The Plague
The black plague has descended upon our little universe. Most of the kids in Zachary's school have been or are sick, most of the kids in the neighborhood have been or are sick, and almost everyone in my house has been or is sick. It's crazy. I joked with the neighbors we should mark our doors with black X's so people will know who's sick.
It started with Zachary Friday afternoon, by Saturday morning he had a raging fever. I brought his pillows downstairs and set him up on the sick sofa and we turned golf on the TV. He napped off and on all day, but was basically a zombie. Sunday he was a little better, but still had a fever. Sunday night Evan started with the fever. I let Zachary sleep late Monday, he slept from 7:30 p.m. until 9:00 a.m. He woke up without a fever, but I kept him home from school just to fully recover. Evan woke up Monday with a raging fever. So yesterday was Evan's day to be a zombie. He slept a lot yesterday and today, so hopefully his little body is fighting off the infection. Zachary was back to his old self today and returned to school, Evan is showing marginal improvement today. Hopefully this will be over soon.
My whirlwind of productivity has screeched to a grinding halt. I started feeling the body aches last night during class. I wish I could have just stayed home, but I'm working on a new choreography for my troupe. We have several shows in October and November, so I need to teach them this new piece quickly. I was just so obviously off last night, and I hate that. I pride myself on my class preparations. I rarely teach a class that isn't fully planned, and although I did prepare for last night's classes I just couldn't execute my plans very well. I suppose I should take a cue from my kids and sleep this off.
So before I say goodnight, I wanted to relay today's 5 things Zachary did in school.
1. They worked on writing the letter "O" and the number zero. I've got worksheets on 1-8, so he must have missed 9 yesterday. The order of letter "learning" has been strange to me, but I'm sure there's a purpose. They've done A, T, I, S, L, and now O. Zachary is so fired up about practicing his letters, we work on it after school every day.
2. They didn't play on the playground today because the slides were wet. I couldn't get him to tell me where they had recess, because I used that word "recess" and then had to explain it and then we were so off topic I just moved on (mental fatigue is accompanying the physical fatigue now).
3. He worked on the computers today and he can now operate the game all by himself. Some of the other kids are just doing letter games, but he's doing word and sentence games. Love my little smarty pants!
4. Emma was in his center group and she's a Cancer like him. I just wonder how that conversation happened: "Emma, when's your birthday? Oh? You're a Cancer like me!" We've been reading about the zodiac constellations in his new space book. I wonder what Emma's parents will think about that?
5. He sat next to Emma on the bus today. She's always on green light. Her second name is not Rose. Ok, I like this information. Emma lives one street over and was in Zachary's preschool class last year. Ryan and I like her parents a lot. I asked Zachary if Emma was now his girlfriend, and he said "No, Mommy, Alex and Madison are my girlfriends!" My friend Leslie has a daughter named Emma Rose, and Zachary seems to think every Emma should be an Emma Rose.
It's getting easier to pry stuff out of him, as long as I remain patient. Mostly things pour out of his mouth as I turn off the lights at bedtime. THEN he wants to talk about his day! His stalling techniques are getting more savvy with age.
Ok, I'm crawling off to my bed to hopefully sleep off the plague.
It started with Zachary Friday afternoon, by Saturday morning he had a raging fever. I brought his pillows downstairs and set him up on the sick sofa and we turned golf on the TV. He napped off and on all day, but was basically a zombie. Sunday he was a little better, but still had a fever. Sunday night Evan started with the fever. I let Zachary sleep late Monday, he slept from 7:30 p.m. until 9:00 a.m. He woke up without a fever, but I kept him home from school just to fully recover. Evan woke up Monday with a raging fever. So yesterday was Evan's day to be a zombie. He slept a lot yesterday and today, so hopefully his little body is fighting off the infection. Zachary was back to his old self today and returned to school, Evan is showing marginal improvement today. Hopefully this will be over soon.
My whirlwind of productivity has screeched to a grinding halt. I started feeling the body aches last night during class. I wish I could have just stayed home, but I'm working on a new choreography for my troupe. We have several shows in October and November, so I need to teach them this new piece quickly. I was just so obviously off last night, and I hate that. I pride myself on my class preparations. I rarely teach a class that isn't fully planned, and although I did prepare for last night's classes I just couldn't execute my plans very well. I suppose I should take a cue from my kids and sleep this off.
So before I say goodnight, I wanted to relay today's 5 things Zachary did in school.
1. They worked on writing the letter "O" and the number zero. I've got worksheets on 1-8, so he must have missed 9 yesterday. The order of letter "learning" has been strange to me, but I'm sure there's a purpose. They've done A, T, I, S, L, and now O. Zachary is so fired up about practicing his letters, we work on it after school every day.
2. They didn't play on the playground today because the slides were wet. I couldn't get him to tell me where they had recess, because I used that word "recess" and then had to explain it and then we were so off topic I just moved on (mental fatigue is accompanying the physical fatigue now).
3. He worked on the computers today and he can now operate the game all by himself. Some of the other kids are just doing letter games, but he's doing word and sentence games. Love my little smarty pants!
4. Emma was in his center group and she's a Cancer like him. I just wonder how that conversation happened: "Emma, when's your birthday? Oh? You're a Cancer like me!" We've been reading about the zodiac constellations in his new space book. I wonder what Emma's parents will think about that?
5. He sat next to Emma on the bus today. She's always on green light. Her second name is not Rose. Ok, I like this information. Emma lives one street over and was in Zachary's preschool class last year. Ryan and I like her parents a lot. I asked Zachary if Emma was now his girlfriend, and he said "No, Mommy, Alex and Madison are my girlfriends!" My friend Leslie has a daughter named Emma Rose, and Zachary seems to think every Emma should be an Emma Rose.
It's getting easier to pry stuff out of him, as long as I remain patient. Mostly things pour out of his mouth as I turn off the lights at bedtime. THEN he wants to talk about his day! His stalling techniques are getting more savvy with age.
Ok, I'm crawling off to my bed to hopefully sleep off the plague.
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