A little froggy

I'm in the last stages of recovering from a good chest cold that I picked up from Kyle. I started coughing on Sunday the 17th, and have pretty much been coughing since then... Things are getting better, it always takes me a while to clear out my lungs after one of these. My voice is pretty much toast right now though - which makes it really fun when I'm on a conference call and have to do a lot of talking. Monday night I read to the kids, and had no voice after that...

At least I'm off the cough medicine. Now, just to get back into the bike-to-work routine (which isn't helped by the 50% chance of thunderstorms for tomorrow...).

What I did on my day off...

Yesterday I took a vacation day (well, most of a day - I still had a conference call to do, but that overlapped with Elizabeths gymnastics practice, so I didn't hold us up) and we went to the Six Flags Great America theme park for a day of junk food and exciting rides. Everybody was big enough to go on at least one roller coaster (the Whizzer), and lots of other rides. The picture above was us almost up to the loading area for the Whizzer - don't the kids all look so excited?!

The excitement got to be a little too much for John - he fell asleep in the wagon while we were waiting for Momma and Jessi to ride the Demon (a looping coaster). There are actually a lot of rides for kids 42 inches and up, and Kyle, Elizabeth and Jessi are all in that range, so they could do some pretty cool things.


























We also found lots of walk-around characters. Jessi wanted pictures with everyone she saw - Wags the Dog, Catwoman, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Sylvester. Kyle finally overcame his shyness and went to hug Sylvester. Sylvester even came over to get John involved, making a special point to come to him and get him laughing.

I think that everybody had tons of fun - we didn't get much whining until we were ready to leave - around 8:30 at night (well past everybody's bedtime).