Parentheticals

This week got off to a slow start, trying to recover from all the bad habits sickness breeds. We took the week mostly off kid school and watched some movies and played. As we started to recover at the end of the week, Timmy got fussy. We finally realized that he's cutting a molar. Neither of our girls fused at all with molars, but we think that's his problem. Thursday we watched Max and Petra while Scott and Sheila went to the new Star Wars movie, and then they watched our kids so we could go see it on Friday. Mike and Scott's work gave out tickets to the opening weekend, which was fabulous. We invited Daniel and some of his friends to join us, which was fun. The movie was great, very funny and well acted and enjoyable. We have been enjoying some long discussions about the plot and possible future directions for the series. Friday during the day Alison and the kids went up to Kaysville. Josh and Katie and Kendrick are in town, and it was fun to see them. We went swimmin...

This week for family night we bought some stuff for the ward secret Santa. On various other days we wrapped them up. Sunday we delivered them to the ward building (where the massive pile of gifts filled the clerks office). It was fun to talk to the girls about the spirit of giving and how it relates to the birth of Christ and the meaning of the Christmas season. Starting Thursday we had a medium length sickness in some of our house. Rea and Sara both caught it, and it manifested as fever, lethargy, and vomiting. The lethargy was actually kind of nice a little, since it gave time to clean up the vomiting without the girls causing too much trouble. Timmy was still super healthy and he wanted to cheer up the girls. This led to humorous miscommunication between the three, and Timmy learned how to say the word "OW!" whenever anyone does something to him that he doesn't like. Rea got the worst of the sickness (she threw up on two different days), and Sara got a much less ...

We have been getting ready for Christmas this past week. We set up the tree, got out the Christmas books, and Rea has started making all sorts of decorations for our house. Here are a few: One says: Merry Christmas, the other is a Santa Claus list which reads: Toothbrush, animal crackers, chocolate. (Santa always brings toothbrushes at our house). Last week on Friday we went to a play at the U. The story was mainly a framing device for performing as many Christmas songs as possible. It was still pretty good. I have been still getting ready for my Ion Award submissions. Hopefully I can be ready in time. I have had one person on the internet express interest in playtesting it for me, and the same guy read the rulebook and offered help on fixing it up. Timmy decided to make a birthday cake the other day. He flattened play dough on a wooden block, stabbed crayons into it and started singing 'happy birthday to you'. he was very happy that we understood him. He is also r...