"Cool Shoes"

We had great plans for last Saturday which fell through but we managed to have a pretty good day anyway. Dennis and I picked up doughnuts and went to Jimmy's house early Saturday morning. The plan was for Jimmy and Dennis to go buy sheetrock and do some repair work to the attic ceiling while Maranda and I took the girls to gymnastics and shopping. We had our doughnuts and visited a bit then started to gather the girls to go to gymnastics. As Lily was walking to the back door she stopped and started to vomit. Lily vomits pretty often but always at the end of a feeding, not just out of the blue like that. She felt warm, but she always seems to feel warm so they took her temperature and it was over 100. Their family has had the strangest virus. Izzy had it first, ran a temperature for at least five days then the next week Audrey and Jimmy had it, the next week (last week) Maranda had it and now Lily had decided she needed a turn. So as anyone with kids knows, you make plans then change plans. Maranda would take the other two to gymnastics and I would stay at the house with Lily. Izzy started crying because she wanted me to go too and Lily started crying because she wanted to go. Audrey was ok with the situation.
So Lily and I watched a couple of episodes of Mickey Mouse until the tylenol kicked in and then she was ready to play. When Maranda got back Lily was feeling quite well so we went shopping for a little while and picked up lunch and came back to their house. The guys were not making great progress but we have learned in the last four years to multiple by three the amount of time you think a project will take at that house.

Lily fell asleep during lunch so we laid her on the couch and after we ate Izzy and Audrey went upstairs for their nap, the guys kept working, Maranda went to Target and I stayed with the girls. When she got back from Target Lily was awake so she showed her the new shoes she bought her. These shoes are the cutest little shoes I have seen and Lily was thrilled. When Izzy and Audrey woke up Lily and I went upstairs to get them. When we walked in the room Audrey was still half asleep but Izzy was wide awake. She took one look at Lily and stood up and said "those are cool shoes Lily". Lily said "thank you". With the mention of shoes Audrey woke right up and said "how you get those shoes, Lily?" and Lily said "mommy got them" At that point Audrey and Izzy were racing to the stairs to go see if mommy had gotten them a pair too. Of course she had and they were very happy.

I still laugh when I think about Izzy though - "those are cool shoes, Lily" Yes they were.