Tomorrow Jude has surgery scheduled for 12:15 p.m. to remove his port (we we’ll have a not-so-fun morning trying to distract him from food/beverages). Afterwards, he has his first post-brain surgery/radiation MRI. I asked them to combine these 2 procedures, which I think will work out well since he has to be anesthetized for both …
Category Archives: General
Dropout Disaster Averted
Jude doesn’t know it, but Andy was all set to disenroll Jude from his online government kindergarten after just 14 school days. Mostly Andy’s reasoning was that the math and phonics curriculum is way too easy for Jude and the curriculum requires too much parental involvement (since it really is mostly paper based at this level rather than online). …
The Little Ones
Levi and Asher are fun boys. Tonight they were laughing up a storm when I sat Asher up on Levi’s shoulders and helped Levi run around with Asher up there. They also enjoyed dancing to Veggie Tales music tonight. Asher really gets into dancing and likes to imitate my really bad dance moves. It’s super …
Jude Wants to be a Dad When he Grows Up
A few weeks ago for school, Jude said he wanted to be an astronaut when he grows up. Today, Jude said he wanted to be a police officer and I asked him to write that in a book about himself that he’s working on. He instead didn’t listen to my instructions and wrote “police officer” …
Jude’s Quote of the Day
Jude’s feeling a little down that everybody’s name has more syllables than his. He said, “Why does everybody have more syllables than me. Can you give me 26 syllables?”
Allergic to Pokes
Jude and Levi had appointments to be tested for allergies this morning at 7:30 a.m. in downtown Minneapolis. We ended up not going ahead with the testing on Jude since he was cowering in the corner, scared of getting scraped. Levi, on the other hand, was naïve enough not to know what was coming so …
“Altelegende”? What? Huh?
Last night, after Jude and I had prayed and I had told him a funny story, he told me that some “dumb people†might not believe in God and instead believe that “He is an altelegende.†First, I set Jude straight that it’s not because we are smarter than others that we believe in God, …
Jude’s Quote of the Day
Jude on ear piercing:Â “When I was four, I thought that girls already had holes in their ears when they were born.”
Jude the Science Kid
Jude never imagined he’d get to watch a volcano erupt in his own backyard. But, it happened last night. Jude’s favorite subject is Science and he loves watching videos online about Science. He found a set of instructions about how to build your own volcano. He showed it to me and suggested we do it. …
Masters of Illusion
Tonight my mom came in to babysit and Andy and I went to an illusion show.  It was entertaining. I did, however, forget my glasses in the car and had to run get them during intermission time. I preferred the 2nd half of the show to the 1st half, because it was less blurry.