How could you...

...not love this face?

Cara's looking pretty sparce on top...she's almost shedding more than the dogs!

Tiger Pride

What would Homecoming be without a couple of cute little fans!?!

Ouch Update

Brynn's arm is as good as new! We took her in to her pediatrician on Monday (she hurt it on Sunday) because she still wasn't using it. The doctor looked at the x-ray and said she doesn't have a broken bone, but she does have a dislocated elbow! Poor girl. That sure would have been nice to know when we were at the doctor on Sunday. Oh well, it got me a day off of work!

Brynn's arm works well enough to rub lotion on Auntie Katie's belly!

Ouch!

It happened again...poor little Brynners hurt the same wrist she hurt last winter. This time she was choosing not to go with her dad to get "dundies" on. They both pulled the opposite direction and Brynn immediately began crying. I wasn't sure if she was over tired or if she really hurt herself so we waited until after her nap before we decided to take her in. It was very apparent after her nap that something was wrong. She had x-rays done and no visible break was noted, but the doctor prefaced it with he "was a family doctor, not a radiologist and that two year old bones are not fully formed" so there could be more going on in the x-ray that he couldn't read. He put a splint on Brynn and sent her x-rays to the radiologist to be read and also said he would like her seen by her pediatrician in the morning. Although the splint seems to be helping she is still quite uncomfortable. Tonight she wanted to sleep in her clothes so she didn't have to take her shirt off. Poor, sweet thing!

She did get to watch a little Dora the Explorer (those of you that know me know how much I hate Dora so you know she was in quite a bit of pain for me to let her watch t.v.) tonight and man was she in heaven!

Perfect Night

Friday night was the perfect night for a bonfire so after dinner we all headed out and enjoyed one last night by the fire before it gets too cold.

Cara Bean loved watching the flames. She even outlasted Brynn!
Bonfires really aren't complete without a can of Mc Golden Light, right Brynn?

I am going to pretend that Brynn isn't picking her nose here. It's the best picture we could get of the four of them.

Mommy and her girls...and Ollie!

Squirrels

Mid-afternoon on Saturday I heard a bunch of racket coming from the backyard--it sounded like some birds fighting...or something really strange. It wasn't until a couple hours later that I noticed the neighbor's dog staring into our yard from the other side of the fence that I thought I better investigate. I found three tiny baby squirrls that had fallen from their nest in the tree. I called Bill's Wildlife Rescue and they informed me the mom should return (usually within two hours) unless she intentionally pushed them out of the nest. By early evening they still hadn't been rescued by their mom so I convinced Darren (it took a lot of coaxing) that we should put them in a box in our garage just for the night and return then under the tree in the morning. I was in the process of making up a box with a heating pad and some old t-shirts of Darren's when the mom returned and started making a lot of noise when she noticed her babies were missing. She then came running down the tree and proceded to scoop each one up individually and brought it back to the nest. I was very relieved. I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do with three squirrels if the mom hadn't shown up...we can barely take care of 2 kids and two dogs. I can't imagine how crazy life would be if we had to care for three baby squirrels too!

Mmm, Mmm Good

There's nothin' like sucking on an entire fist during tummy time! It kind of defeats the purpose of tummy time when you do not lift your head from the blanket because you are so content sucking.