We’re off to the circus this afternoon. We had bought tickets and then someone from church also mailed us some tickets so we gave one set to another family at church. There is a 4:30 and 7:30 show so we opted for the 4:30 so we can get home for bed. I’m hoping it will be less crowded too. We shall see. So as soon as school gets out at 3:20 we are driving over to the town about 20 min. away to enjoy the show. Should be fun!

Ryan has a fun day at school today. It is the first normal chapel day, first hot lunch day (they do that once a week), and first library day. He is doing pretty good. He has a tendency to rush through his work and not do his best job so we’re working on that. He has been bringing home B-C grade papers, (a few A’s in there too) but most of the mark downs are for sloppy mistakes. I probalby wasn’t as picky as I should have been on his handwriting while we were homeschooling, but I’m pretty sure he will catch on quickly. (or at least I’m hoping) Yesterday he spilled pink yogurt juice all the way down his white t-shirt so I got a call from school asking for a new shirt. When I saw the school on the caller ID I thought – “oh no, what did he do!”. LOL I was quite thankful it was just the need for a new shirt. I’m also very thankful I can work at home and be available to do things like that. I’m also worried I am going to have a football player on my hands! He is getting a little too good at throwing the football (with either hand).

Christian is just his normal self. He has been pretending to be a kitty a lot lately. Too cute! He is loving preschool and we have had nothing but good reports.

Dane has had a diaper rash for three weeks. I have tried numerous creams and it always almost goes away and then comes back. Then a copule days ago he started getting what I thought were hives… I thought maybe he was allergic to peanut butter since that was the only thing different he had been eating lately. Anyway, so yesterday I finally hauled him into the clinic. He has a yeast infection in the diaper area, and then I guess the dots are not hives, but a staff infection. The nurse practitioner we saw called it Impetigo, and said it was not contagious. However, after we got home I looked up Impetigo online and I don’t think that is what he has. The rash looks different and it says Impetigo is very contagious. HMMMMM Anyway he is on oral antibiotics and a couple creams so hopefully our problems will be solved… Who knows…. His rash is starting to look better again, but it has done that several times already so we’ll see!

Oh and then while we were at Wal-Mart getting the prescription filled, I had Dane strapped into the cart and Christian standing right behind me and I had my back to them while I was talking to the pharmacist. Christian decided he wanted to climb into the cart over the side, and it just so happened we had a cart that was a bit tippy (one of the wheels was weird) and the whole cart – with Christian on it and Dane strapped in tipped over. YIKES! It is a miracle they didn’t get hurt. Dane’s head landed about 1/4″ from the metal shelf. They were of course scared to death and the pharmacists came running out to help (I’m sure they were scared they were going to get sued…) but the boys were fine. Of course now Dane won’t ride in a cart for anything… not that I blame him.

We hosted a BBQ / Potluck here Sunday for the Church in celebration of Ryan’s Birthday. Unfortunately, the weather was not all that great so we didn’t have a very large crowd and it didn’t last real long. It started to rain about an hour into it and everyone packed up and went home; but we all got fed and a little bit of chatting in so I’m still calling it a success. Here’s a picture of the kids doing the pinata.

And then Dane ALWAYS is asking me to take his picture. So here is one of his “cheese” pictures in his new frog outfit. Those are supoosed to be long shorts but they’re a bit big. LOL He was 27 pounds and 34 inches when we went in to the clinic yesterday. She was also very impressed at the amount he is talking.

Take Care!
C-