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Archive for February 2008

Tooth troubles, day 4

Today and Friday Owen has off school for parent-teacher conferences. His dad’s picking him up at 8:30am today, in part so I can get caught up on work I’ve had to cancel earlier this week.
Owen’s feeling and looking better, and his appetite’s coming back. Here he is eating cereal this morning:

I’ll miss […]

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Tooth troubles, day 3

I anticipated Owen would be feeling good enough to go to school today. When he woke up he looked a lot better than yesterday, but after he’d been standing up and walking around for awhile, his face started looking more swollen. He took a shower, during which I decided I’d keep him home again; it […]

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Tooth troubles, day 2

Owen dozed on the couch last night for about a half hour and woke up with his eye partially swollen shut. It was shocking to see how fast the swelling traveled up to his eye. After that, I decided to sleep on the couch with him partially propped up in my arms. Although the plan […]

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Tooth troubles

Saturday Owen was mentioning one of his baby teeth was very loose, and Sunday morning it came out (his upper right lateral incisor). Right afterwards, he started complaining his tooth hurt — not the one that just came out, but the one two behind that one. This tooth has caused him problems before. In April […]

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Captain Underpants

Owen’s weekly second-grade homework includes:

reading 15 minutes 5 times during the week and writing a sentence each of the 5 times (Tell about one character in the story, Tell one thing you learned from the story, or Tell your favorite part of the story)
completing a packet of homework, including spelling words to write and […]

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Exercise log 02-20-08

Wednesday 02-20-08

Elliptical trainer at the YMCA

Miles: 2.6
Time: 27 minutes
Calories: 360
Watching: American Idol

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Exercise log 02-18-08

Monday 02-18-08

Body Pump at the YMCA — 60 minutes

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Owen’s choir concert

Owen’s school held their second-grade choir concert this afternoon. Michael and I went, as did Owen’s dad and Rebecca.

The kids did great - they played “Mary Had a Little Lamb” on xylophones, then sang a number of songs. Each second grade class (there are 5) had a few songs they sang as an individual […]

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Exercise log 02-13-08

Wednesday 02-13-08

Elliptical trainer at the YMCA

Miles: 3+
Time: 35 minutes
Calories: 400
Watching: American Idol

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Exercise log 02-11-08

Monday 02-11-08

Body Pump at the YMCA — 60 minutes

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