Adventure Days

This morning I asked the boys if they wanted to come with me to drive Lili to work in the convertible. Luk hesitated and Kai said NO. I reminded them it might be an adventure. Luk quickly changed his mind and ran to get dressed. I tried telling Kai he should come. He was adamant that he wanted to stay home. So I offered his spot in the backseat to Jia. Who has finally embraced the wind and was thrilled to come. The drive was lovely on a beautiful day and we ended up at the farm market for a hot dog and ice cream.

Jia's Field Trip

Drumming performance, totem tour and a picnic in Cow Bay. Fun day.





Always time for Max.

Kai's Bloodwork

Ok.  The things that excite me.  Yeesh.  His bloodwork results were in today.  His iron is finally normal.  We get to stop giving him iron.  Now that he's off iron he can come off Miralax.  His system can hopefully go back to normal and we can put an end to accidents.  Miralax isn't an exact science.  Iron constipates.  He'll be so excited to hear he doesn't have to have the medicine anymore.  Fingers crossed this lasts.  If not we'll at least enjoy this break.

Mother's Day

Realizing I didn't post anything about Mother's day.

I was away. Didn't get home until after 7. Luk was still awake so he came for cuddles.

When we drove in the driveway we saw my gift right away. It was a new tent. Yes, I did send a link to Eric about the tent. But I didn't know if he got it or not. So set up was a great surprise. He also bought me a camping rocking chair. Made stew and baked a cake. Critters and kids were all looked after and the kitchen was clean. Major brownie points for Mr Mr this year.

Tenting

I asked the boys if they wanted to sleep in the tent with me last night.
Luk: Yay! Right on! I can't wait. This will be so much fun. Thanks Mom. I love you.
Kai: No, uh uh, no way, I don won to, NO tank-oo.

Hahaha.

So Luk and I headed out together. He normally goes to bed at 6:30. I told him there was no way I could go that early. So we went out at 8ish. Jia came and hyped it up until I sent her in. She came back later nice and calm and crawled into her bed. She made it a few minutes before declaring she was scared and crawled into my double with me.

Kids were both cold. Put another blanket on Luk and Jia just snuggled with me. It was sooo nice to have the fresh air though. I unfortunately had to make three bathroom trips in. I almost always go every two hours. No colon, short gut syndrome. I had to call Eric each time and he came and stayed with them until I was back. We worried they'd wake up in the dark and panic. We keep things pretty lit up for Kai in the house. Anyways. It was disruptive for a school night. Eric put the tent away today. Cats and Lacie were unhappy about me not being in the house. It would have been too cold for Lacie and cats can't be on air mattresses. So that was fun but won't be happening on a regular basis.

Science World

Jia's happy spot. We left early Saturday morning. She figured out Google maps and guided me right there. Clever girl. Mary and May met us there. Mary and I mostly just followed them. They were going strong for hours and interested in most everything. Then we went to Abbotsford and met their family for dinner at Spaghetti factory. Charles took the girls home so they could play and I kept Mary company while she did last minute party prep.

Sunday we left our hotel and headed to May's for breakfast. Then back to party prep. Fun Hello Kitty clay painting party for May. Jia loves painting so that was fun.

Jia has declared it the best holiday ever. Of course because it was all about her. ;) The whole point of spending time with one kid at a time. Soooo valuable.






Skittles taste test.

Appointments

Soooo many appointments for the boys.  So many.  The only thing today is piano for the big girls. Such a relief to see near empty squares on the calendar.  Even though still not a clear night.  Eric has to feed the teens early so when I get home I can drive them.  They're tutoring a new student after and then Eric picks them up later.

I had to return a call to a pediatric dental specialist in Victoria for Luk.  He has possible cavities and his mouth is too small.  Same thing happened with Lili.  Anyways.  They're booking in June and she  gave me four dates before we found one that didn't already have an appointment. 

I was hoping to NOT have appointments through the summer but a few have creeped in there.  Sigh. 

Eric needs brownie points for all the driving he does!