I am pleased to introduce....

Shayne Elizabeth

Born: 8/30/08 at 4:20 AM

Weight and height: 9 lbs. 1 oz. 20 1/2 inches long

So, yup, my sister had her 4th daughter this morning!! She is a cutie. More pictures later!

It's been too long...

Sorry about that, time got away from me. Things have been hectic around here lately... So, to fill you in how about a little list...or a big list...

1. Abby is sick. She has conjunctivitis (or, "gingivitis" if you ask her). On top of that she must have some sort of virus because she also has a fever. Fun stuff trying to get eye drops in. It took 4 people last night for her first dose. I held her arms down with my body, pulled her lid down and put the drops in and Billy, Nate and Tommy hovered around and got in my way (see, 4 people).
2. On the plus side, one dose of eye drops and her eyes are looking a little better!
3. The kids start school tomorrow!!!! And not a moment too soon....have I mentioned how looooong the summers are for me?
4. Nate and Tommy started football a few weeks ago. I noticed as they get older they get smellier...I need to stock up on deodorant (there must be a sale on Speedstick somewhere right?).
5. My neighbors to the right are absolutely driving me nuts. Noisy, noisy, noisy! During the week, when my kids are trying to sleep, they blast their music...horrible techno music, really loud. And today, at 7:00 AM, they decided to replace the roof and block my driveway and wake up my sick daughter......
6. I love our new oral surgeon. He didn't kill my husband and my husband didn't kill him....all is good.
7. I realized that women are very catty...and I don't like it. Over the last 3 weeks I have had some "woman" issues and needed to go back and forth to my gyno. They recently combined 2 of their offices and now have a huge open office, with very little privacy. It urked me to no end that the whole waiting area now knows my name, address, birthday and phone number....not to mention why I was there in the first place. And as if that wasn't bad enough, I had to sit and listen to the office workers chew apart their coworkers who were obviously not present....And one secretary was really mad at her mother because she was trying to take over the renovations to her house and she was mad at her father because he bought the wrong paint....on and on and on this went. It was horrible. But at least I love my CNM and the nurses are very professional.
8. Abby cut her hair again........while I was at the CNM......she now has a "bob". It looks cute but is too short for ponytails....we worked hard to get it long enough for ponytails since she got it "fixed" last time she cut it.....I am saddened by this.
9. I haven't read nearly as many books this summer as in summers past. I knit more though, so that's a good thing.

I know, boring list..but that's my life in a nutshell, BORING!