Did you know that Amazon Prime has a whole season of Reading Rainbow streaming right now? It’s a good thing, because all five of us our seriously under the weather. Tommy and I are too hoarse to do much reading aloud, the kids have an impressive symphony of coughing right now, and Janie woke up from her four-hour-nap to tell me her mouth was hurting. Guess the lunchtime tylenol wore off. I’m not even bothering to take temps anymore–we’re all semi-feverish.
We used DoorDash to order Panera for lunch because we were totally out of fruit and bread. At least everyone ate their $5 sandwiches and apples. I had a sitter come and take the kids out back for some fresh air this afternoon, drugged myself up, and stumbled to the grocery store to pick up orange juice, bananas, vitamin D (which the podiatrist prescribed after Friday’s bloodwork came back low), vitamin C (obvious), and frozen pizzas. Our supervising teacher with the charter school had to pick up this month’s work samples, and I told her I’d pass them out the door so she didn’t have to come in and get exposed. The kids are grounded from playing down at Henry’s until their coughs are gone, though the little girls keep disappearing down there. The last thing 4-week-old Lennon needs is to have her big brother catching this bug from us. Oh, and the kids listened to all four hours, forty-two minutes of The Children’s Homer. Tommy loved it when Odysseus and Telemachus killed all the suitors and cleaned out their home. Lizzie was confused that the beggar and Odysseus were the same guy. The whole Athena-disguising-mortals-as-other-people concept is a bit advanced for a six-year-old, I guess.
Also, we’ve had several of these conversations today:
Janie (crying): Mommy, Susie bit me!
Me: What did you do to her?
J: Susie bit me!
M: Yes, but what did you do that made her want to bite you?
J: Susie–
M: I want to know what YOU did.
J: But Su–
M: No, Janie. What did Janie do to Susie?
J: Susie bit me!
M: I will deal with Susie in a minute. What did you do, Janie?
(Janie looks confused and sullen.)
M: Did you provoke her?
J: Susie bit me!
M: Why did she bite you?
J: Because she bit me!
M: She wouldn’t have bitten you if you hadn’t done something to bug her. What did you do?
J: She wanted to read my book!
M: Ah, so did you take your book away from her?
J: Yes, but she bit me!
etc…
I love two year olds.