Happy Birthday Tyson!

There was NO way I was going for get Tyson's Birthday! I had 2 reminders in my phone and then Derek texted me at 4:45am to remind me as well. I sure miss Tyson as we all do. I'm sure that he's giving someone a nice head-butt as we speak! We'll have to get some better pics of Tyson. This is all I had on my laptop!

X-mas Exchange:

Connor-Ethan
Preston-Hannah
Adan-Shelby
Mia-Reid

Shelby-Mia
Hannah-Jane
Paige-Preston
Alec-Luke

Ethan-Alec
Reid-Adan
Luke-Connor
Jane-Paige

Halloween 2009

The cutest little witch ever, if I do say so myself. I think her pink-eye added to the look. (By the way, I have to give Dr. Daddy credit-- the pink eye did resolve on its own without antibiotics in less than a week. AND thus we didn't contribute to the ever-growing problem of over-prescribing of antibiotics which leads to the evolution antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria, aka "super-bugs". Maybe that's what I should make Derek dress up as for Halloween next year.)

Leonardo (Luke's buddy and Dan's neighbor aka Weston) & Raphael aka Luke

Creepy! Notice Reid's eyes are actually closed all the way (see his eyelashes) but the eye make-up thickened up in the crease of his eye-lid

Ethan as Mario, Preston as Luigi, Adin as The Flash (right?), Reid as a Mummy, Mia as Alice, Jane as a witch, Luke as Raphael

These two are quite a pair. Now that we've trick-or-treated together two years in a row, the kids think it's a tradition, and Ethan is pretty confident that we'll be flying back from Washington next year to maintain the tradition. :(

Up date photo...(no milk!)

Alec has some infection in his wound, but it seems to be draining well. We saw the plastic surgeon on Monday and will see her again on Friday. She said that we've been taking good care of it. There is still a little scab on the place where it is draining...below is a picture of the dog who bit him. It was the only one I could find and I stole it from the owners face book profile.

Stupid Dog! They will be putting the dog down as soon as the 10 day quaretine is over. the family no longer wants the dog...GOOD!

What a difference a day makes...

Can't even see the stitches today!

Dog Bite...

I know that everyone saw the before photo's of Alec's face. Here are the after photo's. It looks a lot better now, thank goodness. An investigation on the animal will be done to decide the fate of the dog. We spoke with the owner tonight and she claimed that they had already decided to get rid of the dog. That remains to be seen. All I know is that, although Alec has been known to terrorize dogs in the past, he did nothing to deserve this. He bent down to greet the dog and the dog attacked. The dog is 13 months old. I'll keep you informed. Please tell the kids that the stuff high on Alec's face is only iodine. That bothered my kids more than anything.

Happy Halloween...2009

Believe me, this was an accident...

But, too funny not to share!

(look closely! We were told to be funny, funny what happened!)