Well, i took two of the three kids to the doctor tonight for these coughs that have been lingering. Sounds like we’ll need to get Christian in tomorrow.

Alyson has the crud and is on antibiotics. She slurped them right down too 🙂

Brandon is also on antibiotics. He spit it out. I don’t know how I’m going to get him to swallow them tomorrow. The rest of the appointment was interesting though. The doctor (actually we saw the clinic nurse) said that Brandon’s ongoing cough is probably an immune response – not exactly asthma, but similar. She said he may grow out of it, but she said it’s very common when they have sensitive skin (Brandon’s only other prescription ever was Elidel for excema). She also found it interesting that Bill has asthma/allergies. So Brandon now gets to try kid Claritin every day, and he gets to try Alyson’s nebulizer. Great fun.

One thing I wanted to write about Brandon that’s so funny. The kid is obsessed with gas stations. He points out every single one we ever pass, tells us what color it is, and asks if we need gas. Too funny 🙂

Well, Alyson’s in the bathtub (love having a laptop) and her water just ran out (the seal wasn’t good), so I need to get her a bit more water and get her washed up. Hopefully they’ll all be feeling better again soon.

Christian is very excited to go to 1st grade. He got a letter from his new teacher last weekend, welcoming him to first grade. He starts back to school on the 6th. Christian’s favorite part of Kindergarten was recess, so I know he’s looking forward to seeing his friends more than anything. He’s been doing well with his reading over the summer. His Kindergarten teacher sent home a workbook he was working through and suggested he finish it before 1st grade. He only has one page left, and he’s done great. I think I’ll make sure he has something like that to work on next summer too… it’s been a great way to keep his mind working in positive ways 🙂

It will be weird for us to send him to school without meeting his teacher first… I guess his school only does orientation for Kindergarten parents. The rest of the grades have a curriculum night on the 22nd of September. I’m looking forward to that. I hope it will be a fun school year for him.

Alyson has learned to pull herself up this week and she has started cruising a little bit… my oh my is she ever busy now 🙂 Monday is her next doctor’s appointment. I’ll be interested to find out what she weighs now.

Hopefully we’ll get our annual family portraits done in a couple of weeks… I definitely don’t want to wait until December this year!

I think that’s it for now… I’m not even going to start ranting about work (at least tonight).

Jesica

Mommy to 1st grader Christian, 6, troublemaker* Brandon, 3.5, and mobile Alyson, 9 months

*My darling Brandon climbed up on the bathroom counter and unscrewed the burned out lightbulbs this evening… only 1 of 2 broke, but glass was everywhere.

Ok, so I’m finally trying this blog thing. I hope it will help me keep a record of what’s going on… every day flies by so fast.

Christian… I can’t believe he’s 6 already. He’s getting so tall. He has been really enjoying his swimming lessons. We’ll find out tomorrow if he passed to the next level, but we suspect not. That’s ok… for a kid that just started swim lessons a month ago, we think he’s doing great! Christian is looking forward to daycamp in a few weeks. It’s a bit scary, sending him off with strangers, but it sounds like a fun program. He’ll get to spend a day with the Everett Aquasox. I love that he is learning to read. Every now and then, he writes me a note that says, ‘For Mome I luv u Christian’ What a sweetheart.

Brandon… This kid has so much energy I just don’t know what to do with him sometimes. He scares me, the way he bursts around. I’m afraid he’ll hurt someone. At 3 1/2, he never stops. He can be very dramatic too. He desperately wants to help take care of Alyson, but he smothers her. The good news is that he is very loving. He also is doing great at swimming. I was worried for a while… I thought he’d never put his head under the water. Suddenly last week he got it! I am SO proud of him! We weren’t going to sign him up for August classes, but now that he’s gotten some momentum going, I think we’d better sign him up after all.

Alyson…

Well, Alyson’s info will have to wait for later. I just spent the last half hour upstairs with the kids. Darling boys managed to break their floor fan (something about trying to see out the window). When I got up there, the light was on, all three kids were awake and staring at their fan… in half… face down on the floor and still going. Great fun. Now Alyson is screaming because she is so tired. Let’s hope she goes to sleep soon so I can go to bed.