Monday night, Jackie came over to play with tova while al and I took trevor to a movie at the budget theater for his birthday! we saw wreck it ralph 2 and we loved it! it's so cheap so we got popcorn, drinks, candy and nachos! it was a good movie although trevor got scared at one part (it wasn't even a scary part) but we had fun.
Tuesday Trevor finally had school and he got to pass out his pencils to his classmates (they can't do treats for birthdays so we did pencils.) it started to snow while trevor was at school and it came down fast. the drive to get trevor and Easton and the drive back was awful! there was so much snow on the roads, so much coming down, so windy and so cold. you couldn't see much including where the roads were, and the snow would freeze on your windshield and windshield wipers very quickly. there were people pulling over (except we couldn't see where the shoulders were so they were just kind of stopping in the road) to clear the ice off their wipers. it was stressful and difficult but we made it (they closed down some of the major highways and roads because there were so many accidents.) luckily Al was off so I didn't have to take tova with me.
once trevor and I were home, we shoveled the driveway and we had over 6 inches and it was still coming down. while we were doing that, Al and tova went to get grandpa peter so he didn't have to park out in the snow or walk on our ice rink of a driveway. grandpa peter came for birthday dinner; he brought trevor a fishing net and some new, cool coins. we had supper, then trevor got to play grandpa peter's mini super Nintendo console for a bit and he loved it. he's gotten good, but he makes a loud grunting noise when he wants Mario to jump; it's so funny! after the kids were in bed, and Al ran grandpa peter home, we both went out and finished shoveling; uffda!! it was a lot of snow!
Wednesday was another snow day as they we still trying to get the roads cleaned up from the 11ish inches we got on Tuesday night. Al worked 6p-6a so we saw him for a bit before that.
late Wednesday night we found out school was cancelled for Thursday again! so in 2 weeks trevor should have had school 8 days and he had school 1 day (and that one day was awful driving!) so crazy!
Thursday morning we went over to Jodi's to play for a bit before the snow started. we got there and went outside to sled in her driveway since it's a hill. it had started to snow and it was so much fun! then we played inside while tova napped, trevor had lunch there before we headed back home. I found trevor's excavating kit i'd gotten him last Christmas so he had fun doing that (he found a dinosaur, gems, and "gold") and I brought a bit of snow inside for tova to play so she could feel it. Al ended up bringing his squad home for the night which was good so he'd get some extra sleep in his quick turnaround of shifts and so he didn't have to drive the Volkswagen to work in all the snow we got Thursday. then when tova went down for nap, trevor and I went out to shovel the 5 or so inches we'd gotten; we're running out of room on the sides of the driveway to put snow. the mountains are so high!
thursday night after i put the kids to bed, tova ended up puking in her crib. i got her cleaned up & bathed, and her bed cleaned up and in the wash, and put her back to bed. she was still kind of moany and ended up puking again. so another quick bath, change of bedding (i had to use changing pad mats as the waterproof layer since we only have 2 mattress pads.) then got her back to bed and i finally got to bed at 11p. tova didn't puke again but made lots of noises so we didn't get a whole lot of sleep.
Friday Al didn't get home from work until 5a (he was supposed to get home at 3) and he had to shovel the end of the driveway from the plow in uniform before he could get the Volkswagen in. the plow had come in the middle of the night and I couldn't have gone out to shovel anyway with a pukie baby. so the kids and I just played Friday morning, tova took a long nap, and we had to wake al up after lunch to go to trevor's 5 year checkup. we met the new pediatrician who is better than the ones we've been seeing but still is no Sarumi. and she's got an accent from Cameron so it was hard for trevor to understand her. but trevor checked out well and his height is now leaps above the chart; not even in a percentile. he's so tall! his weight is 97%! and I had her check his ears extra since he's been more sensitive to loud-ish noises and talks louder now. Friday was pretty cold out but trevor and I ran to the library quick after his appointment. then we had a night at home with all of us and I got to take a lavender bath bomb (made by Al's cousin jenny who grows the lavender) bath and it was awesome!
Saturday morning, once Al was awake I ran to joann fabrics because they were having a great sale on fabric. once home, trevor and Al went outside for a bit to shovel the dusting we'd gotten and clean up the end of the driveway that Al didn't get to. after lunch, I ran to the shed with Jodi, and while there Tova puked 2 more times. she'd had diarrhea all day Friday and Saturday but weird that it was so long between pukes. so we just stayed in Saturday night.
at 1230am trevor was whining and when I went in there said his tummy hurt. I quickly convinced him to go to the bathroom and once in the bathroom he puked. Al heard him and came to help. At 630am he wanted water so I gave him a little bit and 5 minutes later he puked it up in bed. so I changed his bedding and tried to get him to go back to sleep but he didn't. Al ended up puking in the morning too and my stomach was uneasy all day. so Al and trevor laid in our bed and watched a movie until tova went down for nap; trevor did end up puking one more time during that time. then trevor came out to watch tv with me while Al took a 5 hour nap. once up from his nap, Al made himself puke again (don't ask me why), laid on the couch for a bit then went downstairs to sleep for the rest of the day/night. trevor took a 3.5 hour nap, but tova only took a short afternoon nap so I didn't get a nap in. none of us ate much all day. :( trevor had a fever midday and tova cried a bunch at bedtime so I gave her motrin. it was a rough day! Also our 3rd stomach bug in 3.5 months... ugh!!
trevor loves to pick up tova and carry her
off the charts
always wants to be near her brother!
