First up - We have had record breaking Cedar pollen levels. When we moved here everyone warned me about the cedar pollen. It's bad. Get on meds. OK I thought, I'll stock up on Allegra and we should be good to go. Well, then it came. And it came at record breaking levels. There were videos of brown plumes of pollen blowing out of the trees. My sinuses swelled shut. To put it on mathematical terms, a high level of pollen is 500. During the first days, the levels were 16,000! I took a day off of work, ended up at the doctor finally, got stronger meds and stayed inside. :-)
So my doctor visit was on a Monday. On Tuesday night Grant came into our room and said he his stomach hurt. So I gave him a drink of water, tucked him back in, gave him a bowl and hoped for the best. Well he was back at 3am. And bless his heart, he got most of it in the bowl. That's when I remembered my friend telling me her son was sick on Monday. Then Grant had a friend out on Tuesday. Grant (along with 7 other classmates) was out on Wednesday. His other friend got it Thursday and then 2 were out on Friday. It was incredible! This virus FLEW through Kindergarten. Luckily for us it was short lived and he was up and feeling better Wednesday afternoon and no one else in the house got it.
The next Monday was MLKJr. Day, so no school. Well, then that Thursday the weather people were so excited because we too were going to feel the effects of the Polar Vortex. Friday school was cancelled. We had sleet...no snow...and icy streets. But, have no fear, we were back up to 80 on Sunday!
Well, don't get comfortable at 80, because here comes that nasty vortex again! It hit us last night (Monday). So, once again, no school! It's nuts. We have already burned through our bad weather make up days. I hope this vortex goes away! I don't know what we will do next time.
Why is Jen telling us all this? Well, because I don't have many pictures or videos to share. We haven't been doing anything because one of us has been sick or the polar vortex has been making life difficult.
All that said, Sunday was beautiful and everyone was feeling good...so out we went! I had seen a post about a ghost town east of Austin. I mentioned it to Beckett and everyday he asked if we were going. So it was pretty funny when we told him we were going. He asked Roger if it was real. Roger said yes, it's going to be real (meaning there will be real buildings to explore.) Beckett took it as yes, there will be real ghosts. He came running me and said, Mom, tell dad it's not real! Poor kid...he was genuinely concerned.
The ghost town ended up being a lot bigger than I thought and we had a great time.
So, Beckett loves his scooter and he loves his Darth Vadar cape. The 2 came together during this park outing. :-)
Here are the kids out playing in our "snow." See the grill - thats just sleet/ice and that's all we got.
Oh yeah - and Flat Stanley came to visit. We finally took him out and about. Poor Stanley...he's been forgotten in his envelope in the kitchen.
At the general's desk in the frontier fort.
Up at the top of the wall in the fort.
Beckett pounding away on the piano.
Beckett lookin swag on the fort wall.
Coming down off the wall.
The "boys" in jail.
Grant said - let's look upset that we are in jail. :-)
Beckett has always enjoyed singing in the car. Lately he has begun to try to make up words along with the song. It's really funny. I tried to be sly and capture it on video without him knowing. Well, as you can see, he quickly figures it out. It's funny nonetheless. :-)
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