Election fun

Sunday evening we got to go see the Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper for one last time.  We went to a conservative rally in Abbotsford.  Nathan and Genevieve again really enjoyed their time their.  Nathan was tired and really did not want to go, but of course he was excited when we went.  We didn't get to shake hands this time, but we still had rockstar seats. 

Monday morning Jessica came over and the kids did art work, they worked on some cave drawings to place in their timeline books.  I must take pictures of these and add them here to the blog in future...

After Jessica left, we went to go vote, nathan came down in full Mark Strahl regalia, very proud to show everyone.  I took a picture and sent it to Lisa, marks wife, and said look how cute my son is, but I dont think he can wear this into the polling station can he?  Nope he was not allowed to.  I went and grabbed him another shirt.  Nathan did not want to change out, he said he could just stay in the car, but I told him I wanted to show him how we vote...  So we went in and voted.

Next we went to home depot, to get a part for the toilet, the handle thingy broke (dont worry, I may not know what its called but I did manage to fix it)

We had a little bit of relax time at home, then I painted the kids faces with a conservative C and a canada flag on their cheeks.  We gathered up our supplies, so I could face paint all the kids at marks election night event.  We also brought games to organize a kids area.  The kids area was great, and Nathan and Genevieve even seemed to be helping the younger kids and organizing groups to play different games, Keva planks were a big hit, and guess what I didnt take any pictures!  Lisa would be dissapointed as many of the kids left before she arrived.  All the kids looked so cute with their facepaint, and we even painted on go mark go!

I have a great photo of the kids with Mark, but I think Lisa must have taken the pictures.  I am sure she will send them to me.

Before we left to go out the the conservative event on election night, we knew that it was going to be a liberal minority at least, nathan was very disappointed, to the point he thought it would be better just to stay home and watch the election coverage on our own TV.  I said no we had to go and support his friend Maclean, and Macleans dad Mark.  Even more disappointment as the polls kept coming in.  Nathan, ended up leaving the kids area, to stay glued to the tv to watch the numbers.  Man that kid really does know all the local candidates in the fraser valley.  Mark's race was a little tighter than I would have liked, and we did not get the check mark until about 9 pm.  I was super happy to hear it. We ended up staying pretty late, and not getting home into bed until about 10:30

Tuesday morning

Nathan slept in until around 10 am.  Genevieve was up at 9 am.  At about 11am, ginger our dog went and hid under the dinning room table.  Nathan and Genevieve were in  the living room.  Poor girl, I could not get her to go near Nathan.  Now I know every other time Ginger has done this Nathan has an episode, but I was optimistic that maybe ginger was grumpy from being up late.

So after Nathan was up and had eaten breakfast, I didnt know where the kids were, I heard classical music playing but wondered what they were up to, I was letting them relax in the morning because of the late night, and Nathan does not do well with late nights.  So I went and checked, and found Nathan cleaning his room, gigi had turned on the classical music and she was working on her slide show of South Korea.  Gigi is such a motivated and independent learner!  Seriously she has very little down time that she is not dedicating to reading (usually non-fiction), playing the piano/creating music, finding some kind of art project, or getting really excited about doing extra work for school, she likes projects lol  Love her enthusiasm...

Nathan in the morning also watched abou 1 hour of election stuff.  He was searching himself and listened to harpers consesion speech, and trudeaus acceptance.  Nathan's biggest worry about trudea is marijuana.   He does not think this is a good idea, we have talked about the fact that studies have been show that there is benifits to legalizing.  Nathan does not agree.  

Nathan had a few episodes of his angry like behaviour today that sometimes preceeds an episode, but I was not sure if that was just because he was tired.

I tried to start some ancient egypt things, but I thought I had the book I wanted to teach from and it ended up being the wrong book, and Nathan was really tired, so I said ok, you guys go make lunch so they did.

After lunch we went to piano lessons.  Genevieve finished a chapter in life of fred, and she also completed a unit in rightstart math. 

I did have to show Genevieve how to write a billion.  

Nathan's turn for math, man the kid was tired and grumpy.  But all of a sudden when it got harder, he seemed to put more of an effort in.  His eyes were twitchy, but again was not sure if it was just being tired.  We went home after and had time to relax for an hour, and then Genevieve helped me make dinner.  Off to cheer we went.

When we got home from cheer we were sitting in the living room, and Genevieve was eating her salad, and gigi, gave me the signal that Nathan's eyes were doing its thing.  I didn't bring it to Nathan's attention and after gigi was done eating it was time for bed.  About 15 minutes after going to bed, nathan called me that he was having visual aura.  He was seeing bubbles, with hexagons, and octagons that were just clear normal without bubbles in them, he could just see the ceiling regularly thought the hexagons and octagons.  15 minutes later, nathan called that he had a headache, and if I could bring him the essential oils.  He says he cant help it when I put on the essential oils it makes him smile, I think its the peppermint that does it to him...  It seems to help him anyway, not sure how long his stuff lasted, I think he was able to get to sleep fairly quickly.