PNEUMONIA

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Sierra’s facebook page, she says: pneumonia. awesome. Pun intended, I’m sure. She has been sickly for some time now. I was worried that there was something wrong with her. Hopefully that is all it is. Chris is in town or will be in the next couple of days.

SILLIER YET

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2010 Today was another silly day with kids. Jayden and Bailey got off at 1:45 for some teacher…something-or-other so we had plenty of time to get nutty. At one point we were in the kitchen of their house giggling and goofing off when in reaction to something I said, Jayden said “I’m going to put my foot up your…beep!” Beep” is the word he used. I laughed and said “Where, up your mouth…up your shirt?” Jayden started laughing. That made me start laughing. And Bailey, who had just swigged a large mouthful of milk and hadn’t swallowed it yet started laughing so hard that the milk came spewing out of her mouth and her nose. Fortunately we were sitting around the island in the kitchen and the floor was stone and not in the living room where it was carpet. I cleaned it up. Then they went outside to play with some neighbor kids. Jayden’s football ended up in the window well of the unit next door to the neighbors. It is a vacant home. They were afraid to jump in and get it because of the bugs down there. They said there was a black widow but they had drown it with water from the hose. It probable receded off somewhere. Bailey came running in the house asking me to help them. We grabbed a broom handle from the garage and ran over there. There were a handful of kids screaming and pointing. Jayden asked me to climb down and retrieve his ball for him. I told him there was no way this old body could do that. I reassured them that it was safe now. All there was was a couple of black beadles left and one of them Jayden killed, cracking its back with end of the broom handle. Jayden asked me to hold him by the ankles and lower him down to the ball but after I started lowering him down he changed his mind. Finally he worked up his courage, jumped down threw the ball out and scampered back up as fast as he could. Later it turned into and water fight. By the time it was all over both Bailey and Jayden were quite wet. Jayden was soaked including his tennies. He changed into a pair of white shorts and his boots. That was a sight to behold. He was even laughing at himself for how he looked. Later Corey called and asked if I would take the kids to Wal-Mart and meet him there since he needed to pick up some groceries. Bailey sat next to me up front. She and I got loud and were making funny noises to the point that Jayden in the back seat was shaking his head in disgust.

A LITTLE SILLINESS

Friday, September 24, 2010 After Jayden and Bailey came home from school yesterday, we were talking when Bailey said, “In P.E. to day, everyone wanted to sit next to me. They kept moving their chairs (to get closer to me.) As we were driving Jayden to football Chalk Talk, Bailey blurted out, “You’re a silly little grandpa!” Jayden said at school that he and a friend “were scribbling with crayons on a piece of paper and blew up the world.” This is coming from an eleven year old. They were of course just being silly. I can’t understand where they get there silliness. It couldn’t be from me.

GOOD NEWS

FRIDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER, 2010 The word Gospel means Good News but that is not what I have in mind this morning. Yesterday I received a phone call from a pretty 39 year-old red-head… again irrelevant. The good news is that Dr. Sanderson's nurse, Jessica called with the results of my biopsies. All three came back negative for skin cancer. Yahoo! or Google or something like that!

SONG BIRD - BAILEY

Thursday, September 23, 2010 Yesterday after football practice, Corey and family came over for dinner. Bailey asked Grandma (Judy) if she would play the piano for her while she sang. She sang for quite a while. She is really quite good. Today, after school Bailey tried out for a singing and speaking part in their school's Christmas program. Corey said that Stacey said she did well. Good for nine year-old Bailey. On facebook I asked Stacey how it went. She said: “She’s in the choir but that’s good ‘cause that’s where she wanted to be…she sounded so good I was blown away.”

A FEW FUN TIDBITS from STACEY

From Stacey’s facebook: Thursday, September 16, 2009 Stacey Jepson: "Today is crazy hat day at school. Bailey was walking with some friends when she remembered. She yelled out to me to go (home) and get her cowboy hat… So I had to run to the house, then back to the school with her hat and a few of Jayden’s hats for him to choose from. (When I came back to Jayden,) he said 'I am already wearing a hat. It’s invisible...If only you could see how crazy it is Mom.' I laughed all the way home." another entry September 15 at 1:54pm ‎"MOMMY WHERE'S MY…?" "MOM CAN YOU DO THIS" MOM I’M HUNGRY!" MOM CAN I…?" And last but not least "HONEY I'M HOME WHATS FOR DINNER". Everyday coming at you on all four sides.... I wouldn't give it up for anything... I might dial it down a little."

THE UNIVERSE

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