Drama and Smiles

Today started out pretty crazy as I had to not only take Alec to school, but also take Aaron to my mother-in-law's house, because I had my 6 week OB check up this morning. I dropped the kids off and headed to the check up where everything went well. When I was leaving the OB office I had planned on heading to my parents house, feeding Ash, and then head out to do some errands, sans the boys, before picking up Alec from preschool. I had just gotten to my parents house when my cell phone rang...it was Alec's preschools phone number. Never a good sign. I answered the phone and it was Phyllis, the director, telling me that Alec had thrown up and I had to come and pick him up from school. Not to sound insensitive to my kid-o being sick, but I absolutely can not handle throw-up and I was SO bummed that my morning of easy errands was being cancelled. ARGH!

When I got to the school Alec was sitting in the office with a barf bowl in front of him, his hand holding a paper towel on his knee, and the saddest look on his face. I got the low down from the director about what happened. Apparently Alec was on the playground running around, fell down, and skinned his knee. Once he saw the blood on the knee he freaked out and proceeded to throw-up. After refusing a band-aid they took him up to the office and called me.

I thought it was strange that Alec was acting so normal this morning, which he would not have if he was getting sick. We got home and it was not even 5 minutes of sitting on the couch under a blanket before he was up and playing on the slide and with all his other toys. This was not a sick kid...just a dramatic one. Sigh...

Alec eating popcorn and showing off the "big scrape" that made him toss his cookies.

The one good thing about the drama that happened in the morning was that I was able to have a nice day with just Alec and Ashley. I decided after lunch to do a little photo session with Ashley and I was able to catch a few pics of her smiling. It is a rare event to see a smile, and much harder to catch on camera, so I was VERY happy to get it!!

What a sweet smile!! I can't wait until it happens all the time!

I had to throw this picture in also. It is a perfect example of just how much Ashley adores watching her brothers. Any time either of them are around she constantly is watching them.

By the way, anyone who guessed Aaron, Alec, and then Ashley from the pictues the other day were right! Good job!!