Baby Shower

I think I am finally ready to have this baby shower for Kathy. I can't believe how hard it was to actually get the invitations sent out! First, I fill in the wrong day and had to completely redo all the invitations. Second, I started to redo all the invitations and realized I bought bridal invitations. So the by the third time, I finally managed to buy baby shower invitations and get them filled out correctly. Scary, I really am a grandma!

Luckily, I am not in charge of anything else! 5th Street Cafe is taking care of all the food, drinks and cake for me and my mom is taking care of the games, so all I need to do is show up, and how hard can that be?

Kathy has her last ultra sound this week. She is getting really excited for the baby to arrive!

Good News!

I took Thomas and Amanda to the Pediatric Cardiologist and they both had an EKG and echo cardiogram done and for change we received good news! Both of their hearts are good and strong. The doctor suggested they be checked every ten years as a precaution. He said I can wait until Aaron is between 10 and 12 before I schedule him an appointment.

Aaron finally got his appointment at the Scottish Rite Hospital for his dyslexia testing. He will be going November 9th but we won't receive any diagnosis the day of the appointment. They said it takes a few week to go over all the testing and they will get back to us with any recommendations. The testing process takes about 5 hours.

Amanda goes to her back doctor on Tuesday for a follow up x-ray to see if the curve in her back is changing. She has been experiencing a little back pain and tingling in her feet. She has decided not to wear the brace because she finds it so hard to breath. She tried wearing a few nights and didn't get any sleep. It was sad. :(

Another busy week ahead!

Pumpkin Patch

I had a lovely day at the Pumpkin Patch with my family. Lainie really enjoyed all the farm animals and had fun on the hay ride. Aaron and Lainie both picked out a small pumpkin. We decided we are going to go to Kroger for the carving pumpkins.

Timothy, Kathy and Audrey came over for dinner and to watch the Cowboys lose the game. They are not off to very good start at all. John grilled ribs and I made Nanny's mac and cheese.  I also made a white cake and John made chocolate frosting.  It was all very good and it was so nice to have all my kids together.  It doesn't happen very often so I treasure the moment when it does.

John and I are off to parent teacher conferences tomorrow.  Woo Hoo, John says.

Saturday Night

My day started out really good. I had a chance to visit with my mom this morning while everyone slept in. We had a lot of catching up to do, as it seems we don't have much time to talk anymore.

When Lainie woke up we all went to grocery store and when we returned home I started to put all the groceries away while John preceded to read my calander and asked me why I had Aaron down for 11am and I suddenly remembered that Saturday is tutoring....ooops! I called Miss Kim and explained I forgot and she said I can bring him Saturday and Sunday next week. She is so sweet!

Johnathon made us all dinner tonight for a project in his Culinary Art class. He made Tatar Tot Casserole with fresh green beans. It was all very good and a very nice break for mom!

Amanda is at a birthday party tonight and this is the first party since elementary school that boys are invited too. Kind of scary! They are all going to movie and then over to the birthday girls house for pizza, cake and ice-cream.

John went with Johnathon to The Cutting Edge Haunted House in Ft. Worth. It is in the Guiness Book of World Records for being the longest haunted house. Thomas and Aaron decided to stay home with me and Lainie. Aaron went a couple of years ago and said he will never go back!

Tomorrow is game day......GO COWBOYS!

Summer Vacation

We finally have our trip booked and are ready to go this summer for a 3 week vacation. I wonder what John will think about having that much time off....this is a first!

After working with the travel agents for a couple of months going over all of our options we decided on a 13 day cruise. We will start by flying into to Rome and driving to Naples to spend a few days with   G & G and then back up to Rome, well, a city just outside of Rome (Civitavecchia), to get on our ship. We will be traveling with  Royal Caribbean International on the Mariner Of The Seas.


Our Itinerary:
Rome, Italy
Messina, Italy
At sea
Piraeus, Greece
Kusadasi, Turkey
Rhodes, Greese
Chania, Greece
At sea
Alexandria, Egypt
Alexandria, Egypt
At sea
At sea
Naples, Italy
Rome, Italy

The kiddo's are all very excited! We are too! It will be fun seeing        G & G and I can't wait to see the kids when they actually see the ship. I went on a cruise in 1985 and I thought the ship was amazing so I can only imagine how it must be now.