I Heard Said the Bird: February 2022

Lego League 2022

Lego League was a huge win for Augustine. He loved going every week and the competition did not disappoint. They didn’t make state but they had a lot of fun!

You’ll have to ask Augustine exactly what they do because I still don’t quite understand, but Augustine is really good at it.

It’s for 5-8th graders so it was a great way to meet more kids at Cathedral.

He’s looking forward to next year!

Lewis’ Invention

No idea what it was officially, but holy cow was it fun! Levi couldn’t stop laughing.

Yep. Again. This poor kid. Although a pressure fracture in the elbow is apparently not the same as a buckle fracture in the wrist. Either way, it was the same cry and so off to the ER we went instead of going to bed.

They got us out in record time…hour and a half. Elias chose to watch basketball for quite a while. I decided to try to talk him into something else and luckily, the Olympics had just started so we watched some skiing and ice skating. Elias was amazed. He had never watched these sports before.

Watching Olympics mens figure skating. The competitor is from Italy. E: Italy reminds me of skittles. They sound the same.”

Watching Olympics and flipped to men’s skiing.

E: Oh mom look! Mountain sliding!

He was in a lot of pain the first three days and luckily it was a four day weekend, so he sat around playing putty and keeping the ibuprofen handy.

The doctor didn’t think a cast was necessary, so he is in a brace for 4 weeks. It’s nice to be able to take the brace off at the end of the day. The thing that makes it feel so much better according to Elias is soaking it in a warm bubble bath, so we do that daily.

So swollen but not too much bruising.

Two weeks of healing in a brace. Swelling gone but a colorful bruise.

Catholic Schools Week

Cathedral did a lot of fun stuff for CSW…dressing up each day, ice cream sundaes in January, cool STEM activities in Lewis’ class, no school on Friday…and a city wide holy hour called Light the Night, which almost no one attends. Logan takes the big boys to it and afterward they got a tour of the sacristy, and got to say hello to the bishop.

Relics of John Paul and the true cross.

Which inspired some play at home, along with the new vestment that Augustine sewed at G&G’s recently.

Fun Stuff

Beth’s Katie is into Cat’s Meows so I sent her mine to have fun with. She was so excited! (See her reflection in the window?)

The boys begged to go to a park one day, so we decided the easiest park to go to with the best chance of friends being around was St. T’s playground. We were right.

And we discovered something super fun for Augustine. A handful of his old classmates gather almost daily to play football! No matter how cold it is outside, they play. We bought Augustine a watch with an alarm, pumped up his bike tires, and told him to have fun! He goes to the school almost daily, and it’s been so good for his heart. He misses his friends from St. T’s.

I bought a medium Bundt cake pan for fun. I don’t like cake, but it’s fun to make a pretty one sometimes.

Then I bought a Tasty-Fill mini pan set. Even more fun, but I still don’t like cake.

Levi thought it was delicious!

What Lewis Has Been Up To

Helping Beth sew a quilt

Accomplishing goals…I wonder what the goals are.

Practicing architecture and blueprints.

Putting away bubbly water in his own way.

Making the Golden Gate Bridge

And making a cool giant snowflake!

Elias at Nature Preschool

What Levi Has Been Up To

Really really really loving the blue truck

Played in our old ‘hood the other day and snapped a picture of Levi next to the giant tree. I’m sure I have a picture of every boy as a toddler next to this tree.