Weekly Update

So just to update because I know I said we were going to Portland for Grace's next MRI, well.....we didn't end up going. There was some confusion with the Hemoc department and somehow they canceled our MRI months ago and I just found out 3 days before we were supposed to leave. It was a huge mixup and someone's misunderstanding to blame. Needless to say, I wasn't too happy about it and spent a couple of hours crying and trying to reschedule 4 different appointments. Don't these people realize what we are doing here? They wanted to get us in at the end of November and I'm trying to tell them that we are 4 months out from our last MRI and we are monitoring a tumor, people! So much anticipation goes into it and I was so disappointed when I realized it wasn't going to happen. I'm over it now so the long and short of it is that Grace's appointment is now on Nov 2nd and 3rd. I just hope by then it doesn't snow over the mountain pass and we don't somehow end up with the swine flu, all of which is going to throw a huge kink in us making it.

In other news, Twinkle Toes is really maturing a lot these days. School is having a good effect on her I guess. She is so excited to go every day. Monday is now her favorite day of the week, go figure! She is a lot more helpful around the house and obedient which I am loving. I volunteered in the classroom last week and that was fun to see what she actually does all day. She is in the top reading group in her class and her teacher says that they are just going to skip over kindergarten sight words altogether and will go straight into 1st grade sight words. On another note, our little soccer player scored TWO goals at her last game. Granted, they were mostly the ball just rolling straight towards her and she leisurely kicked it straight in the goal but we don't care. It's a goal and her foot was the last to touch the ball. We were so proud we had to treat her to Coldstone. TT has a ONE track mind. The other night I told her she couldn't stay up and read this book about how to draw dinosaurs. So the very first thing she does upon awakening in the morning is grab the book and a piece of paper and commences to draw dinosaurs.

Here is Sweet Boy with his buddy Nicholas. They are so cute together they could be brothers. Nicholas is one of those special kids who takes the time to play with younger kids and he is so attentive and nice to Caleb. Nevermind they are two boys on a pink four wheeler, it was on loan from a girl at TT's soccer practice :)