Parentheticals

We wrote a post last week but failed to edit and publish it. I will do that now before I write this week's post. On Monday of last week for her meal that she was supposed to help make Rea asked to produce Curry for dinner. We ended up making a coconut and tomato-based Curry. The kids liked it. Also on Monday we went out to the dI and bought all of the necessary equipment to build a powerful set of speakers to install in our front room. We have been enjoying the speakers quite a bit. Early last week Mike made peanut butter and chocolate SunButter. The children generally like peanut butter better than chocolate SunButter, however this time they all seem to like the chocolate SunButter quite a bit. It is a good thing to have a Vitamix because this would be impossible with a normal blender. Alison has never been particularly happy with Timmy's natural hairstyle, so she decided that she was going to get some gel and attempt to get him to style his hair before he went to chur...

Alison got sick after all - in fact she lost her voice and had a difficult time teaching English because of it. The loss of voice lasted three days and was very disruptive to getting things done. The kids had a lot more screen time than usual because of this. Baby Elizabeth is starting to gain mobility - she is able to roll over freely, and sometimes traverses the room by repeated rolling. She is also able to sort-of-crawl, but her chest remains on the ground, she pulls with her hands, and pushes with her feet and has her bum up in the air - kind of like this: She doesn't do it often, though, so it must not be comfortable. On Thursday there was a daddy-daughter activity planned as one of Rea's activity days. It was at the church in the cultural hall. There were games, food, and also dancing. Rea was feeling better from her sickness and pink eye by then, so we had a fun time. Alison worked hard this week getting the synthesizer set up to connect to the laptop, and ...

This last week was a busy one. Timmy has had a cold since sometime last week, and he's been slowly giving it to everyone else. No fun! That made the preparations for Halloween less effective than we might have hoped. Last Saturday was annual Trunk or Treat and Chili Cookoff in our ward. Timmy was only a little sick then, and no one else had gotten it, so we went. The kids pieced together costumes: Gideon was a tiger, Timmy was a Thingamajing, Sara was a princess, and Rea was a chef. We had a lot of fun. When we got home, it looked like Timmy had pinkeye. Yikes! It was gone by the next morning, but Sara and Timmy had started coughing and boogering, so Alison took Rea to sacrament meeting and sang with the choir, and then she went home and Mike went to the second hour of church. It was fun for Alison and Rea to go to church together. Sunday started tithing settlement, so Mike was gone all day. The kids were pretty good anyway. Tuesday we went to our nature group, even though ...