October started out with us joining a fitness club - Yea!!! - and then having to cancel our membership the very next day because Steve needed to have a new crown - Boo!!! That was the first two days of the month.
On the 3rd of October Jeremy came home from school VERY upset. He had gotten into his first fight. Apparently, the other kid was using some offensive language around the girls in the group and Jeremy told him to clean it up around the ladies. The kid started throwing punches and being even more obnoxious. It ended when the other kid threw Jeremy's shoe into the pond and an adult came running to help Jeremy out. The other kid scrambled. Thank goodness this did not happen on school property or Jeremy might have been suspended within he first week of school. I told him I was proud of him for defending the girls, but I didn't want any more fighting. He agreed that maybe this group was not the best social time and he said he would come straight home from school from then on.
Over Conference weekend we decided to give our house a face lift. The shutters were all sun bleached a different shade of green and it made our house look sad. We planned out the project between sessions, got the shutters cleaned off and I bought the paint later in the week. By the next weekend our house was smiling again. It is amazing what a couple coats of paint can do.
While Jeremy and Steve went to the priesthood session of conference, Naomi, Nicholas and I stayed at home and read books. Nicholas wanted to finish The Hunger Games and Naomi was in the middle of the Magic School Bus series and wanted to learn more about science with the gang. It was a great night for everyone.
Naomi and her friends decorated her room to look like an apple orchard and pumpkin patch. It was really cute. Once the "season" was over, she took down the decorations and is carefully storing them until next season. I love her imagination.
Here are some of the wonderful pictures she has been taking with the camera. I told you she has an eye for things most of us wouldn't even notice.
October 10th I got a call from Lake Norman Charter school telling me that Nicholas had fallen in some mud during recess and would need a COMPLETE change of clothes. I rushed to the school and found a very muddy Nicholas. We got him all cleaned up and back in class before he missed too much.
October 16th I got another call from Lake Norman Charter telling me that Nicholas was in the nurses office with a fever and complaining of a sore throat and headache. I ran over to the school and picked him up. The nurse told me to watch him closely as strep throat was going around. Steve left for Chicago that afternoon. (Remember, nothing good happens when he is out of town - foreshadowing.)
October 17th, Nick was still sick and to make matters worse he had a tooth that looked like it was broken in two. I took him to the dentist and he ended up having to have two teeth pulled since the adult teeth were growing in underneath and causing the baby teeth to crack and/or grow at odd and uncomfortable angles. As much as Nicholas HATES having shots in his mouth, he was relieved to have the two troublesome teeth out of his mouth. He really like the "new" dentist.
While all of this was going on, the truck was in the shop getting new struts. I was driving around in a rental truck which Nicholas thought was cool, but all this truck did was make me miss my real truck.
The next morning Nick woke up at 5:00 crying that his throat really hurt. As soon as the doctor's office opened I called and got Nick an appointment. The doctor took one look in Nick's nose and mouth and diagnosed a definite sinus infection with a very likely case of strep throat. He didn't bother with the strep test since Nick would need an antibiotic to treat the sinus infection. The poor kid felt miserable, but at least we now had the proper medicine to help him get better. I got my truck back that afternoon and Steve came home from Chicago as well. I told you nothing good happens while he is gone!!!
October 19th and 20th the scouts went camping and Nick was extra sad because he couldn't go. The doctor advised him to sit this one out. It was tough on him, but he did it.
October 22 I had Naomi home sick, but she made a speedy recovery and was back in school the next day.
October 24th I braved the long lines and exercised my civic duty and right to have a say in who was elected as the next president of the United States of America. The whole process always fascinates and frustrates me, but I am grateful the freedom to vote.
October 25th Nicholas had a day off, but Naomi and Jeremy had to go to school. He wanted to go out to breakfast so I took him to Denny's. He loved it!!! Later that afternoon we went to a parent teacher conference with Mrs. Hammond. Although his grades were good, she helped him set the goal of improving the quality of work he was handing in and to bring up his language arts and social studies grades a bit for the next quarter. She also gave him a challenge to branch out and make some friends. He is taking both suggestions very seriously and had made great strides so far. More on that later.
Halloween was the least scary event of the month!! We had homemade chili, breadsticks, pumpkin donuts and cider along with out Trick or Treating. It was a fun night and we all fell into bed deliciously exhausted.
Enjoy the following random pictures.
He was supposed to be folding his laundry, but it made such a comfortable lounge chair!!!
Bring it on!!
Raking leaves into a neat pile so that they could jump in it.
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