8-23-2009 Week in Review – A week without!!!

What does a family do without TV or internet for a week??  WELL, the FIRST day is the worst.  Everyone sits/lays around whining and complaining about there being nothing to do.  They argue and fight incessantly and you want to scream….you get over it.  You simply start assigning chores and they all quickly find SOMETHING to do!!

Tuesday while running errands I surprised Corben as an early birthday present and stopped in at……

He got 20 free tokens for his birthday and then wandered around playing a few games and collecting his prize (2 dum dum lollipops).  It was fun to spend time just me and him!

 

Wednesday was CORBEN’s BIRTHDAY!!  HE’s NINE YEARS OLD!!  Time sure does fly by!  It was a busy afternoon.  Corben has Pack Meeting so I rushed to finish his Dragon Cake.  I forgot his wings in my rush so just use your imagination!!

We then headed out the door with Corben to spend his last afternoon as a Wolf Scout!

Here is Corben getting his Wolf Badge and transferring to the ranks of BEAR SCOUT!!

Fama read an awesome poem about Corben turning into a bear…..

….and then we headed outside for watermelon and a seed spitting contest!

 

Then it was home again to celebrate the birthday boy and eat the dragon cake w/homemade ice cream!! YUM!!

 

Thursday we went to meet Corben’s teacher at school.  I joked in the parking lot that it was going to be a man (thinking there were no 4th grade male teachers) and that Corben would get pile drived every time he didn’t do his homework.  Sure enough, what do ya know, there is a male 4th grade teacher and Corben got him!!  He seems too nice to pile drive though.  Oh well.

Now Friday, Friday was quite the adventure.  We started out bright and early racing to go meet a ton of friends at a local children’s museum!!  The girls had a BLAST!!

I think we spent over an hour in the block area….

       

We went straight from the museum to go visit Aunt Jamie & Uncle Mark for a bit.  It was rainy but we had fun anyway!!

The REAL ADVENTURE happened on the way home!!  Part way down a MAJOR road in MAJOR traffic and in the middle of a torrential downpour w/thunder and lightening right over head I decided to turn on the brights……

EVERYTHING IN THE CAR SHUT OFF!!!…….EVERYTHING!!!  I then had to figure out how to maneuver a shut off car across several lanes of traffic in the rain to the side of the road!  I was shaking like a leaf but we made it safely.  I tried to turn the key but there was nothing….so, I then hopped out (into the rain) and checked under the hood.  A good Samaritan pulled up behind and I held the hood up while he hooked the jumper cables up to see if we could get it to start.  Can I tell you that I have never stood in rain like that before??  I could not see more than a couple of feet in front of my face and there was lightening and thunder flashing all around.  I kept jumping!  The jump worked and our new friend followed us into town to make sure we made it.  It is NO FUN riding in a car with the A/C on when you are soaked to the BONE!!  At this point we were racing because Dade had his school open house in an hour and he was worried I’d actually go looking like I did LOL.  We headed to Ryan’s work where he gave the car a clean bill of health but cleaned all the connectors and tightened them.  We raced home where Ryan soon met us so Dade and I could rush out to the school.  We were 8 minutes late.  Not bad!

The new school is great and the teachers seem nice.  I think Dade is a bit more excited now about school.  As soon as we got home I rushed across the street to a neighbor’s Pampered Chef party and finally stumbled home exhausted around 9pm.

Saturday was a lazy rainy day.  I actually caught Dade and Corben outside enjoying the pouring rain together.  I even caught them SMILING!!

 

Ryan hung out in the newly painted playhouse (thanks Dade!) with Corben for a bit.

 

Today was another wonderful lazy day.  Corben and I had a wonderful walk around the neighborhood together and got a lot of talking done.  I sure love that kid!!  Now off to eat dinner and enjoy the family!!