Student of the week

Today is the day Kiira has been waiting for the ENTIRE school year. She is student of the week. What does this mean you ask? Well, day one - she has a poster that she has filled out and will share with the class. On it are her favorite things to eat (broccoli), what she wishes she could do (play with a fairy), what she is good at (riding horses) and what she wants to be when she grows up (a ballerina). These are all answers that she has done herself. I chuckled at a few of them and scratched my head at some - not knowing that she truly felt she was GOOD at riding horses. That of course warmed my heart. She has also put a few pictures on her poster. One of the family and one of her riding Robin Hood. Although you hope your child holds some of the things that are important to you, also important to them, she couldn't have hit the nail on the head any closer. My two greatest pleasures in life are my family and my horses.

Quality time

This weekend Kiira and I went to see the San Francisco Symphony. We have tickets in a series that is geared towards kids. We carpooled with our friend June and her dad Gideon. I thought it was spectacular although the topic of each of the pieces centered around death. Specifically, "The Composer is Dead" based on a book by Lemony Snickett. The last piece was actually narrated by the author himself. He was quite animated if I may say so! We ended the day with a family meal at Askew with the Bernsteins - kids eat free through April! Yahoo! Considering we had more kids than adults at this meal.....

Back in the saddle

Alan and Evan came out to root us on!



Kiira and "Kisses"



Heidi and Rhett

Not that we ever left the saddle....but we had a horse show at our barn this past weekend. For living in California, I have to say, I expect a certain amount of warmness. I will say however - I DID NOT FIND IT THIS WEEKEND. I felt like I was on the flippin east coast! Good lord.

Weather aside - we all did well. Kiira did a leadline class on "Kisses" this time. The judge couldn't decide who did the best and all 6 kids got ribbons. Kiira was thrilled. Alan and Evan came to root us on. We put Kiira's warm vest on Evan it was so cold - he looked like a little pink puffball with all his coats.

Rhett and I had two of our best jumping rounds yet and won both classes. We did one hunter class (judged on Rhett) and one equitation class (judged on me). Both ever fences. It is such a feeling of accomplishment to come out of the class and feel like your hard work has paid off and you just nailed it. That's how I felt for our second class. Man, he's an AWESOME horse. I say over and over, I am so lucky!

Facebook

I finally made the plunge to facebook not long ago and hit the ground running. I reconnected with a good portion of my high school class. It has been a blast reminiscing and looking at photos of us in our hay day.

One of my friends from high school, Susie Angerer, was out in San Francisco this past weekend and Jenny and I got together with her while she was here. I can't believe it's been 20 years. Well, there ya go. We had alot of fun laughing and catching up. Here's to the next reunion class of '87! I'll make it this time.

That boy

Just when we think we are over the hurdle health wise.....Evan got the bad cold and he seems to have woken up with pink eye today. Conjunctiv-itis what's your function? (sung to the tune of "conjuction, junction what's your function?" (You 60's/70's babies out there will remember this.)

Gotta a 'gina?

Yes, this is Evan's favorite chant recently. He thinks he has one and it bugs Kiira to no end that he thinks that. She says adamantly over and over, "No, Evan you have a PENIS! I have a 'gina." This just fuels him up more and he says, "No, I have a 'gina". Repeat cycle ad nauseum.

You are HOT, HOT, HOT!

Just when I thought we were done with the sickness, Evan woke up with Kiira's cold yesterday. Or so I thought it was a cold. Turns out by evening he had a full blown fever. My mom asked me what temp. I said, "'bout hot as it gets on the back of my hand."

There are two schools of thought on medicine. Give it or not. I'm a believer in 'given but Evan was not a believer in 'gettin. If I force it he just throws up (my girlfriend told me today that there are suppositories for this purpose). So last night the poor guy suffers through high fevers, and hallucinations. At one point he was deathly afraid of his hand. He wouldn't sleep in any of the beds because he thought that was where the scary hand came from. Needless to say, we spend some sleepless sweaty hours on the couch. All in all I'd say about 3 hrs sleep.

Flash forward 24 hrs, 1/2 a refrigerator emptied out and a motor mouth 2 yr old. He's back. Man they bounce back quickly. Let's just hope no one else gets it. I really feel we have all paid our dues this year.