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This week started off a little rough. Mike was leaving on a business trip, and we had two (soon to be three) sick kids. He picked the right time to randomly buy me flowers!
Johnny also enjoyed this drawing lesson before Mike left:
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The drawings on the left are Johnny’s; those on the right are Mike’s.
Emma continued to make food into art. This snowman apple may remind longtime readers of her heart apple.
Emma brought this paper home from school on Monday. It reads (with standard spelling): “You should not smoke. If you smoke your lungs will turn black.”
Tuesday I took Emma to school again. She seemed fine, but I had to turn around and pick her up an hour later. She apparently started crying about 40 minutes into the day, and when they couldn’t figure out what was wrong they took her to the nurse. Turns out she had a fever! I kept Johnny home from school sick on Monday, sent him Tuesday, but by Tuesday night he had a fever again. So everyone was home sick for the rest of the week! I’m not a fan of this virus, but it’s better than the stomach flu I keep hearing about from friends!
Johnny and Lily made birthday presents for Emma and Emma helped them make cards. I think she helped wrap the presents, also. They are made entirely out of recyclables.
Emma made Lily feel like a princess with this yarn crown and bracelet!
The kids made some BIG messes (which they get to clean up). I do love, though, that in this picture you can see four different handmade toys: a decorate-a-monster, Johnny’s uglydoll-inspired softie, the sewn-by-dad Tow Mater, and Johnny’s owie doll. Our handmade toys get at least as much play as the store-bought ones, particularly by Johnny!
We read a LOT of books, with all three kids under the weather. It also turned out to be the perfect week to have finally gotten the movie Cars from the library!
Emma is working on her first book – a collection of jokes. And I took a photo of this drawing because I found it utterly charming:
Johnny explained that it is “an elephant on a wall. NOT Humpty Dumpty on a wall.” I love the face on his elephant!
I always love seeing posts from this blog inspire play in other households, and this week I saw three! Dinosaurs and Octopuses incorporated a more sophisticated version of our toy teeter totter into a fantastic rock playground, My Creative Family created a fantastic snow playscape after seeing our post about bringing snow indoors, and The Hippie Housewife made a color-mixing version of our mess-free finger paint!
How was your week? Share your post at the AfterSchool blog hop, hosted this week by Little Wonders’ Days!
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I’m sorry your little ones were sick this week. It does sound like it made for some nice quiet downtime together though. Your husband was sweet to send flowers.
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They weren’t random flowers, but because he loves you! :)
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How nice of Mike. Sorry everyone has been sick, but it seems that even sick days give your kids plenty of creative opportunities.
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maryanne Reply:
February 5th, 2012 at 7:23 pm
Once they got past being utterly miserable, it was nice having slow days together!
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So sad the sickness continued into this week, too. But it’s nice you were able to recuperate together at home and hopefully you’ll be done with this soon! Love how Emma helped wrap her own recyclable gifts – Nikki has been wrapping almost all of our toys and dishes with playsilks in preparation for Michael’s birthday!
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maryanne Reply:
February 5th, 2012 at 7:16 pm
I LOVE seeing that things your kids do with playsilks!
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Love the stuffed Mater – awesome!!! and the dolls – I love hand-made dolls! We’ve had a tough week too – both kids and I had strep and Dad has a bad cold… Next week will be better!
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maryanne Reply:
February 5th, 2012 at 7:16 pm
No fun! Here’s hoping next week is healthier for all of us!
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maryanne Reply:
February 5th, 2012 at 7:18 pm
Oh, and I highly recommend LiEr’s Owie doll pattern – you can buy it from her blog, ikatbag.com It’s a lovely handmade doll, and the pattern comes with a whole bunch of accessories!
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I hope your kids are all better now! Poor babies! It looks like they were still able to have some fun, even though they were sick.
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maryanne Reply:
February 5th, 2012 at 9:29 pm
They are all getting better, finally! Mike’s sick now, of course…
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Hope everyone is feeling better! That’s not fun at all! Looks like you had some fun activities, though, to keep everyone cheerful. Love when my kids play with the handmades, too!
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Ugh, I hope you have a healthier week this week! Winter is so hard with all this sickness. I wanted to tell you that although I haven’t commented much lately (anywhere!), I read every blog post, and I have so many things I’ve been meaning to say to you, and there were so many interesting things you revealed over the past few months. One of these days, I’ll go back and respond to a couple of things that really stuck with me!
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maryanne Reply:
February 7th, 2012 at 5:50 pm
I’m sure you’re incredibly busy right now! Will look forward to email/comments whenever you get the chance =)
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I’m sorry to hear you’ve been sick!
Sounds like you know how to make the best of it!
Random flowers are always the BEST…now I need to get some! :)
Love the drawings!
Love the smoking essay!
Love your kids! :)
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Ugh, being sick is no fun. But, it looks like they had a good week despite that. And flowers are ALWAYS good!
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Wow! Johnny is a really great artist!
I hope the sickness leaves your house for good, soon!
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maryanne Reply:
February 10th, 2012 at 12:49 pm
I love his drawings! Down to just me and Lily sick now – and a not-too-bad cold for both of us. WAY better than last week and the week before!
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