Isaac has already missed 25 days of school since January 1 this year! Most of these days at home were recovering from tonsillitis, strep throat, or fever. It usually takes several doses of antibiotics to get him healthy and back to school. The Ears, Nose, Throat doctor says it’s time to remove Isaac’s tonsils.
This morning about 8:45 Isaac had a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy at the St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston, ID. He gave the nurses in the pre-op a run for their money with his questions. Thanks to his inquisitive mind, we learned all about adenoids. I guess all these days off school hasn’t dulled his intellect just yet.
The surgery went well—and quickly. His recovery is going great so far. After about an hour in post-op recovery with Ricki and I, the nurse caught Isaac playing a game on Ricki's iPhone. She said Isaac was ready to go home if he was ready to play video games. We were home in Moscow just after noon.
Our goal is perfect school attendance starting next week.
Isaac watching TV waiting for his turn in the operating room.
Skyler was invited by Emily Campbell to attended the Pullman High School Prom last Saturday night. They went with two other couples. The evening started off with pictures at Lawson Gardens. The group ate dinner at Banyans and had bonfire after the dance to end the full evening.
Skyler scored some sweet wingtip shoes, a new tie, and suspenders to wear with his black suit.
This screen grab shows the end of the Moscow High School lip dub video.
From the Moscow Pullman Daily News today. Hundreds of Moscow High School students catapulted themselves to Internet stardom this month thanks to a lip dub video they created to showcase their school spirit. During the video, nearly all of the school's approximately 600 students dance, lip-sync and otherwise strut their stuff through the hallways and classrooms they spend most of their time in each school day.
The video, which features students lip-syncing and dancing to the song "Pump It" by the Black Eyed Peas, has been watched more than 8,500 times since it was posted on YouTube on April 10.
Alaina Mullin said she got the idea for the lip dub from a similar video her sister was shown last summer. "We never really thought it would happen," she said. But when she and Caitlyn Faircloth were brainstorming activities for the school's annual Arts Fest, they decided to recruit some friends and start planning.
The five students who organized and filmed the video—Mullin, Chavez, Faircloth, Skyler Martin and Sebastian Mortimer - tried to prominently feature students from each MHS club and sport, but they said the school has so many extracurricular activities that some groups are represented in background shots.
They said they picked the song "Pump It" because it plays at just about every school dance, so it's familiar to most students, and the lyrics aren't filled with potentially inappropriate innuendo.
"It's a fun song that has a lot of different parts in it," said Mortimer, the project's "creative mastermind."
Mortimer said it was challenging to place students in their spots and direct them to walk at a certain, consistent speed during each practice run and the official take. "We filmed most of the practices just so we knew what it would look like," said Martin, the group's videographer. The final video features a blooper reel after the lip dub performance and credits.
Although any project involving hundreds of people is bound to have its occasional hiccups, the students said they were happy with the result and that it felt good to prove naysayers wrong. Students of different backgrounds and ages worked together on the video, even though many of them didn't yet know each other.
"I feel like we kind of united the school for at least one day," Chavez said. Faircloth said the students are thankful to their peers and the MHS staff for supporting them throughout the project.
"It honestly wouldn't have worked if people weren't excited," she said. "It made spring of senior year a lot better. Now I feel more sentimental toward the school." The students said they hope future classes of MHS students will create their own lip dub videos as a new school tradition.
