This Week at Our House # 29

1. Work went well for John this week as he turned in another project that was helpful to the company. John, Ruth, and I went to the Temple on Tuesday. We are still dealing with this sickness. I got sick on Wednesday and have not fully recovered, so most of the week was pretty low key except for Joseph's birthday and baptism.
2. As well as being sick, I am wondering if I have some injury because I have had severe pain in my lower breast bone going into my back. I have wondered if it is a hiatal hernia, but I am not inclined to go see a doctor about it unless it lasts a long time. After doing some internet searching, I am positive it is my gall bladder. We did an internet search for severe stomach pain after eating and gall bladder trouble described my pain exactly. Plus my mother and two sisters and had their gall bladders removed. I am looking up diet changes over surgery.
3. Ruth started feeling sick too. She has heard that her visa is approved and that her passport has been mailed back. She has 29 days until she flies out.
4. When speaking about public high school, Kate said, "History class tells you nothing is the truth. English class tells you everything is the truth. I come home and think 'the only thing I know is math!'"
5. Johnny mowed the lawn when the heat index was 108. He is a trooper.
6. Adam gave his first talk in Sacrament Meeting today. He wrote it himself and practiced it on us. He cried a bit about it, but in the end, he did a good job.
7. Rachel has been feeling ill the last 4 days. 
8. Anya gave the baptism talk at Joseph's baptism. She said she danced into the font when she was baptized. She said that she was also scared about being dunked because she could only hold her breath for 8 seconds, but then her baptism only took one second. She was pretty cute.
9. Joseph had his birthday. He requested crepes with chocolate pudding, whipped cream, and homemade chocolate pudding for dinner and ice cream cake roll for dessert. We kept plenty of salad around that day.
10. Joshua and Arwen have played together with all the stuffed animals all week.
11. Arwen loves her toys and dumps them all out a lot, but she is usually very willing to pick them up and put them away.
12. Suzy did better with potty training. She will take herself poop if she is not wearing a diaper, so progress is finally being made. 
13. Sam loves to climb. We tend to block the stairs so he won't climb up, but them he climbs up the outside along the wall.

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