Razorfish Halloween Party

Great times had by all at the annual Razorfish Halloween Party. Besides the ensuing sugar high (and subsequent crash) that is!

Happy half birthday!

Happy 18 months Monkey!
We love you!

Safe!

As most of you know I have been super concerned about H1N1 (it's a
pretty significant threat to those with heart conditions). And,
because Blake is under 2, he's not eligible to receive the mist.
Today, the kids' pediatrian called and they got their first very
limited shipment of the shot and Blake and Mason are first on the
list. After tomorrow morning they should be safe.

The Pumpkins

Here are my pumpkins with our pumpkin. I think I did a pretty god job considering our usual pumpkin carver is in Brazil.

Good Report

Blake had his regular cardiology checkup today and everything about his heart function looks great! His oxygen saturations were in the lower 80s (normal for someone with his repair is 75-85, but he has consistently been in the upper 80s, low 90s), but that may just be because he has a little cold. We will go back in 3 months to check his saturation and 6 months foe a full visit (our longest interval yet!). And, we are down from three meds a day to two a day (yeah!)

Words, words, words

It occurred to me last night how much Blake's vocab has expanded since he has gotten ear tubes. It's like all of the sudden he wants to talk about everything. I thought I'd share a list of some of the words he's been rambling off lately.
Baby
Ball
Bath
Blake
Book
Bye Bye
Car
Cracker
Daddy
Deer
Diaper
Giraffe
Hi
High Five
Love You
May May
Mimi
Mommy
Monkey
Moon
Nonni
OK
Outside
Paw Paw
Please
Poppi
Thank You

Pics from Texas/OU weekend

Great news for the pooch

Stanley went for follow up blood tests yesterday. All his liver counts
were completely normal which indicates that he most likely ate
something which caused the acute elevation. We also got a mass on his
leg that we've been concerned about aspirated. That turned out to be
non cancerous. Bryan and I said a collective, "Whew," and gave the
pooch a few extra scratches.

Blake - Chase!

Blake is totally into chasing and being chased. It is just so funny what a kick he gets out of it. Here's a little video (sorry it's sideways).

Pumpkins!

Can't decide which pumpkin to pick

That's right, driving a tractor in a Cinderella dress with a spider painted on her face!

Sweet boys (Bryan will kill me for posting this!)

Pretty girl

Fun with tetherball

I had to post these seperately, because I haven't seen Mason have this much fun in a long time. If you can't tell, she's playing tetherball by herself, dressed as Cinderella (of course). The smile on her face is pure joy!

Ch, Ch, Ch, Changes

We've been going through a number of changes in our house the past couple of days.

Blake got his ears checked today, and they look perfect, and his hearing has improved by a full 20 decibels since getting his tubes. Unfortunately he hasn't been really able to enjoy his pain-free ears since he's moved on to getting four teeth.

He also decided this past week would be the one where he started running, and specifically running away from you. He thinks he's pretty funny when he does it too!

And in other news, Mason has gone two nights in a row without wetting her pull up. Although she's been potty trained for a full year, she (just like Bryan) is such a heavy sleeper, she just wouldn't wake up to recognize that she needed to pee. This is a huge milestone for her.

And now for some photos...

My silly Superman

My silly Cinderella

And an even siller Mason Bear

Fun on the slides!