Family time

Mark was supposed to take Thursday through Monday off, he ended up home since Tuesday due to his stomach virus. Thankfully that cleared up rather quickly, he still has moments but he's not nearly as bad. We ended up going to the aquarium on Thursday as planned, it was a lot of fun but made for a very long day. If you're on my myspace I posted pics! The aquarium itself was nice, we'll have to go back since the outside play area was closed. The outside play area looked really cool, too bad it wasn't open. We had one little incident that day, this crazy woman YELLED at Nolan because he bopped her daughter on the head. Now first off, Nolan was standing by the glass of the big tank minding his own business. This crazy woman comes up and is trying to get through the crowd, and not so nicely either. She was saying very rudely, "EXCUSE ME" but not giving anyone any time to react. She ended up hitting Nolan (not hard but enough to startle him) with her stroller. She had absolutely no regards for anyone else. Nolan turned around, thinking he had been hit, and bopped the girl back. Now of course I don't condone this, but at the same time I was right there, trying to get him out of her way, and immediately told Nolan "No hit" She had no right to yell at my son and I told her so. She got all upset, trying to defend herself by making Nolan look like this vicious little terror who just beat up her daughter. Everyone there who saw what happened was in total shock of this woman, one guy even told her she needed to leave as her kind wasn't welcomed. Mark even stood up to her and told her to take a hike, he's not the kind to do that at all. It was unreal. I mean I know Nolan shouldn't have hit her daughter but still, he's not even 2 and he was confused. Plus he's my child and I was right there trying my best to handle the situation. I don't think its ever right to reprimand someone elses child if the parent is right there, especially if you don't know the child or mother. If she had said in a nice tone that hitting is not right then I would have been fine with it, but the fact that she plowed into Nolan then yelled at him for hitting her daughter... Just didn't sit well with me at all!

So after our fun filled aquarium day we came home, relaxed, and just hung out. Nolan woke up from his nap and I noticed he was really hot. Poor kid now has another fever, which for now is his only symptom other than being lethargic from the fever. I took him to the dr today, since this is the second time he's been sick in the last 2 weeks I wanted to make sure it wasn't his ears. Just a cold, tylenol for fever, has to ride it out... poor kid!

As for today, we did a lot of running around, getting errands done. My house is clean, top to bottom. We went to the grocery store, so we're completely stocked up for the week. Got our valpak in the mail and found an awesome coupon in there for the Eager Beaver... haha, so not what you think! It's a car wash place! Royal Treatment, which is usually $25 bucks, was only $12 with the coupon. Apparently everyone else in town got their coupon too, the place was jammin! Still it was fun, the boys love watching our van go through the car wash from the main window. While we were waiting in our car for the guy to come up and ask us what we wanted the baby started kicking around, I quickly grabbed Marks hand and pushed it into my belly just a little and BOOM! He finally felt him kick! For the last few weeks Mark kept missing his kicks but this time there was no way he could miss it, little man was practicing karate in there! lol

While driving around yesterday we noticed the for sale sign down on the house we almost bought last year. My dad had this awesome idea to buy the house for us and have us pay him back. For so many reasons I'm happy this didn't work out but at the time it seemed like a great idea. My dad likes to have control over us, if we had gotten this house we would have been stuck here. Now with the way things have turned out I'm glad we're not, but it still was a great opportunity. Anyway, the for sale sign was gone so we decided to look it up on the property appraisers site to see if it sold, it did!!! When we were interested he house was listed for $169,000, my dad offered a cash as is sale for $140,000. In the state our economy is in that is really a great deal. No fuss, no muss, here's your $140,000 now get lost... Oh no no no, they were "highly offended" by the offer, which is rather comical in itself. Apparently the parents passed away and the kids were selling the house wanting as much as they could get their greedy hands on. This house was built in the 70's, it was a nice house but when you walked inside it still looked like 1970 in there, granted it was only cosmetic but still, it was in desperate need of updates. The tile floor throughout the kitchen and bathrooms looked like the tile in nasty old Taco Bell restaurants. Seriously. Anyway, this was about 7 months ago that we made this offer, the house just sold a few weeks ago for $135,000 and had to offer a warranty on the house as well, something we were not asking for! Suckers! Not only did they have to wait another 6 months, if they had sold it to us when we were trying to buy it they would have made $5000 more plus wouldn't have had to pay their taxes on it that year... which was also pretty $$$. Serves them right, highly offended my ass... more like GREEDY! Anyway as petty as that sounds, it made my day!

Tomorrow we don't plan on doing much, its our one lazy day! Sunday we're supposed to go to my in-laws but if Nolan is still sick we may not. It's been nice having Mark home, Carter and Nolan are loving all this daddy time and daddy is too! Sucks that both Nolan and Mark have been sick, thank God we weren't in the mountains for all of that! Now that would have truly sucked! I'm sort of glad we're not up there as well, already I'm starting to feel very pregnant and I don't know how well I'd handle a 10 hour car trip. My ankles are already swollen and I run out of breath rather quickly. The air up there is much different than down here, hiking up and down the hills would have done me in! I believe in signs, I knew there was a reason we shouldn't go, guess this was it! Kinda wish it was a better reason though...