Lost Souls

Only now am i finding out that this book is part of a series. I will have to go back and start at the beginning. I didn't feel lost reading this book first. It was a good book about vampires to read during the halloween season. I will be honest - it was not a favorite, but still a good book.

Happy Mail

Our baby girl has a birthday coming up
Today she got a box of presents from my sister and mom
Happy Mail...

Madison couldn't wait to open her box

...all by herself

a box of presents that her mean mom (could that be me)
wouldn't let her open today

and bubble wrap
bubble wrap is the best
here's madison squeezing with all her might

and the box...
hours of entertainment tonight
for both her and austin
she has been packed up
and shaken
and spun and spun

she is having a blast
they both are
literaly for hours
with the now empty box
(who knew)

now she is ready to be all packed up
maybe we will ship her back to
my sister and mom and dad so she can say thank you
(for the box and bubble wrap) in person

mother of the year

this morning Madison told me that she wasn't feeling well
she wanted to stay home from school.
last night she stayed up too late so i told her that she was just tired
and made her go to school.
she lasted all day, but when she came home she tried reading
her AR book to me and had to stop half way thru
her voice was gone, and she really didn't feel well
I took her temp and it was 101.7
she really was sick
I should have know better,
she loves school and would never ask to stay home
unless she really was sick.
lesson learned.

Fall Photos - lots of photos

Today Madison went for a walk in or neighborhood to take some pictures of the trees that are changing for the family back in the valley (no fall back home). So here goes..... (my favorite are the red leaves, Madison likes the red and the orange leaves)

if you scrolled thru this far here is also a little preview of
Madison's Halloween costume. She was trying it out on our
walk thru the neighborhood.

Room - Emma Donoghue



best review for this book -
"Room is a book to read
in one sitting. When it's
over you look up: the
world looks the same but
you are somehow
different and that feeling
lingers for days."
Audrey Niffenegger
author of The Time Traveler's Wife

Family Visit

since i moved 3 hours north of my entire family and J's parents, i've been lonely. i miss them. so my little sister (next in line, there are 5 of us, yes all girls, and no - not poor dad. we adore him) and her family came up to give me a weekend dose of family. it was great...

Austin and my Pixie
only i can call her Pixie
it's our special thing

my sister and Pixie's adorable twin Carebear
another nickname
but everyone calls her Carebear

Madison and Pixie
these 2 are super close
Madison mothers Pixie
Pixie loves it

my kids
their twins
and my brother in law

the girls
i hope even with the move these 3 stay close friends
nothing is better then family

Snow...

well just a dusting but for us that are native to the valley, this is snow. And man were we cold. I think it was in the high 20's this morning. Then, I worked in Madison's class this afternoon and drove home while it was snowing (not sticking). It was so cool. I called one of my sisters, I just had to share. It was a first for me.

Foot Doctor

Austin and Madison had an appointment with the foot doctor. Austin got an ingrown toenail cut out (without being numbed) and Madison went because she has flinstone flat feet and it had been suggested we have them looked at. Madison went first and did great, the doctor was funny and great with kids. He found a wart on her big toe (gross), and put acid and a band-aid on it to remove it. He also had orthotics cut for her shoes and told us she needs to were them 80 - 90% of the time and she may be out of them by the time she is 14 - 7 years, yikes. Then Austin went, this was a follow up visit for his ingrown toe nails. The first visit he was just put on antibiotics, even though the doctor offered to just cut the toe off. He guaranteed that would solve the ingrown toenail problem permanently. This time he wanted the nail cut out - even after my horror story of 9 shots in each toe just to numb them. He was tired of it hurting all the time. The doctor looked at his foot, grabbed his clippers and started cutting, I couldn't watch. I felt so bad for Austin. I know that had to really hurt. He was tough though So, Madison has a follow up in 2 weeks to check both her wart and her orthotics. Hopefully that will be the end of our visits for a while. We really like the doctor, but specialists are expensive.

these 2 had a great day together
it was so nice seeing them get along,
I let both of them stay home from school and enjoyed
watching them wrestle and play and just hang out.  

she was a little nervous - new doctor and all
Austin did really good keeping her laughing 

WART ON MY BABY - GROSS