The Happenings

Time, man how it slips away! Sorry, I think I say something close to that in every entry. My bad! I feel like I actually have things to write about this time around, thankfully....and maybe unfortunately.

The kids...Liam has four teeth and is now working on 5 and 6 on top. I'm sure 7 and 8 aren't far behind at the rate he's going! He is an active boy that LOVES to crawl and laugh. He's so funny when he crawls with something in his hand. He always wants to. He is such a joyous baby, and for that we're very thankful. My favorite thing has to be going into his room in the mornings and seeing his first smile. I know that won't last so I'm taking it all in now! He had some GI testing done on the 23rd to see how things were digesting and see if there is anything that might be causing his reflux. They didn't find anything other than severe reflux. He made a comment that he seemed to digest pretty slowly. We will be taking him to see an actual GI doctor on the 17th.

Kallie just turned 4 on the 29th, and I like to say she's 4 going on 14! I love her to pieces, but she is sometimes a little more dramatic than I can handle! She has started being receptive of mommy playing "school" with her and is really starting to catch on. Hopefully she'll stick with it. We went up to WI to see Jim's side last weekend and did some birthday celebrations up there for her. It was a good time. She has really been into her Polly Pockets and Barbies lately. We'll see what happens when the boy toys start rolling into town! She has been pretty healthy. I took her to her 4 yr. well check and it was pretty comical. The nurse measured her height and then actually came and got her out of the room one more time to do it again because she thought she had it too high! Nope! Kallie is above the 97th percentile for her height. I think she was somewhere in the 42 in. range. I can't totally remember. She did pretty well at the appt. and I think she was excited that we were there for her and not Liam for once! Unbeknownst to me, though, she did have a sinus infection! Whoops! She didn't complain so I didn't think much of it I guess! Kallie enjoyed Halloween and, as you can see, wanted to be Tinkerbell. Pretty fun. Liam was our little Tigger, but I couldn't get the best part, the hood, to fit over his head! Oh well.

Jim...He went to see the neuro opthomologist a couple weeks back and had an interesting time. Supposedly this dr. was able to notice what she thought was a lesion on the MRI pics of his brain. She thought it was strange that the last dr. didn't see them because she normally has him read all of her other x-rays. So she was going to send it back to him for another read of the area. Meanwhile, they are going to put Jim through another spinal tap. He has to go for that on the 14th. Time will tell. We'll just keep our prayers going! He is currently in WI right now and will be in his promotion interview tomorrow , Tuesday. I'll keep you all posted as to how it all turns out.

Me..Well, I just basically keep busy with all of the above! School is going well and I seem to have a pretty good group this year. I did have an interesting adventure this morning, though, when I arrived to work and discovered that my modular classroom had been broken into, along with the three others. I'm pretty sure whoever did it was on a money mission. They didn't take any of the big stuff. My desk was basically a mess and my closet door was open. A couple of my students also had their desks searched through and stuff. I'm just thankful none of us were around when it happened. I'm sure whoever did this will probably get away with it. Don't people have consciences anymore?

Anyway, love to you all and thanks for checking in on us.