Friday feels a bit like a celebration after surviving the week! We're all getting over sniffles.
The boys are EXHAUSTED. Yesterday morning Luk was sitting naked (diapered) and playing. I asked him if he was ready for school. He said yes. Yikes. Yesterday Kai had three meltdowns at school. One of them so bad that he had to be removed from the class then it escalated in the hallway and the principal came to see what the howling was. They were preparing for a code red drill so Kai had to be removed from the school. His EA took him for a walk down the road. Poor kid. He could never, ever understand 'be quiet' there is a shooter in the school. And that's a whole other thing...practicing what the frig to do if there is danger. Lots of big conversations here. Kai threw his whole lunch out at school. No one knows why. Believe me, of all kids Kai is the least likely to skip a meal. Luk says Kai wouldn't write an A so he missed snack redoing his work. Kai concurred with tears. I asked this morning and was assured he got snack. I wonder if there was a lag and he maybe wasn't first. For Kai seeing all the kids eat before him would be TORTURE.
Lili worked three evening shifts and the girls have a new piano schedule. So every night this week was more complicated than usual. Their piano has moved to two hours and shifted to 5:15 to 7:15. Messes with dinner. Last night we grocery shopped with the littles while they had their lesson. We ended up rushing. Shopping with little kids is trying. Then we were home late. Had groceries to put away. Boys to get to bed. Paperwork of the day. Three girls with lots to say. We need to fine tune the schedule more. We can't keep up this pace.
Eric has been busier than usual so we're behind on house work and laundry too. Luk's 6th Birthday tomorrow. He's asked for dumplings. If there is no rain we're going to go to the raptor center. He ordered his cake last night. Vanilla cake, cream cheese icing with all colors of roses. So sweet. He was thrilled and took it very seriously. The lady taking the order was delighted with Luk. I'm curious to see what she creates for him.
So tonight I looked around at the houses needs and decided to make crowns for the boys instead. Jia wanted one too. They're for Disney and Jia has two tiaras to pick from! Both boys were happy sitting and watching before bed.
