Aunt Carole

My sister sent Hank a partially colored Power Ranger paper. He thought this was the coolest thing in the world. He wanted to finish it right away. Sometimes I wonder how my sister finds the time to do all that she does. She has three kids a husband and herself. How does she have time to partially color a picture to send to my four year old. I was in tears this evening as I realized how much time I don't have to do all the little things in life I would love to be able to do! I consider myself one of the luckiest people around to have the family that I do so my son can get those great letters in the mail from his aunt and cousins.

Being Sick

Being a single mom has its own challenges but one that brought itself up this weekend was getting sick. Hank was very sick on Friday and Saturday. He kept running a fever and just wanted to be held. So of course as any mom would I did exactly what he needed. Thanks to my Mom for bringing food for us and some more medicine. Then the craziest thing happened... I got sick. So when the mom runs a fever of 102 and is barely getting out of bed what happens? I will tell you what happened at my house. Hank my little man decided it was his job to take care of mom, he made a bed for himself on the floor so he could be next to me but not have me breathing on him so he wouldn't get more sicker. He watched movies and television. Made his own chocolate milk, got his own apple juice. He was such a little helper. When I had mom pick him up on Monday afternoon he didn't want to go, he was taking care of me and that is where he wanted to be. Hank went to his Papas and spent the night. On Tuesday morning Papa took Hank to the doctor, he has an ear infection in both ears. I took myself to the doctor and I have a bad Flu. So we are both now on antibiotics and are hopefully on our way to be healthier. Hank thinks it is great that we both have to take the Doctor medicine for ten days. He also thinks it is funny that my pills are almost the size of his thumb. I will have to take some pictures and post again soon.

Christmas

Hank and I decided to go "Surprise" Aunt Carole in San Diego for Christmas. We left on Friday after work about four o'clock. The longest drive portion for Friday was just getting out of Salt Lake. We drove to Mesquite and spent the night. The hotel had a kids game room so Hank was able to play a few games and earn tickets. Made me remember going with my dad and playing games and then buying stupid stuff with the tickets. Hank chose a little airplane and some glow in the dark spiders. Then we tried to talk to Aunt Carole on the phone. This was difficult because Hank was jumping from one bed to the other in the hotel room. So the phone conversation was cut short. I didn't go through all that work to have the surprise ruined before we got there!

On Saturday we woke up and drove the rest of the way to California. But the whole family was at Sea World. So off to Sea World we went, calling friends on the way to get directions because I didn't know what freeway exit to take. When we finally arrived at Sea World Hank called Abby to find out what she was doing. Come to find out they were walking out the front gates to go eat lunch! "Hurry up and hide behind this pole mom" then they passed us and Hank started yelling Abby! The look on their faces when they realized it was Hank and Aunt Kris was priceless. Wish I had my camera out and got a shot of that one! So travel tired and grumpy Hank spent the day at Sea World with his cousins. He was not too happy about posing for this picture. In the end Hank and I had an awesome time with the family at Sea World.