Spring Break was the first full week of April. It was also the week leading up to Easter Sunday. It ended up being a pretty low-key week for most of us. Eden came down with a stomach bug Monday morning and was sick all day. The three days after her sickness she always complained off and on of a stomach ache and it took her a while to get her appetite back. Lincoln and Annika came down with the stomach bug on Friday just as Eden was feeling better. They were sick all weekend. Lincoln and I stayed home from church on Easter Sunday. I was disappointed to miss church on Easter, but I still had a wonderful spiritual study at home celebrating my Savior. I thought Annika was well enough to attend school on Monday so I sent her back to school. Oops! I had to go and pick her up from school because she got sick there. Lincoln woke up Tuesday morning with energy and an appetite. He felt "amazing"! Annika finally felt amazing and ready to return to school on Wednesday. It was a long sickness, but I'm so glad the kids are old enough throw up into a bucket without making a mess!
A few fun Spring Break activities:
Dying eggs
Indoor water park
Joseph and Kimball left for the Second Annual Coffey Golf Classic in Arizona. They spent two days golfing all day with Spencer and Jonathan. They had a great time and seemed to think their golf game improved while they were gone. Joseph said it was nice albeit intimidating to golf on really nice courses. Joseph and Kimball have been golfing less than a year.
Kimball loved all of the new plant and animal life that he saw.
Those were the pictures of Joseph and Kimball's trip. These were my pictures from the same four days:
We were supposed to have some fun adventures while Joseph and Kimball were gone. Since we were stuck at home I still went out and bought milkshakes and slushies for the kids.
Lincoln didn't care about his Easter basket at all. He didn't touch any of the candy until days after Easter when his appetite finally returned. The girls did a mini Easter basket hunt. It didn't take too long, but they enjoyed hunting.
This was our best attempt at an Easter picture. Lincoln took it from the ground because he didn't feel like he could stand.
Annika had to have two teeth pulled to help with the crowding in her mouth. She was a champ and I was SO proud of her. I don't like visiting the dentist. I had a fabulous dentist growing up, but I had to have two teeth pulled and the pain from the shots I received lingers in my memory. I was probably more nervous than Annika was for the extractions. She handled the shots really well. The fourth and final shot started to bother her, but she made it through. She instantly started getting numb and that was a new and different sensation for her. Her teeth were too crowded for her baby teeth to fall out, but the roots had basically dissolved so the dentist just gave a few tugs and her teeth came out. We were out of the office within 30 minutes of arriving. We stopped for popsicles on the way home!
Kimball LOVES cycling. He loves it more than just about anything currently. I drove him to a park about 30 minutes from our house so he could go on a ride with the Onondaga Cycling Club. Kimball was the youngest rider by many decades...probably at least four decades. He had a good time, but realized he needs a much better bike. Boy did he make that new bike happen! A week later he and Joseph went to Massachusetts for a bike race. Kimball was doing really well and was on course to come in second in his age division and fifteenth overall. Unfortunately, the rider in front of him started to lose control going down a hill. Kimball didn't want to crash into this rider so he had to break and that resulted in Kimball crashing into a tree and flipping over his bike! His bike was totaled, but thankfully Kimball just walked away with some bruising and very sore muscles. It has taken him 2 full weeks to be able to attend track practice and ride his bike. Kimball was SO upset about the loss of his bike. Joseph was able to find a used Trek bike in good condition, so he and Kimball went and bought that bike. This new bike is 18 years old, but it is much lighter and nicer than the bike that crashed. Kimball is happy to have a bike again.
Riding with the OCC (Onondaga Cycling Club)
Kimball's external injuries didn't look too bad, but he was sore internally!
A trip to Sweet Frog for frozen yogurt was supposed to be one of our fun spring break activities, but we had to postpone it since the kids were sick. We went a few weeks later.
Kimball received a surprise package in the mail! (Thanks, Jonathan!) One of his track events is the Steeplechase. This event is a combination of long distance and hurdles. Not every track meet has this event, but Kimball enters it when he can. Unfortunately, with his quad injury from his bike race he hasn't been able to run the steeplechase yet this season. He really hopes he'll be able to run the race at the home invitational in a few weeks.
The four younger kids still have art in school, and all of them had art projects in the Festival of the Arts. Eden and Annika also had another project in the festival, we just didn't know about it until they brought home an extra project. That ended up being four projects for Annika and two for Eden.
We had three days with temperatures in the mid-80s. That is WAY too hot for Syracuse in April, and very abnormal. The elementary school doesn't currently have air conditioning, so it was pretty warm in the school.
