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April 11, 2000


Well, I'm relieved last week is over! It was one of those ones where we ran from activity to activity never getting a moment's rest. Soccer, Cub Scouts, church, birthday parties and doctor's appointments, the whole week was a blur!

The rocket experiment went fantastic. It turns out that the ones fueled by Alka Seltzer were more popular with the boys. I think it's due to the fact that the "fuel" is pre measured and therefore the results are more duplicatable. Not to say that they didn't like the baking soda batch, which were messier and flew higher. Of course, yesterday my little scientist had to experiment on his own. He put first two, then three and finally four tablets in the canister to see how big a pop and how high it would go.

Friday night was opening night of the local NASCAR track. It looked like rain, but since we had discount tickets and the Scouts were to conduct the opening ceremonies we went. It never did rain there but we did wear our winter jackets. One of the cars is painted just like John Andretti's Petty Enterprises #43 for the season. Nicholas was convinced it's the real thing and kept telling me, "Mom, Richard Petty is here, where's Kyle ?"

Saturday started off drizzly. Matt was to have two soccer games back to back. By the end of the first, the team was soaked, so the second was called off. The kids played great, I think it should be a good season for them.

Both boys were to have birthday parties to attend Saturday afternoon. Nick, however, was complaining of a sore throat. We juggled our plans around and Mike took him to the pediatrician while I took Matt his friend's party, and Sam went along for the ride. They came home with instructions to administer three different medicines and to try to keep Nick and Sam apart. I give Mike A LOT of credit for handling it ... it was great that I didn't have to take Sam along and expose him to a room full of sick kids. Sam has been cranky all week, I think (I hope) it's teething starting. He also discovered his feet yesterday, probably because he was wearing his new soft-soled sneakers which feature Dr. Seuss's "Sam I am!" character. He sat in his car seat during soccer practice wiggling them and smiling, then did a repeat performance at home for his daddy!

I was talking with the mom of one of Matthew's friends when she relayed this story to me.

She'd stopped in to drop off invitations to her son's birthday party. The kids were in the midst of free time when they can play or use the computer station. Apparently all the other kids were playing individually or in groups. The teacher pointed Matt out to her and said, "Check out that one." Matthew was standing at the globe with a pencil and paper copying down names of countries and oceans.

It's always nice to hear positive things from objective third parties in reference to your kids. What really hit me about this story is the fact that Matt is the youngest in his classroom. It really takes away any fears of him not being able to keep up with the rest of the class. Also, I was told recently he's the best reader in the class!

I almost forgot the other incident last week. The boys went with me to the PTO meeting. There's supposed to be a sitter to watch any kids who come and they usually play in the gym or if the weather's good, out on the playground. Well, with the return of the cold weather they were inside. A little girl took Nick's Hotwheels car and somehow in the process of trying to get it back she threw it at Matt. It took a nice chunk out of his scalp and he came running into the meeting room in tears with blood in his hair and all over his hand. The PTO president and myself left the room to clean him up. It actually stopped bleeding fairly quickly and didn't require stitches but what really ticked me off is that the girl never even apologized ... and her mother never even got up to see what had happened ! I really felt like chewing her out but restrained myself.

Well, until next week -- here's hoping that Spring returns in time for the Passover and Easter celebrations!

Take Care!

Suzi

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