Friday, June 20, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Joey Graduates! Class of 2008!
It was a great day indeed! We invited the five over that we had tickets for to eat with us at 5pm, then we would go to the Epicenter where they held the graduation. I was rushing around all morning getting all the last minute items and then got out of here at 3pm to head over to D'Elia's Grinders, our famous favorites in Riverside where 12 sandwiches were waiting. Then I got a call that Barbie was carpooling with Mike, Danny, and they brought Chad along. Then I heard Marilyn was trying to make it up here after all. So 12 sandwiches quickly became 13, and my good friend was able to watch Ressa and Melody for me to free up enough tickets for all who wanted to attend. I don't think the girls missed going. It would have been difficult to sit through the hour and a half of 700 names being read off.
There were barely enough seats. We got the first row on the 1st base side foul line. We watched so many kids begin walking in as the music played. Austin played pomp and circumstance over and over with the band. Several friends of Joey's passed and we waved and shouted. Then Joey came in and as soon as we saw him, we all stood up and began shouting/waving/ clapping/ squealing. He looked so confident. His cap was on just right and he tried to keep staring straight ahead as if he'd been strictly instructed to do so. Just before he passed us by, he turned and gave us a big wave and smile.
Though we heard so many, many names read we all cheered and made noise when they read, "Joseph Mark Moss." It was a great moment hearing his name read by his English teacher and seeing him shake hands with him, who we had been working so closely with in recent months. I'm so proud of Joey. He has worked hard and filled so many requirements to get to this point. Sometimes, I'd just go through his backpack and it would amaze me to see binders full of corrected papers...zillions of assignments, diagrams, study guides that he had done on his own without me ever being aware of the assignments. He's a very independent person and I know he will do well in whatever he chooses to do. Watch the "scrapbook video" and you can see the thrill of reaching the goal in his face as he walks out of the stadium at the end. It was awesome! And thanks to all the family for your love and support and prayers for Joey (and all the kids). We've come over some rough obstacles over the years, but there is nothing that can't be overcome with our Heavenly Father, our Savior, and our families!
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Saturday, June 07, 2008
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Pectus carinatum, School Daze, and More...
Just when you thought you were having a bad week, come on over and read about mine...you just might feel better. I got Austin out of school early this morning to go get a physical at the pediatrician's office in time for scout camp in August. Things went well, but I remembered Austin showing me a couple weeks ago how his chest "sticks out more on the left than the right". We came up with all sorts of possible answers for it ourselves. You can's really see it so much as feel it if you place the open palm of your hand right smack in the center of his chest then move it to the left vs. moving to the right. Moving to the right, your hand goes up over a little ridge (not on the other side) and it just protrudes outward a little more. The doctor said it is "pectus carinatum" and is an abnormal growth of the bone in one place in the chest wall. It is more common in boys than girls and does not become visible until between 11 and 15. It may continue to grow improperly until he is finished growing. Only if it interfered with breathing or was a cosmetic problem, would it be corrected by surgery.
The girls are having lots of fun with a spirit event at school every day: camp day, pajama day, mismatch day (tomorrow), spirit day, park day with banana splits, movie day, and the BBQ lunch day is Friday. I promised to go to that. Mark went and served up the banana splits at the park today for Ressa's class. She said the kids thought she had a "really cool dad" because he gave all the kids a huge mound of whipped cream on top of their banana splits.
Now's also the annual event when the school "nickels and dimes" every parent to death and to top it off it must be "CASH ONLY". The elementary school yearbooks are up to $25 each and are now digital and colorized this year. The high school year book remains pricey right up their with the price of a prom ticket at $80 each. And of course, one child is bound to have misplaced some book or other prized possession that their respective school library comes hunting down around this time of year. This time it's Ressa and a Science CD companion to her text book they claim she had with a bright toucan bird on front.... Never seen it in my life, but they're demanding $60 if we don't find it! We had the Social Studies CD, but this toucan one.....nope, never heard of it. We'll have to call it a donation in the end, I'm sure.
Got a real shock working down at the nearby elementary school this week. A lady walking her child to afternoon kindergarten around 11:45 noticed two kids in pajamas, about 3 and 4 yrs. old, one holding a stuffed animal--just standing around outside the school. She walked them into the office where they described their dad as being "asleep and we want some breakfast." These kids had went out into their backyard, climbed up over a fence, went out a neighbor's gate and walked about four blocks. The principal called the police and six police cars were there shortly. The principal got the kids to describe the house and say "we KNOW what it looks like." So the kids led the principal on a walk back to find their house, while the police cars followed close behind. They found the house, and the dad had been asleep after working the night shift. How lucky the kids didn't get picked up by the wrong person! SCARY. Didn't hear anymore about it.
I taught Ressa how to iron yesterday and she is absolutely LOVING the concept. She's got it down how to refill the water and "dress" the item onto the ironing board. She was so excited, Mark caught her in there last night ironing her pajamas before bed. (Little overboard, I'd say, but she's moving in a good idrection :D) Then she started doing the math by bedtime and asked how much she could make "per item" if she did all the ironing for everybody. A classic case of "Selective Hearing" immediately caught up with Austin and he responded:shouting Austin was immediately heard from afar saying, "HEY THAT'S MY JOB! SHE CAN'T TAKE MY JOB! JUST CUZ I HAVEN'T DONE IT LATELY....THAT'S MY JOB!!!" Well, if they have to fight about something, I'd just as well have it be the ironing. I had to chuckle.
Joey's graduation ceremony is on Wednesday night, June 11th, 6:30pm, just a couple blocks south of the Spaghetti Factory at the Epicenter Quakes Stadium. Each family is given 10 tickets to hand out. Our immediate family will use 5, so we'll have 5 left. If anybody would like to attend, please email me and let me know.
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