Monday, November 14, 2005
Weekend Recap
We had very nice, unseasonably warm weather over the weekend –so we tried make sure we took full advantage of it. On Friday, Nora took Pierce and Anna out to our neighborhood park and I arranged to meet them there on the way home from work. Pierce and Anna were having so much fun they did not want to leave for dinner at Dairy Queen. The slides were a big hit with both kids. Anna was wearing a pair of hose that gave her extra acceleration to the point where I had to catch her at the bottom of the slide to keep her from shooting out into space and landing on her rear end. There we a few other boys running around the park that Pierce immediately befriended. For some reason Pierce decided he needed to take his (recently completed) school workbook to the park with him, so he was playing tag and throwing leaves with these kids while clutching the workbook in his other hand.
After helping to put the kids to bed I headed out to KU to visit with the local undergraduate chapter of Pi Kappa Phi. I’m the recently appointed chapter advisor for them and went to go meet with a national consultant that was visiting as well as their newly elected President. A very nice visit, but of course it made for a late night. I’ll be working with the chapter over the next few months to help them put together a strategic plan for the coming year.
The big event on Saturday was Nora’s nephew’s birthday party. Jackson was having a sleep over with a number of his second-grade friends. We joined them for cake and ice cream and a little visit. Pierce was interested in hanging out with the guys and did very well. Two things were pretty striking about this group was: 1) Jackson is so much taller than any of his peers; 2) Pierce is roughly the same height as half of Jackson’s friends. Seems to me those Hundelt genes are pretty powerful.
Sunday was a pretty lazy day for all us. We slept in and had a late breakfast than hung around the house in our pajamas. Nora recently acquired a garage sale Legos table and for about an hour the entire family sat around the table and either built, or knocked down, Lego constructions. Probably the biggest surprise of the day was Pierce asking me to toss a football with him. Pierce is not particularly athletically inclined (much like me) but, after a couple of bobbled passes, started to throw very impressive spiraling bullets right to me. I can’t tell you how proud I was.
The last activity of the weekend was our new digital cable box. Nora figured out that it would actually be cheaper for us to move up from analog cable to digital. She swung by the cable office to pick up our digital cable box for me to install (I didn’t want the cable people messing with our home entertainment setup –nor did I want to pay for installation). The biggest challenge was to ensure that our ReplayTV and cable box played nicely together. Since I had to pull all the components out to make the connections anyway, I took the opportunity to re-hang the shelves and reorganize the components. I started this “little” project after we put Pierce and Anna to bed (about 9:30) and finished right around 1:00 in the morning. Groan.
-Eric (Dad)
After helping to put the kids to bed I headed out to KU to visit with the local undergraduate chapter of Pi Kappa Phi. I’m the recently appointed chapter advisor for them and went to go meet with a national consultant that was visiting as well as their newly elected President. A very nice visit, but of course it made for a late night. I’ll be working with the chapter over the next few months to help them put together a strategic plan for the coming year.
The big event on Saturday was Nora’s nephew’s birthday party. Jackson was having a sleep over with a number of his second-grade friends. We joined them for cake and ice cream and a little visit. Pierce was interested in hanging out with the guys and did very well. Two things were pretty striking about this group was: 1) Jackson is so much taller than any of his peers; 2) Pierce is roughly the same height as half of Jackson’s friends. Seems to me those Hundelt genes are pretty powerful.
Sunday was a pretty lazy day for all us. We slept in and had a late breakfast than hung around the house in our pajamas. Nora recently acquired a garage sale Legos table and for about an hour the entire family sat around the table and either built, or knocked down, Lego constructions. Probably the biggest surprise of the day was Pierce asking me to toss a football with him. Pierce is not particularly athletically inclined (much like me) but, after a couple of bobbled passes, started to throw very impressive spiraling bullets right to me. I can’t tell you how proud I was.
The last activity of the weekend was our new digital cable box. Nora figured out that it would actually be cheaper for us to move up from analog cable to digital. She swung by the cable office to pick up our digital cable box for me to install (I didn’t want the cable people messing with our home entertainment setup –nor did I want to pay for installation). The biggest challenge was to ensure that our ReplayTV and cable box played nicely together. Since I had to pull all the components out to make the connections anyway, I took the opportunity to re-hang the shelves and reorganize the components. I started this “little” project after we put Pierce and Anna to bed (about 9:30) and finished right around 1:00 in the morning. Groan.
-Eric (Dad)
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