Tuesday, May 19, 2009

The House of Flu and Ivy

The Blog has been quiet this month between me getting the worst case of poison ivy I have ever had in my life (finally subsiding), and now Xavier having what the pediatrician is calling a cold, but I am pretty sure is the flu. Adam asked them point-blank about the possibility of it being the flu and doing testing (there have been no confirmed cases of H1N1 flu in our area), but the doctor's take on it was that the flu has been overblown and they aren't going to test for it. This seemed kind of pig-headed to me, delivering this declaration on the day when they announced the fifth death in the US from the swine flu, but what do I know. On the bright side, at least this should be behind him before our vacation.

Speaking of pigs ...

Xavier's teacher sent home some homework for him to work on. As he worked on it this morning, he looked up and asked Adam, "How much is a pound?"

Adam said, "A bag of frozen vegetables weighs about a pound."

Later, as Adam was reviewing Xavier's homework, he found a worksheet that went as follows (Xavier's answers in blue below):

A baby pig weighs 31 pounds.

What weighs less than a baby pig? A fly.

What weighs more than a baby pig? A building.

What weighs about the same as a baby pig? 31 bags of frozen vegetables.