Coming Unglued!

The pictures have nothing to do with the post today.  They are just fun pictures and the stories have no fun pictures, so...

Drew did this drawing 100 percent on his own.  I think it's amazing for an 8 year old.

A couple of weeks ago, we were thawing out a 17 lb brisket for my brother-in-law to smoke for family dinner.  I told Brian to put it in the sink with some water to get it thawing quicker.  He commented as he was filling up the sink that it was a lot of water.  Hannah and I were sitting at the island working on projects when we heard a crack.  We both looked up suddenly to see what it was, but we saw nothing and just assumed that it was the frozen brisket cracking.  A little bit later I had wondered off to help the boys with something when she calls me to come look.  

Luna on top of the couch in our school room.

Turns out the sink fell.  It had been installed with glue and caulk only and that isn't going to cut it for a 17 lb brisket plus water.  I found it shocking, but then kind of funny.  We hadn't been in this house 30 days and already something breaks.  Brian made it a big priority to get a new house too so not as much would break.  It's less than two years old.  

The wonderful news is that the builders came over on Monday and fixed it for free and put in wooden rods for it to rest on underneath.  

And then my van's rear-view mirror came unglued and fell off.  That's what the Texas heat will do!  Brian has tried to fix it, but it continues to come unglued and fall off.

 On a much more serious note, my sweet Isaac came "unglued" a bit.  On Saturday we had to take Isaac to the ER.  He had 2 immunizations (meningococcal and dtap) the day before, on Friday.  That night he got a fever and I gave him ibuprofen.  He had a terrible night and was still feverish in the morning.  I gave him Tylenol and ibuprofen together.  He stayed in bed and listened to an audio book because he said he couldn't read because his eyes hurt too much.  Someone brought him toast at some point when I was out running an errand.  Genna comes and gets me a few hours later, and says Isaac's acting weird, laughing uncontrollably and staring.  When we asked him his name he said "Seven".  The date was "31" and the president was "1000."  He didn't know where his room was and his answers sometimes were too garbled to understand or he just stared.  Totally freaked me out.  Brian and I took him to closest ER, but he threw up before we made it out the door.  He couldn't walk straight or really support his weight.  He was pale and his eyes were rolling back a bit.  Super scary, but on the drive he became coherent and the doctor said it was just a reaction to the immunizations.  

It just doesn't make sense to me.   I can see why the doctors think it's related to the immunizations, but it could be a coincidence like the time my friend had appendicitis right after giving birth, but they didn't catch it for days because they were sure it had to do with the birth.  As I write this he is still feeling terrible and feverish.  He fell asleep on the couch, so I'm sitting up with him until it's time for his next medicine dose and I can move him to our room.  I just don't want to leave him alone right now.

My Sweet 6 Year Old Forever! (Okay, okay, he's really 7.)

Happy birthday to my sweet Judah.  I told him that we'd still celebrate him and do presents and cake, but that we should all just agree that he won't get older than 6.  He said he couldn't stop it, and, no matter how I tried to convince him, he would just not agree to my plan.  Alas, he turned 7.

His reaction when he saw the too-big-to-wrap horse pillow with a pocket for the tooth fairy that I made him.  For now, he has put his special saint cards in the pocket since no teeth are loose yet.

Our card tradition continues.  The little boys like to remind their siblings the countdown to their birthdays and remind them that they need to make a birthday card.  "Don't forget!  There are only two days to make my card," they remind.  I had to throw mine together the night before.  Hannah and I stayed up after Judah that night and worked on our cards together at the kitchen island.

My card: this is Jack and Annie from the Magic Treehouse book series that he loves so much.  He's on book 41, I think.

The inside of Genna's card: Judah loves cats!

Isaac's card: Judah's current favorite superhero is Black Panther.

Hannah's card:  All the boys are into dragons thanks to Isaac's fascination with drawing them.

Judah's friend came over with his siblings to our pool to swim and have some ice cream cake.  I threw this together last minute.  

The day after his birthday was a Saturday and he helped me make his "vanilla and chocolate" cake.  He requested that it be a Sword in the Stone cake since he is into King Arthur stuff right now (hence the Magic Treehouse obsession).

I made two cakes,one vanilla and one chocolate, and I layered them, cut off some edges, and then smooshed it together a bit to make a giant cake ball.  This was going to be hard to ice, so I first melted chocolate and poured it over to make a hard coating that was easy to ice over.

Hannah is responsible for the sword.  We found a sword that was the right size and she fixed the emblem by drawing an Excalibur symbol and taping it on with double sided tape.

He wanted his name on it and I added the green sprinkles for grass.

 We took it the next day to his Aunt's house for swimming and celebrating with family.  My sister's birthday is the day before his, so we celebrated her as well.

Then the next week he got a special trip to Smoothie King for the whole family, paid for by his Gigi and Poppy.  They were appalled that he'd never been "because Mommy says it's too expensive."