Tonight Jude and I went to a HopeKids event at SkyZone. It was my first time there and it was so amazing. The event was from 7-9. Jude bounced for 2 hours and was a sweaty mess. He loved playing dodgeball and tag on the huge trampolines. With about a half hour to go, I …
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Jude’s Quotes of the Day
On the way to SkyZone tonight: Jude to me: “Who first created the telephone?” Me: “Alexander Graham Bell.” Jude: “Ha! I knew that. I learned that on BrainPOP.” Me: “Then why did you ask me, my Dear.” Jude: “To see if you knew!” At SkyZone tonight: A MN Gophers volunteer to Jude: “What’s your name?” …
Levi Requests the Broom
I should have suspected something had run amuck when Levi came to me in the kitchen (while I was making a 2 week supply of cinnamon french toast) and requested the broom. I thought, “Oh, what a good boy. Isn’t that cute that he wants to pretend to clean up.” I went back to work, …
Strange Sight
Levi was in desperate need of a diaper change tonight, but was also in the middle of watching Cars 2 in German on the iPad so I just let him watch it while changing his diaper. But, I couldn’t help but be struck at the irony of it. Little Levi can navigate an iPad (he had …
Jude’s Quote of the Day
“Mom, how do you grow?” (To which I responded something like, “you eat good foods.”) He then responded, “You better eat better food because I’m catching up!”
Kindergarten — CHECK!
I was somewhat surprised to see, when I visited Jude’s online government school website, that the 1st grade curriculum had replaced the kindergarten math, phonics and language arts curriculum. That will be a big improvement, although I suspect that it will still be pretty easy for him, but we can go at his own pace …
The Port is Out
We arrived at Children’s Hospital at 10:45 a.m. for Jude’s 12:15 p.m. surgery. They were running late, but, in the end, everything worked out according to my master plans (it took some convincing, as I suspected it would). They were able to put him to sleep with gas instead of IV medicines and then poked him …
Jude’s Quotes of the Day
1. Jude said while waiting without a full stomach until 12:45 p.m. to go into surgery: “Why do I never get to eat?” 2. Jude yelled (while crying) to the nurse who was trying to take out his IV, “You’re the meanest doctor ever! I hate you!” And then he said to me and Andy, “Can you punch …
Surgery Day
Tomorrow Jude has surgery scheduled for 12:15 p.m. to remove his port (we we’ll have a not-so-fun morning trying to distract him from food/beverages). Afterwards, he has his first post-brain surgery/radiation MRI. I asked them to combine these 2 procedures, which I think will work out well since he has to be anesthetized for both …
Dropout Disaster Averted
Jude doesn’t know it, but Andy was all set to disenroll Jude from his online government kindergarten after just 14 school days. Mostly Andy’s reasoning was that the math and phonics curriculum is way too easy for Jude and the curriculum requires too much parental involvement (since it really is mostly paper based at this level rather than online). …