The adults and Gabe were playing Apples to Apples while the smaller
kids enjoyed a tea party at my mom’s house. This was the first bit of
a smile we had seen from Dahlia since her accident at home.
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Tea party
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Flight to Chicago
After we were down at the ER we rushed to the airport and made our
flight. Dahlia was given Tylenol with codeine on an empty stomach
which made her sick. At about the halfway point of the flight Dahlia
asked me how many times she had puked. The 11 year boy next to us
piped up and said “It has been 4 times but really only two of them
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Back at the ER
Forty-five minutes before we had to head to the airport Dahlia came upstairs blood pouring out of her mouth. A sisterly spat took a turn for the worse and Dahlia fell into a table. We headed down to the ER for the 2nd time in a month where Dahlia received 3 stitches on the inside of her mouth and 3 stitches on the outside. Her tooth had gone all the way through to the outside below her lip. Once again Dahlia was made into a burrito using a sheet so that they could numb her mouth and stitch her up. She now knows all the tricks of the nurses and dreads everything. I was a little worried when the social worker came in to talk to us because Monti had told one of the nurses she slammed her sister into the table. The social worker swore he was just coming in to give Dahlia a Beanie Baby. Each child who visits the ER gets a new stuffed animal but I don’t think it’s enough to make Dahlia want to go back. As usual they were great at the Swedish emergency room and they got us in and out quickly enough so we had a chance to make our flight.
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Sledding in our neighborhood
Our neighborhood is great for snow days. There are lots of kids and a
endless amount of places to go sledding. Of course safe sledding
places become more limited so supervision is important. Parents would
take turns staying out with the kids who wanted to keep sledding all
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School cancelled
The threat of snow cancelled all the Issaquah and Seattle schools on
Wednesday but Wednesday night we received a couple inches of snow
which shut down all the school districts for the rest of the week.
Living on a hill makes for a challenge with snow but Joe was able to
make it out with the all wheel drive on his new Apple car. -
Mounting mirrors in the playroom
We added mirrors to two of the walls in the kid’s playroom in the basement. Joe went to four Home Depots in the Seattle are to find the 7 large mirrors we needed. The kids enjoyed helping press the mirrors to the wall until the mastic stuck. This mirror slid slightly off square when we pressed it on which created quite a challenge to deal with when we mounted the 4th mirror onto this wall.
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Performance Day
Our caroling group sang at the main cottage of the memory area of the nursing home. We had an audience of about 15 people. Quite a few of them were pretty unresponsive to the singing. Monti was very comfortable and good at interacting with the residents at the nursing home. She left with a strong desire to go back and help out a couple of her favorite residents.
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Season ski rental
After caroling practice, dance lessons and yoga I had to drag the
girls to Ski Mart in Bellevue to get our season long ski rentals
before they ran out of equipment. It was a good thing we went because
they were running very low on children sized skis. We start ski
lessons on Sundays when we get back from Florida. Our rentals are due
back May 1st. We have our skis, clothing and season lift passes. Now
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Caroling practice
For the last 3 Wednesdays we have had caroling practice after school.
I am slowly getting a little better at not being such a pushover when
it comes to keeping the kids in line. Two young boys kept hitting each
other while singing until I sat down right next to them. The first
grade boy has seen me in the halls at school since then and he looks
at me with absolute fear. At times I find myself longing for a little
boy. Boys have a certain sweet yet mischievous side of them that I
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Guitar making
I volunteered to make 2 fake but real size guitars to use for the
bulletin board advertising the Variety Show at IVE. I happened to get
the stomach flu during the weekend so I had lots of time to spend on
my project. They turned out pretty cute. We discovered the problem
with the guitars is that they look too real and kids want to play them
so we had to mount them from the ceiling to keep them out of reach.I
have played fake guitars and then switched to trying to play real
guitar. I have now made fake guitars so that leads me to ask …
Will I soon tackle building a real guitar?
