A Very Unorganized Update

I am way, way overdue on the updating and if I wait around to organize it...it'll never happen. So in no particular order...here is the past week or so!

1. Margie's 9 months post-chemo scan results have come back NED :-) Yippee!! NED means No Evidence of DISEASE!

2. Miss Cleo has had THE awaited appointment and is now declawed and spayed. I LOVE this cat - she is a total doll, but she put some serious hurtin' on our leather couches during the couples weeks that we had her with claws.


3. 6pm or so on a Sunday - Silas and Daddy on the porch enjoying some gorgeous weather. We have been SO spoiled with gorgeous late summer weather. It might look like we have Silas in his pajamas pretty early...but the truth is...he never got out of his pajamas that day. He loves his "lazy days"!

4. Klutzy Silas has struck again. He fell out of the blue porch chair and did a head-dive onto the concrete. I'm seriously surprised that Childrens Services hasn't come calling on us...


5. Silas started his first round of swim lessons at the Y. He did great. I remember when Mason started taking swim lessons - it took about 10 sessions before he'd even put his face in the water. Luckily, Silas has been around pools and water since birth (thanks to the James' lovely pool). He is totally at ease in the water. He was freezing his butt off though.

6. This school stuff is putting a totally whooping on the kids - they either crash out at the end of the night or are manic for hours on end and refuse to even contemplate sleep. Silas often tells me "I cannot close my eyes in my room" - that is his way of trying to get to sleep in our bed. He's been waking up in the middle of the night for the last 5 or 6 days and coming into bed with us. He is not subtle...he'll come in on my side, I'll sit up so he can climb in and then he totally takes my spot and zonks out in an instant, leaving me to move his jello body over into the middle of the bed, where he promptly completes the H between me and Justin, head in Justin's back and feet in my ribs...this morning he was laughing and giggling in his sleep.


7. This wonderfully, beautiful weather that we are having has gotten us outside a lot in the evenings. I would take the weather year-round with a couple days of snow at Christmas.

8. Justin bought new jeans. Finally. Sam's club jeans. Nice jeans, $12 - can't complain. Here he is in his new jeans moments before leaving for work...luckily I had downed several cups of coffee before he left and was pretty observant...

Yes, I told him before he left the house...


9. Mason - he avoids the camera as much as possible. but he still exists. More about him later....

A lazy Friday night

Not even 9pm on Friday night and we're jammied-up and watching movies. The choices were Barbie, Barney, Planet Earth and Harry Potter - can you guess who wanted to watch what!? We started with Planet Earth (AMAZING if you haven't seen it!!!).

Mason appears to be sick again - his temp is 100.2 and he feels crappy. He is about ready for bed. He got his report card today too (see below) - a very good report card all-in-all (though the consensus between his parents is that he could be putting forth more effort when it comes to his homework). Click below if you are interested in seeing his grades (current grades are under MP2):

Silas had his 2 year check up today - Dr. M was asking me how Si does eating and I mentioned he does a better job in the morning with breakfast- Si chimed in telling the doc "I eat oatmeal breakfast, I eat oatmeal breakfast". Justin and I laugh because he sounds a lot like Rainman when he talks. Si weighs 27 pounds and is 34 inches - about the 50 percentile for both. He had to have his finger pricked for the lead and anemia test (standard at the 2 year checkup) and also had to have a vaccine which required a stab in the leg. He's got a bit of a limp this evening. He took at 2-hour nap from 4-6pm so he may be up all night tonight!

I had a 2 hour dentist appt today, just for a check up and it gave me a huge headache. Can't imagine what it will be like when I have to go back to get "real" work done, and there will be lots of that this year :(

Justin was excited about the beer he got this evening - deviating from the usual Natty Light, he got Miller High Life and it came in orange cans for the hunting season - how's that for some marketing. We think it should also be sold at Halloween too.

Notice the hunting accessory in the background? Who can tell me what it is? Take a guess and I'll post the answer in the comments - you'll probably never get it...unless you are Dad J who bought it, or an avid hunter. Here's another picture to give you a better view.