Monday - ECU and the kids were out of school. The roads were pretty clear though from melting on Sunday, so Katsu went into work the entire day, so just me and the kids again. It seems like we have spent a lot of time at home lately with school off this year. And the kids still haven't had a Monday in school in January. The boys played a lot outside and nerf gun fights and such.
Tuesday - the kids still didn't have school and at this point, I was annoyed. It was in the 50s, the roads were all clear, and I had things to do. Boys played with friends in the morning, but in the afternoon, we had to run errands. We started off with an eye doctor appointment for Logan. Yes, Logan. And yes, with all 4 boys. They know us very well in there - I swear we are in there all the time. Logan failed the eye part at his well visit, so in we came. They did a very thorough exam, even including eye dilation which Logan was quite scared of. It is somewhat hard to tell, when he is that little, but they said they could tell from looking at his eyes as well as just what he was saying from reading the charts. They mostly did numbers, but some pictures at the end. His eyes looked super healthy, but he was about 20/40, I think (past a -1 in both eyes), so they want us to try out eye glasses. 3 boys down in less than 2 years. And just in case you wanted another reason to find Seth and Logan harder to tell apart at a glance ... although Logan picked out some dark plastic thick frames, so they will look a lot different. He was too big to wear the little tiny kid frames. We then had to go the library (fine, till we tried to check out and the boys knocked over the line barrier thing), and Target, and the grocery store. Let me tell you - it was a doozy of a day. I don't know if it will ever be easy to take all 4 boys out. And just to round out the day, Andrew had cub scouts and I had to go to a committee meeting.
Wednesday - Finally started teaching. Day went pretty well. Boys had a good day at preschool - Noah was surprised when I came to pick him up and was sad that he hadn't had time to finish his snowman and couldn't wait for Friday. And was feeling mostly better. I keep having to put him off and on his inhaler this week with his coughing. We were getting some dinner in the crock pot when Andrew called me on his teacher's phone and told me he was sick and I needed to pick him up ... like 30 minutes before school got out! Surprisingly, they let me pick him up. He didn't seem too sick - but he complains about being sick almost every day and it is so hard to tell if it's true or not. In fact, he spends most of his time telling me that all the kids at school get all their sicknesses from him - when, he has missed like maybe one day of school to being sick. Of course, they were rough housing and being crazy, so we ended up going to tennis and Andrew was just fine.
Thursday - Typical day until we had to go to Andrew's science Olympiad practice. It went pretty well although Noah was climbing all over me. I forgot all the papers, but I was able to teach Andrew and the other participant a little bit anyways. Seth was freaking out, but I guess the parents are supposed to go to science Olympiad most of the time, so I guess we will be going every week we can. We had an HOA meeting in the evening.
Friday - normal day. School, playing with friends, Noah keeps trying to steal away Logan's Ziggle calling it "my yiggle". Logan was just laying around and didn't look good. It was super warm and the Kona Ice truck came around, so we got a couple with all the change we had. Noah shared with Logan and Seth, but then Logan started getting sick and threw up all over the front lawn over and over. So, he and Noah went upstairs to rest and watch TV while the other kids had some epic nerf gun battles. We put the little boys to bed early since they didn't feel so well and Andrew and Seth and us got to watch one of the new Unfortunate Series of Events.
Saturday - since it was a long weekend, we wanted to take a little trip, but we weren't sure (based on Logan yesterday), but he seemed alright by Saturday morning, so we did some cleaning, some packing, booked a hotel, and went off on a trip to Hampton Roads, Virginia. We drove straight to the NASA museum. Free (thanks to our pass). It was different than I expected, but fun. They had a lot of interactive things for the kids. The kids loved the play area, loved the flight simulator and didn't want to leave. We saw some moon rocks and learned about Langley's role in the Apollo missions, saw a live cast of the sun. Played in a kid space station (until Noah got in trouble for hitting a little girl - ay ya yay! Seth got scared out of his mind at the catwalk looking down at the space ships and planes. The boys liked to pretend to fly the planes, learn how planes work, and look at some of the actual modules from some of the space missions. It was overall pretty fun. We still had time when it was done, so we went to the Virginia Zoo. Noah feel asleep and he slept through the first half, but we couldn't find any animals, so it was just as well. He woke up in time to see the giraffes. We also enjoyed the bears and the lions, who were roaring up a storm. We enjoy the zoo - you can see the whole thing in less than 2 hours, which is great, and free with our pass. We drove to our hotel. We momentarily tried to find Trader Joe's, but decided it wasn't worth it. We stayed at a Best Western on the beach at Norfolk. Our original room had smoke detectors without batteries. They kept beeping and beeping and they wouldn't come and fix them. Finally after an hour and a half sent batteries up, but the smoke detectors still kept beeping. We finally switched rooms. Lots of drama, but the boys were so busy watching TV and playing with their DS's that they didn't mind at all. We had a hard time finding food - but Katsu got some dinner food at a 7 Eleven, so we cooked some food for dinner. It was a good day - a little crazy at the end, but a good day.
Sunday - We woke up late, like 8, too late to be ready for church with our friends. We had a large breakfast. We went and walked around the beach. Noah HATED it. It was cold and windy. The other boys didn't mind too much and enjoyed looking for things - we found several jellyfish, a horseshoe crab shell, and a skate egg case. But it was pretty cold and windy, so we didn't walk around the seashore for too long. We drove to a grocery store and stocked up on lunch and snack food and then got to Nauticus just as it opened. Seth spent most of the trip whining about how he wanted to go home. Poor Noah was also pretty upset about the trip. I don't think he slept well the night before - I think he fell off the bed and then slept on the floor - so he kept asking to go home. But other than that, we all enjoyed Nauticus. We had been before, but it had been a couple years. The boys especially liked the boat simulators and then a play area where you could run through water and then based on your shadow, sharks would appear and try to eat you. Then, there was a fishing area. Then, the boys enjoyed the water play area where you could guide boats through the water. They liked touching the crabs in the touch tanks and seeing the sharks, but they weren't able to touch those. Next, we toured the battleship Wisconsin. Seth was freaking out about heights and crying his head off, poor thing. But we made it through and saw all the rooms in the bottom without losing anyone. They had more rooms open than last time, so we were able to see the kitchen area. We spent more time playing, especially in the naval museum area where the older boys played several games of chess. Finally, we watched a 3D movie about aircraft carriers. Then, we drove over to our friends' house for dinner. The boys all play really well together, and we had a delightful dinner chatting while they played before we made it home to the hotel.
Monday - We woke up, had another huge breakfast at the hotel and then packed up and drove to the Virginia Living Museum. It was nice - smaller than I expected, reminded me of the NC Aquariums, but it was really nice. We saw the special exhibit on wolves and then went to the touch tank. We went outside and enjoyed seeing beavers, otters, birds, a big dinosaur exhibit (same one we saw in Dallas Zoo), wolves, coyotes, deer, and turkey. Inside, they had the typical exhibits - underground exhibit, nocturnal animals, piedmont, coastal plain, swamp, mountains. It was really nicely done with lots of interesting facts and easy to see animals. We ate some lunch int he car, and then drove home. It was a lovely trip.
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Thanks for all the updates. Sorry about the sickness, but glad you got to have a fun mini vacation. Love you.
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