The Hills 5-5-09

Hello! Not too much to report on this week - other than sickness :(

Justin got sick on Friday night; he threw up a few times and was miserable. Then Saturday he'd start feeling better and want to play, play for a few minutes and be back on the couch. He had a fever that we broke with Tylenol and Motrin and thought we were okay. He was fever free from Saturday night until Monday morning so we thought we were in the clear. No luck. He got a fever at daycare yesterday and I had to go get him. So we are home today and maybe tomorrow until he's fever free for 24 hrs without drugs. Oh, and Rob was home sick yesterday yesterday too. Times like these I REALLY wish my mom lived closer. Justin has been so clingy and whiny - I know he can't help it but it wares on your nerves so bad. At least today he is better. He's still taking the Tylenol/Motrin so that is probably why, but I'll keep him drugged up if it makes him feel better. Maybe we can get some errands run since it's supposed to be in the 70's and sunny!

In other daycare news... Justin has to move to another room June 1st. Why? Not sure. It makes no sense to me. He's not moving UP; just to another 2 year old room. Away from Lauren and Clare; his best friends. And most sadly away from Ms. Ericka and Ms. Steph. I have already cried more than once and I'm sure I'll do it again. The only reason I'm hoping this will be okay is that the director told me that the room he's going to (with an ok teacher; not great) will likely turn into the next 2/3's room and then he gets to skip Ms. Jani's room. Rob and I are not fans of her AT ALL. We have both had experiences with her screaming at the kids, being flat our mean and treating them in ways that if she does it in front of people what does she do when there are no parents around? One time Rob went to pick up Justin on the playground and he was running at Rob with his arms out screaming "Daddy...Daddy". Jani screamed (barked) at him to stay on the woodchips. Rob just looked and her and said "I'm here" and walked away. She later told Steph that she thinks she made Justin's dad mad. She's just not a nice person to be around and I really don't think I could leave Justin there with her everyday. Seriously. I was starting to look at other daycares. So I guess if he can skip her room it's worth it, but I wish he didn't have to be separated from Lauren..... If this is bothering me so much I don't know how I'm going to handle the rest of his life when it doesn't go the way we exactly want it to! It just seems like if we're paying $190 a week for him to go there we should have some say in who his teacher is. I did email a brand new daycare that just opened closer to our house. They have web cams that you can watch your kids at any time. That really would give me piece of mind with an infant.

We are waiting on a quote for our backyard problem. I had one landscaper not show up to give me an estimate, but our friend Evan's friend has a business that does exactly what we need. He came and looked at our yard on Saturday morning. He's giving us quotes a few different ways - I don't think it will be cheap! He was talking about tying all of our downspouts together and running them along with the sump discharge and then laying an "H" shaped tile system in the back half of the yard where it's low and running it all into a main line that would discharge into a lake (huge pond) behind our fence. I need to talk to the guy who owns the property behind us to see if he'd let us do that. Otherwise if we run it to the back of our property, it will make his wetter. He has a slope going to the lake too, so it would be better for all of us. He never comes near the property line other than to mow it once or twice a year when it gets knee high! Even if it's expensive, it is probably worth it since we'll be here a while and don't want to have this problem every year. We can't even walk to the shed without losing a shoe in the mud. Ugh.

I planted a few flowers last weekend. We also planted new boxwood shrubs - ours from last year did not make it. I thought those were impossible to kill? I should take pics this week of the plants/shrubs because the flowers probably won't be around long. I don't exactly have a green thumb :)

I think that's all for now - I'll try to take some new pics this week!