6

The kids have been sick for a little over a week now.  Man, that's difficult.  I want to just be able to help them, but there's so little I can do.  Lucy, on top of that, has cut two teeth (her first two), and is quite close to two more, so her mouth has been a mess, too.  Poor girl.  I think about what it's like when you cut your gum, and how it just stings and aches.  I'm glad we do this first teeth thing when we're too young to remember it.  And then Tristan is just so tired.  He falls over and stumbles and consequently hits his head on everything.  One corner of his forehead is currently green from healing bruises, but he does well with it. I just can't wait for them to get better.

On Sunday, Julie went to visit Ashley and Sunil.  I think it did her a lot of good to have a kid-less day, too. And it was really nice for me to be able to spend that time with the kids.  It's a shame they were sick, because that does make things more touchy.  Smaller things seem to turn into bigger things more easily, and that can be rough.  But they did great, and there was nothing (except bedtime) that was terribly difficult. 

I have my last final tomorrow morning, and it's for the class that I'm least concerned about.  I do plan to run practice problems during naptime (which just started), and then while Julie is at orchestra tonight, so hopefully that will be sufficient.  It's not a class that I'm having much difficulty with, but I still do want to be prepared. 

Some time ago, we bought an old desktop computer from GRCC, and the other day, we bought a flat monitor to go with it.  They have these online sales where they get rid of stuff that's been updated, so it's a really good price.  And we just got the computer set up today, with the monitor on Tristan's desk.  He loves it.  He likes that the mouse lights up blue, and I think he's just mostly excited to play Word World and Curious George and Super Why games, but that's good, too.  They're simple games that are pretty educational, so what more does it need to be?

I think Lucy just got up, which means naptime has been cut short.  I know Julie could use the sleep, and she'll have a pretty late night tonight.  Hopefully the kids do well with bedtime and then sleep very soundly until Julie gets home.  I'll need to use the time better, that's all.  Well, that's it for now.