Fall break is approaching!

September 21, 2008 at 6:47 pm · Filed under Life in general

Camden has almost completed one quarter of his first year of school. I even noticed that not once last week did he say he doesn’t like school or doesn’t want to go. So that is a big step for him! Mark and I both volunteered in his class last week. Mark was a guest reader and got to go to lunch with him and I got to go to his Discovery Science class to help them with a paper making project. It was a lot of fun. We’ve got a handle on the homework thing too. We do a couple of the assignments over the weekend so we don’t have to do one on Wed and Thur night. Those are still rough evening for us. Camden is tired after 3 days of school and it shows when he gets home.

Carsten is doing well. His poor voice is almost gone. He had allergy induced croup this last week. We got right on top of it with steroids and he was feeling better pretty quickly, but since Sat afternoon his voice comes and goes. He is doing great with his vocabulary. He has too many words to count now. He has started to combine a few to make 2 word phrases but one of the words is always Mom, Dad, or Camden.

We are getting very excited about Fall Break and heading to New York. It is going to be a great trip. Our only concern at the moment is for Ken (my stepdad). He has been in the hospital for the last few days with acute pancreatitis. They have him eating again but he has developed a fever so they are watching him. We hope that he may come home tomorrow on a new low fat/fat free diet and a follow up appointment with the GI doctor 4 weeks later. We are praying for a quick and thorough recovery so that both of them can still go. Neither mom or Ken has ever been to NYC. It will be my first time too. Any prayers for Ken would be very much appreciated.

UPDATE: Ken came home from the hospital this afternoon. He gets to make the call about New York depending on how he feels.

8 Comments

  1. Dad said,

    September 22, 2008 @ 6:25 am

    Tell Ken I’m thinking of him and wishing the best.

  2. Gma Tucson said,

    September 22, 2008 @ 7:39 am

    Thanks Donnie -I appreciate the kind words and thoughts.

  3. Aunt Donna said,

    September 22, 2008 @ 7:01 pm

    If you spend a full day in NYC, I recommend the “Hop On, Hop Off” bus around Manhattan. That’s what Glenda and I did, and you can see everything at your own pace, from Ground Zero, to the U.N. to the neighborhood where “Friends” was filmed. It was a blast and definitely packed full of sights and sounds. Have a great trip.

    So glad to hear Ken is better. That can be a dangerous disease.

  4. Dad said,

    September 23, 2008 @ 7:20 am

    Great to hear Ken is home and feeling better!

    Donna: I’m pretty sure Friends was filmed in Burbank. 😉

  5. Aunt Dianna said,

    September 23, 2008 @ 7:45 am

    Enjoy your trip and I pray Ken will be feeling well enough to join you. I think NYC is one of those cities, like San Francisco, that you either hate or love. We hated it; it’s so very dirty. But there are definitely a lot of new and interesting sights there!

  6. GG said,

    September 24, 2008 @ 2:05 pm

    When do you go to NYC, and are you going to Buffalo, too? Keep us updated on Ken, because it will cut down on the fun if he is unable to go.

  7. GG said,

    September 24, 2008 @ 10:13 pm

    You don’t think that Carsten is going into early puberty, do you, with his voice changing? Poor baby! He just starts talking, and then loses his voice. Life isn’t fair.

  8. Gma Tucson said,

    September 25, 2008 @ 6:09 am

    Thanks to all for your prayers and wishes for Ken’s return to health. He is feeling much better. We will talk about NYC this weekend. It will be fun to go to museums with Mr. Camden – he just loves learning new things! And life is just plain delightful around Carsten. Love to all

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