Monthly Archives: September 2009

Kate got nailed with the swine flu this week. After a miserable night with a fever came more miserable days of coughing and more coughing. Tonight? More coughing. After dinner she sneaked over between the refridgerator and the wall to cough her brains out. Honestly, I was afraid I would have to get out the mop and clean something up.

I feel sad for her because I don’t understand what it is like to have asthma so bad that even the slightest cold knocks you out for two weeks. After reading to her the other night at bedtime I said, “Kate, you’re so special. Heavenly Father gave you a special body. You’re special aren’t you?” She looked up at me with such tender eyes as if to say, “Thanks Dad, I needed that.”

Audrey was quite excited to have a mask from the doctor’s office. Since she had/has a cough too, I was kind of grossed out when she just hung her germy mask on the back of her chair at dinner. Needless to say, I was disinfecting the kitchen later.

Speaking of sick, how about this one:

Lately Kate has been really into all of the stuff I’m into.  She was running around the room the other day and she came and asked me if I knew what she was doing.  I guessed, “Running circles around Simon?” (He loves it when they do that).  She answered, “Nope.  I’m practicing for us to run a race together.”  I felt too bad to tell her that the race we were going to do already passed and we didn’t do it.  She also has started asking if we can go to material stores together (I’ve been trying my hand at sewing lately).  But my favorite new interest of hers/mine is Wicked.  A couple of weeks ago, Scott and I went to see Wicked.  We’ve been listening to the songs a ton since then and watching clips on YouTube.  Kate has become a YouTube junkie.  I’ll turn on one clip for her and the next thing I know a half hour has passed and she’s watched at least ten more clips.  She even told me she wanted to be Glinda for Halloween.  So here she is singing Defying Gravity.  I set up the tripod to record her so I didn’t see her sassy tongue until last night when Scott and I were watching it.  We laughed our heads off.

She gets her excellent pitch from me.