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I made some bread this week.

I also went on a mountain bike ride.

There was a variety of terrain and views.

And the ride passed by the lava lands too.

After our bike ride, The Mother went to a floral arrangement class and made Dad and me go grocery shopping. Lame.

Lame, until…I found $100 in the Whole Foods parking lot!

On the Day of the Mother, Dad made her the beet latkes she demanded.

Then The Mother went skiing while Dad and I enjoyed the 80 degree day on the river.

For dinner I took The Mother to the Midtown Yacht Club (wink, wink Pop). I had the Oaxacan burger,

Dad had the wet burrito,

and Mom had the Cuban.

Because it is the Day of the Mother, she made me pose for many pictures.

Other things we ate this week. My charcuterie lunch.

Chickpea cakes with zucchini ribbon salad and tahini yogurt mint sauce.

Look at this femur. Almost as good as new!

After a minor set back last week – I was ok’d to get off my crutches but my heel, which had not been used in 6 weeks, rebelled and hurt every time I took a step, so I had to keep stay on the crutches all week – I’m feeling good! So good, that I went rock climbing…

And mountain biking…ok, not ‘mountain’ biking, more like riding around the neighborhood, but biking nonetheless.

When I am not out testing my newly returned mobility, I am listening to podcasts, reading ‘The Wind in the Willows’, or building crazy marble runs.

This week we went to Dear Mom Cafe (thank you GUM for the gift certificate). I had a mocktail. I LOVE mocktails. I had the Westside Sparrow – hibiscus syrup, lemon juice, yuzu extract, and sparkling water.

For an appetizer, we had roti with curry.

For dinner, I had the noodle soup – rice noodle soup in bone broth, house roasted pork, ground pork, pork crackling, green bean, crispy wonton, garlic chili oil, cilantro, and peanuts.

Mom had the panang – sauteed shrimp with thai panang curry with crispy basil, a sunny side egg, and jasmine rice.

Dad had Pad Thai Glass Noodles – classic wok stir-fried glass noodles, shrimp, egg, bean sprout, green bean and toppings.

Spring is coming. The trees are flowering and the phlox are showing their colors.

Dad’s back in the bread business. Yum.

(Remainder of the blog written by me, Emmett.)

It’s 60$ but that’s okay i’ve played with it every day since I got on thursday – My new GRAVI TRAX (giant set). It’s a marble run building set.

Finally got started on my viking decor aka a shield

I had to stain it with two coats of stain. When it comes to stuff like this I have no patience

final product

Crutches are almost gone. Here I am standing without them:

Enough lounging on the couch for me. This week I did some swimming

and rode my bike on the trainer.

I also did some archery and a little hiking by the river.

I also planted some seeds to put in my greenhouse.

Given my recent time in the arcade – my sweatshirt from Uncle Chris has new meaning.

I am also going through a Nordic phase. I love all things viking as you can see from the flag I designed for my ‘throne’.

This week Mom’s friend Brook gave us some venison. Boy oh boy was it good.

Last weekend of skiing at Meissner. There is still a lot of snow in some spots,

but not so much in others:

I had three days off from school this week for conferences, so Papa came for a visit. Can you believe he had never been to the High Desert Museum? He has now. They had a Sasquatch exhibit:

And we went to a Mammal Encounter show to see a porcupine. He is a rodent, which, as we all know, means he has ever-growing teeth.

My wingspan is about the same. I’m still a turkey vulture,

but my crutches get me closer to condor range:

Mom saw the tortoises’ lunch and decided her spirit animal must be the desert tortoise.

We went out to dinner at Jia. I had chicken pho:

Dad had the Saigon bowl:

Mom had the spicy eggplant:

and Papa had the tuna poke bowl:

On Sunday, Dad made us buckwheat galettes with Swiss cheese, prosciutto, and an egg for lunch:

Papa made a loaf of golden flax bread. It was delicious:

Sunday afternoon we visited Peterson Rock Garden:

They have a lot of peacocks:

I brought a camera with me and made everyone pose like they always do to me.

Papa’s stay is coming to an end, so I threw him one of my famous going away parties, complete with a bar:

It was a quiet week. I am saving my energy for Papa.

I did go to the Playful Paws Cat Cafe and pet a lot of cats one day.

I kicked it on the couch.

I also learned how to fly Papa’s drone.

Dad and I even figured out how to take pictures with it…like this one.

I have also been busy building. I built another boat out of popsicle sticks and hot glue. I call it The Sparrow.

The sails go up and down.

And, there is a removable jib

that can also go up and down.

I also built a popsicle stick airplane. I can do anything with a glue gun.

I also made some improvements to my 3-D-printed sailboat:

My leg may be out of commission, but that doesn’t mean I can’t keep my upper body in shape:

The days are long when you can’t ski or bike or do much besides sit on the couch. I made some pot holders.

Including one for Coach Elsa. We were Team France…

Jameson and Quinn came over this week. That made for a nice break from The Bigs. Here Jameson and I are having lunch break. It was good to refuel before returning to destroying things in The Bigs’ garden with RC cars.

I also went with The Bigs to Dilly Dally Coffee Shop…

and convinced The Mother that another trip to Humm Kombucha was in order.

I also did a puzzle.

And The Bigs took me to Vector Volcano to play video games.

When we were leaving Vector ,The Bigs noticed there was no line at L&K Barbershop. I was not pleased.

The barber had some fun with my hair at the end…I was definitely not pleased.

They had an Easter wheel at the barbershop. You spun it and got a prize. Do you know what my prize was? A gift certificate for Vector Volcano. Awesome!

