Jamie and Liam Chew's Blog: 2009-10-30

2009-10-30 24:00 (Kristen) Liam and Jamie were excited about wearing their Halloween costumes to their respective parties today. Liam was a dragon at Hakobune, and was very pleased when I put the costume on him before I left. When I got back, he had a little construction paper bag with chips and some candy, and was very pleased. When we left, however, he stepped into a puddle with his shoes on, and was in a progressively worse mood, whining and making uncharacteristically unhappy but nonspecific noises. He just wanted to go home, but was happy to have some candy when we went to Jamie's school to see the Halloween parade there. John was already in the school, as it was raining and the parade had to be held inside the halls. He says that Jamie looked very good (and he did), but received a lot of attention from the grade 5 and 6 kids, boys in particular, who all seem to know him. They called out his name when they saw him coming down the hall with his class, and gave him high fives. Apparently his reading buddy David is in this bunch, and Jamie has made a real impression on him and his friends. They play hide and go seek and tag at lunch sometimes, Jamie says. He also saw Ross, dressed as a wizard (as usual), and Ross, when he saw Jamie, shouted "Finger of Death!" Jamie, of course, made his saving throw. After the parade, we helped out a little with Jamie's Halloween party, then took Liam home. Liam wasn't feeling very well by this point, and by the time I came home from picking up Jamie from school, along with his friend Sam and his little brother Harry, Liam was quite unwell. He had a strong fever, and so we gave him some liquid Tylenol. This knocked him out for half an hour or more, and brought down the fever. He was feeling better by dinner time, but spent the evening watching Totoro and playing DS instead of going with John and Jamie to Browning for dinner. He was chipper when John and Jamie returned, but I could feel his fever wanting to come back, so it was more of the hated Tylenol ("I hate the taste, May-ee"). Jamie was asleep almost instantly, and Liam wasn't that far behind.