Happy Birthday Jason!

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Willow likes Memaw and Papaw

Willow with Memaw and Papaw

Gus Gus

Presenting Gus Gus. He is the mouse from Abby's first grade classroom. He was born in October. He's a boy. Now you know as much as I do. He will be staying with us until one of the children drops him.

Baby Karaoke

Willow loves to sing (and fall).

Miscellaneous Pictures

This is Willow modeling her Jordyn original onesie. Thanks Jordy! I highly recommend one for all the babies you know.
















Here is Abigail with her new mp3 player.

















This is Luke and one of his guns.

recovering nicely

recovering from blood sample
Originally uploaded by bigticket

So I had a physical/checkup thing today. I haven't been to the doctor in 6 years it turns out. I will be doing this on a yearly basis now. I guess I was starting to feel old so I wanted to make sure everything is in working order. They took some blood and of course I passed out. This pic is me resting until I could manage to stand without feeling woozy. I'm such a wuss. Anyway, so far so good. Just need to start exercising and eating a low fat diet. Just like everyone else.

The Animal Halfway House

This is Luke's friend, Toad. According to Luke he is "so crazy". He may have run away or died from Shaken Toad Syndrome. We haven't seen him all week.

















This is Abby's friend, Susie. We found her/him in my parents' driveway. We decided to keep her for a little while for some educational observation. Then we will release her into the wild, or the pond behind our house.

















Next week we will have a more permanent addition to our house. Gus Gus, the mouse in Abby's classroom, will come to live with us. (Shhh...I haven't told Jason yet.) I guess if we don't like him, we can always get a snake.

Happy 7th Birthday, Abigail!

Willow's surprise

Willow had her 9 month checkup yesterday. She weighed 16 pounds-15 ounces and is 27.5 inches tall. That puts her in the 50th percentile on height and 25th percentile on weight. She had to have her blood drawn for a routine test called CBC. That was not fun but I guess it's better than shots. Her iron was a little low, but they weren't concerned. I'm not sure what that means. Also, I posted earlier about her ear infections. Her ear wasn't draining and she prescribed low-dose antibiotics to keep it from getting infected. I didn't give her the meds because I wanted to see how it cleared up on it's own. That turned out fine. Her ears were great. The doctor asked me if she had any teeth and I laughed and said, "No, I doubt she'll get any for a few months." (Since Abby got hers at 18 months and Luke at 11 months) The doctor reached in her mouth and said, "She's got one." Yep, there it was. I'm positive that she got it over night. It wasn't there Monday, but Monday night she couldn't sleep well. I had to hold her for awhile and she finally slept around 1am. It was very odd for her. Now I understand. So since then she has struggled to sleep and her nose is running and she coughs occasionally (all normal for teething), but fortunately she has no fever. I've never experienced teething before. My other kids' teeth just showed up. I don't like it. I'll try to get a picture of it soon.

Her newest trick is shaking her head no. I'm going to have a heck of a time with this kid. I can feel it.

Here's a video of Willow at Abby's T-ball game (See other post today):

Abby's first T-ball game

We finally had Abby's first T-ball game Tuesday night. This is one of her plate appearances (last batter goes all the way around).




She played short, center and first. I think she fielded pretty well at all three positions. It was a little rough at first for lack of practice but still good.

iron man

I saw Iron Man last week and I've had time to reflect on it. It might be the best superhero movie ever made. I really have no complaints with it. Highly recommend it. If you do see it, stay until the end. There is a scene after the credits, apparently. I left before the credits were done. Shame on me.

Sorry...

Luke and I played a very tight game of Sorry today. We were both down to one pawn, each in the safety zone. He got the card he needed and won. I said, "Winner, winner, chicken dinner." He said, "No you're the chicken dinner because chicken dinner means dead meat."