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.

An Old Hobby

After a pretty good day at work, I came home and did some work that I haven't done in a while.  Tearing apart electronic equipment!! Years back, I worked at Orion as a electronic technician repairing TV's, VCR's, and Camcorders.  I try and mess around with electronics every chance I get.  Tonight I decided to look at a camcorder that the Dorn's may have dropped? or the screen quit working.  I started taking apart piece at a time and tried to keep screws straight.

About the time I got it all apart, the Dorn's show up so I tried to get Maddox to put it back together for me.  He looked at it like I was crazy for taking it apart.(I don't think Larry and Deann was going to jump in and put it back together either).  I looked all over to find the problem with it but had no luck.  I did get it back together with no problem.

At times I do miss working at Orion and the friends that I made there.  All my troubleshooting skills came from that place and it always had some challenges.  Way back when I was working there I thought that would be "work" until I retired; little did I know at the time that building new electronic equipment would get cheaper than repairing old.  A least this allowed me to further my education and now get to repair bigger and more sophisticated equipment.  Life has a funny way of molding a person to become better than they were before.  I will always be caught working on electronics.  It's an old hobby.  Keep to the Beat!

Lights Down!

After Kendra got home; I asked her if she would help me take down outside Christmas lights since it was 50 degrees out and nice.  She jumped on the idea if I would let her on the roof to help with the roof ones.  I did let Colin up there when we put them up so I let Kendra help me take them down.  In the process of taking down lights and decor,  I didn't think Kendra got to talk all day.  Don't get me wrong, I want to have the kids talk to me but I need time to reflect on her thoughts and her thoughts were coming a mile a minute.  That's what I love about her never afraid to express herself. 

We got all the lights down and put away.  Even some of us got an ear full of information! Thank you for helping me, Kendra!!!

Tubes Day

This was the day that Colin's ears received their tubes again.  He has been fighting ear infections for several weeks and Dr. Dejti said it was time for them.  After getting the other 2 kids to their respective schools, we headed for the hospital.

When we got to the room, there was a cool red and black blanket for him to take home after the procedure. 

After the trouble figuring out how the gown goes on; you could tell his nervousness was setting in.  While he waited to be taken into surgery he played the ipod to take his mind off the situation.  When the anesteologist came in she told them that they would be using some funky monkey juice on him and he may come back to the parents with hair on his chest and face.(which he smiled at)

Well no new HAIR.  He came back after about 1/2 hour a little drowsy and grumpy but get some broccoli in him and he is a new man.  He did tell us later he would hope that they would cancel the procedure and that he would rather went to school.  We got outta there about noon and Colin, Caden, and I rested the part of the afternoon.  Colin did get a compliment from one of the surgery staff saying she wished they have more kids like him following instructions and not whining.  We are proud of you Colin.