That was Ricky’s reasoning for why he couldn’t be pinched this morning for not wearing green!
For dinner I made a leprechaun meal. Ricky took one look at his plate, stuck out his tongue and made a horrible face! Billy wasn’t too interested either.
Rusty was bummed that he didn’t get any!
Ever have one of those days with just a few too many oddities in it (good and bad)? Let’s look at the twenty-four hours starting Sunday night, about 10 pm (these are in no particular order):
10. Billy ran a fever just under 101 degrees and had a bout of coughing induced up-chuck. Miraculously, he only used the up-chuck bucket and not his bed!
9. Ricky cried for 15 minutes Monday morning after I announced that he had a dentist appointment that day. When I finally got him to explain the problem with the dentist, he told me he didn’t want to go because, “dentists take your teeth!” I comforted him that the dentist would not take his teeth and he had a good, cavity-free visit.
8. Rusty has not been a spit-uppy baby UNTIL I was feeding him just before taking Ricky to the dentist. I’m talking projectile all over me! We ended up being a few minutes late since I had to change every article of clothing I was wearing. I think Rusty gave me one of his adorable grins right afterwards!
7. We want to have some work done in our backyard and the landscaper came to give us a quote late yesterday afternoon while I was away. Kevin took all three boys outside with him (the big boys would NOT stand to be left inside) and they were all swarmed with mosquitoes! On March 16th! It barely got above freezing several days last week!
6. (This one is just about me, but it was an oddity for me) I was gone to my OB/GYN for my 6 week post-partum check and I was in and out of the office in 35 minutes! I have never, ever been in and out of that office in less than an hour.
5. Ricky cried and cried when he had to come inside after the landscaper left. We assumed he just wanted to keep playing outside, which was partially true. When he calmed down enough to tell me about it, he explained that he had planted a honey pot and if he came inside he wouldn’t get to see his honey tree grow! Okay.
4. We are getting a new roof done (we had some leaky issues). For all the pounding and banging, 2 of the three boys napped wonderfully yesterday. Ricky, who opted to just rest and not sleep, opened his door and asked if it was time to get up yet at exactly 3 pm (which is the designated wake-up time). He had no clock and no way of knowing the time. Ricky’s internal clock amazes us sometimes.
3. Rusty had his first bathtub bath. I’ve just been sponge bathing him before this, but after the projectile incident, I decided it was time to get him in the tub. For his safety, I put the big boys in my bathtub with Kevin in charge so Rusty could have some peace. He seemed to quite enjoy it and looked perfectly content the whole time.
2. Billy loves his bedtime stories. One of his current favorites is “There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.” Now, usually, if I’m singing, he’ll put his hand on my mouth and/or yell at me to stop (I don’t think I sing THAT badly), but last night he was pointing to the pictures and he actually turned and in his gravelly, sick voice said, “Sing!”
1. I can’t seem to come up with a tenth one. It was just a day. I was thankful to go to bed last night.
I do have to add this, even though it happened Saturday morning. Ricky went with Grandmama to get his hair cut at the barber’s shop. He usually sings songs for the barber, which he did again, but he also shared a joke. If you read the post about the family of ducks, it was the same joke but he’s finally getting it. “There was a daddy piggy bank, a momma piggy bank, and a baby piggy bank walking along. The baby was slow, so the daddy went back, stepped on him and said, MONEY!” Ricky was so proud of himself!
Here are the boys playing in the chair and blanket rocket I made for them.
We made individual sized pizzas on Saturday. The boys LOVED it. They got to put all the toppings on, but I think Billy ate more of the cheese than he actually put on any of the pizzas! Here he is eating the stragglers.
And the Mickey Mouse hat was a find I made in a box last week. Isn’t he adorable in it?