I've been upgraded...

To (drumroll please) low heeled dress shoes. Now this may not be a big deal to some but to someone like me who is completely and totally addicted to shoes...well let's just say I'm happy about this development. I am one step closer to getting back into my cute work shoes (read 3 inch leather boots). But for now I'm excited to move to the 1.5 inch clogs. Hooray for physical therapy working it's magic. I still have a ways to go but I can see the end in sight and it looks good.

Well THAT was an interesting weekend

Highlights from my weekend:

1. Went to brother-in-law's housewarming, helped his wife clean up after he passed out in the bathroom. VERY funny =)

2. Stayed up half of Saturday night with Ryker because he has yet another ear infection. According to the doctor, the tubes ARE working or it would be much worse. Yippee =(

3. Took Ryker to the doctor and Walgreens on Sunday. Drove around for an hour afterwards trying to find a way home since the Fox Cities Marathon had everything blocked. Swore heavily under my breath and chewed out traffic cop.

So that was my weekend. I could do with a little less excitement!

Birthdays and therapy

September is an awful month in Carriveau-land. I'm stressed out with a hundred classes to teach to college students who "already know EVERYTHING," and nearly every member of the family has either a birthday or an anniversary (Xander, Ryan, Jason, Kelly and BOTH of our parents!) Today is Jason's 29th. Which he's fine with because he still has a year before he's 30 (and I do not). So happy birthday to my evil little husband =)

In other news, I had my second physical therapy appointment for my post-bunion removal healing and I'm doing really very well at, literally, getting back on my feet again. Which makes me very happy. With any luck I'll have to go again late next week and then I'll be done. I probably won't be back in my cute shoes but I know that day will come. After all, it's therapy not magic. =0

Happy Birthday Xander

As you can see, this year we braved the candles on the cake. He actually did really well with them. He picked the color of his dinosaur. He insisted on it being orange.

The evening before his party, Daddy decided to teach the boys to duel:

That's what I get for marrying a Star Wars fan. And yes, those are the light sabers that light up!

My Cookie Helper

Can you say: "I like my mama's cooking?"

I thought this one was adorable. He's such a good helper. He dumped all the ingredients in and helped crack the eggs.

He'll make a gourmet baker some day =)

Well, it looks like one of the tubes is working great and the other one...not so much. Ryker's got a big bad ear infection in his poor little ear on top of those nasty molars. Not a good couple of days at the Carriveau house. Jason had him in bed when Xander and I got home at 6. He got up just long enough to drink some milk and went back to bed. Amazingly he slept through until we got him up this morning. Thank you, Ryker!

My Xander, however, fell out of bed at 3am and was not to happy about it. So here's to almost getting a good night's sleep. There's always tonight =)

Ears and teething...

do not mix. Ryker was awake for a very good chunk of last night with ears that were obviously hurting him. Poor little guy. While I think the tubes helped, he has continuous drainage out of one of them and it seems to be aggravated right now by him cutting his molars (finally). Right now we're hoping that the drops will clear it up and we won't have to take him back to the doctor for antibiotics.
The sooner he outgrows this ear stuff the better.

On a happier note, Xander and I made cookies last night. I'll have to post a picture of him licking the beater later. Very cute and VERY messy.

Random Thoughts by Ane

Ok, so my little boy is going to be three years old in days. My baby is 16 months. Where has all of that time gone? It hit me as I was talking to Xander about his party this weekend that he actually understands what I'm talking about. He understands that his family is coming to give him presents, eat cake and that it's all about him.
Ryker's going to be doing that too soon. I already see it in his eyes. Copying Xander and trying to do things like a big boy does. I love that they're getting older and I have to say that it's breaking my heart at the same time.