Thanksgiving

Ainsley's first Thanksgiving was great!  She slept in until 9 Friday morning, which hasn't happened in a long time.  I think that meant she was stuffed and wore out from Thursday!  We went to Josh and Kathleen's for Thanksgiving lunch, where Ainsley had quite a bit of "table" food for the first time.  She ate mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn casserole, and cranberry sauce.  Nathan was happy to see her and paid lots of attention to her, which helped Mommy out!

Kayleigh, Aunt Kim, Nathan, and Ainsley

I wonder what's up there???

Augie loved Thanksgiving food!

Nathan, Augie, and Ainsley had fun playing together after lunch.  Ainsley loved the tractors, and hopefully Santa brings her one for Christmas!

Ainsley and Augie

Uh-oh....fighting over toys already!

The 3 stooges after eating.  Stooge 1 needs a haircut, Stooge 2 is pretty dang handsome, and Stooge 3 needs to shave!

We ran over to Richard and Tina's for a few hours after lunch and then headed over to Brian and Jennifer's.  Ainsley likes to sit off to the side and watch her crazy cousins wrestle around and play. 

Lani and Drake holding Ainsley

Ainsley and Grandpa Jim playing

The Dyche house was crazy, as usual.  Drake was running around with the dust buster until Ashton took it away from him and started scaring him with it, while Lani was tormenting Drake and Drake was tormenting Lani, and Jack and Ryder were upstairs with no shirts on playing Playstation. 

Ashton is wonder-woman...tormenting Drake with the dust buster while holding Lani over her shoulder!

When everyone said what they were thankful for at the table for lunch, Drake said he was thankful for "Tig-ol-bitties".  That was the story I heard, anyway, and thought it was pretty good!  That boy is something else!  When we heated the food back up for supper, he was sitting at the table listening to the Christmas song off of the Home Alone movie, dancing like Macaulay Culkin with his hands going up and down.  At one point, he found Kathleen's glasses and put them on without anyone knowing and was running around the house away from her as she tried to get them back.  Then, he was down in the basement and yelled up that he had Ainsley helmet....at least he didn't try to put it on too!

Dancing like Home Alone

Hmm...I wonder if Drake will let me have some puffs....

Ainsley has another tooth coming in.   This will be her third.  She has two on the bottom, and this one is coming in on the top.  You can see it, but I don't think it's actually popped through yet.  She's started eating good again.  For the last month or so, she hasn't been eating very much.  The last few days, she's been eating 3/4-1 whole container of baby food at each sitting.  Mamama is something we hear quite often throughout the day, and her newest "word" is yayayaya.  We're still working on dada, but it hasn't happened yet. 

Yesterday afternoon it was nice out (around 60), so we decided to go out and put away the fall decorations, fountain, and furniture on the porch.  Ainsley absolutely loves being outside and I put her on a blanket, which she stayed on for half an hour or so.  After that, she started getting curious and would crawl over to the edge of the blanket and touch the grass.  I started pulling some weeds and looked over and she had crawled off of the blanket and was trying to eat the grass.  She didn't mind the grass at all. 

She still laughs when we tell her "No".  Joel caught it on video this afternoon.  She is such a stinker!  Another new thing she's started is screaming anytime we're on the phone.  I guess we're not giving her our undivided attention, so she decides she wants a little attention.  It makes it very hard to hear, so if you call and can't hear anything we say for the first few seconds, I apologize now for my child screaming at the top of her lungs!

We didn't too much today, which I have to say was very nice.  I cleaned and did laundry and Joel lowered Ainsley's crib.

 

Daddy, I want to help!

I went out (like a crazy person) at midnight on Thanksgiving Day.  I'm not talking about Black Friday, but Thanksgiving Day.  Walgreens and CVS were having good sales that started Thanksgiving Day, and I wanted to make sure I got all the great deals.  I'm glad I went at midnight, because by the time I got to CVS at 11:50, there was already 4 women with carts filled waiting to check out.  I was able to get everything I wanted and after a trip to CVS and then Walgreens, I was home by 2:15.  Below is a picture of everything I got.

I paid $34.54 for everything.  I didn't add up how much the regular price would have been for everything, but I'm sure it was a couple hundred dollars.  No, I don't need everything I bought, but I made money on some things in order to pay for others.   Here's a list of what all I got:  3 toys (not included in the picture because they're Christmas presents), 3 twelve packs of toilet paper, make up set, nail polish set, 7 candy bars, 5 Christmas Candy bars, Revlon lipgloss, carmex, soft lips, Advil, 2 Advil PM's, 2 boxes of energy strips, 2 Theraflu, 5 Colgate, Crest toothpaste, 1 pk. batteries, balance bar, cooling relief pads for fever, Quantum finish, 6 deoderants, 6 body sprays, 5 toothbrushes, 4 packs of floss picks, starbucks coffee, cortaid anti-itch cream, 2 boxes of chex cereal, 2 packages of ponytail holders, 3 Venus razors, 2 Bic razors, razor blade refill, 2 mens razors, 2 Listerine pocket packs, Breathe Right strips, peptobismol, 4 Old Spice body sprays, i chill relaxation shots, hair gel, Thermacare heat wrap, 2 Gillette Fusion moisterizer, 2 Gillette Fusion cooling lotion, 2 Gillette fusion face wash, benefiber, cepacol sore throat reliever, preparation H totables, Kleenex cool touch, and fiber one brownies....and a partridge in a pear tree!!!  Let's just say that my stock pile is growing.

