-Another Busy Day-

So here's Zombie Brant and Zombie Tyler! I don't think they even realized that I took this picture! Other than baseball, this is pretty much the life of a ten year old!! One thing I must say about video games: You can pretty much make them do whatever you want if you use it as bribery! All homework, chores and at least 20-30 mins. of some sort of exercise or physical activity can easily get accomplished w/o complaint if they know the reward has anything to do with the tv and a controller of some kind! I'm thinking about adding Tyler to our chore chart since he's over at our house so much:)

Rissa is loving running up and down the stairs! I keep all of the rooms shut up stairs except for her room. Today I went up to find that she had gone around the room and pulled all 1000 of her bows off of their 'hangers' and had them all right there on the floor beside her! She had also been digging in her drawers. She had found her baby leg warmers and had her foot in one already when I walked in ( and this was only about a ten minute time frame) ! So we put a pair of baby legs on her legs and then she wanted to wear the other pair, so we put them on her arms! Then she's grabbing bows and balancing them on her head to make them stay. Next thing I know she runs over to one of the tutu's that Meema gave her and was trying to push her little foot into it. Soooo here's the end result!! ....Hey-Tutu's, baby legs & bows are way better than Farts, belches & wedgies! I have to say, it really is fun watching her grow!


Jacob has really had some "Growth Moments" the past two days! This morning started with a trip to the dentist! They have never, until today, been able to get all of the X-Rays needed b/c of his 'gag reflux' issue. Today, he went in there and not only let them do all the cleaning, etc but got ALL of the X-rays that they needed as well! No cavities and his 11 yr old molars are coming in already! Shortly thereafter, we went to visit Dr. Chou, aka Bro Chou! He is a friend who is an Orthopedic Surgeon. He so graciously worked us into his schedule so that he could cast Jacob's arm. Thank you DR Chou!!! Jacob was excited that Ryan's dad, Dr. Bro. Chou was the one who was going to make his arm work again! His cast color of choice was, originally, BLACK but when he realized it would be hard for friends to sign it (& be able to see it), he quickly changed it to GREEN! At scouts tonight all of this kids wanted to sign it. I assured them that I would send a Sharpie Marker to school with him tomorrow so they could all sign. What a Brave boy he was yesterday and today!!...oh and the above picture is him w/ Mr. Bones.