Thursday

This Thursday Z goes in for another MRI. He'll get sedated, but luckily only has to fast for four hours this time. The results could be our first definitive proof that the doctors are right. If the tumor has diminished we know we are doing the right thing by waiting, if the tumor has grown we'll be on the surgery/chemo path, and if it is the exact same we just keep waiting and wondering. We'll get the final results on the following Wednesday. We're confident that all will be well, but please keep him in your prayers this week. Thanks, thanks thanks!

Ode to June

Father's day made me grateful for the fathers in my life, especially the father of my children.

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Picking strawberries at Day Farms made me grateful for the things that thrill my daughter and take very little of my effort and money.

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The other day Zach peed all over, set a new personal record (it may have been worthy of a world record) for the amount of "lunch lost" at one time, and took a bath all in a 15 minute time frame. The part that makes me laugh is that he took the bath first!

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Recently Mylee pulled out her sweat pants (really ugly/camping types) and insisted on wearing them. I asked her why, and she said "I be like you mommy." I guess it's time to start wearing jeans again....

Yep, that's my couch

Mike's band (The Hard Hearted) is playing a show this Saturday (June 20th) in Huntsville. It is the grand opening for Texas Pride BBQ, and it should be pretty awesome. The celebration goes from 6 to 10pm and it will be in the village square (235 S 7400 E, Huntsville). Mike will go on around 7:30 -8:00pm. Come check it out if you want some good music and good eats!

Missed

Oh the blog posts that might have been... While I was on my hiatus from normal life there were many things I would have done a post on. Mylee's third birthday and Mike's thirty-third birthday were both pretty low key.
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I can only imagine the post that would have resulted from this line... "Mom, there is a glass slipper up my nose." I couldn't see it and I couldn't feel it, but there was indeed a glass slipper up her nose. (armature mom lesson - just cause your kid is three doesn't mean you should let them play with all the small parts of their new birthday toys.)
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How about this line... "honey, did you know that your pants are on backwards?" Yep, after a conversation with a neighbor I walked in the house and Mike informed me of this. Now I'll often find that my shirt is on backwards and/or inside out, but this was my first pants incident.
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I managed to badly burn three bags of microwave popcorn in a day. My house still stinks from the repeated offense.
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And yesterday, I accidentally flushed a pair of underwear down the toilet. We're toilet training Mylee again (we're at about a 80% success rate with #1, and a 0% success rate with #2. NOT FUN!) While cleaning up one "non-success" #2 mess the underwear ending up going down with the mess. Mike sure thinks I'm cute (ha ha), and Mylee is furious over the matter (she keeps demanding that I apologize to her).
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My only statement of self defense is that I have not gotten more than 2.5 hours of consecutive sleep in the past 6 weeks. It does not appear that this will be changing anytime soon, so I'm sure I'll have more "stupid things I've done" posts to come...

Long Promised

Well - I'm finally getting around to posting some pics. The best ones were taken by my sister Laurie (she's GREAT and inexpensive if anyone is interested.) I'm back to work now - so I'll be posting a lot more. To sum things up we are thankful and tired. No news on Z's tumor, we have an MRI on July 2nd which should verify that it is shrinking. Enjoy these pics of my so cute son...