Pizza

Liam and I decided it would be a good idea to make pizza tonight. He likes to help so I made the dough and then gave him his own to make his little personal pizza. He invented a nice pepperoni, chorizo, and cheese pizza. It actually tasted better than the one I made.?.?

New Header

Well, I like to think that I could have done some website design if I wasn't a teacher, so I spent some time redesigning the top header tonight. It wasn't quite as easy as one would think. You have to tinker with the html, but I finally got it. I still have a little trouble when you scroll down and then back up, but I don't know if that is me. Let me know what you think.

Owen and the E.R.

From the title of the post you might have thought that Owen liked to watch the TV show E.R. Well, not really, but he really does have a pension for visiting it. This afternoon he made his second trip and it was partly dad's (my) fault as I turned away for a second and he decided to try a face first slide down the kitchen steps. On one of the 5 steps he also thought it would be fun to try and stop himself with his teeth! Well, his two bottom (and only teeth for that matter) didn't win and they were basically bent horizontally forward. Cathy wasn't home so I ended up pretty much rushing him to the Emergency Room to see what they could do. There was a fair amount of blood too, so I was a little freaked out at that time. He was a pretty good trooper and didn't cry to much.

We didn't have to wait long and they checked him out for other injuries but it seems that he really didn't even hit his head or hurt any other bones. His teeth were another matter, the Dr. said that they would probably have to be removed as if he just bent them back into place they would adhere and grow onto his adult teeth and that wasn't good either. He had us try to contact our dentist but we couldn't get ahold of him so he talked to the dentist on call at the hospital and he said it would be best if he just yanked them out there. So back into the exam room Cathy went with Owen and he came out with a teddy bear and two less teeth for a total of zero now. They have a dentist appointement for tomorrow morning to take a look at what is left (which is nothing).

He has sure bounced back a lot better than I would be right now. He was smiling at the ER and has eaten and taken a bottle. He isn't really any worse for the wear other than no bottom teeth until his adult teeth come in. Poor guy. Oh, and I kind of feel like a deadbeat dad for not watching him.

Stye

Well fans... I have had a little trouble the past week and a half or so. My eye got real puffy like I had been punched and I had sort of a black eye. Then it turned into a pimple like growth right on the outside of my eyelid. From what I read it had all the symptoms of a stye and I was just supposed to let it work its course and burst or whatever. Well, today it was really big and starting to get painful so I went to the eye doctor to see what he would say. I had all I could do not to lance the big thing with a pin. So he told me it was a clogged oil duct/stye I guess. An hour later I was done with him flipping my eyelid back, numbing the area, taking a scalpal and cutting it open, scooping out all the gunk that was in there, and cauterizing the incision. All-in-all it wasn't that bad but it is just a little freaky having someone work on your eye. So the moral of the story is... well... nothing as I gather you can't do much about getting them. Oh well.

So I'm adding a picture of my eye... sorry if they are kind of disgusting, but I thought someone might like to know what I was talking about. No worries, though, I'm back to looking like Brad Pitt again.

Liam's First Day of School

Today was Liam's first day of school in PreK4. He hasn't been real excited about going to school up to this point. The other day he said, "I just want to stay home with you guys!" He did fine and had a good time.

Liam in front of the school doors.

Liam with his teacher, Mrs. Meinke.

Texas

While I was in New Ulm for the Synod Convention, Cathy, Liam, and Owen took a trip to Texas to see her parents. Liam enjoyed swimming in the lake and helping Grandpa on his tractor pick up sticks in the yard. It was the first time Cathy's parents had seen Owen in person, so all-in-all a good trip for everyone.

Jimmy Buffett

In between our trip to South Dakota/Nebraska and my trip to New Ulm for synod convention we took our sort-of-annual trip to see Jimmy Buffett. For anyone who has not been to see Jimmy, it is one of those things you just need to do before you die (or he dies). A couple pictures below.