Flights Are Booked!

Grammy and Grampy are coming to Charlotte for Thanksgiving and we can't wait!!!!!!

Amelia's School Pics

Unlike last year she actually smiled, somewhat tentatively :-P

Double Fisted

(With lizards that is.)

Mid Quarter Grades

After some technical difficulties I was finally able to log on to check out Charlie's mid quarter grades, the first actual grades (ok well they're not ACTUAL grades yet) of his academic career. So far he has an "A" in English Language Arts, an "A" in Science, an "A" in Social Studies and a "B" in Math. The "B" is a high B (a 92) so I have hope that we might be able to bring it up to an "A" as long as Charlie does well on the math test he has on Thursday. 

So awesome job Charlie!! Your mother didn't get those kind of grades till, well, never :-P

Weekend Wrap Up

We had a low key but fun weekend -- Friday night I traded in my iPhone 5 for an iPhone 6, which would be super except that I apparently had not been backing up my photos to iCloud so I lost all of them, and who knows what happened to my music because I have less than half of that :-(

Saturday we spent the day mostly doing errands: we went to the mall and bought Mike some new clothes for work (new job starts Wednesday!) and then Mike did the grocery shopping and brought home Chinese food. 

Sunday the kids basically spent the entire day outside (well Charlie spent a large portion of the afternoon at Mandy's learning how to make rainbow loom bracelets) and I was able to get laundry done, make chicken & asparagus & black bean enchiladas and sugar cookie ice cream sandwiches with banana pudding ice cream inside, and generally just got to relax. 

I am definitely getting used to this not-working-on-the-weekend thing!!

Reptiles

Charlie found lots of critters out and about today, possibly having been disturbed after Mike mowed the lawn this morning:

Needless to say Charlie was in his glory. 

A Reprisal Of The Chocolate Covered Raisin Incident

Remember a year or so ago when Amelia stuck a chocolate covered raisin up her nose? We got a repeat performance today, when the director of her daycare called to inform us that Amelia had gotten a bead stuck up her nose, and could we please come pick her up. 

Amelia claims that she did not intentionally stick this bead up her nose. She says that she was holding the bead between her thumb and forefinger and that she gave it a little squeeze and pop! The bead flew into the air and landed smack dab up her right nostril. I told Amelia that if this is actually what happened I'd be taking her out to buy lottery tickets tonight!

So seeing as we don't have health insurance until Wednesday and the bead was *right there* visible not all that far up her nostril but just not coming out when she blew her nose, Mike took her over to me at work to see if we could take a crack at getting it out there before he took her to urgent care. 

At work the doctor and nurse practitioner on staff were all too happy to come at her with a pair of alligator forceps and a lot of "bless her heart!"s (because we are in the south after all) at which point Amelia started crying and the bead promptly came out in a big glob of snot :-)

Here she is enjoying lunch at Panera after her ordeal, which hopefully (??) will be the last such incident of her childhood!