Josh and I had the chance to spend some time with my parents this weekend. He had the chance to take part in an Easter egg hunt on the very playground where I did that kind of stuff when I was little ( though wen I did it we used real, dyed eggs, not plastic ones and ours weren't sponsored by Crayola- each kid this year walked away with a nice crayon box filled with Peeps, crayons, markers and a little note pad) . The place looked like a wonderland when we first got there with the baseball diamonds and the play area covered with eggs and with a gazillion other kids from the neighborhood all over the place. Josh did nicely at the hunt as well as playing that afternoon with the boy next door to my Mom and Dad.
He's super exhausted today cause he got little rest compared to what he's used to over the whole weekend. He made lots of noise on Friday night as he was supposed to be settling into bed and it was almost 11 by the time he actually did get to sleep where it's usually 8- 8:30. Of course the moment he realized where we were in the morning he was asking me every two minutes if he could go to my parent's room. I told him not until it sounded like they were up and Josh was scrunching up his face cause he was mad at me and putting his legs over me while we were both still lying there with me still trying to sleep. Since he was having a good time and was playing nicely on Saturday afternoon I decided to let him skip his nap - while I took one and Gramma and Poppy watched him play with the kid next door - and then yesterday he missed his nap again so he was beat when we got in last evening and it didn't take long for him to get to sleep. The boys both had to go back to school today and when we got back I decided to let them play outside since it's pretty nice out today and not as windy as it had been last week. Well, they played a while with Josh going around on the battery -powered Jeep and then getting distracted by Dima suggesting other things to do. They both picked up sticks and started poking around near the shed with them and I had just said to both of them that I didn't think that was such a good idea when all of a sudden Josh is standing there wailing and I had to get him to calm down to figure out that he got a pretty big splinter in his left index finger. He must have pulled at it cause by the time I got to him it was mostly gone above the skin but I can still see some of it below the skin. He was adamant about not letting me touch it and I ended up giving him the option of letting it there and letting it hurt or taking it out and he wants to let it there. I'm thinking it might work itself out either at bath time tonight or we can hold him down when there are two of us and put some honey on it to get it to come out on its own.
He was then playing with Dima in the play room cause he was scared to go back outside and when I told him it was time to eat lunch he had a fit and was lying on the ground crying that he wanted to play hockey and skip lunch. We really don't have a lot of time today since Dima has his turn at the rink tonight so I gave Josh a chance to get up and get eating or go to bed - Bed it was and he must have still been exhausted from the weekend cause he was crying and yelling and kicking that he was mad and within moments he was asleep. Very unusual for him to get quiet so quickly so I actually went up while Dima and I were starting lunch to check on him and he was OUT!! I'm wondering if I should sneak up there now and try to put something on the splinter to try to get it out or at least put antibacterial stuff on it. Then again I don't want to wake him up cause I really need my nap too. There's nothing like getting back to your own bed after you've been away for a while - it's also hard to rest fully with a 40 pounder taking up the center of the bed. Today naptime is for me too, I need to rest up since I have dance practice tonight and that - plus hanging out afterward can run late. I like the group and the fact that we all get along so well and people want to spend time together instead of running out the door when they're free to go. Our DC group was like that too, not only did we dance together but we also got together socially and just enjoyed each other's company. This coming weekend will be fun cause we have members of the DC group coming up for a fest with the Philly group, it'll be nice to have these fun people combined.
Any way, as I was getting Josh ready for school this morning I asked him what he wanted to tell his teacher about our weekend and he said he would tell her about going to Gramma and Poppy's -and my childhood- church (it was nice to see and talk to people that I've known for ages and to show Josh a off a little). He said he'd tell his teacher that we saw lots of "teachers" and Coach Becky - I think he meant lots of ..... um - older... ladies at the church and he was confusing the Pastor with one of the coaches at the hockey rink. While we were at church he did sit nicely and looked at books and played with a light that I happened to have in my pocket which turned out to be a good choice for church. The light is silent and after I told him not to shine it at people I gave him a book marker and he spent time shining it at that and watching the light move around on the picture of Jesus.
I'm told that Dima did well while he had his chance to be the only child. He usually seems calmer somehow when he's on his own. He helped Chris replenish our pile of firewood near the house, he did nicely at a restaurant they went to - except for a few moments that Chris was on the phone - typical of anytime you're distracted and he thinks he can get away with something - and did nicely with out a nap on Saturday too. He did get wild in church which is the reason we don't take him every week he just can't concentrate on a quiet activity long enough to not get himself in trouble by making noise or doing stuff he knows he's not supposed to do. His Learn to Play Hockey class was on Saturday morning which was the reason he didn't come with us to Whitehall. Today he told me that the sticker he earned in class fell out of his hand before he could stick it on his chart, before Spring Break he was telling me that they didn't have enough bracelets in the mornings for him to get one, there fore no sticker since he never had the wristband that they need to have at the end of the day to earn it. I don't know if he's making stuff up or if it really happens.
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