicles

 

Also yesterday I found a bag of our old Christmas wrapping paper.  I was saving it to put in our plastic baby swimming pool and have a rip up party... but I just dumped it out on the floor and at first the kids didn't know what to do with it.  In fact, Zeke screamed and crawled away.  But after a little coaxing and showing them how the bows looked in my hair and throwing the paper in the air they followed suit.  I know... who has old wrapping paper in their closet in March?  Me, that's who.

Gwen giving the paper a good stomp. 

Today we went to the doctor just to make sure everything was ok with Gwen.  Her mouth looks just dreadful and her finger was getting bigger and bigger.  They said that indeed it is hand, foot and mouth disease and that she has an infected hangnail.  What?  So, if someone says their baby has hand, foot and mouth disease run screaming in the opposite direction.