Annual events

A small update regarding our A/C...which I know everyone was concerned about. It's fixed and it didn't need to be replaced. Thank God!

Josh had his first dentist appointment. Besides telling the dentist that he eats diapers (Isn't he hysterical?) it was a pretty simple visit. They just looked at his teeth, counted them and made notes for his first cleaning. He did very well and wasn't really scared once we got there. He goes to a pediatric dentist that came highly recommended, Dr. Livengood. He actually explained things to me that I never knew and I've been seeing dentists for 25+ years!

Here he is just before they took us back.


Josh also started school this last week. Ahhhh....his last year of preschool. After looking at our First Day pictures, I've realized we're making an annual event of spilling Blue Juice on our clothes. Last year it was his shirt and this year it is his pants.



He has changed so much since last year. He wasn't afraid at all and pretty much acted like this was "old hat" to him. His buddies from daycare, Chase and Harrison, are both in his class. We have it arranged that I pick the boys up for school and get them settled and Dustin and our daycare provider pick them up when it's time to go home.

As shocking as it is that this is his second year of school, I really can't believe that next year he'll be in Kindergarten. Whoa!

This weekend was the Marion Swamp Fox Festival and of course every Festival has a parade. So Saturday morning we got everyone bathed and clothed and Grandma and Grandpa joined us in our quest for candy!

Lauren was pretty much unaware of what was all happening around her. This was her position for about 90% of the parade:

This was her position the other 10%:


Doesn't that face just kill you? I laughed so hard.

The sun was extremely hot and there didn't seem to be much of a breeze but that certainly didn't keep us from having fun. Nothing is funnier than watching Josh scramble around like a little squirrel looking for nuts and Dustin, Larry, Toni and I screaming, "Josh there's a piece over there. No, Josh, the other way. Get it! Get it!"

Now we have a nice big bag of candy to add to the other bag of candy we got at the Lowden parade last month. I figure, we do a couple more parades this year and I won't have to buy any for Halloween!