Jess' mask

Jess is studying Romeo & Juliet in her English class. The teacher asked each student to pick a character and create a mask. Here is the beginning of Jess' mask for Romeo. She picked red, gold and yellow sequins and feathers to symbolize the "fiery nature of Romeo's passion for Juliet" as she put it. She says her teacher was impressed with the finished mask. From what Jess tells us, a lot of the other kids used paper plates as the base for their masks.

Wy came down with pink eye the other weekend. I have no idea how he got it. I bless the Dr. who didn't want to drag us out to the office that Saturday morning in the ice - he just called in an RX. Getting Wy to endure the eye drops was a Herculean feat. We finally managed to get him to cooperate by popping chocolate in his mouth and hold him down long enough to get a drop in each eye.

What I found super puzzling was the fact that Wy had an uber crusty case of it but all the other kids were fine...That is until 3 days later when Devlyn came down with a puffy faced version that looked like we had been punching her only she hadn't bruised. Then the next morning Jack's eyes were crusted over...All 3 kids suffered5 days of eye drops in the morning and at bedtime. We went through a lot of chocolate.

Jack went to see Life on the Mississippi with me on Saturday. He ran a few sound cues in the booth. You should have seen his head whip around when he ran a boat whistle sound cue - this cue sounds EXACTLY like his train whistles. He begged and begged to do it again. I told him he had to wait till the show was over and he could run it as much as he wanted. We had our archival photo shoot after the show that day and I let Jack run that sound cue between each set up. The cast thought it was so funny how happy and bouncy Jack would get every time he ran the cue. It was very nice of them to put up with that. Later that evening, John and I took Jack to see Around the World in 80 Days at the Rep. I got pretty worried that we would have to leave as he started getting pretty squirrely near intermission and throughout Act II. Then as we were leaving, the couple in front of us commented on how well behaved he was! Jack said his favorite parts were the super loud boat's whistle and what he called 'the banging part' This was the big gun battle in act 2.

Please say a some prayers for my friend Shannon and her family. Shannon's dad had three heart attacks in 36 hours and is having a valve replaced and a triple bypass on Monday.

My little nephew, Noah was helping his daddy fix breakfast last weekend when he slipped his hand past his dad and laid it palm down on the piping hot glass top stove. The little guy has a large 2 degree burn covering his palm.

Jack & Wy got little blasa wood models for Christmas. John helped Jack put together his jet enjine weeks ago. Poor Wy has been waiting patiently for us to help him with his race car. I finally sat down with him last night and we put it together. The directions were so utterly un-helpful and confusing that I thought my brain was going to explode. Anyway, Wy named his car Frankenstien, said we would paint it orange and then he was going to drive me to the candy store. I thought this was a brilliant idea as I deserved a piece of candy after all the brain trauma I endured in putting that car together.

Jack is still doing 'homework' nearly every day. He has discovered the Instrument point. For days I had no idea what he was talking about, until he was reading something to me and he ended the sentence by saying "instrument point" He meant exclamation point.

I hope to be get back to more informative and regular updates. I have had a couple of rough weeks and my spirits have been low. Lucky for me I have the best guy in town and he has some great shoulders for my tired head.

Love and blessings,
Owenland Park.