Castle

Thursday evening Weston was complaining about back pain. He was screaming in pain over it which is unusual for him. The last time he was in that much pain he had RSV and was complaining about chest pains. So I brought him right into the pediatrician. By the time we got there he had a fever and was complaining of a sore throat and stomach ache. The other pains had subsided. The pedi thought it was probably a virus. Then when I got out of the office I called my mother and she informed me that Hopeville Pond had been shut down due to high bacterial levels!!! That was the day after the kids were with Kris camping and swimming in it. Ugh! So needless to say I was in a full blown panic. I called pulmonary and he wasn't worried about this cold being related to the bacteria.

Friday we were supposed to go to the beach but due to Weston not feeling great the day before we opted to stay at home even though he felt better. We went to Target and they both got a toy (which cost me way more than the beach but oh well). Target was having a summer black Friday so they were all good deals. Plus the kids played with the toys for the rest of the day. By 4:00pm, Ella had just about enough of being in the house. We had picked this week to lay low and not do much and we were all getting a little bit of cabin fever. So I called my parents and ordered a pizza to bring over there. Weston and Ella had their last night of Vacation bible school and they were performing a little concert. We went to the concert after dinner. It was hysterical. Weston who had only actually go to VBS twice was up front. He had the biggest smile on his face and was hamming it up for everyone. When the instructor twirled her hand in a circle all the other children turned around in a circle...Weston just imitated her. LOL! Then he caught on and turned around but stopped with his back turned to the audience. He kept doing the motions while backwards. It was priceless! I SO wish I had brought the video camera. Ella did great too. One of the songs she was supposed to step and tap her feet while singing and doing hand motions. She couldn't manage all three. She just kept looking down at her feet. Next to her was Emma who is a dancer and was all into the moves. Too cute! They did a really great job. I will definetly be sending the kids next year. That was awesome! Sort of nice to have something for them to do at night time.

Saturday we woke up and I knew that we had to get out of the house or else the fighting would begin and never end. To my surprise they actually got along for most of the morning and weren't so motivated to get out of the door. I was thinking of bringing them to the dinosaur place but opted for a cheaper route. We went to Gilettes Castle. $8 for all of us....can't beat that! Well free would have been better but the library pass was checked out. Oh well, still better than the $60 it would have cost us at the dinosaur place! It was HOT! The kids were pretty miserable at first. Usually I can count on Ella to be excited no matter what the weather so that was odd, but we tried to get in the castle as fast as possible to get out of the sun. I've been to the castle twice before. Once as a child and once when the kids were really young. One of these days maybe I'll go when I can actually read and listen about the historic value! LOL! We just walked around and the kids went from room to room. I tried to teach them some things. Soon we were back outside though. The view is spectacular! They didn't want to look because it was too hot. Then they found the fountain. The sign read something like "Leave the splashing to the fountain". I wasn't sure what that meant but it said nothing about not getting in, so I let them take off their shoes and get in. Well apparently that is what "no splashing" meant. We got asked nicely to get out. We decided to walk down to the river where there would be more shade and maybe the kids could put their feet in. The walk down is pretty. The beach down there was even more beautiful. It looked like something tropical. You would never know that you were on the Connecticut River. The kids ofcoarse decided that sticking their feet in was just for wimps and sat in the water fully clothed. Before I knew it they were drenched. There was also a sign that said "no swimming" but there were other kids swimming and technically my kids weren't "swimming". I was sort of grossed out by the water given that Hopeville had just been shut down but they were already in and again it was so HOT! Plus they were having the times of their lives. While we were walking up the hill Ella started complaining that her stomach hurt her. The virus had hit her. We tried to get to our car as quickly as we could to get out of the heat and drove over to a nice shaded picnic area. None of us ate much due to the humidity and Ella not feeling well. As soon as we were packing up rain clouds came in and it was gently sprinkling. We got in the car just in time.

Last night we drove Adam to the train station. We were going to go out to eat but Ella was really not feeling well again. We did however get to see Adam's train leave which was cool for the kids.