It Should Have Been Obvious

All is explained!! Jacob is sick. He started vomiting this morning and hasn't stopped. I came home early this afternoon to watch Reuben and Faith, while Karen took him to the Dr. Strep was going around the pre-school and we wanted to rule that out. He doesn't have strep, just a bad virus. While they were at the Dr. I played outside with the healthy ones and it was another beautiful day. We watered our pansies and some poppy seeds we put down yesterday. Then played in the backyard.
Later we moved to the front of the house. I'm still working on getting Faith to use her tricycle. She's so stubborn, but we made a bit of progress today.
Reuben was helping Faith by pushing her along with his tricycle. It worked and she then did a few peddles by herself. Shortly thereafter she gave up. Reuben then moved to his now favorite pastime, playing with the street sand dumped buy VDOT over the winter. While playing outside in the front of the house I decided to take a before picture of the house with the weeping cherry blossom not in bloom. I'll do an after picture in about 10 days (my estimate, buds are just starting).
Yesterday Scott asked about my Forsythia. As of yesterday they were just starting to open. Today, much more so; probably about 3 days from peaking. Also, I must also confess a secret. I photo-shopped the magnolia picture from yesterday. Can you spot the change?
Lastly, I hope Jacob feels better tomorrow. Lucky for Karen (NOT!), I'm going to California tomorrow and Wednesday.

Infinity Minutes

Nice, but cold, weekend. We went out for bagels on Saturday morning, and then mostly hung around the house. It was very cold. Today, we went to the DC Air and Space Museum in the morning and later, the boys and I, took Tipper for a long walk. Tonight was my synagogue ABBA event. Tonight's theme was Scotch & Steaks. We had a steak dinner, steaks we grilled at the synagogue. Then did a Scotch tasting of 6 different Scotches. Very successful event with 30 guys, great steaks, and I'm told some very good Scotches. I'm certainly still a beginner when it comes to Scotch, but did learn lot and enjoyed several of the scotches.

The boys are now very interested in big numbers and how they compare. They have even learned about infinity and understand the concept at least to some extent. Today, the boys were doing some puzzles and there is a firetruck puzzle they both like, hence the necessity to share time with the puzzle. When Jacob asked how long Reuben's turn was, Reuben immediately responded, "infinity minutes". I cracked up!