Way too much. That's why I haven't written in a while. Nathan is playing flag football and absolutely loving it. He runs so fast! In one game, he scored four touchdowns. He doesn't get his flag pulled very much because no one can catch him! Daniel is busy in pre-school. He actually has homework - cutting pictures that start with letters of the alphabet out of a magazine. He has a different letter each week. We had to have a conversation about cutting out the entire picture, not just a corner of it. Just because he knows what the picture is doesn't mean everyone else does.
Daniel is a cowboy for Halloween complete with cowboy boots (which he loves to wear). He turns into a dancer with those on. It's a cross between the hoedown throwdown and tap dancing. Nathan is Ben 10. He really just got a toy Omnitrix to wear on his wrist and he's wearing a black shirt. Not our best effort at a Halloween costume but he's enjoying the toy.
Nathan has worked on his school science project - creating a hat to represent the word mass. He and Richard got out the power tools and they made a scale and screwed to the top of the hat. I'll get a picture on here soon. It's pretty good. I found out they got to pick their words this year and before I could get out, "What did you pick
mass for?" (in a not-so-nice tone), Richard saved me by asking, "Nathan, what made you choose the word mass?" Nathan's answer was, "I didn't know what it was and I thought it might be interesting to learn something about it." Such the GT kid. And now, Richard's decided he needs more power tools for projects like this. Guess I know what he'll be getting for Christmas.
Daniel's been a little sick this week. He and I got to stay home on Monday. He's only been running fever and has a little cough. I called the doctor and they didn't want to see him unless his fever went above 101.8 and wouldn't break with Tylenol. So he was fine by Wednesday but Wednesday night he started feeling bad again, so I took him home early from church. When Nathan found out he wasn't feeling well, here was the discussion he had with Dad:
Nathan: "Well, I just think we need to take him to the doctor. I mean, the doctor said not to come unless it's over 100...101...108...well, his fever is up then it's back down I mean we just need to take him. It's 100 then it's 99 then it's 100 again. We just need to take him to the doctor.
Richard: "We don't need to take him to the doctor because the kids at the doctor are really sick and Daniel's just a little bit sick. Right now, he probably just has a cold that his body has to fight off and he'll get better. We don't want him getting sicker from the doctor's office."
Nathan: "Well, what kind of disease does he have?"
And, one more story from Daniel. This one is potty humor though, so if it offends you, don't keep reading. Daniel was using the bathroom while I was getting ready one morning (we're all sharing one bathroom right now). He said something and I didn't understand him, so I asked him to repeat it.
He said, "I wasn't talking to you."
I said, "Oh, well then who were you talking to?"
"The poo-poo."
"Oh. Well, what did you tell the poo-poo?"
"I said, 'Will you just hurry up, please?'"
Then, I heard him "go" and he said, "Thanks."
