Thank Goodness for Dads

At one last night, I heard "Mommy" being called. This is quite unusual since she usually will come to our bed without saying anything (on the rare occassion she does wake up). When I got to her room, Delaney said "Mommy, I threw up." Throw up she did!!! It was everywhere. I cannot stand the sight or smell of throw-up, so luckily Derek took over. He cleaned her up and as he cleaned up the sheets, I sat with her while she was in the tub. We got her back to bed...about 20 minutes later we heard her throw up again. Again, Derek took care of the mess. He then set up a bed in the bathroom for her (a few towels for a pillow and mattress and some cozy, comfy blankets for covers) and she was set. About a half hour later, I heard Mommy...and she began to dry heave and say, "I don't like that sound". Poor girl. She finally fell asleep and stayed in her "bed" until about 7 this morning.

She's been pretty good today. She ate a little breakfast (banana) and then was hungry for lunch, which was toast and a yogurt (her all-time favorite food!). She then said her tummy hurt so we relaxed on the couch. She ate dinner about 6 (not too much...just two nuggets, some broccoli and some mac and cheese) and then said her tummy hurt again. She crawled up on my lap (I was sitting at the table grading math tests....yuck...I miss the easy science tests!) and within 2 minutes was sound asleep. Kids can be so sweet when they're sick! She is still sleeping on the couch...I need to go make her bed so she can sleep there tonight, instead of the bathroom!

Derek leaves for FL tomorrow for meetings, so hopefully the throwing up is done! Just in case, I am going to go make sub plans for tomorrow.

Sleeping Beauty

Delaney found the sleeping masks from our plane trip to Singapore. Her new thing is to wear them each night......

How grown-up!

Delaney wanted to wear her heart necklace to school today, and she did NOT want to forget it. We put it by the car keys so that we would be sure to remember. Sure enough, she did remember (thank goodness). When I asked her why it was so important, she said, "I want people to think that I am 5 or 6 today."

Busy month

Above are a few pics from the month...more can be found at:

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January usually feels like a terribly long month. This year it went by pretty quickly. Of course, we were busy the whole month.

Delaney kept busy with her activities. She's doing tap and jazz (which she didn't have the past two weeks b/c the local schools were off those days), gymnastics, swimming and Spanish. She does tap and jazz and gymnastics while she's at school. They're in the afternoon when the kids have free choice. Her daycare is at the rec center, so she can take advantage of everything there while she's at school, if we choose. She loves it all...especially the clickety clack of her tap shoes. I took her to see High School Musical: The Ice Tour and the Hannah Montana movie. She thoroughly enjoyed both. She sang along to all of the songs, danced, and clapped, not quite in rhythm...hopefully the tap will help with that:)

We went ice skating at the beginning of the month. Delaney started out really hesitant. But the rink had a walker-like contraption that we ended up having her use. She got to the point that she would skate 10-20 feet on her own!!! Derek didn't show off his hockey skating skills too much, thank goodness!

My mom came out for MLK weekend. She flew in Friday morning and got to spend the day with Derek and Delaney. We took her to try deep dish (which, I am soooo over...it's good about once every six months) and she liked it. Derek made her eat a grape, which was an ordeal. I get my lack of liking fruit from her. At least I will have smoothies to get my fruit. Mom watched Delaney for us on Saturday b/c we had dinner plans with the Faths (Derek's buddy from Moto). Didn't do much on Sunday. I think we went to Costco.

Derek flew out to the Boston area on Thursday morning and was scheduled to come back that night. His flight back ended up being cancelled by noon on Thursday due to the winter storm warning that was in effect here. Poor guy didn't come home until Friday night at 1. He learned that one should always take a "go bag" on planes, even if it's a day trip.

Speaking of the snow...we've had a lot this winter. Thursday into Friday we had close to a foot! I shoveled 3 different times. Delaney and Jake had an absolute blast in the snow together. She threw the tennis ball and an ice chunk for him. He loved finding it in the snow. Delaney helped me shovel. She continuously said "I'm stronger than a bird." Not quite sure what that meant, didn't ask.

I'm taking another lovely Phoenix course. I need to take these since my job is an ESL math teacher. So, I need my ESL endorsement on my teaching certificate which requires me to do at least 13 hours. Happy, happy, joy, joy....

I've got nothing else......Take care!