Friday Five 8.0

I haven't done one of these in a while...  (DYK I love...)

1.) I'm sick.  I've spent the last 3 days laying around, getting my husband to do as much as possible for me (i.e. "Don't come home without a diet coke- I'm sick."), and surfing the Internet.  I'm better today but still am not feeling like running around.  Last week Kate had a little sniffles and a cough.  There was no complaining or anything.  It just seemed like allergies.  Apparently it wasn't.  So fast forward to this week and when you're 26 years older, the little cold makes you feel like crap.  I've had the sore throat, sneezing, coughing, aching body, and a little bitty fever.  The baby who I was terrified would get sick and then it would turn out to be the Swine Flu or something just has had a little runny nose and a random albeit cute little cough.  The toll getting older has on you.  Even Daniel has so far escaped this.  Lucky him.

2.)Aidan has another tooth.  The kid isn't even quite 5 months and he has 2 of them on the bottom now.  I thought he would sleep better after that.  But nope.  I guess he hasn't felt the greatest the last few days although he acts pretty happy all the time unless it's say 2:00 in the morning.  Even then I'm not sure he's upset.  He just has taken to having squealing conversations with the shadows on the wall.   What happened to my anomaly of a child that slept 9 hours every night?  I miss him.  Come back soon!

3.) Speaking of Aidan... (there it is again- the perfect transitioning element) He's now devoured rice cereal until boredom set in and is on to the sweet potatoes.  We're playing it smart this time around and starting with the veggies.  With Kate we introduced them after some fruit and were too easily swayed by her sad little faces and didn't force the issue.  She now thinks they are tools of the devil.  You should see the little shows she puts on when you try to get her to eat a niblet of corn.  Hysterical and oddly familiar.  It reminds me of a certain someone when she was about that age.  Hmmm  In other related news: After 4 days of sweet potatoes, they end up kinda looking the same going in as they do coming out.  Sorry but they do.  Next up: Avocados!

4.) Kate is trucking along in Kindergarten.  She enjoyed a field trip to the fair.  I didn't get to go along since I had Aidan and was already sick by that point.  She's learning some sight words and in her spare time is crushing on a little boy in one of the other classes that is "beautiful."  Her word not mine.  But he is a cutie.  As soon as she described him and told me he'd been in one of her art classes this summer I knew who she was talking about.  The other day she said he tripped over her legs out on the playground.      I asked her if she had done it on purpose.  She said yes.  She quickly retracted her yes in favor of a "No, it was just an accident!"  But I think we all know what she was trying to do.  Then a couple days ago she informed me that "He doesn't even know my name."  Ahh young Kindergarten love.

5.) Before the sickness set in on Monday we headed on over to the good ole Kansas State Fair.  We enjoyed some tasty fair food, walked through a few buildings, rode some rides, and saw a comedy hypnotist show.  The latter was a little on the long side for a baby and I ended up having to leave twice to change a mega poop and feed Aidan.  That kid hardly knows how to poop if it's not at some event.  Here are some lovely pictures of our fun.

Enjoying the tilt a whirl thing.  Why do little kids love being spun around in circles?

Thoroughly enjoying being over-stimulated.

   Enjoying the roller coaster.  Love the expression on her face!

                                    

Kate enjoying the swings.  Me not so sure- but lovin' the cool breeze on my bare feet since I was afraid my flip-flops would fall off.

Here we are riding one of those rides that shoots you up in the air and then free fall drops you.  Granted it was the kiddy version but still a rush for an old gal like me and would have scared the pee out of me as a kid.