Well, I may be overstating this a bit, but holy smokes! I think that this past week was busier than a typical week during the school year. If I could have just thrown a few lessons in there, the craziness would have been complete.
Oh, well. That’s a lousy excuse for not blogging for two weeks, so here goes with our latest happenings.
The kids both had athletic camps this past week. Elijah went to soccer camp from 10:30-12:15, and Charlotte had tennis camp from 1:00-2:30. At first glance, this would seem to work out OK, since both camps were just up the road at Metamora Township High School. In reality, this schedule was almost impossible if anybody actually wanted to eat lunch.
Fortunately, one of our neighbors was also attending the tennis camp, so I got to leach on to a carpool situation, which saved the day. Because there were five girls in and out of the carpool on various days, I only ended up driving once. Pretty good for me.
So, how it worked…I ran Elijah up to soccer camp in the morning, leaving Charlotte at home to eat breakfast, get dressed, and watch the baby for me. I came back, made sure that she was ready, and reminded her to eat lunch. Then, I loaded the baby into the car around noon, told her to be at the neighbor’s house by 12:30, and ran back to get Elijah, whose camp long every single day. I arrived home after Charlotte had already left, at which time Elijah and I ate lunch.
I had tennis camp pickup one day; since the baby was sleeping, I left Elijah home with him and let my neighbor know the situation. (She had volunteered to watch them both while I drove, since her daughter was also in the carpool.) Craziness.
On Thursday, both kids wanted me to watch their camps, so Charlotte and Jeremy came to soccer camp. Here is Elijah having a good time there. Yep, he’s crawling while pushing the soccer ball with his head…not entirely sure what skill this is honing.
Toward the end, I ran to Subway to grab lunch for us, which Charlotte ate right away so it could settle before tennis camp and which Elijah ate when he finished up.
About ten minutes before tennis camp started, Charlotte needed a bathroom, so I had to run her up the road to the Metamora library. We squeaked back right before camp started. Here she is, practicing her tennis skills.
The camps ran Monday through Thursday, with Friday as a rain make-up day. Fortunately, neither camp had to use it. Both kids really enjoyed themselves, so it made the craziness worth it. Here is Jeremy, hanging out at soccer and tennis camp. Poor kid. I think he’s spent more time in his car seat and stroller this week than anywhere else!
Next week brings basketball camp for our girl. We’re in a carpool with the neighbor for that, too, so hopefully that’ll be a little calmer!
Also thrown in this week were tae kwon do lessons. I had originally planned to take this week off since the kids were doing other stuff. But they are testing for their purple belts tomorrow, so missing class wasn’t an option. The classes they took fell right during Jeremy’s nap, and he had a bit of trouble sleeping through of the “ki yahs!”
Oh, well!
Today, we went to one of local pools for a little while, and Jeremy wore his swim trunks and got in the baby pool for the first time. (Why didn’t anyone warn me how EXPENSIVE swim diapers are now?! I think they’ve gone up about three or four dollars a package since Elijah needed them!) Jeremy kept his usual stoic expression the whole time, even when the chilly water hit his feet. He actually loves the water, but I was surprised that he didn’t react. He was too cute!
In other Jeremy news, we’ve hit that all-important milestone: he’s slept for eight plus hours for two nights now! They weren’t consecutive; the one in between had me getting up with him and helping him get back to sleep, mostly to show him that he didn’t need to eat at night. Lest this sounds cruel, he did go back to sleep each time! I would have fed him had he fussed to eat, but he didn’t. We’ll see how he does tonight.
The very strange thing about this whole sleeping-through-the-night business…Jeremy never wakes up hungry in the morning, whether it’s been four hours since his last meal or eight. Weird.
And that’s what’s happening at Chez Wilkes. Hope that all is well at your place!
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