Playing, Skating, and Ticks, Oh My!

Another great week filled with family fun has flown by!  Daddy had a work meeting in Seattle Wed through Friday and the kids (and Mommy) missed him terribly!  Ayson wanted to read the book "Daddy Loves Me" just about every night :)

The only "bump" during the week was that Mommy found an engorged tick on Addie!  Ugh!  She is now on antibiotics and hopefully that will take of everything.   Unfortunately, little kids can't get the "good/strong" antibiotics and the Dr said that little is know about Lyme and other tick diseases in kids...not very reassuring.  Mommy has no problems with snakes, most spiders, and even cockroaches/palmetto bugs (during our SC stint) but ticks are just too much for Mommy to handle!

Ayson reading his weekly school book on Tuesday.  This week was "My Cat."  "My cat likes to run on the grass, My cat likes to run up the hill, My cat likes to..."  Ayson told Mommy that his favorite sentence was "My cat likes to sleep on my lap."  The kids are constantly trying to coax Mason to sit on their lap (with little success as the kids won't sit still).


Daddy left mid week for a meeting so we 3 had fun at home.
We played games


and colored.
Check out Ayson's great shark picture that he drew free hand!


He also drew robots for us all to color!  Thanks, Ayson!


On Friday night, there was free skating for the elementary school kids at the Onondaga Nation ice rink, so we went with Sunshine and Khanlen.
This was Addie and Ayson's FIRST time on skates!  Mommy hadn't skated in years and it was so much fun!


Ayson had a BLAST and did not cry once or get discouraged when he fell.






Addie was not so certain about skating but Mommy was able to coax Addie to go around the rink 1 and a half times :)  Addie's skates are hand-me-downs from a friend...the skates had never been worn before!


Ugh.  While getting Addie ready for bed Friday night, Mommy found an engorged tick on Addie's scalp.  Of course Daddy was not home and Mommy did not have ANYONE to freak out at :) Mommy was mostly freaking out (internally as she did not want to alarm the kids) that the tick was not found sooner...we had not really been outside since Sunday other than a little trampoline time and walk around the yard (on the short grass in the lawn) during the week.    Luckily Mommy did find the tick as when Mommy felt the "bump" on Addie's head and parted Addie's hair, the tick just fell off (it was done feeding...great).  Mommy has a local friend who was diagnosed with multiple co-occurring diseases she contracted when she was bit by a tick and infected with Lyme disease. It has been a life long battle for Mommy's friend :(

Mommy wanted to share the gross tick picture with everyone...to gross you all out too.  If Mommy must suffer, ALL will suffer!
SO, first thing Saturday morning, we 3 went to the Drs so that Addie could get antibiotics.  


On Saturday afternoon, Ayson had a play date with a Emmett, a child in Pre-K and the after school program.  Emmett lives just down the road but far enough away that we have never run into Emmett and his family.  While talking to Emmett's Mom, Mommy found out that they also like to kayak at Labrador Pond and hike to Tinker Falls (our favorite places)!