Memories to Cherish

I emailed my friend Graham today with updates and thought, instead of re-typing it all I would just copy it.

Shane is starting school on the 13th. 1st grade. He is very excited. So we are trying to get him back on his routine of going to bed at 7:00 and up at 6:30. He is reading so well now. It's amazing. He just loves to read.

Seth is growing up so fast. We had to take him to the doctors to figure out why he has such a BIG appetite at times. He wanted to eat every 15 min. no exaggerating! This was happening for about 1 month and then all of a sudden it was like pulling teeth to get him to eat. And he is still that way. Someone suggested that it may be diabetes or thyroid. So I took him in to get some blood work done. When they weighed him he was about 8lbs LIGHTER than 6 months ago. That worried the doctor. So he is checking for cancers, tumors, hyperglycemia and leukemia. Lets just pray it's a growing faze. Makes me sick to my stomach thinking about what it could be. I try not to. Every time I look at him I think about it. But I know every thing is in Heavenly Fathers hands and it will all be ok one way or another.

Canberra is starting to express herself more with words... and screaming.... and NO. She got another tooth today on her bottom front left side. Now she will have 5 teeth down there and still only 6 on top. Her hair is getting very long now. Still curly at the bottom. It's so pretty.

Zander is sleeping through the night now. We started to give him 4 oz of formula at night 30 min before I nurse him to go to bed, and lay him on his belly. It's been working for about 1 month now. We are getting ready to move him into the boys room. Once they can STAY in bed when it's time to sleep. In a few weeks I imagine.

Daniel is still looking for a job. He gets a bonus on the 10th and a raise by the 24th of August. So we are looking forward to that. It's only going to be a 2% raise though. But that's $50 a month that can buy food! He is also going to a training in Minnesota on the 13th - 17th. That will give him another 2% raise. So that's good. His bonus should be around $300 take home. That is going to be used for food stock up or Shane at school.

Me... well, I am doing much better. I want to scrapbook so bad. As soon as Zander is in the boys room I can have my table back and start working on it again. But then again, I am going to need paper and such, and well, that cost money. So I may have to wait for Christmas.

My dad... he had surgery for the first time in HIS life the beginning of July to remove about 8 inches of intestine. It burst and he was bleeding on the inside. He almost died, had he not gone to the hospital when he did. He procrastinated going back cuz 1 month prior he went there and had to wait 10 hours and had a bad experience. So he waited till the pain was too much to bare. Well, lucky he went in. Had he waited another hour or two he would have died. It was pretty scary for all of us. We haven't had to deal with this in our family till now. It was real hard for my mom too. But he is recovering well. It's about a 8 month recovery with 2 surgeries, one to cut it out and the other to put it all back together again. He should be up and running well enough for Christmas. We hope.