*Jacob is obsessed with having a six-pack right now. He asks all the time if we can see his six-pack, lifting up his shirt and pointing out where he believes his muscles are developing. He has been doing sit-ups, and he likes to put the bar up on the door way and do pull-ups when he can. I'm quite impressed with his desire on this!
When I told Jacob that he could help be our instructor, he said, "Girls can get muscles?!" Um yes, son - of course girls can get muscles! Obviously I haven't been the greatest example of this, but it makes me laugh and wonder if I have gone wrong in not talking about the many wonderful ways that boys & girls can have similarities, and all the wonderful ways that we are different as well. There is always much to work on in the parenting department!
*We have been so sick for the past week - all of us, and even longer for Bryson Jr. and Madeleine. It turns out that we all - all 6 of our family - have walking pneumonia. I'm not sure if we got it from someone in the play (there were so many people not feeling throughout the last few weeks), or if was from when I got sick over Memorial Day and never got better....I came down with a wicked round of the flu or what could have been Walking Pneumonia while we were in St. George over the Memorial Day holiday.
We had a very busy schedule - myself, Madeleine and Bryson Jr. - during the month of June with our rehearsals for OLIVER! We had rehearsals nightly from about 6pm until midnight & didn't get to bed until 1am almost every night once we got home and ready for bed. I think our immune systems were just tired and overworked, and while the play was absolutely incredible and I'm so grateful for such an amazing experience to be in for the three of us - I do wish that the schedule could have been different during the last 3 weeks.
I feel so badly for our little Emilia who came down with this sickness as well - when she coughs her whole little body shakes, and she has the hardest time catching her breath. She has just wanted to be held and cuddled and as a whole - our family has watched so many movies during the past week. We have not had the energy to do very much - we do try to pack a few boxes and we are still going over the new house often to let in the people working on projects and to do a few things ourselves. However, I feel badly if I pushed the kiddos so much with some of the projects when we should have been resting more last week...before we were diagnosed. I thought we were just fighting a very vicious cold virus, so I thought that we could do some of the things around the house and yard...such as we tried to clear most of the huge weeds out of the front yard. We actually did quite well getting most out - although we were completely wiped out afterwards. This week, the boys and I went over one day to let in the plumbers and they had been waiting to start whacking away at the wall between the kitchen and the Dining Room/Living Room combo that we are taking down. We put on our masks and laid down the tarp and the boys and I went to town hitting the drywall to bring it down. For being really sick - we did a great job in 30 minutes to take most of the drywall along the wall --- we still need to work on the top and the bottom and to do the other side of the wall, but that was a day before we went into the doctor's to get checked...so considering that was the day that Jacob really fell ill, I'm impressed that we did anything without falling over!
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