It's official... I just might hate our house after being trapped inside for the past two weeks!
Bored with spending countless hours in front of Boomerang and NickJr, Ben was feeling restless and wanted to go outside to play. Likewise for me: I've had enough of Scooby-Doo and feel like I've done some permanent brain damage to us both with all of the 1950s cartoons we've been watching.
While I wasn't so keen on having him run around outside, I agreed to a "nature walk" that involved scootering. I grabbed my camera to take some pictures of our neighborhood and my favorite little buggers:
(Doesn't look a bit sick, does he? I swear if he didn't have the fever you'd never know he had pneumonia!)
(Knock on wood, Drew is still going strong and hasn't been bitten by the flu bug... yet.)
The weather was beautiful but poor Ben tired out half way around the block. Guess who had the honor of pushing him home on his scooter?
It was a fun day of hanging out at home, catching up on laundry, organizing the playroom and baking. Yup, tis the season for my absolute favorite: pumpkin cookies! (Actually, pumpkin anything is my favorite... pumpkin pies, pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin oatmeal...)
Don't they look sooo good? Nothing is better than a pumpkin cookie with cream cheese icing and a tall glass of milk.
Signing off... have an early morning flight to Chicago for the day. Enjoy the week!
Last night involved a frantic trip to the pediatric ER for a sick, sick, sick little Benjamin where he tested positive for H1N1 and pneumonia.
Here is where I make you feel really, really bad for the poor bugger:
Immediately upon arrival at the hospital they made Ben put on a mask. Later, he had blood drawn and wasn't too happy about it.
TODAY was a much better day despite the fact that we can't really leave the house.
We hung Halloween lights on the bunk beds:
Made teeny tiny apple crisps (Brad swiped one before I could take a picture):
And laid around in jammies-with-feet while watching the Goonies:
Ben is doing much, much better today despite another fever mid-day. Let's hope he is finally on the mend after a rough two weeks.
Buggers are finally asleep which means I am off to watch a few recorded episodes of Project Runway...
Tonight was Trunk or Treat at ERS and Drew was super excited to finally wear his vampire costume. (I dropped the ball on the hair, though, totally forgot to buy black hair paint. A blonde vampire looks.... odd.)
Ben and I missed out on doing the macarena with a giant banana and participating in a really cool costume contest that Drew didn't win. (Apparently the judges were big fans of the original costumes -- *Mother Nature* won. Seriously? How lame.)
Still stuck at home with a sick Bennie-Boo -- keeping my fingers crossed this ends in time for Boo at the Zoo and Halloween next weekend.
