Surgery

Mike had surgery on his right foot this past Monday. He has been having pain for probably 9 months. Of course, mowing doesn't help it any ... He started seeing a Dr back in July and they exhausted all avenues ... Nothing worked so we scheduled surgery.

It went well. Dr. Neuhaus was pleased and we all feel this will take care of it. All we have to do is keep the kids away from the foot and make sure they don't run too far with the crutches or hit anyone or anything with them.

We are excited because this means Mike is off work until his foot heals. The kids are quite happy each morning they wake up and Daddy is home. Constance is a big help. She loves to do stuff for her daddy. The boys are good at snuggling. They don't always understand why Daddy doesn't hold them or pick them up when they think he should. Mike is just tired of not being able to do what he wants ... and it has only been 3 days.

Rides

Jordan loves to get piggy-back rides. If you are on the floor ... he will be on your back ready to go. Of course, all my kids love them.

It is funny ... Dominic is crawling, of course, and the other day Jordan went up to Dominic and said ride. I had to hurry to keep him from sitting on his baby brother's back. I tried to explain Nick was too small for him to ride on.

Fall Leaves

I love this time of year with all the colors. Constance loves it for all the colors and then there are the leaves. She finally convinced Mike to blow the leaves in the backyard into a nice big pile so she could jump into them. Of course, Princess had to join the fun and jumped right on her stomach. This morning when she was getting in the van to go to school she saw her "pile" had shrunk. She learned today that her dog likes to sleep on the leaves. She wasn't too happy ... her big pile is gone.

A cane

Jordan got a set of those plastic golf clubs for his birthday. He hasn't really used them for their purpose, of course. They have mainly been taken apart and then handed to either Mike or I to fix and then immediately taken apart again. A nice cycle. Anyway, the other day we went to a friends birthday party and there was a guy there who was using a cane. To start off, Jordan tried to take the cane, that was nixed. Well, when we got home he immediately too his golf club that was had been left in the van and proceeded to walk in the house using it as a cane. Crazy kid!