Spelling; Rough night

Yesterday, I showed Brandon the progress he is making on his first grade spelling words. We were given a list of about 50 words, and I did a baseline assessment at the beginning of the summer, then we work weekly on them. He gets points for every word spelled correctly. He’s had a few weeks, and just this Saturday, he only had 6 words he needed to work on! He told me, “When I get to first grade, I will tell my teacher my mom taught me how to spell!” It put a smile on my face 🙂
We went to bed before 11pm last night, since we were planning to get up at 5am for our race. They warned of traffic, so we wanted to get there in time to avoid it and didn’t want to get stuck in it. Peyton obviously didn’t know our plan, as she woke up after midnight coughing. I heard her whining, and we thought she was just calling out to me in her sleep. I heard her moan, and said, “Ma-ma.” She usually calls me Mommy, so that’s what lead me to think she was asleep. I couldn’t sleep hearing her cough, so I got up to check on her. She was sitting upright in her bed, still moaning a bit. She also sounded like she was sobbing, or recovering from sobbing. I picked her up and she continued to cough. I asked Dave to get some honey for her, while I tried to keep her upright. Theresa had just asked me what to give a toddler for a cough, and I’d recommended honey over any OTC products that were out there. The OTC stuff wasn’t deemed as good for kids awhile back between Brandon and Peyton being born, so since that time, I’ve only been using honey, after 1 year. She took it, then I gave her some water to wash it down. I left the room. She was still tossing and turning after I’d gone back to bed, so I went into her room to lay down with her. That helped her relax a bit. She was sweaty, but not hot, so I just cooled her down a bit, and she fell asleep within 5 minutes. I was going to stay with her, but I was anxious about the race and couldn’t get comfortable in her bed. I went back to my own, and I slept again until Peyton came in again to tell us her diaper was wet. It was 345am. Ugh. So Dave went in to change her, then the next thing we knew, the alarm went on at 5am. Dave asked for a 30 minute snooze. I didn’t want to go back to sleep for 30 minutes, so I played some phone games, then got up to get ready. By this time, Brandon was getting up to go potty. 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We got some muffins since we hadn’t eaten breakfast, then we sat on the curb for awhile eating and trying to stay warm. I was trying to be efficient in using the potty, but my over-nervous/active bladder had to go before race time, for the third time. I was trying to stay hydrated, so I’d had 8 ounces of water on the drive over. It took 30 minutes to get through the throng of people waiting for the port-a-potties. There was no line at 645am when we first got there, and it was unimaginable that there would be a need for that many of them. Little did I know. I met up with Dave so we could start together, then we met up at the finish line. It was perfect weather once we started running, overcast the whole way. I had to put sunblock on at 545am, when there wasn’t even sun up, but luckily, it never got too sunny. The course was a bit crowded, with 15,000 people running. There were a few bottle necks, and in 6 miles, the crowd never really thinned out. It was the 40th running of the race, so it was nice to have gotten a “milestone” race in as our first. Last year we did the 100th B2B, and this year was the inaugural Tinkerbell and 408K. We went out to breakfast after we took the shuttle back to the car. While parking the car, I noticed one of Dave’s ex-coworkers walking down the street. We stopped to chat with her for a little bit, and met her two boys. She wished us a happy “date”, and we went in search of breakfast. We headed home after a small bite to eat. The kids had just finished up lunch, and both were happy to take a nap going to their respective rooms. Peyton fell asleep within 5 minutes, while Brandon took about 15 minutes, but he did go to sleep! I can’t remember the last time he’d actually napped, not in the car. For good reason they were tired. My mom said Peyton woke up at 6am and came down, while Brandon got up at 645am, and immediately started writing his disciplinary sentences. I even awarded him a coupon for doing so without prompting and doing them all, and even fixing the spelling mistake he’d made. They headed up north by 8am, choosing to eat breakfast with my dad versus eating here at home. Mind you, they ate cereal just as they would here, but they just wanted a change of venue. We all went out to dinner for my mom’s birthday, then we left straight to come home to get the kids bathed and in bed for a good start to the new week.