It's been weird. I just got back my Internet connection, having lost it and electricity yesterday.
Halloween went great. S8 was able to go and we did indeed have a blast. We went Trick-or-Treating with all our friends then we came back and had a great party. But S8 started to get a little sluggish and lethargic. He wanted to just sit down and bundle up, like he was chilled or something, and just watch some TV -- obviously still feeling the effects of his sickness. (I had urged him to take a nap earlier that afternoon, but he refused. Now he was feeling the impact.) He didn't seem to have a fever though -- and he did not want to leave.
S4 really had a blast. Most of the other kids were little girls, who he loved to run around with and chase (Oh, Good Heavens -- so early!) He was dressed up as Boba Fett from Star Wars -- that kid is so funny insisting that Boba Fett is a "good guy". He had several of us chuckling seeing him dance and bop around with the girls.
S8 went as a Star Wars clone commander, Captain Rex. He has been looking forward to wearing his costume with helmet and laser blaster for a long time now.
I went dressed up as Obi Wan Kenobi from the Clone Wars series, complete with armor plating and light saber. A little much, I admit. I wasn't the only adult who dressed up for this event, but I got a number of comments as I walked up with my two S's. One guy started to say something to me about how far I took our Star Wars theme, and I confidently grinned and said, "H*ll yeeeaah, I went all out!" More than half of the adults were fully attired in costumes, some more elaborate than others.
I ended up taking myself and the boys home before 9 PM, which was not too early but prudent. Late in the wee hours of the morning I checked on S8, just as I had all of Friday night, and found he was again running a fever.
Much of Sunday was spent trying to get S* and S4 to settle down so the older of the two could properly recover from whatever it is still making him sick. S8's temperature seemed to fluctuate between normal and fever. And he was playing and much too active between the peaks of his temperatures.
About mid-morning we lost power and I began to realize we needed to go out to get lunch, since I couldn't cook the meal I had hoped to. So I took them out to eat and to kill time at the movies until the power was restored. It's a good thing I did because the power was still off when we got back some four hours later -- fortunately the power finally did come back on just as I was dialing the power company. But Internet was still very spotty and went out entirely again until this morning.
