Let's Take Turns Being Sick

This is week 4 at UCLA. Nobody is sick this week, but Rudy is out of town....  I mention the fact that nobody is sick because this is what the past three weeks of my final quarter at UCLA have been:

Friday Week 1: Daycare is closed; Rudy had to come home early so that I could attend two classes at 1 and 2

Monday Week 2: Dina has pink eye.  I naively believe that this three-year old will be quiet in my PhySci class if she has earbuds and a tablet.  But of course she laughs at the funny parts in Mulan, gets mad when I tell her to be quiet, and gets highly impatient when the tablet runs out of battery.

Dina, at the Dr's checking my heart

 

In front of Royce Hall

 

If there's something certain in this world, it is that Dina 

WILL have her nap, even on a city bus

 

 

Monday Week 3: Elena has pink eye, I stayed home.  At around 12, when I'm trying to decide whether or not to take her to school with me, I get a call from the daycare with the news that Abel has vomited and cannot return until he has been vomit-free for 24 hours.

 Elena at the Dr's

Tuesday Week 3: I cannot miss another day of class, so I take Abel with me. I make sure that the tablet is on 100% battery and bring my own iPad just in case.  But of course I forget the earbuds.  But he behaves anyway, yay.  I think it might have helped that I also bribed him with cookies.  (Don't judge me!)

Abel and Dina LOVE the city bus

We stopped by the office where I work and Abel got some "pops"

 

 "So which one am I gonna get when I'm big?"

 

 "Ok, now give me a coin because I have to wish for something"

The next day and every other day in Week 3 Abel and Dina kept on trying to convince me to take them to "my school."  Abel even tried saying that he learns more at my school than at his and that's why I should take him.  Today, Dina told me that she has pink eye so I have to take her to my school.  Nice try.