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The weekend was busy at the Kemp Household. Thursday night the scribes descended to work on scrolly goodness while mel was at St. Felix practice. We stayed up pretty late working on the scroll but it was a good job well done. I got in a while hair and started doing the landscape and well, I couldn't seem to stop. Everything just kinda clicked. Mel got home after the ladies had left and he commented that he really liked how

scribe_ari had painted a piece of landscape. I had to comment that I had painted it and the look on his face was precious. I felt awesome. Friday we got up late which was nice and by late I meant 730am. Benton let us sleep in. YAY!!! Course if I had gone to bed before midnight that would have been good as well.

We had a good day and headed up to Hanger Medical to pick up Benton's helmet. He did really well with the fitting. Liz our orthosistian is really good with kids and we were in and out pretty quickly. We slowly break him in with the helmet partially to help with getting used to having a hard piece of plastic/foam on his head and second to help get his body used to temperature regulation. Its very similar to being a fighter and getting used to being in your helm all day and not feeling over heated. The first day he was in it and hour off for an hour 3 times, the second day was on for 2 hours/off for 1 hour for 3 times and then we've been increasing the time on. Tonight he will sleep all night in it...we shall see how that goes.

Friday afternoon we worked on the scroll just

msaimeesue and I. We had a really good time and both felt that we learned a lot and managed to really knock things out of the park on the parts we were painting. It was awesome to see both of us have a lightbulb click on a technique. Yay!

Saturday Mr. Benton was very very cranky. Helmet time wasn't going so well and he had a bit of a drippy nose. The weather had turned colder and it was a bit chill in the house. When he finally went down for his nap things were better and after another really long nap he was pretty normal again. It was a trying morning until he went down for his nap though. Mel had gone over to Bill and Sara's to do the cochineal harvest. He got back from that and then headed to Casa Grande for the "Brew-haha" event. It was so lightly attended that they called the event off. Lame but true so he was home earlier than he had planned which I was happy about.

bewilde,

elinor_dear and Hope were all awesome and painted some great stuff on the scroll. I finished up the landscape and then started in on some buildings after people left for the evening and I got lost in the painting. Mel and

lferion were working tent poles and chatting about various things. We had pizza for dinner and I worked pretty late on things. Do we see a trend?

Well, about 2am Sunday morning Benton woke up and would not be lulled back into sleep. I was up with him for about an hour and then I finally just put him back to bed and he finally crashed out about 3am but was up on an off until we got up about 7am. Bleah. I painted more in the morning and basically finished up everything I had planned to paint and got help in later in the afternoon from

bewilde and

swordmage. By the time folks left things were looking really good and we will be able to finish everything else off tonight. Course I spent most of sunday blowing my nose and by the afternoon I was pretty well burnt out on painting and my hand was also fighting me pretty badly along with a nose that was like a faucet turned on. Mel was awesome and watched Benton all day. He got to spend time out on the patio brewing beer with Mel and Malaius and then later he was in the shop playing and watching Mel and Storvarr do woodworking. He was way happier and way okay with the helmet. Plus during the late afternoon he figured out how to crawl to get to something he really wanted and then he decided he was going to pull up to standing all by himself! Wow!

I went to be pretty early and Storvarr and Mel stayed up playing Portal2. I was so tired and addle brained that I couldn't even follow what they were doing. I went to bed and propped myself up, applied some Vicks and managed to sleep all night. Butterfly was snuggled up on my stomack most of the night and I was comfy, warm and cozy. Benton work up about 3am but Mel got up and got him a binky and then he was out until he got up at 6am.

I had thought I was okay enough to just head into work, grab my laptop and then head home. By the time I had gotten Benton to daycare I was so tired and just unmotivated to drive the 40mins to work and then back. Traffic due to construction on Valencia just make things special and I wasn't up to dealing with special. So far I've fielded two phone calls from work due to an issue that we've had on a material we are using that failed after the fact on an assembly. Its an interesting problem and we just need to get our analysts working on things, test some stuff and give us a recommendation of a new material. Hopefully we can get us going on that soon.

But its basically just me and sleeping today. I think a good day of rest, fluids and rest will do me good. I'm just happy that right now my nose isn't acting like a leaky faucet. The scrollage is awesome and I will be posting an album of step by step pictures of each of the scrolls.