Ok I’m a week behind again!! How does that happen? Oh well here goes:
We had a good weekend 6/20, 6/21! Friday night after Luke was settling down to go to sleep, I went to the grocery since I wasn’t going to have time on Saturday or Sunday to do this. Luke was upset that I was leaving and every time Matt tried to put him down, he would cry hysterically. I came home and he was crying and wanted mommy. He kept whining and crying and wouldn’t tell me what was wrong. He kept pointing to upstairs. I finally said do you want to go upstairs and cuddle with mommy? He said “ok!” and instantly the whining stopped so I got ready for bed and he slept with mommy. He doesn’t do that too often and usually when he is upset or doesn’t feel good so I wanted to be close by in case something happened. I didn’t get much sleep with him in bed with me and of course he slept like a log. Someday, he’ll lock himself in his bedroom and not come out unless he has to so I will enjoy the cuddling for now!
Saturday, Matt worked in the a.m. and then Matt’s mom invited me to a Penny Wise cooking class at Jungle Jim’s at 1:30. It was only $10 and we watched the cook make a healthy, low cost roasted chicken and veggies, rice and strawberry shortcake. She gave us lots of tips and we got to test it out. I added the recipes to the site if you want to take a look. She made a strawberry shortcake out of a coffee cake and it was really good! I will be trying this at home very soon! We checked out the produce before we left and got some good deals on tomatoes, peppers, bananas and other fruits and veggies.
Shortly after I got back home, we got ready and went to my brother Ethan’s surprise birthday party at 5. He definitely was surprised! It was in the clubhouse of apartments where his mom lives. There was also a pool there so we got to go swimming so Luke was all about that. We left around 7:30 since we still had to do bath and we had a big day on Father’s day coming up. We hadn’t seen them since Christmas with all of our busy schedules. Sarah and Luke had fun chasing each other and jumping. We ended up having a good time. We weren’t sure since I’m not a huge fan of Ethan’s mom and we weren’t sure if we’d know anyone or feel weird. My dad came for a bit and we got to see Nikki’s other kids, Christopher and Caitlin. Caitlin is a very sweet girl. As soon as we got out of the car, she told her friends that came with her that Luke looks like Joe Jonas as a baby…too funny!
Sunday, I got up early and made rice krispie treats and a new layered choc pudding/oreo/cool whip dessert that was really good (recipe added to site) for the Walker’s later and I did a big fruit tray and rice krispies for the Buhi reunion.
We had a pretty good time at the reunion. Since Luke woke up around 6 I put him down for a nap around 10 to see if I could get him to take a nap since this would be his only chance. He stayed in bed and read and then finally fell asleep and I woke him up at 11:30 to get dressed and get out to the picnic. There weren’t as many people this year, it seems to dwindle down each year which is kind of sad. This was the 61st year for it and you hate to just end it after all that time. Luke got to play on the slides, etc. with Sarah and he was drenched, it was really hot. I should have some photos loaded later this week. We ate and then visited with everyone for awhile and left by 4 or so. Luke had 2 spills, one while trying to kick a ball and the other one when he walked behind people swinging on a glider swing and got a nice knot on the forehead. We left around 4 and went to the Walker’s and had a nice cookout and visit with Matt’s family and the kids had fun playing together. We left around 7 or so because Luke was really tired and needed a bath. He did very good without much of a nap-better than I expected for sure. I don’t want to make a habit out of it but it is good to know that it is possible once in awhile.
Week of June 22-29
Monday, Luke had his swim lesson. We are still trying to blow bubbles, lay on our back sit on a noodle and sing row, row, row your boat and a few other things. The kids couldn’t wait until they could go down the slide. Matt was helping the kids get up the slide and Luke went down one time and then he kept saying Pee Pee, pee pee potty and wouldn’t go down the slide again which is weird because he loves the slide. We aren’t sure if he really wanted to go potty or not. We couldn’t have been much farther away from a potty of any kind so we couldn’t really act on it and Matt was busy helping the other kids. Not sure what that was about…
The rest of the week was pretty uneventful until we got to Thursday night. We had the worst storms that I can remember during the night. The weathermen say that the storm kind of stopped over Hamilton and stayed there quite a while! There were strong winds, tons of rain and hail, thunder, lightening, etc. This went on for a couple of hours. We got about 4-6 inches of rain within that period of time and the storm sewers and drains, etc couldn’t handle all of that at once so many people had flooding in their basements, etc.
