weekly 2014.11.2

Poor Miss Bekah has been sick this week. She missed school Wednesday and Thursday but seemed to feel better on Friday. She said she felt better but she was so white faced, I had my doubts. But she had no fever so I let her go enjoy Halloween at school. Then yesterday afternoon, she was getting grumpier and grumpier and sure enough, we were at Hannah’s baptism and realized she was burning up again with fever and had swollen lumps on both sides of her neck. She slept until 10 this morning and about 4 hours later took a nap. I hope she starts feeling better soon, she’s not exactly a suffer in silence type of girl!

Harry had his State Fair activity on Thursday. He was given Utah county and had to make a shoe box sized float showing all the county wonders. I let him do it all by himself, and I had to chuckle when I saw that his (paper) LaVell Edwards stadium took up 80% of the box. (poor UVU!) He had fun being Nacho Libre for Halloween. At 6:30 that morning I ran to WalMart to buy black hairspray because I felt like the school really did mean that they wouldn’t allow masks, and a blond Nacho just wasn’t going to cut it.  The Halloween aisle at WalMart looked like it had been hit by plague of locusts, not a can of colored spray paint to be found. So I had to settle with a super cheesy, horribly made black afro wig. I guess that’s what $7 buys these days. But it did the job, and he was happy to be the only Nacho at school.

Spencer spent a lot of time working on his Halloween wizard costume, complete with pvc/paper mache staff with a glow-in-the-dark crystal ball.  But then the school emailed and said they would prefer the kids not wear elaborate costumes. So at the last minute he decided to be Indiana Jones for school and a wizard for trick-or-treating. This is his last year for trick-or-treating, and a bunch of his friends wanted him to go with them, but we’ve decided trick-or-treating is a family event, not a friend event. Stick took the kids out for round one while I stayed home and made mummy dogs (cancer sticks, KT) and then I joined them for round two. Even though I want to hate trick-or-treating, I usually love it. Especially when the weather is so nice, you hardly even need a jacket, like this year and two years ago. There’s just something fun about walking around our neighborhood, with the kids all so happy, seeing all our nice friends/neighbors. So let it be known in the history of my life, that I like trick-or-treating. Someone please remind me of that next year, ok?

Thomas was excited to wear his leather jacket for Halloween. He slicked up his hair, borrowed Rachel’s aviators and then spent a long time admiring himself in the mirror. He would like to wear the leather jacket all the time, but Rachel and Aaron told him that would not be socially acceptable. Thomas was also sick at the beginning of the week. He came home from school early on Monday, throwing up and was sick through Tuesday afternoon. He spent his sick hours watching “The Fighting Sullivans” and “Pride of the Yankees” which I had happened to rent from the library. Both are awesome classic movies that we love.

Aaron said “no thanks” to Halloween this year. He and Rachel went to the football game on Friday with their group of friends and then afterwards they watched a scary movie with the friends. That was about the extent of his Halloween excitement. He’s made some great progress on his eagle project, a compass course that will be along the Jordan River Parkway. The end is in sight, yay!

Rachel had fun being goth girl, “Raven” for Halloween. She was a big hit at school. People were pretty shocked because it was so out of character for her. Even the cashier guy at the dollar store asked her if her parents were ok with her buying the (fake) nose rings. I thought it would be funny if she did it again for school tomorrow so people would think it was her new thing, and not just a Halloween thing. She did not think it would be funny. Weird.

Over and out.