January 2018
Family Fun
—My birthday: The festivities this year started the night before, with dinner at the Plumed Horse for R. and I — which was awesome, but meant I reeeeeally needed to sleep in on Saturday, heh. The kids made me adorable homemade birthday gifts, and from the grownups I got things like Stone Roses merch and Scotch — a very good birthday indeed!
—MLK Sauce: Our first Sauce since June — so we made it a two-nighter, even though we are all old, setting up Saturday and staying till Monday of the holiday weekend. It was a great one, despite the fact that Lukas had an allergic reaction to their cats and needed Benadryl and then had to more or less hide in Mason’s room the whole time … heh. Kids love Sauce for the relaxed rules and increased screen time, yay!
—Burns Night: We were invited to a family party at Annika’s friend Alana’s, featuring Scotch and haggis and all that good stuff, in honor of the Scottish poet Robert Burns. We all had a good time (and finally there were people there that we knew besides the hosts!), and it wasn’t even all that hard to do my Girl Scout volunteering the next morning … (two hours packing SUVs with Trefoils at the cookie distribution center).
—My birthday: The festivities this year started the night before, with dinner at the Plumed Horse for R. and I — which was awesome, but meant I reeeeeally needed to sleep in on Saturday, heh. The kids made me adorable homemade birthday gifts, and from the grownups I got things like Stone Roses merch and Scotch — a very good birthday indeed!
—MLK Sauce: Our first Sauce since June — so we made it a two-nighter, even though we are all old, setting up Saturday and staying till Monday of the holiday weekend. It was a great one, despite the fact that Lukas had an allergic reaction to their cats and needed Benadryl and then had to more or less hide in Mason’s room the whole time … heh. Kids love Sauce for the relaxed rules and increased screen time, yay!
—Burns Night: We were invited to a family party at Annika’s friend Alana’s, featuring Scotch and haggis and all that good stuff, in honor of the Scottish poet Robert Burns. We all had a good time (and finally there were people there that we knew besides the hosts!), and it wasn’t even all that hard to do my Girl Scout volunteering the next morning … (two hours packing SUVs with Trefoils at the cookie distribution center).
Lukas Life
—Lukas loses a second tooth: He’s got a mouthful of wiggly ones, and this time, he lost a tooth at school! I was sick, so my friend Ami brought the kids home, and it was of course the first thing he wanted to show me when he got home. Tooth Fairy tonight!
—Skateboarding: Thanks most likely in part to Lawson having done it last year, Lukas wanted to take after-school skateboarding lessons; the first session was a rainout, but on the last day of the month, he got to bust out his (Annika’s) board and his new set of pads and get started. He said he’s gonna learn "a kick flip, grinding, and grabs.”,),
—DanTDM manifests again: Lukas has discovered the apparently infinite stores of videos of DanTDM playing various games — Minecraft, Roblox, a thousand variations — and doing various “challenges” (e.g. “try not to laugh” challenges). R.’s and my opinions of these … would not have made the dude rich, but it’s the kids who love him, so …
—Lukas loses a second tooth: He’s got a mouthful of wiggly ones, and this time, he lost a tooth at school! I was sick, so my friend Ami brought the kids home, and it was of course the first thing he wanted to show me when he got home. Tooth Fairy tonight!
—Skateboarding: Thanks most likely in part to Lawson having done it last year, Lukas wanted to take after-school skateboarding lessons; the first session was a rainout, but on the last day of the month, he got to bust out his (Annika’s) board and his new set of pads and get started. He said he’s gonna learn "a kick flip, grinding, and grabs.”,),
—DanTDM manifests again: Lukas has discovered the apparently infinite stores of videos of DanTDM playing various games — Minecraft, Roblox, a thousand variations — and doing various “challenges” (e.g. “try not to laugh” challenges). R.’s and my opinions of these … would not have made the dude rich, but it’s the kids who love him, so …
Action Annika
—Baby teethpocalypse: At the kids’ regular checkup, the dentist told us that she had eight baby teeth that were mere shells sitting on top of already-emerged permanent teeth. So we scheduled an “extraction,” which was basically (per the dentist) “flicking” the shells out; she didn’t want to do it, but A)it didn’t hurt, and B) she got to skip school and swimming, plus absolutely cleaning up in Tooth Fairy gold coins, so altogether not too bad an experience.
—Annika starts band: Another thing we almost missed doing: A local music school formed a band at the kids’ school, for grades 3-5, with practice before school 3x/wk. Friends of hers decided to do it, and we happened to have a flute available (Cousin Alyna recently upgraded her instrument, and loaned us her “starter” one), so she agreed she’d like to try it — and she has really enjoyed it! Practices without being told! Wants to keep going with it! So we’ll see — but for now, it’s been lots of fun.
—4th grade musical performance: Once again, back to Castillero for the six-song EP (heh) performance! Annika seemed to be having a fine time, while Lukas and Lawson played with slime and ignored the stage entirely.
—Girl Scout Cookie sales: As I mentioned, it’s cookie season, and our troop got lucky with a whole bunch of booths in the first week. Annika and I were out there the first day (Monday) and the third (Wednesday), which discharges our booth requirements for the session; she was really great with customers this year,! Meanwhile, P2P sales have been brisk, so it’s all been relatively painless … ;-)
—Baby teethpocalypse: At the kids’ regular checkup, the dentist told us that she had eight baby teeth that were mere shells sitting on top of already-emerged permanent teeth. So we scheduled an “extraction,” which was basically (per the dentist) “flicking” the shells out; she didn’t want to do it, but A)it didn’t hurt, and B) she got to skip school and swimming, plus absolutely cleaning up in Tooth Fairy gold coins, so altogether not too bad an experience.
—Annika starts band: Another thing we almost missed doing: A local music school formed a band at the kids’ school, for grades 3-5, with practice before school 3x/wk. Friends of hers decided to do it, and we happened to have a flute available (Cousin Alyna recently upgraded her instrument, and loaned us her “starter” one), so she agreed she’d like to try it — and she has really enjoyed it! Practices without being told! Wants to keep going with it! So we’ll see — but for now, it’s been lots of fun.
—4th grade musical performance: Once again, back to Castillero for the six-song EP (heh) performance! Annika seemed to be having a fine time, while Lukas and Lawson played with slime and ignored the stage entirely.
—Girl Scout Cookie sales: As I mentioned, it’s cookie season, and our troop got lucky with a whole bunch of booths in the first week. Annika and I were out there the first day (Monday) and the third (Wednesday), which discharges our booth requirements for the session; she was really great with customers this year,! Meanwhile, P2P sales have been brisk, so it’s all been relatively painless … ;-)
Quotable
Lukas, on Land of the Lost and other Sid & Marty Krofft entertainments R. put them up to watching: “We watched a really bad show about dinosaurs, and then a show by the same guys that had a rotten sea monster named sidmond.”
Lukas, on Land of the Lost and other Sid & Marty Krofft entertainments R. put them up to watching: “We watched a really bad show about dinosaurs, and then a show by the same guys that had a rotten sea monster named sidmond.”
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