Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Summer time

beforeafter





This was a practice she doesn't graduate until 2010



A page from "The Memory Shirt" illustration I did.









Well, summer is here and we are already having a great time. Kids are going to the library once a week for the summer book reading program. I am giving Jacob and Hannah piano lessons, Jacob has just decided to to teach himself, he just turned to the next page of the book and started playing the songs. Hannah has read 5 chapter books in two weeks and is starting another, good job Hannah. Mckenzie has spent her summer sickly. Last Wednesday she got a fever and started throwing up. So she missed field day at her school and was sick Thursday and missed her field trip. So Friday fever was gone, but had a little cough, so she went to the last day of school. Then her cough got worse over the weekend and then on Monday welts started showing up on her torso and then radiated all over her body. Gave her benadryl and they went down. Then yesterday, they came back, she is going to the doctor today and of course her welts are gone, but she has that persistent cough. Tanner has bee having fun playing his wii, and really wants a summer job. With the market like it is, it's hard for a teenager to find a job. Kierstin just makes up her own job. She is in summer school, by choice, she is trying to graduate early, not sure if that will happen, she is not able to take the other class because it is during trek. Anyway back to making up jobs, she caught two mice the other day in her bunny shed. She put them in cages and one had babies, she then said she was going to sell the babies for snake food.
Jerott has lost 25 lbs and looks great, proud of him.... I have lost 10, but the rest is just going to have to be toned up I guess. I do feel better, more energy when I lay off the sugar and white flour stuff. I finished the illustrations for the children's book I am doing and that was a big relief. Now it's projects, projects, projects. It think I will go dig up some more dirt, it's a great stomach toning exercise, and I really enjoy doing it. We got more free wood to do a second boardwalk.