Spring Break - Days Two and Three

Day two of Spring break was pretty tame.  That's because by the time we got home from Tepanyaki the night before (where I totally won the shrimp eating contest - but that's because Josh only ate 5 fried shrimp), Spencer was coming down with Cole's cold.

So Tuesday morning was full of sniffles and clearing throats and general malaise.  We all decided to just camp out and home and take it easy.  We streamed the movie "Turbo" and watched that downstairs while we ate lunch.  I don't know why the kids find that such a treat, but they sure love it.

We would have stayed in pajamas all day but Spencer had an orthodontist appointment at 2:30.  Seriously, Maren, could you not have found a better time for an appointment?  (The answer is no, apparently not.)  The appointment was only about 10 minutes long, but it was dang cold outside - there were even some pretty good snow flurries.

So of course the kids had hot chocolate and graham crackers for their afternoon snack.  Hot chocolate.  During Spring Break.  Indiana.

I don't remember much about the rest of the day other than at one point Josh complained about being bored so I told him to go clean the basement.

And he did.

Good heavens!  The last time we cleaned the basement you would have thought we were killing the child.  Well, whatever. He did a good job, too!

That night we had waffles for dinner because it was National Waffle Day, and when it's National Waffle Day there's really only one thing you can have for dinner.

This morning we woke up to even more sniffles - Josh now has the lovely cold that Mr. Cole has been sharing.  There was still some malaise, but everyone agreed we should still go see "Muppets Most Wanted".  The movie itself was alright - not nearly as charming as the last one, a little too self-aware, but oh well.  That hardly matters because I only got to see about half of it.  Tess is still at an age where sometimes she'll actually sit through the whole movie and behave, and sometimes she just won't.  She ended up wandering the theater for the last 45 minutes, which was fine by me but not by Cole, who insisted on following her and being naughty.

I kept the chaos to a minimum since there were two other families in there, but seriously, you can't expect perfect silence at a children's movie at the 11am showing on a Wednesday.  Just sayin'.

On the way out to the car I picked up Tess and realized that the child had a slight fever.  If I hadn't felt her I would've known something was off since she fell dead asleep within two minutes.  She looked like this by the time we got home:

I don't know why I get such a kick out of this picture, but I do.  How in the world did that IKEA card stay so precariously perched on her knee the whole way home?  And where did that toothbrush come from?

I suspect tomorrow will be more sniffles and more malaise and more sheer laziness because I'm not planning on taking these sickos anywhere.