(I know its Thursday and but I was waiting to post this with pictures but i never had the chance to upload them....)
It was an exciting weekend, with George's birthday and all. The party at Playdate PDX (a giant indoor play structure) was AWESOME, and a bunch of our little friends were there that we haven't seen in a while. George got to fully embrace his boyness: motorcycle helmet, light saber, projectile Star Wars guns, toy planes....and a giant cake shaped like an eyeball. (He has a thing for chocolate eyeballs since he saw some on Halloween.)
Poor guy had been sick for a week, a fever and cough that had started last Friday, and the cough got really bad--croupy, up all night. I took him in on Wednesday and Dr. Janel thought it definitely sounded like pneumonia (possibly pertussis, but I have doubts). Antibiotics helped right away, so he was feeling so much better for his birthday, but the side effect, because its a liquid abx that is bubblegum flavored and full of red dye #40, is that he is really aggressive. Being around him has been really hard. Basically, he just becomes a really whiny, emotional jerk. Its sucks for us, bit for him mostly. Today was his last dose.
Sunday: Another special treat: a riverboat cruise with unlimited brunch buffet. We'd never been on the Willamette River (our sailboat was on the Columbia) and it was really enjoyable. Oregon is so PRETTY!!
Blake's big news, is that after WEEKS of deliberating over getting a particular new car, he finally decided to purchase a new (to him) Mercedes E320 Bluetec (very sophisticated diesel) sedan. His old car, which he had had for 2 1/2 years (the longest he's had a car since I've known him) was having some issues, not with the engine but leaking water and broken buttons. I think the breaking down was really reminding him of his own physical breaking down....an after so many years in a successful business, having a car that reflects that can be really fulfilling. Judge George and I both fielded a lot of "should i or shouldn't i?" conversations. I think we worked out a smart approach to making it work out financially, and it is a very sexy, gorgeous car...with only 21,000 miles on it. Some rich old guy keeled and hardly ever drove it, Grandma said it was too much car for her!
So then to make it even a cooler experience, D and G went out that same day in Fresno and test drove a SUV Mercedes Bluetec, and bought one too!!!! Those boys and their Mercedes.....
Let's see, girls updates...
Isadore went home with my friend Savannah on Friday after the party, and spent all the next day, through dinner with their family. They have a really special connection--Sav has two boys (one is 19, the other is 5) and her and Izzy both have these really sweet spunky personalities. Sav gets her "daughter fix" and Izzy loves the attention (good for her to get out of the middle child mix here sometimes)...and she gets along really well with Liam, the 5 year old, because they are both very physically active, and he's a really chill kid. She came home in such a good, refreshed mood.
We've decided that Isadore is going to actually be in second grade next year...when we enrolled her in school she is only a 2nd grader by 6 days. (If she'd been born when she was supposed to in late Sept it wouldn't be an issue...) and while she is academically ready to go on to 3rd grade, Trillium does 3-4-5 classes and she is NOT ready for that. Her teacher and I discussed it and if she stays in his class next year (its a 1st/2nd mix) she could be a good leader, which she needs. So we are considering this first year her 1st grade year instead. I feel really good about it...we love her teacher!!
Mayan had been going through a ton of changes lately. The food deprivation due to her sensitivities was getting really hard to handle and was pushing her to her limits, especially at school where kids bring all sort of crappy food that is "non-Mayan friendly". We decided to take a break, and other than gluten (this is avoided by ALL of us now) she can take some time to eat how ever she chooses, and can learn to identify how those foods makes her feel herself. She has been much more relaxed since this change, around food specifially and that's good. But once the food kicks in, she can get pretty anxious and aggressive. We are just working on getting her to retreat into her own space when this happens. She and I read the Hunger Games together and then saw the movie ...she's pretty much obsessed and talks about it all the time. We are hoping to enroll her in a TrackersNW week -long summer camp that has a focus on wilderness survival, which she is SO into right now.
