Bertram Interview (Almost 8 years old)

 1. What is something mommy always says to you?  Clean your room

2. What makes you happy? Pokemon!

3. What makes you sad?  No screens

4. What makes you laugh?  Potty jokes

5. How old are you?  7.5, about 8

6. How old is Mommy?  38

7. How old is Daddy? 48

8. What is your favorite thing to do?  Play with Wooper

9. Who is your best friend?  Bridget

10. What do you want to be when you grow up? Someone who works for Nintendo, drawing Pokemon

11. What are you really good at?  Playing Switch

12. What are you not very good at?  Doing math

13. What did you do today?  Nothing interesting, watching tv

14. What is your favorite food?  Pizza

15. What is your favorite song? Thing on the Base Amp

16. What do you want for your birthday this year? A Quagsire for Wooper to play with

17. What is your favorite animal? Cat

18. What is love? Love is being nice

19. What does daddy do for work?  Work

20. Where do you live? (Says address)

21. Where is your favorite place to go? Grandma and Gramps

22. What is yourfavourite colour?  Orange

23. What is your favourite movie?  Detective Pikachu

Bronwyn Interview (almost) 4.5

 1. What is something mommy always says to you?  You say “I’ll play with my unicorn toys”

2. What makes you happy? When I kiss you I feel happy

3. What makes you sad?  When we can’t get some toys. I want some new unicorn toys

4. What makes you laugh?  When I was happy, that made me laugh. HAHAHA

5. How old are you?  4

6. How old is Mommy?  I do not know if you’re old

7. How old is Daddy? I not know

8. What is your favorite thing to do?  Play with toys

9. Who is your best friend?  My best friends are at school

10. What do you want to be when you grow up?  I not want to be anything when I grow up

11. What are you really good at?  I'm good at playing with my unicorn toys

12. What are you not very good at?  I’m not very good at getting Bertram's toys

13. What did you do today? I did not do anything (She went to school)

14. What is your favorite food?  Maybe pizza? (She doesn't like pizza)

15. What is your favorite song? Maybe a unicorn song?

16. What do you want for your birthday this year? Presents and cake

17. What is your favorite animal? I want a horse that has a horn. Wait, unicorn!

18. What is love? Love is a kiss

19. What does daddy do for work? Daddy does his work at work

20. Where do you live? I live in our house

21. Where is your favorite place to go? To the hotel

Still at home

 Despite testing negative twice, Aaron tested positive with the home test yesterday.  So we all have/had it.  

Today is day 10 for Bronwyn.  So, as long as she doesn't have a fever, she can go to school on Monday.  The rest of us are a few days behind her.  I think today is day 9 for me.  I'm feeling well enough.  I still have a cough and a little post nasal drip, but no fever.  According to the CDC I'm free to roam as long as I wear a mask.  I think I'll go to the library.  I got three books, I read one and I can't get into the other two.

Aaron is still lethargic. It doesn't help that Bertram doesn't sleep well, and Bron gets up really early.

There really isn't anything else to report.  We're all going a little crazy.  I haven't cleaned well in almost 2 weeks.  It's too hard to do with everyone here.  I have been weeding again.  I need to put out some seeds too.  

And then came Covid

 Starting on last Tuesday night, Bron had a fever.  Getting a covid test around here has been next to impossible.  Fortunately, the school district offers free tests for students and employees.  Both kids stayed home. We got Bron tested on Wednesday, and Bert on Thursday.  Bron was positive, Bert was negative. We still kept Bert home for the rest of the week.  Bron was sick on Wednesday, decent fever, tired, little cough.  After Wednesday, she bounced back pretty much to normal.  Friday afternoon, it hit me pretty suddenly.  Tired, achy.  I checked Kaiser, and they magically had testing appointments available that afternoon.  Aaron and I got tested, since the kids had just gotten their tests.  Friday night my fever went up to 102.7.  I took medicine and went to bed.  I was in bed pretty much all day on Saturday.  Sunday, I was probably operating at 75%.  During this time, both kids had low fevers off and on.  And our home tests arrived from Amazon.  Early this morning, Aaron and I finally got our test results back.  I was positive, he was negative.  That was a surprise.  Aaron isn't feeling great, but he tested negative, and retested this morning with the home test, still negative.  So I'm not sure what is wrong with him, but I guess it's not covid.  Which is good, because we're out of food.  He's at Safeway right now.  The other surprise this morning was that Bertram was positive.  Those home tests are pretty great.  (They are the type of test that show if you're still contagious).

I'm still a little sick.  Tired, sore throat, stuffy nose. But really it was very mild in our house.  I assume it's a combination of Omicron flavour, and everyone (except Bronwyn) being vaxxed (and boosted for Aaron and I).  

I was waiting for this to happen, I knew we wouldn't be able to skate by.  Masked are required for both of them at school, but I know Bronwyn isn't the best able keeping hers on.  Plus both kids are always touching their faces and mouths.  

So we're all going stir crazy.  And to add to the craziness, both kids have been up since well before 5.  I'm not actually sure how early.  I know Bronwyn was in bed with Aaron and was awake off and on from 1:30(?).  I went in Bertram's room to sleep and he was up from probably 3(?).  So we'll probably attempt some quiet time.  I got up with the kids, (we got out of bed at 4:45, Bronwyn joined us shortly there after), and let Aaron sleep til almost 9.  I was dozing on the couch, and Bronwyn swallowed a lego.  So I'm not winning mom of the year any time soon.

A day in the life

The kids had their biannual dentist visit this week.  It was fortunate that Aaron was off of work that day, because it's hard to manage the two of them at the same time (God bless you people with 3+ kids!).  I took Bertram, because he responds better with me, and Bron doesn't really care much.  Last time it was a struggle to get anything done.  Bertram was apprehensive, and asked a lot of questions.  But he did great.  He let them do everything they needed, except for x-rays, which we'll try next time.  He is going to need braces, which we had assumed. So we have an appointment with the orthodontist in a month.  He has his heart set on Invisaline.  I'm fine with that, because tooth hygiene is way easier without metal braces.  But I'm worried he'll lose the retainer (or whatever it's called), because he's not sure responsible with stuff.  We have good dental, which includes orthodontics, so I'm not too concerned about cost.  Though, in reality, I have no clue how much it costs.  I guess we'll see.  Both Aaron and I had braces.  I got my first set (to correct my overbite) in 3rd or 4th grade.  Then the full set until I was 15.  I was/am really good about wearing my retainers so my teeth still look nice.  Anyway, he was very compliant, and I was happy with his behaviour.  (I had told  him that if he wasn't well behaved he'd have to go back to school after the dentist, but if he behaved he could have the rest of the day off.)
Bronwyn's appointment was fairly quick, because she was a little combative.  Aaron had to hold her, and pin in her arms and legs.  But they checked her teeth, and gave her fluoride treatment (which is what I wanted most for her visit). 

We didn't have ABA that day because our tech was awaiting a second negative covid test.  We decided to go for a hike.  We did the same route we did a few days previous.  Bron was not into it that day, and went very slowly.  We got to the trailhead (about a mile), and turned around.  She had to be carried the whole way down (which is better than up).  Bertie did well on the hike and wanted to continue (like we had the other day), but it was not meant to be.