Already Thursday

We've had a busy week getting back into our school routine. Noah has cried every day when I drop him off for school, poor guy. He'll say "I sick, I tired" in hopes of me saying, "OK, we'll say home," but it hasn't worked. Harper's blood test results came back and they said it was low Iron, so we started her on Ferinsol yesterday, and I guess it kicked in pretty fast, usually she is ready for bed by 6, and last night she was up until 8:30ish! Juddson has some teeth coming in and still has a runny nose and now has a bad cough, as of right now, he's been asleep a little over 12 hours. Maybe he'll feel better when he wakes up.
Harper thinks it should be time for her birthday now and does not want a birthday in January! And, she wants a Maggie jump-a-round--hmmm, that's going to be really hard to find. Hopefully, we can talk her into a Chuck E Cheese party or something.
We have started a new night routine. After dinner and baths, we play for a little bit, then turn off all electronics and spread a couple of blankets out on the floor and tell them to sit and we tell stories, with their help... About Mario and Luigi driving through the woods and their tire breaking, so they have to call Wubbzy and the "super fixers" to come help.... which, of course, they do, then Mario and Luigi go see Little Bear and go to Hop Frog Pond and swim..... It was supposed to wind the kids down, but they have started acting out the scenes, flopping on the floor like they are swimming, etc. But, it's been really neat and they enjoy story time. After our make believe story, they each go to the book shelf and pick out 1 book, then Josh and I read to them, then we go to bed. Now, if they would only fall asleep once we got into bed!!
Noah loves his MarioKart and wants to play it all the time. I am regulating the time, and he handles it pretty well when it's time to turn it off. He's caught on really quick and can already get 1st or 2nd place when he tries, sometimes he gets distracted and falls into the water over and over. He has a little dance he does after his race, I gotta get a video camera!
Juddson loves his Gabba Gabba men, when we can find them. Harper tends to sneak off with them and stash them. She loves to hide things. A couple of days ago, we couldn't find the men anywhere and they were at the foot of Harp's bed, tucked in under the sheets "sleeping" she said. Last night, when we were all in bed, Noah asked for "Jungle Blanket," which he hadn't wanted in months and months, so I went to find it, and just happened to open her cubby in her chest of drawers, and there on the pile of folded blankets, were Josh's keys. AMAZING... that was a little miracle of God that Noah asked for that blanket. I NEVER EVER, maybe once every 2 weeks open that cubby. We would've NEVER found Josh's keys, and he wouldn't have been able to work with out them! Thank you God for Noah asking for "Jungle Blanket!"