First day of school

Today is Ryan and Rayden's first day back at school. They are in the same class again, their teachers name is Mrs. Yanda, she is an older woman, probably early to mid 50's so I think Ryan will do better this year, she always does better with older people, I think they just have more patience and dealing with Ryan requires that. Rayden does pretty well no matter who his teacher is, he does his own thing and is a fast learner so I am not too worried about him. I overheard their teacher when she met some twins in their class say "oh , the other twins." Ryan hates when people think She and Rayden are twins so I am sure if they get called twins her teacher will get an ear full. I can't wait to pick them up and see how things went.

Memory Lane

Let's Take A Walk...
down memory lane.

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you know me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. Fun huh?!!

Healing your spirit

My Grandma-in-law has a new website and blog that I wanted to share for anyone who is interested in Holistic healing and improving mental health.

her website link is
http://www.healingyourspirit.com/index.html

Her blog link is
http://healingbodyspirit.blogspot.com/

Mush and time

Today Soren tried Rice cereal(mush)for the first time, she did better than any of my other kids have ever done on their first spoon feeding. Maybe becasue she is older than any of the other ones were for their first feedings, I also bought some new baby spoons made by Nuby that are a better shape for baby feeding than the Gerber spoons I used to buy so that probably helped too.



I can't beleive how fast she is growing. Time seems to be flying right now, She is already 5 months old and 16 lbs. It is crazy to think that within about a month she will be sitting on her own and crawling.



I remember when I was little I thought time passed so slowly but now watching my own kids I understand the saying "They grow up so fast.". I cant believe it. It seems like yesterday that we were celebrating my first nephews first birthday and now he is about to go into the 8th grade. My bro-in-law was only 6 when I met him and now I am letting him drive my car(supervised of course)to get fast food, my little sisters first child is about to start kindergarten and my two oldest are about to start 2nd grade. Craziness!!

Spiders on Drugs

Hilarious youtube video about spiders.

The Van

Raymond and Ryan spent all day Saturday and Sunday evening fixing the van. It is finally done. Yeah!!! They are so funny, they tried to tease me that it takes 24 hours (Ray tried to say a couple of days) to charge the battery, and they kept acting like something went wrong just as they would get something put back together and say they were going to have to take it all apart again. Now we just have to fix the rear wiper motor and it should (fingers crossed) pass emission and inspection. I am so happy that I will soon have 2 working, legal vehicles again, at least until Oct. 31 when we will have to register the car again.

Surgery Update

So the surgery went well, though we ended up being there way longer than we initially planned for. We were asked to arrive at the hospital at 8:15 am in order to prep him. Surgery was supposed to begin at 9:15 am and take 1 hour and 50 minutes. They didn't take him back to the O.R. until 10:05 and he was in surgery until about 1:30. The doc said his teeth were bigger than the crowns that he had so he had to grind his existing teeth down until the crowns would fit and that is what took so long. So the poor little guy had one of those plastic things that holds your lips open for 3 1/2 hours and came out of surgery all swollen and looking like Angelina Jole. We finally left the hospital at 3:30 over seven hours after we got there. At least his teeth are fixed and with daily brushing and flossing will stay that way until they fall out and we start all over again.

I don't know if I ever mentioned that the reason he had to have surgery in the first place is due to an enamel defect that runs in the maternal side of Rays family, several people have had to have this operation done including my Rayden.

Surgery tomorrow

Alexander goes in for surgery on his teeth tomorrow, I don't know what time it will be yet, I have to wait until after 2:00 to call and find out but it will probably be fairly early. I know he is second or third for the morning. I am a little anxious, I pre-registered today and now it feels real. I remember when Rayden had the surgery and it is so scary to watch such a tiny person go under general anesthesia and on top of that Ray and Uncle Roby have a hard time coming out of anesthesia so that makes me a little more nervous. I am sure everything will go fine but please say a prayer for him anyway.