Child of the Day

Jackson has been looking forward to today for the past couple of weeks. Child of the Day at school is a pretty big deal at our house. As we all know, Jackson is a planner. So he has known for weeks what he was going to bring for snack and had a couple ideas for show and share. So when he came down with the flu this weekend he was of course very concerned about going to school and missing is big day.

Why is it that children always throw up in the middle of the night? On Sunday morning at 1:30am I was coming out of Aubrin's room after calming her from a night terror and I hear, "Mom". I went into Jackson's room and he asked me to lay with him. He said that his belly hurt a bit. A few minutes later he said we should go into the bathroom because he thought he was going to be sick. My poor little guy was right. Although, he only threw up a little and right after he seemed to be okay. I took him downstairs and we set up camp in our bed. Jackson slept the rest of the night. He woke up later in the morning and was feeling a bit better, but he said his belly still hurt.. We started slow with crackers and water- GREAT! A bit later he asked if he could have pretzels...not so great. After that he slept pretty much the rest of the day with no more vomiting. On Monday morning when I left for work Jackson was still sleeping. When he got up he told Sheila that he felt better. She went into the kitchen to make him something to eat and when she came back he was sleeping again. Again, he slept the whole day. He then realized that he missed school and was a bit devastated. As the day went on our little guy started to perk up. He said,"I need to get better if I am going to be child of the day on Wednesday."

Last night we got Jackson's snack ready and his show and share. He decided to take his baseball bag filled with his bat, glove, helmet and balls. Sheila said that he was so excited when she dropped him off at school. When I got home from work he told me that he let all of his friends hold his bat and that he told them how he goes to baseball practice with all of the "big boys."

After hearing about his day, I told the kids that I had a surprise for them. I put a bag in the middle of the living room and told them to take a peek. Jackson was so excited when he pulled a very large plastic bag filled with fish out and Aubrin was equally excited when she pulled a bag filled with snails out.
An extra science kit was delivered to our school today and these little friends needed a home. I gladly said I would take them for the kid's tanks. Aubrin, very carefully used a spoon to drop a few snails into her tank and Jackson dumped the rest into his since his is so much larger. Aubrin also picked out a few fish for her tank and again the remaining ones went into Jackson's. We found a fish that didn't make the transfer from bag to tank, so Jackson thought we should flush them. As we stood around the toilet he said, "I'm so sorry for you fishy~ bye-bye."
Jackson and Aubrin were very excited to stay up a little later so they could show daddy the new treasures in their tanks.