Jordan joins the ranks ...

With all the 'fun' we've been having in our extended family I think Jordan was feeling a little left out. Other than Taylor's little 'bump' we've been relatively healthy. That is until Jordan starts throwing up at school (daycare) on Thursday. First time they called and let me know I figured it was just from being on her tummy on the floor. she didn't have a fever and she wasn't acting sick so she stayed. The second time, obviously something is up. Still no fever and not acting sick. Shortly thereafter I go and pick her up. She threw up AGAIN that night. She has now shared her sympathy pains with me. I spent the night running to the bathroom too. Jordan recovered quickly... so I hope I do too!fs

Hopefully it will end soon....

This week has not been a 'fun' week for our family. Carrie goes in for another MRI on her foot and finds a tendon is torn. Most likely, it got torn as she dashed to the basement moments ahead of the tornado. The only fix is surgery. My cousin Amanda goes in for ACL surgery on Nov 20. My sister Jamie got to visit the ER AGAIN for the same pain she had while she was pregnant. Turns out she has to have her gall bladder removed and then she gets pancreatitis. On Saturday night, Nov 15th Taylor rips her frenulum. You know, that little piece of skin that connects your upper lip to your gum. And the icing on the cake ... my Grandpa codes during physical therapy. He has been on life support for almost 6 days. The doctors say he didn't get enough oxygen and is brain dead. The decision is made to take him off the ventilator. Surprisingly, he is holding his own but he'll soon be pushing up daisies! (Funerals are to be treated like PARTIES! You get to see all sorts of family you hadn't seen in awhile1)

I think out of everyone Taylor has already forgotten her pain and moved on! She did shed lots of tears and was a little frightened of the blood but all is well.

So, with all this trouble we've had in the family ... we are very careful not to do anything extra stupid. I do wonder why Michael thinks he ought to be allowed to go duck hunting. Perhaps he should just hang his license up on the wall and leave it there! He might shoot his eye out with the luck we seem to be having!

New update: Another one bites the dust!
Nashon has added himself to the family crisis, yesterday he broke his wisdom tooth and is now looking at oral surgery.

Fall Pictures

Michael and I had planned to have a night away from the girls this weekend while my mom was in-town visiting. Well, with my Grandpa coding in Missouri my mom rushed off to be with him and her sisters that were also flying out there. So, since Michael had already asked Dr. Mackey if he could take the day off nothing much had been scheduled. We took advantage of this and went for a drive. Here are the results!

Tinks New Do's!

Some of the things we have done when Taylor will sit still!

The night before Halloween

As you can see... we are still building up to Halloween night. On Thursday we went to a school party. Taylor was excited to take us to school with her. She did reassure us that she would not be sleeping there tonight.

We had a donut on a string game... Me showing Taylor how to do it... (Notice Super Jordan in the background!)
Taylor giving it a try now:A little more than boring for the parents but Taylor really had fun. She wanted to keep going back to her class to get cookies!

Raggedy Ann makes headlines!

Every year the town of Windsor has trick-or-treating the Saturday before Halloween down main street. Last year we saw it going on but didn't participate. This year, Taylor was all excited to do some trick-or-treating. She dressed up in her adorable costume (Raggedy Ann) and walked up and down main street all by herself. Not once did she complain. She was having a great time. Apparently a few others thought she looked pretty cute because both of the local Windsor papers wanted to take her picture for their paper. Here they are ... what do you think?

The Windsor Beacon

The Windsor Now

Stay tuned for pictures from her school party and Halloween night!

A day that is hard to forget....

I was reading a friends blog this evening and ran across her post of the tornado that came through our neighborhood on May 22. Taylor saw the picture and we preceeded to have this conversation...

Me: Look, a picture of the tornado that hit our house

Taylor: It came in our house

Me: Yep, it did.

Taylor: It made our house dirty. It made our windows dirty. We had to hide. And then we got goldfish. And then the workers came and our house is better. And you went upstairs to get me goldfish.

Well, at least she remembers it a little nicer now. It definitely beats all the crying we had about needing a new house because her house was broken. That's all she could say about it for weeks afterwards.

We are now officially done with the help we have hired. The last check has cleared. By no means does that mean that the work is done though. We now get to 'fix' all the stuff that got broken by the workers in our home. This should take us all winter at the rate we're going. Anyone feel like doing a little handy work for us??