Jamie and Liam Chew's Blog: 2009-10-28

2009-10-28 24:19 (Kristen) Liam wins both today's high and today's low. The high was when he went to skating and was so pumped about it that he shoved his way to the head of the line and was the first child on the ice. He skated all over the rink with his glider (this is a boy who was last on the ice last week, and only at the end figured out how to use the glider) for the first half of the class. Then the instructors, who had been each working with him to do this and that, took away the glider. I thought "uh oh," but he *skated* the ten feet to the glider! That was it! He spent the next ten to fifteen minutes skating, falling down, skating, falling down, and getting right back up again. He was so game, and never gave up once. We'd had a talk beforehand, and I'd given him warning first thing in the morning tht this is what we were going to do, and it worked. He was a very proud boy when he got off the ice today.

The low was when he started to sniffle as he was going to bed tonight, and his little nose is now so stuffy that he keeps waking up every fifteen to twenty minutes. There is no fever, so I'm not worried yet, and I've been fighting cold-like symptoms myself for the last day or two, so I do very much hope it's that.

Jamie had a good day at school, made better by it being pizza day, I think. He was disappointed that there were no playmates available for playdates, but we're going to have Liam W. over next week sometime, and I think that Jake is scheduled for tomorrow. He did his homework quickly and well, and seemed to have a good day overall. Tomorrow we go to get vaccinated against the swine flu, if the lines aren't too long. The logistics are a little tricky, but if Liam stays home with a cold, it would be easier to arrange.