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03/06/2004 Archived Entry: "flowers and baseballs"

Tabitha sounded much better this morning. Well actually, her cough sounded just as bad, but it was way less frequent. Since she actually responded to the cough/cold medicine, we decided to let her go to her gardening class. She said she had a good time, but she wasn't her usual exuberant self after the class. Normally it takes a good 20-minutes to calm her down after she's been to a drop off class. I think it's just because she's still not 100% okay. She did end up with a cold afterall. I think she had a mild virus last week but that weakened her immune system just enough to invite in the first cold germs she encountered. So although she's been sick for over a week, it's been two different illnesses. Anyway, she's past the contagious stage, otherwise I wouldn't have let her go to the class. Even if she wasn't bouncing off the walls excited, she did ask me to sign her up for the next classes so I'll be sure to do that this week.

While Tabitha was at the arboretum, Chris and I walked the nearby mall and both called the Dodger ticket line over and over again. Opening Day seats went on sale this morning and we were determined to get some. We never did get through, even using both our phones. Once home, Chris signed onto the website and after half an hour he did get through and we were able to get our tix. Very cool! We've only been to one Opening Day so we're pretty stoked.

After lunch, Tabitha and I took Chris to work and then went to Toys R Us for their kid's activity. Then we hit Michael's for a styrofoam ball. We're going to make a model of the 3 layers of Earth. Nothing fancy, I'll let her color or paint the outside to resemble the continents and oceans (it's a small ball, so they'll probably just look like blue and green blobs) and then I'll cut a big wedge out of it and she'll color and label the inside with the different layers. After Michael's we went to the mall just to return a bathing suit to the Disney Store. It's an XS 4/5 and it was too big. My little skinny minnie. The suit she wore last year was a 3T so I shouldn't be too surprised this one didn't fit, even though she was at the top of the height and weight chart for this size. Oh well, she didn't *need* a new suit, I just thought they were cute and I had a coupon.

After we got out of the packed mall as quickly as possible, we bought a tostada at Taco Bell and took it to my husband who called and asked us to bring him a snack. Once, home, Tabitha just vegged for awhile in front of the tv since her coughing was flaring up again. After a while we did some lessons, which she enjoyed. In math we worked on the correlation between 1 dime and 10 pennies. Then we did a spelling exercise, talked about the 4 oceans and where they are in relation to the continents, and did a quick logic exercise. When I told her we were done, Tabitha's response was "Aw, can't we do some more?" So we talked about different seashore environments and called it good.

Tabitha just got out of the bath and is sitting down to a late dinner before I get her off to bed. Tomorrow she'll be spending the day with Chris's parents and he and I are going to do absolutely nothing. Together.