2014 :: week 45

November 2

Will actually fell asleep Sunday after church and when he woke up he wasn't feeling very well. He started crying about how much his head hurt and that he wanted his headache to go away. Unfortunately, crying does not make headaches go away. In my experience it has the opposite effect. He was really quite upset and it took some serious distraction to get him to stop. I ended up playing How the Grinch Stole Christmas on our laptop and after a few minutes he finally calmed down. It turns out he did have a low grade fever for about 36 hours.

November 3

The weather was quite pleasant on Monday and we weren't going anywhere due to Will being sick so I decided to tackle this section of our lawn that I've neglected all summer. It hasn't required much weeding in previous years, but this year things have been different. We got a lot of rain and our grass has never looked better. Unfortunately, the weeds have thrived too. Typically the front yard (area people see) gets the majority of my weeding time.

November 4

Tuesday night we went to the free build at the Lego Store. On the first Tuesday of the month they give out free mini-Lego sets to kids and have tables set up to assemble them. I wanted to go to the gym and the kids have been making such a stink about going lately, so I offered to take them to get Legos if they would go to the child watch without complaint. They actually did! And they've both really been enjoying the rockets we made.

November 5

Late Wednesday afternoon we met some friends at the park, but with the time change the sun set while we were still there. It was kind of strange to be out in the moonlight. The moon was waxing, just a day or two short of being full, and provided a fair amount of light.

November 6

Second evening in a row of park in the dark! That's what we are calling going to the park around 5pm. The temperature really dropped from the day before and I told the kids they needed to put on jackets. They insisted they were fine so I decided to let them play without (I had their jackets with me in case they got too cold). Neither one would ever put a coat on, but their little hands were so cold by the time we left!

November 7

Nana and Papa got Lauren a dance class for her birthday and the first session was Friday morning. The class is small and the teacher let Will participate too, which was really nice. Lauren was very excited to get dressed for her dance class, but didn't much care for any direction from her teacher. She just wanted to do her own interpretive dancing to all the music. Will (our resident respecter of authority and rule-follower) was appalled at Lauren's behavior and kept telling her she needed to do what the teacher said. The parachute won her over and by the end of class she was more engaged with what she was supposed to be doing.

November 8

Will and I spent a few hours at the church this morning practicing for the Primary Program. I have a lot of respect for the presidency and music leaders and all the work that it takes to write and pull these things off. I'm also really glad it only happens once a year.