Now that it is done, I think the haircut looks pretty good, wouldn’t you agree?

I also made a boat from popsicle sticks, glue, and an old sheet.

The Mother then taught me how to use Fusion 360 and helped me design and 3D print a sailboat hull.

I also did some building building and read at 434 page novel.

AND made The Mother play Monopoly again. When I am all healed up, she is burning this game.

We also dyed Easter eggs this week. Rather than buying dye, we decided to use onion skins. A couple of how-tos on the internet said to use cilantro leaves and strawberry stems to create designs on the eggs.

It worked! Unfortunately the dye made brown eggs, which is kinda funny since we had a fridge full of brown eggs and went out of our way to buy white eggs just to dye them. That’s OK, they do look pretty cool.

I also did a crutch Easter egg hunt.

The Bigs bought me an Easter present before I broke my leg. It requires mobility. They felt a little bad about that and bought me a different gift. Then they said ‘oh heck, give him both’…but only if he solves these related puzzles.

In about one minute, I determined the answers were muscles and tennis and got my Sportcord and tennis racket.

This week they made me eat things I did not like. Did they forget they are supposed to feel bad for me and let me eat my favorites?

Roasted carrots with tahini sauce

and Cambodian omelet (egg, ground pork, and shiitake mushrooms) with radish and cucumber pickles.

The Mother made The World’s Greatest Grilled Cheese in the air fryer too…

And for Easter we made butterflied leg of lamb on the grill with brussels and asparagus.

Much of my week happened here:

Mostly I have been reading and reading and reading, but I have also found time to crush The Mother at Monopoly (and chess),

and to tally the grades on her final exams:

I also check my email every morning if you want to send me one:

I have been getting out of the house more and more now. I enjoyed driving my RC truck and car in the sunshine:

It was nice and warm because spring has sprung:

I joined The Bigs for a work lunch with their colleague, Christophe, at the Victorian Cafe. I had the Victorian Breakfast (Dad’s eggs are better):

I visited the Humm Kombucha tasting room:

And, I was visited by Poppy (a 70 lb Old English Sheepdog). She’s awesome!

I’ve been burning through books at an alarming rate, so I made a trip to the bookstore to restock:

I’ve been developing a bit of a funky aroma, so I removed my bandages for a sponge bath. My incisions:

Our St. Patrick’s Day got a bit screwed up, but The Mother made a belated soda bread later in the week:

Here’s a breakfast for you. Soda bread avocado toast with ground lamb, over-easy eggs, berries, and cottage cheese.

Well, it started out like any other week. We had a beautiful bluebird day and my last race. I skied very well and placed 4th overall and then took some runs with Riley.

But, on our last run, I crashed. After a very long time, Ski Patrol came and took me in the sled to Urgent Care. Nobody thought my leg was broken, because I wasn’t crying and carrying on. They did not know I am THE EMMETT and I am that tough. I was more concerned about how Riley was going to get home than I was with my pain.

The folks at Urgent Care determined I needed to go to the ER and I needed to go by ambulance.

When I got to the hospital, the CUT OFF my clothes. At this point, I started to worry about how much this was all going to cost. An ambulance ride, new ski pants, long johns, oh my goodness. The Bigs assured me that is why they go to work, but I was not easily convinced.

I am pretty sure every doctor and nurse in the ER came by to tell me I got 4th place in my race and 5th overall for the season (they did not tell me I had been named the Mayor of Arc City as well, but the MBSEF head coach made sure I knew)! My good buddy Jameson’s dad is an ER doctor and his mom is an anesthesiologist and they made sure everyone knew I was there and to take very good care of me.

I soon had something else to worry about. Surgery.

Here is a before picture of my femur. YIKES.

Here are some after shots. I wanted to pick up some hardware from my last race of the season, though this is not exactly what I had in mind.

I was feeling pretty good after the surgery, but the night was rough.

In the morning, I felt better, but was ravenous.

I quickly mastered moving around on crutches and was able to go home by noon.

Now I’m getting used to my new, temporary reality. The Bigs made me a new dinner table. It’s not great, but it works.

I had a busy week.

On Tuesday it was paintball biathlon. We, luckily, given our winter (another 27 inches of snow this week), had a beautiful day.

While I was shooting targets, The Mother was ‘jogging’ home to make dinner. She seems to stop and take a lot of pictures when she is supposed to be exercising.

On Saturday, Jameson needed a ride to the mountain. It was pretty awesome to have a bud to ride to and from practice with.

I got my award for last week’s race before the start of training. Disappointingly, there were no gift certificates to Mountain Burger handed out with the medals like there were other times. I love Mountain Burger.

I did get a cool pin, though.

Jameson and I are like two peas in a pod. Here we are with our noses buried in books on the ride home.

On Sunday, it was snowing again. We went cross country skiing at Meissner and went to check out the snow dragon.

Here I am enjoying the Meissner dragon 7 years ago.

This week we had Korean Tofu Rice Bowls, made with crispy gochujang tofu, steamed rice, spicy cucumber salad, and kimchi. Topped, of course, with a fried egg.

While I had a sad lunch of ramen noodles at the mountain on Saturday, The Bigs had wraps with brie, spinach, apples, and skirt steak.

This week I had pickled onions The Mother bought at the store. They were OK, definitely not as good as The Nan’s, so I decided to make my own – using my Complete Cookbook for Young Scientists. Red onions go from being deep purple before pickling to bright pink after pickling due to an interaction between a molecule in the onion and the vinegar.