Getting Healthy

Finally after 2.5 weeks home due to snow, holidays and flu, Magician went back to school today. You would think he would have some issues, but nope, walked in, went right to the train set and didn't look back at Mommy. I am not sure whether to be thrilled that I have such a well adjusted, obviously secure child, or cry that he doesn't seem to care if I am there or not. I will opt for A since this is the same child that was glued to me for the last week. He was so miserable - fevers spiking at 103.5, coughing, runny nose, the flu is an evil evil illness. I know. I had it too. So did Daddy who got the flu shot this year. Ha! He was no less sick than the rest of us.

SuperGerky was the only one that didn't get it. I swear that child has the strongest constitution of any kid I have ever met (knock wood). I sometimes wonder if maybe he DOES indeed have some super powers.... hmmm. I can't believe he is turning 6! The things that he does and says just amaze me. The other day he asked me for a "telyawut." I had no idea what a telyawut was - then he explained it to me. He had been asking to stay up until Daddy came home and I said no because Daddy was not due home until midnight-ish. Apparently, when he wants something I will often make a deal with him and say "I'll tell you what (or telyawut)...." usually followed by if you do something you don't want to do, I'll let you do whatever it is you want that I originally said no to. A telyawut. I love it.

So Proud

I can't believe it's been so long since I updated this blog. Bad Mommy, bad bad Mommy. Today though I feel compelled - I am bursting with pride and I need to brag. We have been putting SuperGerky in ski school now for a couple of years every time we go skiing. Well, yesterday it seems that something "clicked" with him. I went to pick him up from skiwee and couldn't find him. Apparently he "graduated" from ski school and was up on the mountain (with an instructor of course). He went all the way to the top and skiied down. We picked him up and lunch and spent the rest of the afternoon skiing with him. He was skiing the blues by the end of the day. I was amazed watching this fearless kid wind his way down the mountain. Granted, the Pocono blues are nothing at all like the Vermont Blues and not even close to the blues out west, but nonetheless, my kid was on the chairlift, to the top of the mountain skiing down relatively challenging slopes. Woo hoo! He told us he was using his SuperGerky powers to make sure that he didn't fall and that he was able to maneuver around people. He said he couldn't wait to tell everyone he knew, so we called Grandma and Grampy and he offered to teach them how to do it so they could come next time. HA! What a kid!

Quite a difference from our trip to Vermont a couple of weeks ago. On that trip he nearly snowtubed into a creek and the next day fell off the chair lift, decapitated a snow monster and nearly broke a couple of bones. Add to that the little one throwing up over night, the daddy getting sick and mommy getting stuck at the top of a trail that should have been closed and needing to be rescued by ski patrol and that pretty much sums up our week. And yet, we went again and had the most amazing time!

Friday we went tubing and Magician laughed the entire time we were there - well, when he wasn't crying becuase of the cold that is. We would fly down and he would get out of the tube, jump up and down and squeal with delight - "again, again!" We would have stayed there all night if it weren't for SuperGerky getting hungry.

We took the new Manny with us and he said that it was the best weekend of his life. He is from Brazil and had never been on snow before. He didn't think he needed a lesson but learned pretty quickly that you can't just up and go. What a rush.