Tents, Forts & Movies

Today both boys stayed home with me for the day. Unfortunately, I'm still fighting this cold (I have a doctors appt tomorrow. I think it's a sinus infection and maybe even bronchitis now. Guess we'll see!), and since my energy level has flatlined these past couple of days, it was a miracle that both boys were on their best behavior. Sutton woke up at 5:15 this morning, and then Sawyer woke up and joined us at 6:20, so it was a loooong day. We spent the morning lounging around in our jammies and watching movies. I gave the boys their first screening of Ferngully, and then the original Willy Wonka (fast forwarded to the scenes where they're doing the actual chocolate factory tour). Sawyer loved Willy Wonka and kept asking for "more Loompa Loompa movie, please."







Sutton went down for a morning nap, and Sawyer and I built a cool fort in the living room. I took a bunch of video, so hopefully Mitch will help me get it on the computer later so I can post a little bit of it. By the time Sutton woke up from his nap, the fort was destroyed, and Sawyer was using the only part that still had tension in it like a gymnastics bar to do flips over. I can't even begin to count the number of times I heard "Mommy, Mommy, look at me. Look at me!" today. We decided that Sutton needed to get in on the fun, so we went and built an even cooler fort up in Sawyer's room. We soon learned that Sutton's greatest thrill with forts is to try to jump on top of them, so that one didn't last very long either. We ended up breaking out the Ikea tent that Sawyer got a couple of Christmases ago, and we set that up in his room. It was a HUGE hit with both boys, and not only did Sawyer take his nap in the tent, he's actually sleeping in it again right now.





Hopefully I can get some antibiotics tomorrow and get on the road to recovery. I'm supposed to be participating in a 5K run/walk this Sunday, and right now that's not looking too good. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the doctor will at least tell me that I'm not contagious anymore otherwise they're never going to let me into the hospital to see Stella the way I'm coughing right now :( IF Stella ever decides to make her grand entrance that is! At Jessica's ultrasound yesterday they estimated that Stella is 9 lbs 4 oz, so it's looking more and more like her Friday induction might turn into a Friday C-Section.