Post Strep Throat cabin Fever

One of our newest experiences in May was Strep Throat and a cahce to remember what super high fevers were like.  AKA not fun.  Very scary 104F temps, true lethargy and a very sick daughter.  After antibiotics twice daily for 10 days, she was right as rain.  Before that though Super Girl was home sick for I think 6 days in a row. Bored.  Bored.  Bored.  Once the high fever fears subsided, and the ability to eat came back it was just "I'M BORED".   So once Super Girl was on antibiotics for a 72 hours, OUT we went.  ...Away she ran!

A dinner picnic at the North Carolina Museum of Art.

 A beautiful breeze from the thunders storm that was coming made the wind structure

 stunning to watch during dinner

 Chairs in trees

 We sat by the pond for a minute and all the frogs started 'ribbiting' at once.  You could hear the cacophony go all the way around the pond.  Then suddenly, they all stopped.  Cool dude looked at me, with a serious look on his face: 

"Mom, is something going to happen?"

"Do you think something is going to happen Little dude?"

"The frogs do."

"Well, then.. maybe we should mosey, especially if they know something we don't."

"Yeah, lets go!"

We walked for 1 minute, then drop.

Plop. Plip Plop.

Little Dude:"The frogs knew it was going to rain!"

"They did little man, they did."

Back log of awesomeness: April 2014

The very best kind of playtime is MESSY playtime.

The puppeteer

 Watercolors!  YES, you can paint outside!

 Cooking is an art.  Mud art.  YES, please enter the MUD kitchen!

(I think Grandma is having just as much fun as everyone else)

 SANDPIT  YES, you can dig.

Free.

Hey, where did the kids go? Oh, I guess it's time for lunch!

 Oh look, we found a puddle....  SPLASH, SPLASH, SPLASH.

Paddle boats on a hot day make for a blast.

More Three Year old Photos

Everyone loves a singing Birthday Card!

Time to dance!

 Rocking the crown!

Ice Cream cake, GREEN of course!

Our old Blog Profile picture:

A New one!

Bye!

Loki is Three!

You totally wish you were here! Happy Birthday my wonderful son!

They catch the 'seeds' falling at the Museum

A very wonderful day spent with the Amazing Aunt L!

Who doesn't love to DIG!

Home made creations are the best!

September happenings

While Fall in North Carolina is nothing like Fall in New England, we have finally begun to experience 'cool' weather.  By that, I mean 70's and 80's during the day and 60's at night.

First, after much searching and quite a bit of tears and a very worried 4 year old, dear Panda has made it home safe from his travels with the Sun.  Silly Panda, going off like that for weeks and not checking back in with Mommy J.  Now though, Panda is back, and we're all so happy.

Everyone loves fresh flowers right?  Well this girl loves them and loves posing for pictures.

SURPRISE!

Happy

....sad....

This past weekend

Loki found this tree and poked it..... for a really long time.

 

Then he decide he didn't want to be filmed doing it.  "No pictures!"

Still at it...

Everyone wanted snuggle time, including me.

Me and my big boy

Coming up, Mama's Birthday Bash weekend!

A start to a long weekend

I was so excited to spend the whole long weekend with the kids, and I knew just how I wanted to start it off. Since I got my first paycheck from work I bought the kids a bunch of new clothes and took them out to dinner at our favorite pizza place.  After dinner we took a long ride deep, deep into the woods to findthe fairies   (fireflies). While, they were not as many as I had seen the week before, we did get a different special treat. 

We saw the stars.  So many more then we do at home. Personally, I saw the Milky Way band for the first time in my life, and I was so happy to share that with my family. We sat on a log, had a homemade chocolate chip cookie that the kids made earlier with Memaw and Papaw and listeners to the frogs and the crickets and the herons while starring into the stars. 

Today, at the most awesome suggestion, we went to Pullen Park. There, we did it all!  We climbed, played in the sand, the water, rode the train and the boats, enjoyed lunch then ran and ran near and far in the park. To finish off a most fantastic day, we rode the Carousel. When we got home, I carried in the most lovable sack of potatoes I call Loki and put him into bed. I curled up next to sweet Nuit and snoozed along with her. 

What shall we do tomorrow?  A walk in the woods anyone?