You are far too kind for continuing  to come check on me.  I really do enjoy blogging but have yet to master the art of a quick post.  As a result, any minute of computer time is spent checking on all of you instead of attempting to blog myself, rinse repeat and we end up here yet again--more than a week since a post.  Freaking vicious cycle I tell you!  I'm hoping ot get better. 

Big picture, we're all great!  Details? 

-The remnants of Ike came through Saturday.  It did little to us except cancel baseball and soccer, our family in Houston, however is still without power.  Thankfully, they and their homes are fine but living without electricity and having to scavange your city for food and gas?  not so fun.  Our thoughts are with them and with those not as lucky as them. My dad headed there Sunday with Lowes to help with clean up.  His first hotel was without power and water.  His room was on the 5th floor; I was a little worried but heard today that they switched on Monday night to a powered one.  I love his spirit of volunteerism and community, he's such a good guy!

 

-The boys are LOVING their sports.  We won't be worrying about which scholarship to accept or anything but they're having a blast and want to practice ALL the time.  Jason was super charming at his first game.  We kept noticing him chatting with the other team.  After, he unabashedly said, "I was telling them they were going to lose, that they were losers".  NICE.  Our kid is the trash talker, we're so proud.  I promise we do not model this behavior in anyway, ugh!

 

-Audrey continues to flirt with not using her button.  We've gone as long as 3 days without giving her a bolus feed!  She's not gaining weight but she hasn't lost more than 8/9 ounces here and there.  Right now she's hanging between 24 and 25 pounds (and has been for nearly 6 months).  The day she weighed in at 25 I was that mom who cries in front the therapists.  It wasn't a good weight though (a little TMI--she hadn't pooped in 3 days) but that milestone was so huge for her I just got all verklempt!  She has since gone back down to the 24s again but she's hangin.  Girlfriend started wearing panties this week too!  She is by no means "potty-trained" as we still wear a nap/night diaper and poop NEVER happens in the potty but she rarely misses an opportunity to potty.  Taking boys potty in public is a MUCH less germy affair and shes loves her a public restroom.  blech.  She seems to have a phobia of pooping in the potty though(she holds it and goes in her sleep), if anyone has gone through that and has a solution to try, PLEASE share!  She successfully held it for 7 days last week--even with extra prune juice, suppositories and miralax, it wasn't pretty.  With her GI issues already, I hate that this is happening.  Her potty-training has been all self inflicted too, we haven't pushed anything. 

Wow, that was a nice dose of potty talk, hope you're not reading while eating, sorry.

 

-Lola had her spay surgery this week.  Ethan is beyond concerned that we've taken away her choice "to fall in love and have a baby", ugh.  Jason, however, is fixated on how Amy's twins, What and Cocktail (Wyatt and Cooper), are going to get out of her belly.  Good coversations going on at the Miller house, good times. 

 

 

 

That's all I can get in right now, lots to do today for our big lake weekend coming up!!!