Eclectic Concert Series

Henry had a rough start to his week.  He woke up Monday morning with a fever and a stomach bug. 

He took several naps throughout the day and laid around a lot.  He was feeling better at dinner time and was not too happy that I wouldn't let him eat teriyaki chicken with the rest of us.  He kept asking for the torquoise chicken, the tepenyaki chicken, and a few other T-with-random-syllables chicken.  He got applesauce, bread, and soup.  By bedtime his fever had spiked again, but he made it through the night without incident and woke up the next morning in nearly full energy.  Unfortunately, he passed his fever on to me and by Wednesday morning, I felt like a Mack truck had hit me.  The kids were very helpful to keep me in bed (so they wouldn't have to do school).  They actually really were very helpful.  They made me a Get Well card and they told me that if I ever needed them, I should set the timer on my phone for one second so it would go off right away and they'd come get me whatever I needed.  I finally forced myself out of bed mid-morning and once up, I felt a lot better.  They still got the day off of school.  Thankfully, no one else got sick and we're all doing well now.

For whatever reason, Friday turned out to be a really rough day.  The type of day when you look back on it and think, Not my proudest moment.  Being the bad day that it was, Caroline fell asleep on the drive to karate.  She slept for a good 45 minutes and she did not wake up joyful and rested.  She was a bit on the cranky side.  She tore right into me, "You ruined my life."
Me - How did I ruin it?  What did I do?
C - There are so many things.
E - Can you name just one so we can talk about it and try to solve it?
C - No.

I'm pretty sure this is a sign that her teenage years are going to be a breeze.

We had Go Western Night at Awana. Our little gunslingers dressed up accordingly.  It was also Awana Store, so they came home with all their little plastic toys that they love so much.  They each had about 163 points to spend.  Henry used 70 points to buy a full size Snickers bar.  I was pretty happy for that.  Consumables are always nice.  You don't step on them on the floor later.


The boys had their Derby Car Work Day at church Saturday morning.  We had all planned on going this year, but Caroline ended up sleeping in until 9 a.m. on Saturday!!  So the boys left without us.  Since Josiah doesn't forget anything, they went to Whataburger for breakfast beforehand, because Josiah reminded Todd that they have gone there every year on this particular day.  Tradition!  They built good cars this year.  Todd said they were both getting first and second place in the trial runs.  We never make it to the actual Derby because it's always on an Awana night, so I'm glad they got some success at the trials.

While the boys were away, Caroline and I ran up to the library to get our books on hold.  While  driving back home, she read most of this Pip book to me!  She spelled out a few "big" words, but it was so exciting to hear her read it.  She's coming along so well.  She even tried to read a phone text over Todd's shoulder today.
   

The neighborhood kids were at their father's house this weekend, so it was much quieter that it has been lately.  Saturday afternoon left us slightly bored, so we watched the classic, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.  The kids all liked it, although as soon as Henry saw the giant scorpion, he let me know I'd have to sit outside his door for him to go to bed that night.  Todd and I reminisced at all the old fashioned stuff like corded phones, the 1989 VW Golf, lots of wallpaper, and big, fat TVs.

I stayed home from church today, just to give the sickness a bit more time to get out of my body.  Henry graciously said he'd stay home with me.  Since our church live streams their services, and since it was 9:30 in the morning, we got our provisions ready.  We had some coffee, some spaghetti, and some Jesus. 

We have our CC family presentation coming up this week.  For the presentation, we're going to pretend to play Pictionary, but have the pictures already drawn.  The audience has to guess which picture belongs to which family member.  The kids each chose three of their favorite things.  One of Henry's favorite things was to read, so he drew a picture of himself reading a book.  He wrote War and Peace on the book, but then he was asking me about how long the book was and information about Tolstoy.  We looked it up online and saw that in its original publication it was 1,225 pages.  Henry (in all seriousness) said, 'Wow.  I bet it took a long time to illustrate that."  Oh, Henry.  You're so cute.

This evening we were invited to an eclectic concert series.  It started off with the "Whoa" song from The Greatest Showman, followed by KISS's Rock and Roll All Night, which transitioned into Louis Armstrong's What A Wonderful World.  They had a finale of a made-up song which included bits of KISS's Shout It Out Loud.  There was guitar throwing and head banging and fake-trumpet blowing.  We only recorded the second half of the concert, because once Josiah broke out as Louis Armstrong, I had to get his "raspy" voice on video.  We have quite the performers.

As I write this, the kids are all asleep in their own beds and we're cautiously hoping for an all-night-long sleep.  We started the movie Jumanji this afternoon, but didn't finish it.  We had paused for dinner and then the neighborhood kids came back and wanted to play for a bit this evening.  So, we watched a scary-for-a-kid movie and stopped halfway through when it's still scary and there hasn't been a resolution.  I'm pretty sure Henry will be running to our bed before the morning. 
This coming week will be filled with all the usual school and activities, and most likely afternoons with the neighbors.