Pre and Post Piggie Flu

Pre-Flu Events:

Grant's book report earns all A's!

He chose this book because "it was the shortest one."

But his shadowbox looked great and he did a great job summarizing the story.

Mrs. Teacher thought so, too.

Miss Caroline FirstGrader before school one day.

Of course, I know that every mom thinks this about their own, but isn't she just a beautiful girl?

Last week, I chaperoned this group of 1st grade girls at the zoo on a drizzly, dark 40 degree day. And they were "screamers."

Sophie, Sondra, Caroline, Kaitlin

This Mr. Handsome is getting ready to go to preschool.

Scooter likes to wash the door glass for me. On a daily basis.

Grant finally removed his bracelet he had been wearing, marking the time a soldier from our neighborhood had been deployed to Iraq.

Here's the sweet story that goes along with it.

Several months into it, Grant had mentioned that the bracelet was feeling really uncomfortable on his wrist. I told him it was ok for him to take it off, even if Greg wasn't back home yet.

None of the rest of us had managed to keep ours on even one month.

But Grant wouldn't take it off, not even once, not even for a second, until Greg was safe home from Iraq.

Luckily for Grant's wrist, Greg came home three months earlier than expected due to some decision about bases to be left in Iraq instead of being dismanteled. His wife came over to give us the invitation for his welcome home party and told Grant that Greg had landed in back in the US of A, good ol' California, that very day.

Grant whipped that bracelet off that instant. It had left a sunless-mark of indention around his wrist where he had grown over the months while the combat boot laces it was woven from had not. Gotta say he is a hardheaded kid, but sometimes that is a true asset.

So, we went to the party and had a great time seeing Greg who said he is going to pay Grant a special personal visit one of these days soon. He was touched by this little 9 year old knucklehead, you could tell.








And then the H1N1 flu hit our house last weekend. First was Sam but his was a shorty. Then me... this is me today, Day 5, now that I am mostly well. A picture during the midst of it would have been too harsh on your eyes.


And here's Grant today on his Day 4. He's fever free now and getting better. If he looks a little less-than-chipper, it's because of this...

SCHOOL WORK!!

And this is just make up work for 3 missed days. He spent most of today working on it and isn't finished yet. Plus, he'll have to make up today's work and possibly tomorrow's also if he stays home again.

I can see now why Mrs. Campbell doesn't give homework--she works them non-stop while they're at school.

And then today, it hit Caroline. Her temp just a bit ago was 102.9 and here's hoping hers can be a shorty, too.

Sam fully rebounded as you can see from this shot of today, and we really want Mr. Jack to just avoid the whole blamed thing.

And Gary, too. Oinkin' flu is no fun.

Trust me on that one.