Week ending October 26, 2008: The picture is of the kids at their final day at soccer clinic in costume, of course.
This week Alex has been having nightmares. I’m sure every kid has a nightmare now and again, but 3 days in a row was troubling to me. I asked a host of questions about school and worries and came up answers like: the thing Alex likes least about school is cleaning up the toys (fair enough), the thing Alex is worrying about is his Daddy’s shoulder (Daddy is going to have shoulder surgery Nov 7). All told Alex seems to be an extremely happy kid. He smiles almost whenever I catch his eye and he has plenty of energy and enthusiasm. Fortunately later in the week the nightmares seemed to disappear as quickly as they appeared.
Chloe was sick on Wed with a sore throat and a fever and then on Thursday she was all better and asked to go ice skating. Alex says he’s never skating again, so he stayed with Grammy Carole while Chloe and I headed to the rink. Chloe was pretty nervous when she got on the ice and she started panting every time I let go of her hand. I’d remind her to take a deep breath to calm down. After a few reminders, she’d stop what she was doing and take her own deep breath every time she started to get wound up. Apparently I was doing some kind of hand gesture raising my hands up and down with the breaths in and out because every time Chloe would stop, she’d do an exaggerated hand gesture as she took her deep breath. She had a good time skating and did a lot of grinning as she got better and better. Shortly afterward we were in the Target parking lot and I gasped as another driver nearly rammed a parked car at high speed. Chloe asked why I’d made that noise and when I explained it she said “you should take a deep breath and calm down Mommy”. I said “thank you Chloe” and she said “you’re welcome!”.
Alex and I started reading some of the books that he got for his birthday that were quite technical descriptions of the science behind various aircraft, especially spacecraft. Alex was riveted. When I came up to turn his light off in his bedroom at night he said “Mom, I’m reading my favorite book. Look at this…” he could barely contain himself enough to get to sleep. That’s my boy! I can’t wait to take him to the air and space museum as soon as we get some free time.
Chloe was sick on Wed with a sore throat and a fever and then on Thursday she was all better and asked to go ice skating. Alex says he’s never skating again, so he stayed with Grammy Carole while Chloe and I headed to the rink. Chloe was pretty nervous when she got on the ice and she started panting every time I let go of her hand. I’d remind her to take a deep breath to calm down. After a few reminders, she’d stop what she was doing and take her own deep breath every time she started to get wound up. Apparently I was doing some kind of hand gesture raising my hands up and down with the breaths in and out because every time Chloe would stop, she’d do an exaggerated hand gesture as she took her deep breath. She had a good time skating and did a lot of grinning as she got better and better. Shortly afterward we were in the Target parking lot and I gasped as another driver nearly rammed a parked car at high speed. Chloe asked why I’d made that noise and when I explained it she said “you should take a deep breath and calm down Mommy”. I said “thank you Chloe” and she said “you’re welcome!”.
Alex and I started reading some of the books that he got for his birthday that were quite technical descriptions of the science behind various aircraft, especially spacecraft. Alex was riveted. When I came up to turn his light off in his bedroom at night he said “Mom, I’m reading my favorite book. Look at this…” he could barely contain himself enough to get to sleep. That’s my boy! I can’t wait to take him to the air and space museum as soon as we get some free time.
No comments:
Post a Comment