Wednesday December 7, 2005
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr! It is cold outside today. We finally got some snow though! It is still snowing, so we have yet to see if it will be enough to play in. It is days like this I wish we weren’t on the north end of the building though.
We had a rough start to the morning today. Zane woke up, after 12 hours of sleep, and I couldn’t get him to do anything other than lay around. I kept adding clothes and blankets to him because he seemed cold and I thought he might just be laying around because of that. About 2 hours after he woke up, he suddenly jumped up and threw up everywhere. Zach had just gotten up at that point, but took Zane to the bathroom to clean him up and get him into some new clothes while I cleaned up the mess. After that, Zane seemed fine. Zach thinks it is the ham that he and Zane ate since he had a really bad stomach ache last night after eating also. I didn’t eat the ham. Boy am I happy I didn’t!
It has been about 4 hours and Zane is still appearing to be himself again, so I am speculating that was the end instead of the beginning of feeling yucky. It does explain why he went to sleep so much earlier last night than usual and slept for so long. I followed him to bed because I expected him to wake up at 6-8am at the latest and I didn’t want to face that alone without some sleep. It was entirely too early for Zach to go to bed if he wanted to be alert for his tests tonight, so it was a strange night and morning. I can’t remember the last time we went to sleep at different times and I am almost never awake before him.
Other Zane notes:
Zane has really been fascinated with his coloring/activity books the last week or so. He completed all his mazes in his little maze book (beginner mazes) and done almost every activity in his VeggieTales coloring book that he is capable of. (no word finds or crossword puzzles, obviously). We even did one of those ‘code word’ things (easy version of a crypt-o-gram you find in newspapers). He couldn’t read the results, and I went ahead and wrote the letters for him this time around, but it was so cute to hear him say “5 ekes (equals) E” and pointing to where I should write the “e” on the line, then going to the next letter to decode it. If we hadn’t done all of them in the book, I would have him write the letters next time.
The only thing that is driving me crazy is that book has a bunch of those ‘grid pictures’ – there is a small picture in a 4×4 grid, and then a large 4×4 grid you are supposed to reproduce the picture on to. The picture is too complicated for him to do it, but he insists on me drawing it for him. If I don’t do it right away, he starts explaining to me how to do it (“draw nose this piece” (square) ) Unless he discovers that he has TWO copies of that particular coloring book, I think I have drawn the last picture in the book as of an hour ago. Whew. Of course, he will probably go back to bringing me his “Harold and the Purple Crayon”, an actual purple crayon, and a notebook to draw some of the pictures from that for him. *sigh* I am working to get HIM to do it, but have not yet found success in that. When Zach isn’t busy with work, he also gets him to color pictures for him, directing which pencils/crayons he should use for each little area. We are able to get him to color things himself, but sometimes he wants to just watch us.
*edited to add*
He did end up trying to get me to draw Harold and the Purple crayon again. 
Daddy intercepted and drew for him instead. (thank you Zach)
