Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

We've had a week of Christmas.  A week of travel.  A week of family. And fun.

But, you know, sometimes a week can be summed up best by two bags of Christmas sugar.

Deep Purple.

This last weekend we scooted back from a visit with the fabulous baby zoe in Eastern Washington, and landed right smack dab in the middle of Henry's guitar recital. 

It was everything you'd want from a recital with 6 - 10 year olds. Tinking pianos, screeching violins and some scragly guitar strumming.

Henry did great. His performance was a combination of Mary Had a Little Lamb and Deep Purple.  Which, you know, is such an obvious and streamlined musical combination.

I didn't get pictures of him performing, as I was videoing with my camera.  And the file is too darn large to add.  30 MGs of good musical fun, in fact.  But here's a quick look at Henry, the guitar star, before the big show.

 Big, crazy fun on a Sunday afternoon.

Bark.

So, I spent yesterday afternoon at the doctor's office with Henry. 

No cold.  No fever.  Just bark.

In his ear.

Because if you're going to do a magic trick for your friends in which you need to make a piece of bark dissapear, what better place to put it?  Way down in your ear canal makes sense at that point.

It's a bit later when the logic starts to get a bit flawed.  Like when the school nurse calls your mom to come get you or when your doctor is sticking a very long instrument down into your ear on a Monday afternoon.  

But, all that said, I think we might be able to call the magic trick a success.

Lights.

Sometimes...if you're lucky...you see lights in a tree AND in the sky.

On the very same day.