this afternoon garrett grabbed a handful of ryan's hair and pulled pretty hard. after he got out of his "time out" i asked him why he pulled ryan's hair.
before he could answer, olivia said very matter of factly...
"mom, garrett pulled his hair because ryan has prettier hair than he does."
duh. why didn't i think of that.
over the weekend we went to detroit to see a tigers game. it was part 2 of my dad's 60th bday celebration. the kids had a blast. they each got a bobblehead at the gate (which garrett ripped the head off right away). then they eat their way through 9 innings of play. in the end the tigers lost, but we still had plenty of fun :)
ryan had a pretty fun day as well...we sent him to wendi's parents' house for the day. he had lots of fun including a nice fall on the cement :)
poor ryan...he's your typical 3rd child.
this weekend we did our first craft show...the venetian festival in st. joseph. we didn't know quite what to expect. as it turned out we were really happy with how it went. people loved our stuff and we sold tons :)
our site was pretty neat, too. we were up on the bluff overlooking lake michigan. we had one of the sites that didn't have trees/bushes directly behind it. so everyone kept stopping in front of our booth to see the lake.
the booth next to us was a really nice woman who made jewelry (like about a zillion other booths there). she was totally normal, but some of the other vendors.... well, that craft show lifestyle attracts some interesting folks & their wares. tim & i are trying not to get sucked into that crazy world!
well garrett's surgeon is even stranger than we thought. turns out he forgot to get garrett's surgery scheduled. when he said that his surgery would be on wednesday, he was giving us the surgery date of his previous patient.
so the decision was pretty easy. we've chosen NOT to entrust him with our little garrett. we are waiting for a referral to a new surgeon. hopefully it doesn't take too long as we'd like to get this whole thing finished up soon.
our conversation the other morning...
olivia: mom, last night i felt this big thing pushing on me when i was in bed. do you know what it was?
me: um, no. what? (i'm thinking she's going to start in on her "i'm afraid of monsters under my bed" saga)
olivia: i'll give you a little hint. it's like the wind...you can't see it, but it's there. it was god giving me a big squeeze hug!
i guess the "no monsters" sign she made me put up on her bed is working :)
p.s. the picture is of olivia on our last camping trip. she was very proud of her sandwich. she made it herself...bread, pepperoni & parmesean cheese. yum yum! i didn't complain since this is the first sandwich she's actually ever agreed to eat. now she has one at least once a week with a nice stack of extra pepperoni on the side. she's also convinced garrett to like these sandwiches too. i'm guessing she'll be known as the "kid with the strange lunch" at school!
happy birthday, ryan!when we were on vacation last week, we noticed a marble size lump on garrett's back. i took him to the dr tuesday and he recommended that we get it removed. so yesterday we met with the surgeon.
garrett is afraid of basically all medical personnel. so as soon as the nurse brought us into the room he started crying. she knew just what he needed. she brought him a shrek toy...the one that came in the mcdonalds happy meals. it's a big plastic shrek that burps and says "i'm an ogre!" well it worked perfectly and garrett was super happy.
the surgeon came in and started trying to talk to garrett. garrett just looked at him and kept pressing the buttons on shrek. so the only responses the surgeon got were burps and "i'm an ogre!" it was pretty funny. this continued the whole time he examined garrett.
the surgeon was quite a character, too. he said he'd seen a similar lump about 10 years ago, but he couldn't remember what it was called. then he proceed to tell us that he is suspended from the OR this week because he's behind on his dictation. ok, too much information buddy...you're supposed to make us feel confident in you!
well, our little ogre boy is scheduled for surgery next wednesday (provided all the dictation is done). so say a little prayer for garrett that all goes well and one for us cuz it's pretty scary to think about all the "what ifs."
monitor lizard (garrett actually touched one!)
