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Christmas Break Revised

I had grand plans for this week… lots of fun activities, lots of things accomplished. I was so excited.

Andy, the kids and I haven’t been home together for an entire week since my maternity leave nearly four years ago.

Unfortunately, the stomach bug that plagued Jenny’s house a couple weeks ago made it to our house. Kate started throwing up Friday… we thought she was over it but she threw one more episode in for good measure the moment we walked through the door on Christmas night. Andy and my grandma got it on Tuesday, and Sam was puke-central on Wednesday.

Needless to say, we haven’t done lots of fun activities. We haven’t gotten lots of things accomplished.

While it appears that everyone is well now (fingers crossed) and I’m hoping to get out today to do something as a family, I must admit that having a little down time hasn’t been a completely horrible thing. I could have done without the puking, of course, but long naps and just chilling may have been what the doctor ordered. We haven’t had days like that in – I don’t know – forever.

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#%!& Teeth

Zomgoodness I am in such a bad mood. My holiday cheer lasted about 24 hours after Christmas and now I’m full-on Scrooge.  This is primarily due to two reasons. 1) Joshua and Sophie have spent WAAAAY too much time together the past two weeks and are driving each other and me bonkers and 2) Jonah is getting about 16 million teeth in all at one time.  Basically I haven’t slept in about 10 days.  The child is up 3 or 4 times a night and is getting “up for the day” between 6:30-7:00, when I am used to him making it til 7:30 or 8 (after waking between 4-5 usually for a feeding before Toothapalooza began.)

As I have whined about many, many times on this blog, I have sleeping troubles. So getting back to sleep after these wakings is difficult.  And then by the time I get back to sleep it seems he is awake again. My jaws ache from the tension I have when trying, trying, trying so hard to go to sleep.

I have left b!tchy comments on a few people’s Facebook statuses today.  I am just not myself, and I cannot let your status about your future sexcapades go without letting you know that I DON’T WANT TO KNOW.  Whether you are happily married or just whoring around, I DON’T WANT TO KNOW. MMkay?  I mean, I don’t WANT to have to “hide” you but I will.  I’m sorry if my posts about my infant’s blowout poops gross you out, but posting that you just did the nasty on your dining room table is WAY WORSE in my opinion.  But hey, if you can’t handle the poop, feel free to “hide” me as well.  We’ll just have to agree to disagree on what’s grosser.

So yeah. I need some sleep. And my kids to go back to school. And people to GET A FILTER.  Seriously, if your MOM is your FB friend, don’t be posting that!! She doesn’t want to know EITHER!

So, how’s YOUR week going??

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Keep your kids busy at the Robot Zoo

Winter break is here, and if you’re like me, you are looking for fun things to do to keep the kids from driving you bonkers busy while they’re out of school.  If you’re anywhere near Dayton,  I strongly suggest the Robot Zoo exhibit at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery.

We love the Boonshoft, as I have mentioned many times, and their rotating exhibits are always a fun addition to our usual favorites like the live animals, the Cassano’s pizza-making station and the recycling center.  A few weeks ago Joshua, Sophie and I went to check out Robot Zoo and we had a BLAST! I think I like it just about as much as I liked Mindbender Mansion, their last exhibit.  Here’s why!

The exhibit features several robotic animals, like this Platypus (which Joshua and Sophie were *totally* jazzed about because they love Perry the Platypus from Phineas & Ferb!)  Using easily viewed and recognizable parts, these robots exhibit how a real animal’s real parts help that animal to function.  Kiddos can also control the robot animal with levers.  Very cool and they loved making “Perry” move around!

Joshua also loved the robot frog!

The best part about the Robot Zoo is that it is really interactive and hands-on.  It’s learning by doing, feeling, and participating, not just by looking. Here the kids are discovering how it feels to be an insect with sticky feet:

Robot Zoo will be at the Boonshoft until January 9, 2012, so make sure and check it out while your kiddos are on break for the holidays!  After all, you DON’T want to miss a photo opp like this one:

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I am being compensated for this post.  I paid for my family’s entrance to the Boonshoft, and all opinions about the exhibit are my own.

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