Fred's turn

For the next four Wednesdays Rion can join the current kindergarten class for an hour to get a taste of what school will be like. Over the weekend Fred and I talked about how we are going to get him there and back and I thought it was pretty simple. He has two choices.
A) He can take the Blazer, which I am leaving at home for him, to drive all the kids to the school.
B) He can walk to the school, in which case, the stroller is in the garage for Cordy.
I thought I spelled it all out for him, but today he asked me again. And I quote, "How am I supposed to do it with all three kids?" I could have been helpful and laid it all out for him again, but the annoyed bitchy mom came out instead. "The same way I do when I haul all three to Wal-mart." I am secretly enjoying his pain. I realized he has never gone anywhere with all three kids alone. I am tempted to take off work early, hide out at the school and see how he manages. Although being sneaky and suspicious at a school isn't the best of ideas. I am enjoying his pain the more I think about it. Fred doesn't really plan things out so I wonder if he's thought about any of this. Rion is going to the afternoon session. That means, the kids have to have lunch, be dressed and if he wants Cordy to be good she has to eat before leaving too. I love the thought of him having to do all of this. I could be really helpful and help him out, but I want him to suffer. I had to figure it all out on my own and he can too.

Now he'll go to sleep

Torii is supposed to be in bed, but he keeps getting up. He just went into the kitchen with Fred for a drink of milk and saw his ear medicine in the fridge. They came back through the living room and Fred asked me if I gave Torii his medicine tonight. I said no, I had forgotten and he still had to take it. Torii took off and ran to bed. We haven't heard a peep from him since.

No fun being sick

All three kids are in a different stages of sick right now. Torii, who started all of this, is recovering and feeling really good. Rion feels awful and just watched TV all day. Cordelia has a little cough and runny nose so she may have the worst ahead of her still.

I complain that Torii talks too much and he wears me out with his constant chatter. Really, it's worse when he isn't talking. That means something is wrong. When he was feeling really bad and laying around I felt so bad for him. I hate it when the kids feel down. They should be running around, being loud and annoying me. Not laying on the couch, barely moving.

Normally I would curse an all day Ben 10 marathon, but today was thankful. Rion was feeling really bad today. I know this because he only ate about 3/4 of one peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Usually he eats three. So Rion watched Ben 10 all day and took a nap as well. I wish the Cartoon Network was around when I was little. When I was sick from school the TV highlights were The Price is Right and Days of our Lives.

Hopefully Cordelia doesn't get really sick. And I hope I don't get sick either. But most of all I hope Fred doesn't get sick. There is nothing worse than a sick grown man. But that's a post for another time.

Time to activate the TV's parental lock. (for the husband)

Right now Rion really likes Indiana Jones. There is already so much marketing happening for the new movie that it's kind of hard to ignore. I told him we could watch parts of Raiders, but I wouldn't let him watch the end. The other day when I came home from work Rion started talking about Raiders. "And their faces were melting," he said, "and there was blood."

"You let him watch the end of Raiders," I asked Fred.

"No," he said, "I had it on, but he wasn't watching it."

"Then why is he telling me about blood and melting faces?"

"Oh. I guess he was watching it from the computer."

Rion always watches TV from the computer desk. You don't think he's listening either and then you hear him around the corner repeat something from the TV or worse something you have said. Now maybe Fred understands why I got so mad at him for watching Entourage in the middle of the day recently. So far Rion hasn't suffered from any nightmares, but he still talks about it.

It's nice to be missed

The nice thing about working is coming home. Cordelia's face lights up when she sees me. If I don't immediately pick her up she gets upset. Yesterday, after I got home, I went into the kitchen. Cordelia started to cry and she turned on her tummy so she could see me. I peeked out around the corner and she smiled and stopped crying. I love that she knows who her mommy is and that she loves to see me. I hate leaving the kids for work, but knowing that I've been missed makes me feel so good.

Arrrrrrr, matey

The boys and I were playing pirates yesterday. This is what Torii said to Rion, "Fight me, you scurvy dog."

Well, that's how mommy does it

We were at Grandma's the other day and Torii was playing with some dolls. Grandma also had a doll in her hands and Torii tells, "let's feed the babies." Grandma says "ok" and follows Torii to the couch. Torii sits down, lifts up his shirt and puts the baby up to his chest.