lazy

I love lazy mornings. Daddy had to go to work, but not until 9, and the rest of us got to sleep in. I got up and worked on some projects and let Rachel and her brothers sleep in. When I went in to wake her up she was sitting up in bed looking at a book. She had gotten out of bed, got a book, and crawled back in bed where it was warmer to look at it. That made me so happy! She will usually just lay in bed until I come and get her out. I immediately smiled and told her how awesome her book is and tried to make sure she knew that was a good thing to do, but she somehow has it in her head that I didn't want her to do that. As soon as I came in the room she started saying "No. It's my book. Not your book. You're rude. Go. My Book." I tried so hard to let her see me smile and I even tried to get her to show me what she was looking at and made sure I didn't take the book from her, but I'm not sure it got through. She still seemed to be in a fairly good mood all through breakfast, however. She ate her food just fine and even said "please" when she wanted more. Then she soaked for awhile in the bathtub. Most of the time I'm in a hurry to bathe her at night, so when I can I like to let her relax. As I said earlier, her muscles are so frequently tight, I like to give her a chance to relax them, and then I try to help her stretch them a bit. Hopefully it helps.

Yesterday after school she seemed tired. She kept saying her knee ("me") hurt. I couldn't see anything wrong with it, but I'm keeping an eye on it. She scraped it a year or more ago and there's still a little bit of a mark where the scrape was and that's where she says it hurts, so I don't know if she's remembering, or if there is something really bothering her. She said it several times, so I guess I'll just see if she brings it up again today. I could take her to the doctor and say something like "Rachel says her knee hurts, but she might just be remembering something that happened a year ago. She won't respond properly if you try to find out where and if it hurts, you just have to try and guess by facial expression. She has a very high tolerance for pain, but she's kind of ticklish. Tickling her doesn't always make her laugh, sometimes it makes her face look like you're hurting her. Could you please figure out what if anything is wrong with her knee?" I'm so grateful for good and patient doctors who really care and understand. We've been fortunate to find a lot of them. Hopefully the knee thing will just go away this time.

We went out last night to take her brother to a friend's house and to get a few groceries. She wasn't excited or unhappy about it. It was starting to snow and she wasn't very fond of it blowing in her face, but other than that she just kind of followed us around. I ended up putting her to bed a little early because she seemed tired. Usually when she can sleep in I let her stay up a little bit later, but staying up isn't fun when you'd rather be sleeping.

We were supposed to have a blizzard last night. Some of the freeways were shut down and businesses closed early. All around us there was snow and wind and whiteout conditions. We had a few flakes. The only city around that had zero inches of snow. I was kind of disappointed. If it's going to be this cold outside, there should be snow.