This Week at Our House #42

This week was an ordinary week. The weather was nice and the kids spent a lot of time outside. Fall and Spring are the best in North Carolina. We had school, but are planning on taking this next week off to repair the roof, and clean up the yard, car, and shed. It won't be the funnest of vacations, but the work needs to be done. The kids are already claiming which outdoor chores they want.

1. We've a heard a little more from jobs, but you never know. We do need something very soon. John was sick on and off this week, so I am not sure how much he got done on his game. I know he feels pressed to finish it and was frustrated with being sick. For a few days he was worried that he had a disease rather than a virus, but then Susan got sick, and he felt glad to know it was something that could be passed on.
2. I failed the 3 hour blood glucose test and now have an official diagnoses of gestational diabetes. I have been off sugar and dessert for a long time, but now I am being very careful about carbs. One thing I find interesting is that I will often eat an apple for a snack after dinner and it is so sweet and good and I love it so much more than I did when I got an occasional piece of candy or a dessert.
3. Ruth got transferred. She is now over near water not far from the English channel. She was excited to be able see salt water again and to get out of the city. 
4. Kate worked on the art for her first kid's book and I believe she has the second one written. The art takes the longest and a lot of work on the computer.
5. Because I had 2 long doctor's appointments this week, Johnny helped a lot with school. 
6. Adam has been exercising a lot, in part because he loves to eat and in part because he likes having muscles. 
7. I spend a lot of time trying to convince Rachel to do certain important things that she really needs to do. Rachel has always had her own ways and own ideas and that is perfectly fine with me as long as the necessary things happen. And it turned out that this week we had different ideas on the matter. 
8. Anya was excited that her chicken followed her into the house, Her chicken knows her.  The same chicken also laid 7 eggs this week. The chickens have been greeting us at the door more asking for food. All summer long, they did not want much and now they seem more hungry. I think their bug supply is going away with the coming of cooler weather. Anya and Joseph love the chickens the most.
9. Joseph spent a lot of time sitting with Adam drawing pictures and then a lot of time outside playing and taking care of the animals. 
10. Joshua mostly played outside during his free time. He was also really good about school, and got all of his work done first every day this week.
11. Arwen has a little writing journal for school, and everyone of her stories are about ducks.
12.  Susan came to me and said, "Sam did this! He, he, he," then she looked frustrated because she did not have the words to describe it. And then, it was hilarious. She said, "Sam did this." She slowly dropped to the floor on her back and said, "and he cried and cried." That was a pretty cute explanation of a full on drop to the floor temper tantrum. The next night Rachel found Susan taking off her clothes and screaming desperately. She asked Susan what was wrong and Susan said that her whole body hurt. I knew the signs and we brought Susan in the bathtub where she writhed and screamed for about 15 minutes before puking. The poor girl cannot stand puking at all. Sitting in the tub was easier for us, because the last time she was sick, she would try to run away from her own puke. Fortunately, Susan seemed better almost immediately.
13. Sam is into everything!!!! He's always dumping out food because he wants it or wants to play with it. He dumped peanuts and yeast into the mortar and pestle. But when he dumps something it is always the whole package or box. We lost a large jar of peanuts to that. Another time this week, he dumped out a whole box of cereal. He also gets John's stuff so incessantly that John moved everything off of our closet floor and made it into a mini office with a lock on the door. But there is no plug in there, so Sam will still just go and unplug all of John's work computers.
14. I had another ultrasound this week-- the joys of having a high risk pregnancy-- and everything looks good. Even the extra amniotic fluid has gone down.

Pictures

From stick figures 3 months ago to this by Joseph

Kate's cover page for her first children's book