Chicago

We ate at my favorite Giordanos's by Midway today.  We ordered our food and then watched the planes come in.  Henry wanted to order spinach pizza.   It was so delicious!

I really wanted to buy these, but I held back. I bought these instead. 

We are going to the Shedd Aquarium tomorrow.  Hayden is ready. He just put some of MY deodorant on......  

Shopping

I went grocery shopping yesterday at Kroger and ran into one of my former students.  He's a 6th grader now.  I had him briefly in third grade, for maybe a month or so.  He is one of our frequent flyers.  His parents or mom or whatever moves around A LOT.   When he saw me, he said, hey, I know you!  And he pointed at me and babbled on and on and he couldn't remember my name.  I said, hi Robert, I hope you have a good week off.  As I walked down the aisles, I ran into him about 3 more times and he kept saying, I can't believe that I'm seeing you here.  It's so funny to run into students outside of school.   

After seeing Robert, I ran into a parent of a current student and he pulled his jacket up over the side of his face and acted as if he was ducking away from me.  I laughed and thought about which interaction was more bizarre.  I really want to start shopping in a different town, or maybe a different state.  

Spirit Week, Pink, and Belly Dancing

 Last week was spirit week at my school and I took it very seriously, but I didn't take any pictures on pajama day or sports day.  WTH??

Hat Day

Crazy Socks Day

Twin Day

Harrison and I went to see Pink perform.  When we got to our seats, he sat down and looked at me and said, so... what songs does she sing?  I said, well pretty much every song on the radio.  I brought up a few of her songs on youtube to show him.  This was his first concert ever and I'm pretty sure it will be the greatest concert that he will ever see.  It was hands down the best I've ever seen.  She is just an amazing performer and Harrison loved it.

I'm addicted to Breaking Bad and Bitstrips right now.  I'm on season 3 and I can't stop watching this show.  That's me on the left cooking meth.  I'm pretty bad ass.

We went to watch Derloshon belly dance at the Player's Pub last night.  It was a benefit for Middleway House.  She is really great at this.

 I have an entire week off for Thanksgiving Break!!!  Woooo HOOOO!!   I'm taking my boys to Chicago.

Headback

At yesterday's hockey game, Hayden promised me that he would score a goal if I bought him a snickers bar before the game.  I watched him eat this candy bar through the face guard of his helmet and it just cracked me up.

And guess what?  He scored a goal!  I love this kid.  He makes so happy.  I was thinking about him all the silly things that he says and I remembered one of my faves this morning.  We were in the pool over the summer and he told Henry to get off of him because he was hurting his headback.  I said, "headback"???  Don't you mean NECK?  He said, oh yeah, and just smiled and giggled.

Harrison got his new iPhone 5s.  He said that the camera is a lot better and it takes really great pictures.  I said, let me see it!  So, I took a picture of him and he sent it to me.   I'm not so sure that this is a really great picture.  Is there a camera that makes teenage boys smile?  Maybe I should try face timing him.

Hockey has started

The twins are Peewees now and their team is pretty good.  They played their first two games yesterday and won both.  Henry is playing defense this year and he is not very happy about this.  He loves being the goalie.  Hayden is playing offense and he scored a goal in the first game of the season.  I was so proud of him and it's soooo important that he keeps this up.  Hayden is playing a lot of video games these days and I want him to love something other than minecraft, cube world, and pixel people.

So, yesterday at the hockey game, one of the little Blades players started to choke.  I heard one of the parents screaming, are you OK???  and I was sitting really close to this kid.  I had to give him the heimlich maneuver.  He was choking on a hot dog.  His mom showed up right after it happened and told me that he chokes all the time.  I said, really?  Me too!  She told me that he has had his esophagus stretched twice and the doctor said it's called Schatzki's ring.  Do you know how long I have waited to know what I have??  Even the doctor that stretched my esophagus didn't give me a name for it.  So, I told the kid's mom that I'm sorry that he choked, but I'm so glad that I know what this is now.

Harrison finished his XC season last Saturday at the state meet.  He improved his time from last year, but was not happy with how his season ended.  He wants to work harder than ever for next season.  I told him that I could get him a trainer that works with runners.  He didn't answer me, so that probably means no.   I'm hoping that his track season is better.