On Thursday night, Sarah was awoken to Elle doing a fake cry. She let it go for a couple of minutes, but when she didn't stop, Sarah went in Elle's room to see what was the matter. Elle was shaking. She had also been buried under all of her covers and being that it was very warm out that day and evening, she was probably very hot. Sarah asked if Elle had had a bad dream and Elle said yes. Sarah asked what Elle had seen in her dream and she said, "a caterpillar." Elle then said, "he had a bad day," which was, quite honestly, pretty cute. Elle said the caterpillar had been big and very hungry. It reminded Sarah of the Eric Carle book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. In the book, the caterpillar eats more and more food throughout the course of the week and gets very big. At the end of the book he turns into a butterfly. We hadn't read the book recently, though.
Getting back to that night- Elle came into bed with Sarah and had to have an arm or a leg touching Sarah in order to "feel safe." In the morning, Elle said the caterpillar had been on her hair. She said that daddy would catch the caterpillar. When Elle got some milk that morning, her cup just so happened to have a caterpillar on it, which she pointed out. Elle did note, though, that this was a small caterpillar. Since the bad dream, Elle has been talking about caterpillars quite a bit.
Patrick left for Oklahoma City early Thursday morning. He is expected to return in the wee hours of the morning on Monday. Then, he'll be back for four days and on Friday will go to Wichita. We miss him when he is out of town. We've been going to the park a lot and running a number of errands while he has been out of town. Since we had thunderstorms and lots of rain last night, we probably won't go to the park today since everything is wet.
We put the bike trailer to use again this week. Somehow, Sarah managed to pull the kids. It was quite a work-out. They went for a 30-35 minute bike ride. Each slight incline felt like a mountain. If you think about it, the trailer plus the two kids is probably a good 75+ pounds! Needless to say, when they returned from the bike trip, Sarah felt like she was going to die. She put on a movie so she could recuperate! I guess it's true when people say, "If you don't like the weather in Kansas, wait 5 minutes." Last weekend we went from snow to warm, open-window, biking weather this weekend.
On another note, Jay took around 8 steps on his own yesterday! We are looking forward to having him walk because as it gets warmer, it's hard to have him outside. He crawls around and gets absolutely filthy and sticks all kinds of nasty things in his mouth. So, it will be nice for him to be up on feet instead of crawling around in the dirt! He's been walking a lot with the scooter we have, but his 8 steps was the most he's taken by himself by far!
Yesterday we also went to Einstein's for breakfast. They already have out their green bagels for St. Patrick's Day, which is fun for the kids. We may have to get some more before St. Patty's Day. Also, for anyone who is a fan- the new U2 cd came out this week. Sarah bought it on the release date, and we've been trying to listen it when we can. It seems pretty good so far.
On Thursday night, Sarah was awoken to Elle doing a fake cry. She let it go for a couple of minutes, but when she didn't stop, Sarah went in Elle's room to see what was the matter. Elle was shaking. She had also been buried under all of her covers and being that it was very warm out that day and evening, she was probably very hot. Sarah asked if Elle had had a bad dream and Elle said yes. Sarah asked what Elle had seen in her dream and she said, "a caterpillar." Elle then said, "he had a bad day," which was, quite honestly, pretty cute. Elle said the caterpillar had been big and very hungry. It reminded Sarah of the Eric Carle book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. In the book, the caterpillar eats more and more food throughout the course of the week and gets very big. At the end of the book he turns into a butterfly. We hadn't read the book recently, though. 
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