Kids Health Update

   Starting out with Caden, he's been keeping us on our toes.  He is been complaining about his stomach hurting almost everyday but not all day long.  We think it is the Gluten in his body because we have not been really watching that part of the diet.  We have since been detoxing gluten out of his body which means not feeding any gluten to him.  If you don't think it's hard just look up the foods you can't have with that diet.  He has been doing good with it and it seems to have helped.  Hopefully in a month or so we can slowly introduce gluten back into his diet.
   Colin just had tubes put in his ears as I wrote about before.  He seems to have no issues with it so far and his checkup is tomorrow with Dr. Dejti.  Fingers crossed.
   Kendra and Bren went to Evansville to Dr. Kalayla for her asthma checkup.  He said she was doing very well and he wants her to stay that way.  He didn't change much with her meds and would see her again in April.  I think they did a little shopping and ate at the Olive Garden.  The two boys got Angry Birds shirts and the girl got and OmNom doll(Don't feel bad; I don't know what it is either).  Nothing like happy kids!!!

The Mask

Monday night, about 8:30 PM, I am out at mom and dad's place.  We had just finished cutting pork off the bone for the night and I was trying to teach mom how to record DVDs with her recorder. I get a call from Kendra, who I thought should be in bed, she was wanting paint from grandma for a project.  When I get home with the paint I saw she was working on a paper plate.  She said she was painting a mask.

She worked on it till about 9:30 PM that evening (I think it was due the next day)then went to bed.  The next morning Bren took some pictures of her with it because she was not up yet when I left for work.

Later that evening we asked her what the mask was all about and she said it was an African mask for Social Studies.  I just they had masks for plays, parties, and funerals for representing someone.  Sounds kinda cool.  She did a good job on her and she said hers was for a party(Of course).
Good Job, Kendra!

Volleyball!!

This is the time of year for me to start playing volleyball on Sundays.  I would say that volleyball is the sport that I like to play the most.  Today we had two matches and since I haven't played since spraining my ankle last March, I didn't know how it would go.  Well after some good hits and some bad, I am definitely going to be sore but no ankle pain. WOOHOO!!  I am on a pretty good team of 4 gals and 2 guys; and the gals can outshine me any day, so I have to work hard to keep my status.  This group likes to play for fun and that's the group I want to play with.  I am sure I will get to play several weeks of good volleyball, let's just hope the soreness will dwindle down as them weeks pass!

Last night's Movie night

Of course this is my working weekend so I do get to see the children as much as other weekends.  After work went to church then the family went out to eat at the Country Griddle.  We then came home and found a movie on Netflix.  "Mars needs Moms" was the movie we chose to watch.  It was an animated movie about martians taking a boy's mom and his adventure rescuing her.  Very good movie, it kept the kid's attention throughout the movie.  I recommend the movie to anyone.  After that we watched the 4 Dreamworks Christmas specials.(Shrek,etc.) just for Caden. A full days work and a couple of movies can tucker out this old man so I went to bed.