February 26, 2008 - Stuff

Cale and I had a great walk downtown today. He loves swinging on the poles by the bus stops. Of course he thinks they are there just for him. There is one house with lots of chickens running around the yard. So we stop to watch them. And one store that always gives him a free piece of candy. So of course we went there. What 2 year old doesn’t need sugar at 9:00 in the morning?!? We had a few things to get so I flagged down an ojek driver to take me. Cale loved being on a motorcycle again. I think he really misses his daily rides with Daddy. It will be awhile before Garth is up to that.
Garth is getting a bit better. Today was his last day of antibiotics and his last pain pill, so we will see how tomorrow goes. Our nurse will be here in the morning for a meeting we are having, so if there are any problems she will take care of it. There is quite a bit of bruising on the outside and on the inside, but otherwise the incision looks great. The doctor did a surprisingly good job of suturing him up.
The girls had a wonderful time exploring in our yard today. They found a horseshoe. There are no horses on the hill, but they are thrilled that maybe a horse came up during the night, so tomorrow they are going to go look for it. (That takes care of show-n-tell tomorrow.) Sophie asked if she could bring in Daddy’s appendix some time, since they are studying the human body. I told her I would have to ask her teacher first. Wyatt has a new “hobby” - frying insects with a magnifying glass. Which is totally fine with me. Less insects here sounds great! He did, however, find out that it will make his hand smoke if you do it to bare skin. Emma’s class is studying taxes, buying and selling goods, producers and consumers etc. and the class is in the midst of designing their own community out of small boxes. She is enjoying that whole project.
I have good news and bad news (for some)-the good news is that the rat that was running around in our rafters is sitting outside on our window sill dying. This is bad news if you are a rat lover. He must have eaten some of the poison that is up there and now he is on his way to Swiss Cheese Land. Yippee! Now that we no longer have a cat, we have been hearing clumping around. Neither of us were sure what it was, until tonight. And hopefully the problem has been taken care of. Tidak tikus-no rats.
Well, it is far too late for me to still be up, so I will say “Good Night!”
I will drift off to Dream Land-(not Swiss Cheese Land).
Love,
Rachel