Mom called me Friday morning and told me she had 14 inches of rain in her basement. She lost a lot of stuff! Her insurance co was out there and she needed to get the fire dept to pump her out, etc. and have a cleaning crew come in. The night before we lost our power-Luke slept thru the whole big storm but woke up during the second round of storms. He was very scared because he isn’t used to really dark. We always have a light in the hall and a nightlight in his room. I sat with him in the chair until he fell asleep again and then he went back to bed. I slept downstairs on the loveseat because our bedroom was so hot. I was able to crack the window and get some air and I could also hear Luke if he cried. Our power came on again around 6:30 so I was able to take a shower and get ready normally. I told Matt to check our basement before he left to see if we had any flooding. I dropped Luke off and they had flooding at daycare too but downstairs so they had no preschool or school age kids there. I went into work and we had only generator power which gave us enough power for part of the office so to get all our computers up we used extension cords, but you guessed it, no air conditioning!
I had no idea they’d make us stay there all day with the intense heat and humidity-felt like 98 degrees that day!- but we had to stay and sweat it out. Nothing was open around us so I didn’t get to eat lunch (what I brought had to be nuked) , not that I was hungry. Someone went home at lunch and got a cooler and ice and water so that helped. Our bosses did nothing-no cold drinks, no lunch and made us stay all day. The more I think about it the madder I get. A couple of the ladies who were here have really bad healthy issues. One of them left at 3:30.
Matt stayed home because we did have flooding in our basement, laundry and garage. He went over and helped his brother take his carpeting out of his parents basement which also saw some water. Our power went out again around 8-9 a.m and didn’t come on again until around 4.. The whole city was out of power which hadn’t been seen in a very long time. I got a call from CCC that they lost their power and would be closing so Matt had to pick him up and didn’t get as much accomplished at our house. Mom lost her washer/dryer, hot water heater, possibly furnace and lots of other stuff so be in prayer for her as she gets all this sorted out. Matt took everything that was questionable out of the basement and had it on the driveway. To make things complicated, our annual neighborhood yard sale was Saturday, so people thought we were selling stuff and we weren’t. The funny thing is that most of the stuff we lost was going into a yard sale at some point, but not worth keeping to sell later! It feels kind of good to be rid of that stuff anyway. A lot of it got taken by people who come around and take things from people on the curb anyway, so I guess a lot of it got recycled! Matt got the floor in the basement bleached and cleaned and dried. I went out and bought a couple of fans. We went thru lots of stuff and were able to reorganize the area a bit too! We still need to work on the garage and laundry room but those areas are mostly dirt and we didn’t lose anything there. We couldn’t have our air on all weekend because the bleach and cleaners were overtaking the house, so we were really hot!
We had Jody and her kids over Saturday night. Her husband, Shane couldn’t come because he was working on their basement. We grilled out and the kids all played together. It was fun for Luke to have 3 kids around his age over. He really liked Liberty who is 6 now. They played with the water table, sandbox, and came in and played play doh. It was a very lively evening with 4 kids under 6 and a baby! It is fun for awhile to have a houseful but I don’t know if I could do it all the time, especially if I worked too! Jody has her hands full but she is a good mom and obviously meant to be able to handle everyone.
Sunday we stayed home and continued our cleaning. I am really itching to go to the pool. I will be off wed-Sunday and am going to get a few things done, and go to Riverside. Pam said they have the big pool open but not sure on the baby pool yet. There goes my relaxation when Luke comes with me! He won’t be able to play in the baby pool with his toys but I’ll have to have him in the big pool with me the whole time…ugh! Oh well!!
Monday, I took Luke to Dr. Rock, his ENT. He said he has some fluid in the one ear that the tube has come out but not to do anything yet. I am hoping this doesn’t turn into an ear infection! He also said his tonsils look really big and wants to see him in Dec. to keep watching them. He said there is a 30-40% chance he’ll have to have his tonsils, adnoids, and/or tubes put in again so we will see! We are going to continue with soy milk at school and will give him milk products at home in moderation.
I am loving this weather! It has been low 80’s and 70’s today! I wish is was like this all summer!!
More later!!
