Thursday was Matthew's Economics Fair. Bryon went into work late to help me by watching the little two so I could attend the Fair and Elizabeth McCullough's funeral. Matthew learned all about wants and needs, goods and services, and buyers and sellers and all the first graders took turns buying and selling goods and services. Matthew was a buyer first and I got to help his class with their "service" which was painting nails. When it was Matthew's turn to sell, he sold his class "good" which were book marks. You could hear him over the din of the noisy first graders yelling, "Get your bookmarks! You will need them over the summer!" He looks exactly like the wall street stock brokers! Hilarious!
Friday was Matthew's track day at school. When we were leaving to go, Thomas said, "Let's get into the truck." I said, "We aren't taking the truck, we are taking the minivan." Thomas: "But you said it was TRUCK day!" The kids were adorable and Matthew's class came in first place in the tug-o-war contest.
Saturday, we devoted the entire day to mulching our back yard. We took the boys over to the mulch pile close to our house and loaded up two huge truck loads of mulch and then came home and spread it all. Bryon and I are still having a hard time moving! I am happy with the results and pleased that this arduous task is complete!
Sunday was wonderful. Matthew ran into our room to wish me a happy Mother's Day. He really gets into holidays! He had written a 5 page book on reasons why he loved me all by himself. It was so touching and I will keep it forever. Then, he made me breakfast in bed. This consisted of a Weight Watcher Smoothie and dry cereal. "I didn't want to put milk in it in case I spilled it!", he said. Bryon and the kids gave me a gift certificate to a local clothing store. I am getting into a bit of a "frump girl" phase and have been wearing my Cape Cod T-shirt just a little too often! It was nice to pick up some new things yesterday! This picture of ME was taken Sunday afternoon. She wanted to wear her fairy wings and watch Barbie Rapunzel, or "Barvie Apunzel", as she says. I put in the dvd and walked out of the room for a minute. When I came back in to push play, she was already asleep! What a sweet Mother's Day gift looking at her little face asleep!
Today was Mary Elizabeth's kidney follow up in Ft. Worth. We got up really early and dropped Thomas off with Lauren. She has a lot going on this week and was a SAINT to watch Thomas! ME and I had a great "girl trip" and I enjoyed some one on one with her. She had a renal ultrasound done. Her doctor looked at it and said she had quite a bit of scarring on her bladder and left kidney. Her right one looks like a kidney. Her left one is a lot smaller and not shaped like a kidney. What we are doing now is taking her off antibiotics (Yippee!) and keeping our fingers crossed that she has no infections this year. We will go back in a year and retest her.
I really enjoyed our time together today. Mary Elizabeth is really turning into a fun little girl. We were walking in the hospital today and a lady complimented her bow. She stopped dead in her tracks and said, "Thank you. It matches my pink shirt!" She made friends everywhere she went and talked to everyone. She is definitely my little social butterfly!
That's all for now. Off to bed. It's been a long day!
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Happy late Mother's Day!
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