SUNDAY NEWS
May 3, 2009
We celebrated Mother’s Day today since Lori has to work next week. Vayden’s slept until 8:15 a.m. to get things started, and then Karl, Christian and Vayden let Lori sleep until she wanted to wake up. Karl put a roast in the crock pot early this morning for lunch. Lori had a big 32 ounce cup movie cup full of Cocoa Puffs for breakfast. Christian made her a card complete with a poem and she got two Diamondback caps and a Flip video recorder.
We have installed baby gates in the house on Vayden’s bedroom door and at the top of the stairs given Vayden’s recent mobility. She isn’t crawling over even scooting, but manages to cover some pretty good distance with a series of rolls. Vayden now Lori recently talked Karl into hiring people to do the yards. It is difficult for Karl to give that up but Lori has convinced him he needs to spend more time with the family on Saturday’s instead of spending the whole day working outside. Christian is happy about it since he has been saying we should hire somebody every time he is asked to help out.
We have also been working pretty seriously on having a 3 month supply of food and other necessities. Chandler Regional Hospital, (Lori’s hospital) has been in the news and has some pretty strict polices presently because of the swine flu cases that have occurred in Chandler. She has to wear a mask and eye protection when dealing with the public. They closed down two schools in Chandler last week.
Very Vayden
Vayden is a crazy little critter. Just today she sat up from lying on her stomach for the first time. She definitely enjoys her own voice. She is constantly talking to herself, singing, spitting, growling like a monster and screaming with ear piercing shrieks. She alternates back and forth with her many sounds for no apparent reason. She just seems to love the sound of her own voice. She is a noisy little critter. She has turned into a very good eater too. She can polish off a jar of baby food in no time at all now. Once she learned to put her tongue under the spoon instead of on top of it she became a much more efficient eater. She gets excited for solid foods now. She starts smacking her lips and moving her tongue all around when you bring out the jar. Lori has her on a pretty good eating, bottle and nap schedule which Karl tends to mess up on the day he watches her.
Completely Christian
Christian recently earned his Bear in Cub Scouts. He is very proud to be a Bear. He just got back from Cub Scout Day Camp yesterday. He had a lot of fun and came home with a tool box that he made. You will have to ask him about
the Pack Meeting where he was awarded the rank of Bear and what it was like to wrestle a bear in a small dome tent next time you see him.
Christian has signed up for football in the fall. Karl was very impressed with the whole process. The people who run this thing mean business and have their act together. Christian had to be processed through about ten different segments of the process including being measured and weighed, fitted for pads and a helmet, given a physical by a doctor, verification of residence, verification of his grades point average, birth certificate, etc. Christian was even issued his own player identification card.
Christian’s school had their spring carnival recently. Christian got to dress up in a Sumo body suit and do some Sumo wrestling. He also had fun doing some rock climbing and bow staff combat. His many hours of double light saber training showed as he was able to beat all competitors.
This past week, Christian had to run a business at school. The whole third grade is learning about economics and business. For an allotted time each day the kids would all set up their businesses and compete on the open market. Christian decided to run a shoe cleaning business. The kids were all competing for business and Gator Bucks which they could use to spend in the market. Some of the other kid’s ideas included face painting, nail painting, selling pictures that they drew, massages, and selling signs that they had made. One ingenious kid sold video game cheat codes. These are codes that he had earned in video games that help a player advance in the game. Christian had fun earning some Gator Bucks, but was disappointed with the fact that it was hard to compete against those kids whose parents just bought them desirable things to sell like CD’s and ice cream. Not sure what those parents thought they were teaching their kids about business. Getting something for free and then selling it with no work involved.
Christian also had a half day this past week on Wednesday and Karl watched Vayden while Lori and Christian went to Chase Stadium to watch the Diamondbacks wallop the Cubs 10 to 0.
All Alyssa
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALYSSA!
Happy Birthday ! Sweet Sixteen ! We know it has been a few weeks since your birthday, and we already mentioned your 80’s skating party, but we haven’t issued an edition of the Sunday News since the passing of your actual birthday.
Family Stories
Christian’s Schizophrenic Phone Messages
One night this past week Christian came home from school and requested to go over to his friend Blake’s house to play. He did his homework and chores and ate his dinner early so he could go play at Blake’s. He was told he needed to be back by 7 p.m. Christian decided that he wanted to extend his time so he called Karl’s cell phone. Karl, unknown to Christian was at the gym and did not have his cell phone. Lori was at home, but Christian doesn’t have the home phone committed to memory and was either too lazy walk the 200 yards or more likely did not want to risk being told to just stay home. When Karl later checked his phone, there were 11 messages over the space of approximately and hour left from Christian. They went as follows:
Message 1: (sucking up with butter dripping from his voice) Dad, This is your loving son Christian. I was wondering . . . can I stay at Blake’s until 8:00 o’clock?
Message 2: Dad, this is Christian did you get my message?
Message 3: (urgency now in his voice) Dad, are you there? This is Christian call me back. (no phone number given)
Message 4: Dad I know you are ignoring me and it is not funny. (anger now in his voice) Call me back! (still no number given)
Message 5: (angrily) Dad you aren’t funny. If you don’t call me back I am not coming home! This is Christian.
Message 6: (anger now gone replaced with remorse) Dad, I am sorry I was so angry with my message, but I want to stay at Blake’s. Can you please answer your phone?
Message 7: Dad, Pleeeeaaasssse answer your phone. I’m not joking. This is Christian.
Message 8: (anger in his voice again) Dad, that is it! If you don’t answer your phone so I am never coming home.
Message 9: (anger now gone replaced with remorse) Dad, I am sorry I was arguing with you, but I just really want to stay at Blake’s. This is Christian.
Message 10: (voice full of anger again) Dad, I know you are doing this on purpose and it’s making me angry. Since you won’t answer your phone I get to stay at Blake’s. That is fair Dad. Ohh, this is Christian.
Message 11: (remorsefully) Dad, this is Christian, I am sorry I was arguing with you again. I am coming home now.
