Labor Day Weekend

Lately, the kids have ended up in our bed.  Tyler's been having nightmares but he comes in quietly.  Maybe I don't notice him because he climbs in from Heidi's side.  

Kira always approaches my side.  This time, the three kids climbed in, forcing me and Heidi into Kira's bed.  Check out Tyler; he has his bear.  

I woke up at six this morning in order to wash the van.  I spent about an hour on it, and I was surprised to see that everyone was still asleep when I finished.  Then I worked on my finale files and Kira strolled in a little after eight.  The rest of the clan was up by nine and we had breakfast.

Tyler made a very bad decision by throwing a book at Kira, which gave her a bloody nose.  He has anger management issues and I was very upset and had to practice a lot of restraint in talking to him.  Poor Kira.  Sometimes, I want to teach her to fight back so Tyler will learn his lesson of not messing with her.  But I don't want Kira to turn hard like that.  It's funny, when Tyler is behaving poorly, Scott is like, "I'm being good, right?"  And earlier that morning, Scott was throwing a fit about practicing his piano.

I've kinda gotten out of TV.  Maybe I'll get back in when Revenge starts up again next month, but I have really enjoyed doing projects in the garage instead.  I hardly have the patience to sit through a netflix full length motion picture.

And stuff

The kids like to imitate my hamstring stretches.  Tyler is quite flexible.  Blakey is just using me as a couch.

Scott and I went on a date to Panera after soccer practice.  He ate all of his cookie and chips, and about three bites of his sandwich.  I wouldn't have gotten the cookie but we had a gift card.  We took all the leftovers home.

Scott likes one-on-ones with the motorcycle.

Heidi had her copper IUD removed and it made a dramatic difference in her mood, for the better.  No, we are not trying for more kids, I just thought she would feel better with it out.  I don't know why physicians try to deceive or lie to us about how there are no hormones in those, and that it's "impossible" to have the kinds of side effects Heidi was having.  Well, doctors should know to not use always, never, or impossible in their conversations.  Nothing is impossible in medicine.  Just ask Jesus.  What explanation do you offer when he healed the leper?  Or how he made the blind man to see?  I'm sure there is a physiologic sequence, because God operates within the laws of physics and chemistry, but when man has no explanation, we call it a miracle.  And those are happening in medicine all the time.

Saturday

Made bacon and eggs for breakfast this morning.  The kids loved the bacon; my eggs, not so much.  But whatev.  Then Scott had his soccer game and we went on the VFR to Oakley.  Heidi and the rest of the kids showed up just before half time and it was a good game because Scott scored two goals and his team won.  Then we went to the gymmer to swim.  

Kira's a little young for a ride on the motorcycle, but at least she's excited about wearing her helmet.

Then we went to Walnut Creek to Heidi's parents.  Blakey figured out how to make Pop's jeep go.  He still doesn't understand the steering, so I let him go back and forth in a straight line.  

On the way home, Scott kept asking about cars.  He said, "If anyone gave you a free car, what would you get?"

"Lexus."

"What if you didn't get a Lexus, what would be the next car you'd get for free?"

"Toyota Supra."  

Scott:  "I'd get a Corvette."

Me:  "I thought about a Corvette, too."

Scott:  "Think we could get an old one, spray paint it, put in a new engine, and put in a subwoofer?"

Me:  "Of course."  Meanwhile, I'm pleased that he knows how important subwoofers are.  Then I had to explain why the Supra is such a great car.  I think it'll be more effective to just show him the youtube videos of the ones with huge turbos that spank Lamborghinis and Ferraris.  

These photos were taken with the iphone.  They're not that great, but a bad photo is better than no photo.  I saw a commercial for a phone that claims 42 megapixels!  Ha!  Rubbish.  No amount of megapixels can compensate for a bad lens.  

Alright, then.

Some kid shots

Just had to photograph Kira in her church dress.  Since I get her ready, I can dress her how I want and do her hair how I want.  She likes the pony tail, and I talked her into this cute dress.  I don't know where we got it--maybe Kat.  Or some craigslist bin. 

Tyler has been into watching youtube videos and he wants to make a "fail compilation," so he asked me to film him falling off the bean bag.  Kira wanted in, too.

Don't know what Scott's doing here, but check out the motorcycle on his shirt.  That looks an awful like a 76 Honda CB750.  Does it say Harley?  Can't tell, but that is no Harley.   Heidi doesn't like that I share my opinions about good vs. crappy vehicles.  Scott is convinced that Toyota and Lexus make the finest cars and that Ford are the worst.  And he believes that Honda bikes are good and Harley are not.  Good boy.  All you Ford people out there:  I have done my time with Ford:  Boy's Bronco and Heidi's Exploder.  No thank you.

That's all.

Circus 2013

Saturday was the Barnum & Bailey circus.  I had left for work at 6:00 on the VFR, saw patients until about 2:30, and then Heidi, her parents and the kids picked me up at the office to go to Oakland.  I was hoping to see the motorcycles in the globe, but this year's performance was still good.  My favorites:

Unicycle basketball

 The woman getting fired out of the cannon, 3 step sequence shots

And the trampoline show.  We had one of these in college and Dan-o and I would do fancy flips off them into the foam pit.  We made a video called "Oh, Flip" and it was us doing flips everywhere.  Well, the pool, Mexico, BYU and Layton.  I'll just upload it.

I think the kids had a good time, especially with the cotton candy that came with this hat.

School pictures

Yesterday was school pictures.  They don't seem to do a classroom group photo anymore, so you pay this company way too much money for mediocre prints and then they do a composite print containing each individual's headshot.   I liked the group photos they took at East Layton Elementary because there was always someone who wasn't ready for the picture, so they looked surprised, or there was someone blinking.  Plus, the principal and our teachers were in the photos.  

I took my own photos before school started.  Mr. Congeniality had no problems smiling for the camera.  

Scott didn't want to show his teeth and ran inside.  Then Mommy bribed him with something and coaxed a teether out of him.

This is how he wanted to smile.  I think he looks more natural in the toothy smile.  I don't like Kim Kardashian, but I think she has mastered the closed mouth smile.  Speaking of KK, Kanye was booed at a baseball game when they showed him on the jumbotron.   I don't know why those people have their own "reality" show.  Who cares what Kim's gonna wear to her ultrasound?  Come on.  They ought to call theirs a fake show, not reality.  Or, "Keeping up with the Kardashians' Debt!"  People still watch her, though.  They say it's entertaining.  I think it's contaminating.  But my blog only has four followers, so I can't talk.  Justin Bieber has 46 million twitter followers.  

How do I even know this?  I see as patients a lot of young people who keep me up-to-date with my E-gossip.   I've thought about starting a twitter account.  Then I thought, "No."  Anyway, Scott's photo:

Then he wanted a shot in front of the golf course.  The lighting wasn't good when we did these shots, but this will have to do.  

The other night there was a ruckus in the ditch behind our house.  I got out my super flashlight to investigate, but couldn't see anything, even though the noise continued.  I thought of the movie Super 8 and decided to stay on our side of the fence.  

Sunday afternoon hyper

 The boys like to remove these empty water containers and use them in their circus.  Then weren't so excited about putting them away, though.

Are you done taking my picture?