Mellow Days

Unfortunately, the Szolusha household has been going through yet another sick spell. The kids and Keith had sore throats, coughing, running noses, diarrhea (Phoenix), vomiting (Axel), dizziness and headaches (Keith) for the past week or so. Daddy is mostly better after missing two days of work last week. Axel is also mostly better. He had red dots around his face so we are thinking he might have had hand foot mouth disease again since it was going around school. Phoenix is the only one that is still sick with lots of congestion. I am thinking about taking her to the doctor to make sure she doesn't have an infection since it has been over a week now. 

With sickness comes rest. I have been taking advantage of early bedtimes by trying to get more rest myself since I have been feeling run down. During the day we have been enjoying fun play in the house and outside at the park. Phoenix is starting to get into playing dress up. Here she is saying "cheese" because she saw me get the phone out.

 Axel loves school and has been bringing home tons of papers. Our kitchen wall is almost entirely covered. This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago. It has some of his school work.

 Axel is continuing to work on his reading. It is getting better now that we have been consistently reading again the past 2 weeks. We took quite a long hiatus from him reading. He was a bit burned out from all of the reading we did this summer with the Magic Tree House series. Luckily, he takes school very seriously and understands that we have to read for 20 minutes a day and we take turns reading to each other on alternate days.

Another funny thing that Axel has started in the past couple of weeks is sleeping in his underwear. First it was a tshirt and underwear, but a few days ago he said he likes to have the sheet and blanket on his skin with just his underwear on. He said this helps prevent him from over heating.

Here is a cute picture of daddy and Phoenix watching part of a football game. Phoenix is such a sweet and loving girl. It melts my heart when I hear her say "Daddy", "Louis" and "Axel".

 Phoenix continues to grow in every way. She has become tall enough that she can pedal Axel's old 12 inch bike. She just started this a couple of days ago. She needs some help with momentum because she is not strong enough and her feet keep slipping off, but I would think she will be independently riding the bike in a month or so.I will capture it on video as soon as I don't have to help her anymore :)

 Phoenix is also wanting to do what all of the big kids do. Since Axel has been more physically active and wanting to play outside with his friends more, Phoenix is exposed to baseball, soccer, kickball and frisbee. When we got home today from dropping Axel off at school she said "I hit", so we went in the front yard and hit some balls.

 She is still loving to be girly and now loves to have her hair done. She typically will say "hair", "pretty" or "I pretty" and points to her hair if she wants to have her hair up.

We have a mellow weekend with some fun family time planned. We are all looking forward to the change of seasons that is upon us. It is hard to believe we are approaching the last quarter of another year.

Happy Autumn to all!