Weeeell....

This has to be the longest I've gone without posting.  Sorry 'bout that.  This is definitely the worst morning sickness I've had.  I think the very sickest I ever was was the first couple weeks with Paige, but the last few weeks with her it faded away a lot.  This time it has been consistently bad, and I'm at 5 and a half weeks now.  In fact, I've done the most throwing up in this last few days.  :(  Since it lasted about 6 weeks with all the others I'm REALLY hoping I only have a few more days of it.  It's just going to stop abruptly on Friday I'm sure.  :)

So, to catch you up, I've spent 6 weeks mostly on the couch.  Jess has still been awesome, doing everything.  My dad and Trudi and Colton visited, but I'll try and do a separate post on that in the next few days. 

We finally found a place that actually returned Jess's call, for our older two to try Tae Kwon Do.  They were so excited the first day, asking me how much longer every half hour or so.  It's at 5:15 on Tuesday and Thursday, so we pick Jess up on the way there so we can ride together.  I didn't get to see their first lesson because Neely fell asleep on the way there, so I stayed in the car with her since I felt pretty sick anyway.  Jess really liked Tiger Cho, their teacher, and once I saw him I did too.  He makes them be respectful, but he also makes them laugh.

Paige is second from left, with the ponytail.

Cason is far left in this one:

He's definitely the youngest.  Normally they start at 5 but Master Cho said he'd do fine at 4 and a half.  They're so cute to watch.  I love when he just throws them in to spar.  Cason doesn't know what he's doing yet so he does lots of random kicks and stuff, and unnecessary spin moves.  I love it.  Also, you may notice their instructor carrying a wooden block in his right hand.  He knocks them on the forehead if they're acting up.  Haha.  Most of the time, if I heard about something like that I wouldn't like it, but for whatever reason the way he does it is hilarious.  The first time they act up he'll threaten them by tossing the block on the floor near them.  Sometimes they'll get a second warning, and he'll push it closer to them with his foot.  No words at all.  Ha.  Jess said the first day they went, one boy was going to get it, and he covered his forehead with his hands.  So he told him "I hit you on the back of the head, make your eyeballs pop out."  Ha.  Jess does a mean impression of Master Cho, by the way. 

Both of our kids love it, and neither has had to get the block.  Yet, anyway. 

This weekend it was in the 70s and 80s, so we wanted to get out of the house, even if I didn't feel well.  So we went downtown and walked around.

We took them to see the Devon Tower, but it wasn't open for us to go inside that day.  They didn't mind, they preferred the fountains out front anyway.

There was a giant pond with koi and ducks nearby too.

We walked over the bridge and discovered a playground, so we let the kids play there a while, and I rested on a bench to fight off the nausea.  Ha.  On the way back we noticed the botanical gardens were right there too, but the kids were hot and we were all tired, so we'll save that for another weekend.

We did go to the park for a "picnic" later that evening though.  Paige had been begging.  It was almost getting dark and we didn't have time to pack a real picnic though, so Jess grabbed crackers, bananas and popsicles.  It worked.