Dad Takes to the Skies Again
Thursday, March 24, 2011
In which Dad flies the chopper…
Puck woke shortly after six o’clock. He decided to cuddle in his big eggplant purple blanket over the floor vent in his room ‘to get warm’. But in order not to disturb his mama with the light from the hall, he quietly shut Collette’s door almost all the way.
Collette turned on Itzhak Perlman to rouse the house at seven o’clock. Puck listened carefully for a few moments to Carmen‘s second movement.
“This music is like from the man who had balloons on his house,” he said.
Omelets.
Linnea spent her morning watercoloring a picture of the human eye while watching the 1975 version of The Secret Garden to aid in her essay for Monday.
Cheeseburgers and sweet potatoes. Menus were limited on high-protein diets. Linnea helped Puck with his sweet potato mashed with butter.
“It has butter and sugar in it to make you crazy,” she said.
“To make me walk on the walls?” Puck asked excitedly.
“Yup.”
Puck took a bite and left his chair to attempt a headstand on the floor.
Meanwhile…
Dad was out helicoptering. His first class was at 9:30, and he would be flying by 11:30.
Luke and Leia arrived in the rather cold afternoon of 34.7 degrees Fahrenheit. And Collette was once again given the aid of Linnea to help with the relative madness of three children enjoying three hours inside a small house together.
Once departed, Collette, Linnea, and Puck drove back to the house with Rose’s car, to return Linnea in time to perform with the Bel Canto Choir at the Home School Expo.
At the house, Mom and Dad were gone to have Mom’s crown replaced and her hair done before the ‘Grand Tour’.
Dad had also given report on his flight, which had gone very well. More of a challenge than flying a plane, he said. And he had, indeed, flown the helicopter himself, minus the take-off, and had enjoyed the experience, including the difficulty of learning to hover.
“It was a tiny helicopter,” Mom said. “It looked like a mosquito.”
“It wasn’t that small,” Dad protested.
Comedy night plus movie night: The Tourist, in one.
OLeif, Collette, Magnus, and Rose, later joined by Joe, after another long day of class and design.
Edy’s strawberry all natural popsicles and Cheez-Its and Stax, after they voted for ‘Asiago’ for the next Cheez-It flavor.
“See? I told you that I was sick.”
– Tombstone Inscription, via R.C. Sproul