Fourteen is Fine

We started the week with some very nice weather.  There was football and Trivial Pursuit. Benson spent most of his day outside, too.  He took advantage of our being home on a weekday.

Josiah has continued to make Mr. Potato Head scenes in my class in the mornings.  He started the week with a preaching scene - the preacher had his hands raised and the congregation of two had their hands raised praising the Lord as well.  I didn't get a picture of it, but it was a good one.  As the week went on, he had a wedding...

...and a presidential motorcade, which was appropriate for President's Day.  My class learned about Washington and Lincoln this past week, so it was all tied together.  

Josiah had his first week of play practice.  He stays for an extra two hours after school.  He came home one evening and said, "Please do not ask me any questions.  I don't want to talk.  I'm not mad.  I'm very tired." It's a long way to May, so hopefully he'll get used to it. 

Two nights before his birthday, Henry came down with a fever.  He stayed home from school on Friday still feverish.  He spent his last day as a 13-year old sleeping on the couch.  Poor guy.  He was still under the weather for his birthday, but was able to do the scavenger hunt for his gifts.  We have been raising the bar on our clues, making them harder to solve, but he breezed through most of them.  One was an anagram that took Henry a while, but Josiah and Caroline got it almost immediately.  THEN PARTY.  (The pantry.)  He blames the fever for his slower solving time.

We enjoyed omelets for breakfast with all the fixings - green pepper, bacon, cheese, onion, tomato.  I did not think everyone would eat the omelets, but everyone put their orders in and several came back for seconds.  I did cook them in bacon grease, so they had some flavor.  Chipotle was the birthday lunch, although with the price of eggs right now, the omelets should have counted as a restaurant meal.  Chicken piccata, steamed broccoli, and rice was the desired dinner.  Henry is our chocolate man, so it was a devil's food cake with chocolate icing for dessert.  Chocolate chocolate.

Josiah printed a Taylor Swift cover for his new Madden 25 game.  Todd and I showed our age and thought it looked like Paris Hilton.  He got a Texans jersey, a comforter, and an immersion blender. He's our smoothie guy, and cleaning the giant blender every day got a little tedious last summer.  His grandparents and cousins blessed him with a Texans shirt and a laser tag game.  He wanted to play some on his birthday, but he was still feeling rough for most of the day.  Gargling salt water was his friend.  

Despite our warm start to the week, a cold front pushed through for the remainder of it.  Benson enjoyed the sun hitting his bed.  

This month has flown by.  Only two more weeks and the third semester will be over.