Going to the dr. in Denver

Today, Tim, Abby and I went to Denver. She got to come along because she had a fever this morning and didn't feel well. She spent most of the day in the car watching movies and napping. I met Dr. Miller at the Center for Bone Growth. I had a bone density test, which was normal, and then I met with the dr. He wants me to have two pages worth of blood tests (that's 8-10 vials) and some other tests done before my next visit to him in 8 wks. He is testing for all sorts of metabolic disorders to see if this is what is causing lack of bone growth in my ankle. He also talked about a drug called Fosamex, which promotes bone growth, or in rats, bone tumors. Yippee. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. The ins. doesn't pay for it in non union of fusions, so it would be a fight.

That aside, the best part of going to Denver, is that my awesome husband maps out any TJ Maxx stores in the vicinity so I can shop for Polish pottery. I only found one piece, but we did manage to spend another 150.00 on all sorts of stuff we couldn't live without, not just at TJ Maxx, which is way better than the ones in here, in town, but also at Tim's favorite, The Container Store. Then, went to the Cheesecake Factory, to purchase the 10 lb Linda's Fudge Cake for Ben's birthday next Sat. (shhh, it's a secret). It actually weighs that much and has about a trillion calories.

Now, we're back home with all our treasures, Abby is wiped out, and I've got my ankle on ice, again.

Priceless Quote

Tonight we were talking about something that happened during the day, and one of the kids said the word,"idiot", which then began a discussion of not using that word, followed by Abby asking,"who's an idiot", followed by more discussion about not using that word, which then prompted Gabe to say,"My imaginary friend is an idiot!" Which then made us all laugh, and Ben asked him,"what's his name?" Gabe replied,"George". Then, Ben said,"oh, Curious George?" Which made us laugh more. Explanation: On Sunday mornings, at breakfast, we usually watch Curious George on PBS. It's sort of a family routine, inside joke. When the theme music comes on, the boys sing along in a Louie Armstrong voice, and then I annoyingly mimic the monkey's response(which ,of course ,the man in the yellow hat completely understands) throughout the show. Good times!

Abby's buffaloaf

Tonight, Abby made dinner for us again. She is really learning a lot. She cut up the carrots and celery for the food processor, and she added all the spices and liquid ingredients for the meatloaf. I didn't make her use her hands this time, but she learned how to fold the bison in to the other ingredients and not stretch out the protein, which would make it tough. She even put it in the pan. Then, she ran off to play. Hey, I'll take it. I'm just happy she wants to help, and if it makes her feel important, then all the better!

Camera stolen!

I thought I kept losing my camera, but it turns out, Gabe keeps hiding it in his room and taking pictures. Here is one of the pictures he took of his good buddy, Austyn.

Mess

It is an endless battle to get the boys to clean their rooms. Ben and Nate are downstairs, so I rarely see their rooms, or try not to. They are bad. Ben believes cleaning his room involves just spraying Febreze all over everything, piles of clothes, the carpet, the bed, anything and everything. Nate just hoards all the laundry baskets and keeps his dirty/clean clothes in them all the time. Gabe, on the other hand, just never picks anything up. His room is a mine field of legos, clothes, books, toys, papers, rubber bands, pieces of wire, paper clips, and who knows what else. He can't focus long enough to clean his room, and I take risk my ankle, knee, and probably other body parts if I try to navigate the floor. I don't have a wide angle lens to document all the junk on his floor, so this picture doesn't do the title of this post justice.

Catching up again

The other day, Tim went grocery shopping and came home to proudly tell me he had found a basil plant. It's our favorite herb. Um, we have a problem...

Neuron

Ben's last minute project for Psychology class. He made it out of Sculpey clay, baked, painted, glued and finished at 2 a.m. according to him.

I looks like some sort of dinosaur skeleton to me.