Family Date Night

If it's not one thing, it's another, right? All week long Adelia has been having major accidents, like 3 or 4 a day. I was getting so frustrated because I thought we had gotten past this. I mean, we were still having one every couple of days, if she got distracted and forgot to go potty until it was too late. But one every couple days in not 3 or 4 every day. So I started being more diligent about sending her to the bathroom every hour or so. But it didn't help. She was still having accidents in between the trips to the bathroom, and she was using the bathroom when I sent her! I couldn't figure it out. Then we were in Kohl's a couple days ago, and I took her potty first thing when we got there, and she went, and five minutes later she was asking to go again. Now, this isn't all that unusual, because she thinks using a public restroom is fun (yuck!); but I told her to hold it because we'd just been, and then I tried to distract her with something else (which usually works, because she usually doesn't really need to go, she just wants to go back to the bathroom), but she started crying and saying her body was hurting t hold it in. That was kind of weird. So I took her back to the bathroom, and told her that this time she REALLY needed to make sure she got it all out, because we weren't coming back. So she went, but sure enough, five minutes after that she was asking to go again. And again when I told her we weren't going, she started crying. She said it hurt to keep the pee in, and that sometimes it even hurt when the pee was coming out. That's when it dawned on me that she probably had a bladder infection! That would explain all the accidents, and the needing to go every five minutes.

So we took her in to see the doctor this morning, and sure enough...bladder infection. But we've got an antibiotic for her now, and already it seems to be helping her mood swings (she is SUPER dramatic when she doesn't feel well or when she gets hurt, to the point of hysterics sometimes...that was our day all of yesterday) and her number of accidents.

We spent all morning at the doctor, and by the time we got home I was beat. We didn't do much of anything as far as cleaning the house, chores, or school was concerned. Except we did do these ghost acrostic poems. We talked about what an acrostic poem was, an then we listed all the letters in ghost in a line, and then underneath each letter the kids and I listed as many descriptive words as we could think  of that started with that letter. Underneath S for example, we listed scary, spooky, see-through, silent, sneaky, silvery, scream, scare, etc. Then everyone got a ghost and got to choose what they wanted to do with their poem. Ivan especially go really into his, and after I showed a couple of examples of what an acrostic poem might look like, he came up with the words to his all on his own.

Here are the rest of ours:

When Aaron came home, we decided it would be fun to have a family date night to Jaker's, the pumpkin patch just across the street, all the activities are free, and they have some pretty cool stuff, a corn box, big slides, a hay ride, a couple hay-bale mazes, a kid friendly corn maze, and a petting zoo.

It was nice to let the kids run some of their energy out. They close at dark, so we didn't get to stay as long as the kids would have liked, but that means we'll just have to go back another day. :)

My darling Ollie. His hair really is the color of straw.