My oh my, and the rain came down this week! Tuesday morning I awoke to find it literally pouring rain. After getting back from the gym, Christian and I got the kids up and we drove him to school. What to do on a rainy day in a small apartment? Grace and I read stories, made magic cookie bars, and Grace copied and practiced her letters, she wrote all of ur names, even Christian and Halloween! Leif was busy napping, then crawling around and playing with toys, it's so fun watching him pull himself along on the floor, he must be getting some good upper body strength. And, of course, the boy loves to eat. It doesn't matter how much he has eaten, he always wants more, and he cannot stand it if we are sitting at the table eating and he;s not, he has to be eating whenever someone else is eating, even if he has just eaten! Watch out Leif, childhood obesity is on the rise! In fact, he loves to eat so much he ate one of those white rubber tips off the door stopper yesterday which resulted in a trip to our local ER on Cherry St.. luckily, it was not crowded, in fact, there were about 4 nurses in my room, you could tell one was training by the way she followed the other nurse, which brought back memories of all the clinicals I did in nursing school, and reminded me there are more to come. Would you believe we were in and out in under 1 hour? They X-rayed his stomach and lungs and the only thing the doctor found was alot of poop in his colon, I said,"Yeah, the boy loves to Eat alot." Not that rubber shows up on X-rays anyways. but I was relieved to hear that it was not lodged somewhere funny, like in the back of his throat which he could later regurgitate and choke on! After that, we went and picked christian up from school and hot up one of our favorite spots, Bittersweet cafe, they make the best hot chocolates, not your powdered mix in kind, real, melted chocolate. Christian got the spicy kind, which tasted like a kick to the mouth. Grace and I shared one, but I don't think she really liked it because she only took one drink, i must have not really liked it either because I gave mine to Christian. We then went home and made pizza from whole wheat dough I made earlier that day. Grace ate the pizza and Leif cried until we gave him some crust. Grace told us it was snowing in her bedroom and that she was having a party for baby Ariel, she has quite the imagination. She is already excited for Christmas, and her birthday, and Halloween, we got her witch costume from The Childrens Place, a really cute witch costume. Not sure what Lewif will be, Grace says he should be a pig. Leif is smiling that sweet smile at me right now, which is just heart melting! Yesterday we wnet and checked out this place called Peekadoodle, an indoor playground. It was really cool, every mom's dream (except the price), but they let you come and play for free one time to check it out. it's in Ghiraddelli square, which also meant we had to go and sample the chocolate in the Ghiradelli store, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........mouth watering. Grace picked out a raspberry cupcake from Kara's cupcakes, which also is mouth watering and melts in your mouth. Pekadoodle was fun though, they have a mini golden gate bridge, castle, house, gym, a cafe, nap room, classes, and a boutique, it was pretty cool and Grace had a blast running around and I loved sitting in the baby section with Leif while he crawled around.
On Tuesday we braved Union Square with my friend, Emily, who is 8 months pregnant! The kids were good, and we got fresh cream puffs from a place called Papa Beards, oh man, that custard filling was delicious, except when you take a bite the custard might shoot out the back and splatter all over the floor...
Sunday we made cookies and brought them to a girl who just had her 4th baby, they are also dental students, and she is very brave, I thought 2 was a handful to have while in school.
This morning is extremely foggy, today I want to relax and play with the kids, maybe visit Christian for lunch...and bake sweets.
I love this time of year, I always want to bake pumpkin bread and all sorts of treats and make yummy soups. I also reflect alot on how much our family is blessed, even though we are poor students, we have everything and I feel I want for nothing. I read Grace the book A Christmas Dress for Ellen and I can't believe how much it made me cry while I was reading it to Grace, either i've become a huge sap or it's all the extra oxytocin in my body from breastfeeding (you know that feeling you get before your milk comes in, your either going to bawl or get so happy)
this year I'd love to donate to the giving tree, we do something every year for another family or child, lst year we brought present to Primary Childrens Hospital, this year it might be to the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit in San Francisco. My kids are healthy, and from the little experience I have I know how heart breaking it is to have a sick child, but I don't know what it is like to have my own child sick, in and out of hospitals, and the grief, strees, and helplessness the parents feel. I'm still debating on what type of nurse I want to be when Chrsitan is done with school and I can actually start working, but I still want to work in pediatric oncology. I am so grateful for all we have been given, and I do not know why my children are healthy and others are not, but I am so grateful and pray to God every day and thank him for this. I hope this season we can all reflect on how much we have, even if all we have to live on is student loans and food stamp, because there are millions out there who are struggling to get even fresh water, or food, or a rag o cover their body.
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