Slugs and Earnest

This week we have had more sickness. Alison, Boo, Giddy, Sara, and Rea have all caught the sickness, so it is just lingering forever. The symptoms don't match covid, so we think it is just the standard midwinter sickness that we get every year.

We took Gideon to get his feet looked at because he has never liked shoes, and Alison noticed that his toes were bumping up close to each other. The doctor took an X-Ray, and said that he wanted an MRI done as well. The one foot has an extra bit of bone in it, and it is possible that he will need surgery to correct them. He will definitely need surgery when his growth plates close as well.

While we were on a walk, the kids decided that they wanted a piece of furniture that was on the side of the road. Mike told them that we couldn't possibly get it on the way out, and that we would have to talk to the owner of the house on the way back to see if they were getting rid of it, or if they were just storing it there.

The piece of furniture was still there on the way back home, so Mike and Sara and Boo waited while Timmy and Gideon and Rea went up and knocked. The door opened and Rea asked if the furniture was available to take. The person that opened the door said yes, and so we agreed to come back with our van to pick it up.

Getting it in the car was a bit of an adventure as it was super heavy, and we only had Mike, Rea, Timmy, and Gideon with us. We did end up getting it in and out of the car without damaging anything.

The thing looks sort of like a chest of drawers. It is 6 ft long, high as a table, and pretty heavy. It only has three pull out drawers in it, but it has four open up cabinets with shelves in it as well. It might have been an entertainment center, but that would put the TV pretty high up. Either way, they haven't yet agreed as to what they plan on doing with it, so we are still figuring out what to do with it.

It was a bit broken, so Mike spent some effort getting it fixed up, and it is now good to function.

We went to the Di to buy some replacement plates for the ones that we broke, and to also buy some new dress-up clothes. While we were there Mike looked at the dvds and found a copy of Earnest Goes to Jail. He remembered the movie fondly from when he was a kid, so he bought it for $1, and we made it a date on Friday. The kids now want to see all the Earnest movies. It was way more fun for them than the Importance of Being Earnest, which is a pretty low bar to set for kids who don't understand the jokes in Wilde's masterpiece.

Saturday and Sunday we played Mike's new RPG - first we played a game where Mike's character was a stuck up price that got turned into a salamander and some know-it-all kid kept showing up and saving his life by pointing out to people that he was a poisonous salamander. Alison's character - a mercenary - refused to join in on the quest until she learned that the opponent was Pope Sneakey the fourth. Gideon's character was a Leonard of Quirm type character who kept making robots that would turn things into other things, and then cause all sorts of mess. We burnt down the mercenary's house, captured the Pope, and turned him into a robot, and returned the king to his normal form. It was fun.

On Sunday the boys and boo wanted to play again, so we started up a new story where we were robots and cavemen a giant interplanetary slug dragon started to take over, and he had to be stopped via an epic quest to find the wizard that summoned the slug and convince him to help get rid of it. We got a three headed dog, fought giant spiders, and overall had a good time.