No Mommy! Not a sub!

I went to drop the boys off at daycare this morning and warned the ladies to watch Noah because he had said he had a stomach ache this morning. The looked over at him and gasped. He was pale green..... I was like man, what am I going to do. The princess of the daycare came over to cheer him up and he put his hands on his ears (he does this to avoid anything- not just noise) and told her to go away. I knew it was bad.

So I sat down and called him over. "Honey, do you want mommy to get a sub today?"

"No!"

confused, I said "are you grumpy or sick"

miserably, "sick"

"Well, then Mommy will get a sub and you and I can...."

"no sub Mommy! I'm too sick!"

He thought I meant a hoagie......

Ironically, my mom bought me a hoagie for lunch and Noah had a piece.

Spirited child

It was always a joke when Sammers was even a tiny baby that he was the "spirited" child. He still is. anyone that has read any of my entries knows that. However, sometimes I feel Noah gets gipped.

Noah is my true "spirited" child. When he was a baby he would stare into a corner of the room and talk and sing [to angels]. He had such a .... presence.... that you could look so deep into his eyes- it was amazing. Mike and I talked about it a lot.

In the last few years, we have seen him develop into such a LOVING child. His heart is huge. He is a truly kind and caring person. The kind of person that is born that way,....

Today he and I were alone in a room. He said "we sure visited Pappy in the nursing home a lot"

I said we sure did.

"why"

well, we missed pappy and went to visit him. do you remember that?

"yeah, I liked visiting pappy"

yeah, I did too Noah. I wish I could hug him right now. and I started to cry a little. the kind of cry that is a lot of tears, not a lot of sound.

Noah said "It's ok to cry when you miss someone"

I said yes it is buddy and gave him a hug. After a few moments he pulled away and looked right inside me and said "when you miss Pappy and want to give him a hug, you can give me one instead."

unbelievable. I am so lucky to have my spirited children.

time to write the book

well, we all know how I procrastinate in writing this blog. It's amazing actually how often I think about things that should be on here and yet don't do it. I have had several people comment on how funny I am and that I should write a book. that just adds pressure. then when I want to document something I think "yeah, but I don't feel to witty right now"

Right now I don't feel too witty. Actually, I'm slightly depressed. My job is killing me. I wish they would just leave me teach. The responsibilities and stupid (sound like my students) paperwork increases every year. This year, so much has been piled on that I've started that strain of thinking: what else am I qualified to do? the answer is nothing basically. hence the depression. so I thought get the heck off facebook and update your blog. maybe you can write a book and QUIT YOUR JOB. I'd love to win Powerball and VOLUNTEER at teh school. do everything I love and thumb my nose at the rest. boo hoo I know. we all should have it so bad.

Mike showed me pics and videos of the twins that are on his computer last night. It was funny. their personalities were so there. He also had an old recording of Matt when he was 4 (the twins' age now) saying he loved me and hoped I had a good day at work. He sounded exactly like Noah. Whcih is weird since we think Sam and Matt have similar personalities.

I have the usual sam antics to update, but I want to spend a moment on Noah. He is a genuine kind person. He has such a good heart. He sticks up for sam who tortures him. He is smart too. way smart. He has been drawing me pictures several times a day. recently he began drawing Mickey Mouse and writing the words Mickey Mouse on the drawing. he sings the song to spell and spelled mouse with a c at the end. (go ahead- sing it in your head. it sounds like M-O-U-S-C) when I corrected him, he turned inside out. I fixed it on the paper and the world came to an end. How dare I change something on his paper? his episodes are getting less frequent, but once in awhile I wonder why we didn't have him evaluated closer...

matt is a sophomore now and playing on varsity. so much fun... I hear them. they're back frompicking matt up so I need to rush....

sam is torturing noah with the smoke detector. they got new bunk beds and sam threatened to push the button. I told him if he did, he would live on the bottom bunk instead of taking turns. a little while later matt comes down and says sam was going "ring ring ring Noah" sam got on the bottom....

gotta go more later