Welcome to Crazy Week

Posted on September 10, 2012 by bakersdozenandapolloxiv

Enoch, age 12

This is one of those weeks when everything seems to be happening at once.

After much thought and consideration, we decided to keep Hezekiah and Tucker in the Cub Scout pack we’ve been in since 2007. A big part of sending them to school this year was to maintain some normalcy for them, no matter what is going on with Apollo. They have been attending pack meetings with their brothers since they were toddlers and are familiar with most of the people. The only downside of that decision, is their pack, being made up of primarily homeschoolers, meets during the day. It is only once a month, but requires that I pick them up from school early that one day a month.

So, today, I’ll pick Hezekiah and Tucker up from school at 12, feed them lunch in the van, drop off at Tami’s at 12:30 so Carolynn pick them up and transport them to Scouts. Then I head to the dentist with Judah, who has an appointment at 1:00. When we’re done, I’ll head back to Tami’s to pick up the boys to take Hezekiah to his eye doctor appointment at 4:00. Then finally home to fix dinner.

Tomorrow is our day at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Apollo has a neck ultrasound at 12:30, we see his cardiologist at 1:00. He goes to the PASS clinic as 2:15 (to make sure he is healthy enough for his procedure on the 17th) and sees his pulmonologist at 3:00. Now pause for a moment, and imagine that schedule with a two-year old. Nap? What nap? Apollo did so much crying at our last visit to Children’s that we decided to take Enoch and Tilly along this time. The visit with the cardiologist is just for me and Chuck, Apollo doesn’t need to be there, so Enoch and Tilly can take him to the playroom while we meet with the doctor.

Wednesday Adalia takes her driving test at 8:30 and have an appointment with my naturopathic doctor at 12.

Thursday I have a family/newborn session in the morning.

Then I have Friday through Sunday to gear up for Apollo’s mic-key placement and our guests.

Now it’s 5:30 am and I’m off to get as much work as possible done before my children wake up.

Hezekiah Earns Wolf Rank {Cub Scouts}

Posted on April 17, 2012 by bakersdozenandapolloxiv

Nine year old Mordecai was on Color Guard at our Pack Meeting last night. Look how confident he looks! A far cry from his Tiger year when he was six…

Hezekiah happened to be on Color Guard last night too.

This is for you, Carolynn.

Mordecai and three of his fellow Webelos wrote a puppet show, worked on the puppet theater, made their own puppets and performed at last night’s Pack Meeting.

I was very proud of Mordecai, who read his lines loud and clear. I have to say, I was dreading this. His fellow Webelos came to our house twice to work on the puppet show and practice. And Mordecai, who was grumpy because I wouldn’t let him play his brother’s DS, curled up in a ball in a chair and refused to participate. He grumped. And fell over in his chair several times. He refused to participate. He refused to talk to his friends. In short, it was completely humiliating for me. It’s hard to be “that mom” with a child who is angry, ungrateful, and hard to control. But I am. After the second meeting, I was ready to call it quits. Why go through the pain and drama of Scouts at all? And then he pulled it together and surprised me at the Pack Meeting.

And finally, Hezekiah earned his Wolf Rank. It has been very difficult to work on scouting with him. All of my time is consumed with Apollo right now, so I set a deadline for myself, knowing if I didn’t it would never get done. And we managed to finish. And he was so very proud.

Bowling with the Cub Scouts

Posted on April 3, 2012 by bakersdozenandapolloxiv

Yesterday I had the joy of taking Hezekiah (7) and Tucker (6) bowling with our Wolf Den. Strictly speaking, Tucker shouldn’t be there…he’s not a Scout yet, but I’ve been taking him along all year…I’m the unofficial (but desperately needed) co-leader and second adult and it’s one of the few perks of the job

This was the first time bowling for several of the boys (mine included). As you can see, they were all quite engaged.

Hezekiah would want you to know he came in third place with a score of 94.

Tucker choosing his ball and checking his score. For those of you who don’t know Tucker, he’s a scrappy little thing…very competive, fearless and a little on the hyper side. In short: completely opposite of his deep thinking brother, Hezekiah.

He threw himself into bowling like he’d been doing it all his life. He would want you to know he came in second place…with a score of 104!

And that, my friends, is the story of bowling with the Cub Scouts.

{Tomorrow Apollo will be 4 weeks post-surgery, and I will have an update for you. Happy Tuesday. It’s good to be back!}

Pinewood Derby {2012}

Posted on March 25, 2012 by bakersdozenandapolloxiv

Hezekiah, age 7

Well, we did it. We (meaning, of course, Chuck and the kids) managed to get the cars made. And painted. And dried. Even if they did have to spend a bit of time drying in the oven…None of the kids got to decorate the cars the way they would have liked, but they did get cars to race.

Mordecai, age 9

Mordecai did manage a swaggin’ Ninja car…

Chuck felt really bad about not getting to the cars sooner. But it couldn’t be helped. At any rate, they finished six cars. One each for our Cub Scouts, Mordecai and Hezekiah and four “outlaw” cars for: Kalina, Jubilee, Tucker and Apollo.