Our Week

Jacob's Daddy here.
Guess we'd better get on task -- we haven't blogged in a week!

On Friday of last week, the drumline spent the better part of 9 hours at Wal-Mart "drumming up" support for local tornado victims. They raised $3600 in donations -- including $1000 from Wal-Mart! They were featured on the local Fox and NBC news reports.

Jacob spent the end of last week and most of the weekend with a slight fever. Mommy took him to the doctor on Monday; he's fine now.




Meanwhile, I was trying to battle off a fever. Plus, on Wednesday, I went to the dermatologist to get rid of these:
There's 10 of them, and some of them hurt! So they froze them, and they should fall off in about a week. Number 5 and number 1 have already started to peel off, and number 6 is nice and tender, as you can see. (Aren't you excited about all the detail you're getting here?) I get to go back next month for another "cryo" treatment.





On Thursday, I came home from school early because Tammy was really sick and couldn't watch Jacob. But I had an after school rehearsal and a freshmen parent meeting that night, so Jacob got to come with me. He had lots of fun at band practice, then we had dinner, then went to the parent meeting. When I told one of the kids I was going to feed him, the kid looked at me and said, "I didn't know men could breastfeed!" After the laughter subsided, I explained that Jacob was definitely eating solid food now. He was a lot of fun at band rehearsal. I held him while the drum major conducted. Any time I turned so that he couldn't see the band, he squirmed until he could see them! I think he's already trying to decide what instrument he wants to play. I'm thinking we could use a good Horn player in the Carter band.....what do you think? Or how about bassoon? (Lots of scholarship money for bassoons and horns!)

So, Jacob is feeling better, and so is Mommy. We have one week of school before Spring Break! We're looking forward to spending the week with Grandma and Papaw Spell in Lousiana.

Meanwhile, I'm in a tie for 4th place in my bracket, pending tonight's late games. Go Oregon!