Last Week in Review

I'm sorry it has been a while since I have posted anything. I have tried but I end up sitting there looking at my computer screen feeling completely uninspired and defeated. I'm pushing through this, friends, because I have to share some things about last week.

Paradise Park, anyone? Last week was Eli's spring break. Spring break for a 4 year old is much different from a 16 year old's. The 4 year old gets bummed by the whole deal, the 16 year old only wishes that the week would last forever. So we tried to "spice" up the week a bit for this 4 year old and took a trip to his most favoritest place in the whole wide world...Paradise Park. And, on top of that excitement, we got to go with our friend Misty and the children she is a nanny to. The little boy, Brady, is just a bit older than Eli and they get along brilliantly.
First stop- the area containing the grocery store complete with groceries, cash registers, and money. Good training for the day when Eli will be sent out to do the family grocery shopping. He might need to learn how to get a bigger basket, though!








Next Stop- the bicycles on a race track.
What a fantastic way to get rid of some of
that endless little boy energy!


Lunch! Okay, so the babies look a little "shell-shocked" but they ended up having a great time, too. Paradise Park has a padded room full of toys just for munchkins their age. Great idea but I do believe the cause for what I have to tell of next.

How clever is it to have a whole station where the kids can do their own face painting?? These 2 look like the Lost Boys of Neverland!

After 3 hours of non-stop fun, we finally left. Exhausted, but I know one 4 year old boy who felt like he had just been in Paradise....

A week that began so great, sadly, did not end so well. As mentioned before, Josiah played in the baby room, putting toys in his mouth as every child that close to the ground ends up doing. I cringed just a little bit but it did look like the workers came in periodically to clean the toys so I layed aside my paranoia and let the boy have his fun. Friday, poor little Josiah, woke up from his first morning nap very sick. I will graciously spare the details but I'll just say that we have cleaned up a whole bunch of "sick". Seth literally bore the brunt of this attack over the weekend by being barfed on numerous times. I'm not quite sure how he managed to do this...we'll just call it impeccable timing. What we hoped would be a 24 hour bug, ended up being a good 72 hour bug. Josiah is doing better now on Monday but this picture couldn't describe the weekend any better...

**Here's praying to a healthy week** Cheers**