Somewhat Quiet On The Western Front: The Week In Review [Farmington]

My lack of posts over the last week is telling of two things: 1) I’ve been really busy with work and 2) not much has happened. Some here’s an omnibus view of the week that passed.

Speed: After getting home from camp at noon on Saturday, he took a long nap–neglected to mow the grass–and then boarded a plane to Kansas City to spend the week with Holly’s brother and cousin Noah. Word is he’s had a lot of fun, e.g., seeing a Royals game (a stranger gave them great seats 8 rows up from third base and everything cost $1), riding go-karts (rumor is he fell out of one at top speed; I believe the rumor), and heading to Branson and Silver Dollar City for this weekend. He’ll be back on Monday night.

Madysen: A couple of scrimmages with her new soccer team proves that she’ll do fine moving up to the 93 age group. She does wish she would grow a little bit though. She’s become obsessed with playing Monopoly. At first she played Emma and Layla at least once a day and trounced them both. Emma figured this out and quit playing. Layla continues to play. I have a feeling that Madysen is using Monopoly to avoid read The Hobbit, which is her required reading the summer.

Layla and Emma: Other than playing Monopoly every day, the two of them have spent four hours a day in the pool. Another couple of hours is spent doing cartwheels, roundoffs, and handstands in the living room. The balance of every 24-hour period seems to be spent watching the Disney Channel or various movies (including Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, which was pretty good and Arthur and the Invisibles, which wasn’t). Not being an avid Disney Channel watcher myself, I first saw a commercial for High School Musical 2 this week and asked the girls if they knew about it. Big mistake. First, they were agog that I was unaware that the greatest sequel ever was coming down the pipe. Second, they recounted the entire plot of the sequel over the next half hour. I have no idea how they know all the plot details for a movie yet to be released, but they definitely do. (Emma and Layla loved/love High School Muscial and karaoked the soundtrack continuously for a solid five months.)

Holly: She continues with physical therapy sessions on her wrist, and it is looking better and better every week. She took Madysen clothes shopping last Sunday, which went better than I expected–but not great. Those two are too alike. Of course, neither of them see it.

Me: Nothing too exciting. I did make a couple of trips to Austin for work matters. I have an uneasy feeling about Austin. On the one hand, it is a great college town. On the other, that college is Texas, which I despise. Further, it has terrible traffic, and the constant bombardment of “Keep Austin Weird” looks to have become corporatized to the extent that it borders on boboism. I did eat a Chuy’s twice–the first time because I wanted to eat there; the second because I had a New Yorker with me who wanted some good Tex-Mex (not that I was complaining).

Madysen has gone off to Cedar Creek Lake for the weekend with friends, so it’s just Holly and me with the two little girls. Weird.