We have another Thanksgiving get-together tomorrow for lunch and I'm hoping to get our Christmas tree up tomorrow afternoon/evening.  I'm anxious to see if Ainsley will bother the tree.

Deer Season, Santa, and physical therapy

Ainsley experienced her first deer season last weekend.  Joel went down to Dad's Thursday night to hunt all weekend and Ainsley and I went down Friday night.  Ainsley got her first, and I'm sure not last, picture taken with some of the dead deer Friday night. 

Our little family was very close Friday and Saturday night sleeping on Dad's living room floor on an air mattress!  It didn't bother Ainsley at all.  She loves sleeping with Mommy and Daddy!

Mom, Ainsley, and I went to Alton Saturday while the guys were hunting.  Josephine's was booked, so we ended up eating at "Just My Desserts" across from the Grapevine and it wasn't near as good as Josephine's, but now we know!  I found Ainsley a Christmas outfit and two pairs of shoes at The Grapevine and then we headed to Target and the mall.  We walked into the mall, and who was there???  Santa!  Not only was Santa there, but there was no line.  I wasn't prepared (outfit wise) for Ainsley to visit Santa, but we jumped at the opportunity to get her visit with Santa done quickly while there was no line and before the busy holiday season really starts up.  She didn't mind him at all, and of course, we couldn't get a smile out of her.

I took Ainsley over to Lauren's house (our photographer) on Sunday to get some pictures done for Christmas cards.  Lou, Alaina, and Hadlee joined us also, and I caught a few smiles from Hadlee!

She's getting so big!

Grayson (Lauren's son) and Charlee (Stephanie's daughter) are about 6 weeks younger than Ainsley and it was fun to watch them all interact.  Charlee is a little firecracker.  She's a very happy baby and was constantly moving.  Grayson is very laid back and didn't really bother the girls.  The girls would yank on Grayson's hair, but I think that was just because they're jealous of his hair!   I worked with Lauren and Steph at Prairie Farms (and went to school with Steph), so it was nice to see them and their adorable babies.

Charlee and Ainsley

Grayson's already putting the moves on Charlee!

Ainsley and Grayson...you can really tell  just how big Ainsley is with only a few weeks difference in age!

The developmental specialist and physical therapist came over on Monday afternoon to evaluate Ainsley.   The hour they were here was the craziest hour I've had in a very long time.  They were both in the floor playing and evaluating Ainsley, who was very tired, and they would talk over each other and asked a ton of questions.  Good news is:  Ainsley doesn't qualify for the Early Childhood Intervention program.  The child has to have at least a 30% delay in order to qualify.  The bad news:  they both thought there were lots of red flags and would like to watch her and possibly do evaluations with her every month or every few months.  Their biggest concerns were that she will learn a new skill (saying mama for example) and then lose it.  She then has to re-learn it.  She shouldn't be losing these skills, but instead growing upon the skills.  They physical therapist thinks there may be something wrong with Ainsley's left side.  She keeps her left hand in a fist when she crawls, doesn't put weight on her legs, and her reflexes aren't the greatest.  He recommended calling the pediatrician to get a referral for physical therapy. 

We had our first physical therapy appointment this morning in Springfield.  Ainsley did much better today than yesterday.  Her left hand was open the entire time this morning and she was more active than she was yesterday.  The physical therapist this morning thinks that Ainsley's hips need to be stronger and we need to work on standing and putting weight on her legs.  She also wonders if there is a slight issue with her left side because near the end of the appointment, Ainsley started getting tired and would close her left hand when crawling and was leaning toward her right side when standing.  The therapist this morning recommended starting her out with physical therapy once a week and possibly moving to every few weeks depending on how quickly she progresses on her own. 

I felt better this morning leaving our appointment than I did yesterday.  The physical therapist yesterday thought that there may be something wrong with Ainsley's ankles, that one leg was possibly shorter than the other, there was something wrong with the left side of her body, something with the arches of her feet, and on and on and on.  I know I've said it before, but I really think Ainsley's just fine.  She's just "pleasantly plump" and it's hard for the poor girl to get around and stand when she has a lot of weight on her joints! 

Today, she started picking up puffs and putting them in her own mouth.  She would rarely do this on her own prior to today.  She's a pro at it now and fed herself 20 or so puffs.  Of course, Mommy cheered and clapped for her every time she would put another one in her mouth.  It's the little things in life that makes me happy these days.  Joel said that earlier tonight she was pushing all the buttons on her barn door toy and playing with all the pieces to it.  The developmental specialist yesterday was concerned because she didn't "play" with toys.  She only puts them in her mouth and doesn't play with them by pushing the buttons, or whatever the toy is meant for.  I'm not worrying too much about the evaluations that were done yesterday, or the results.  I think Ainsley's going to do things at her own speed and she's just hard headed like her Mom and will do them when she's damn good and ready!

Adventures in Crawling

Ainsley has mastered crawling and is officially everywhere and into everything.  She loves looking out the front door and chewing on Mommy's flip flops while over there.  I've had to hide my flip flops. 

Some of her other favorite toys now include:  the camera cord, the camera, the remote, the phone, the laptop cord, the bars on her jumperoo, my wooden swan on the floor beside the tv stand, and anything else she really shouldn't have.  That includes the daily newspaper that Daddy reads in the morning and then leaves on the rocking chair footstool.  Some little hands got a hold of it the other day and I didn't even think about looking at her hands after I took the paper away from her.  I looked down later that night and saw little black fingerprints all over my off white end table.  ***Sigh***

She has started screaming when she's mad or wants something that she can't get or have.  I'm talking about a loud, shrill scream.  I think she gets that from her Dad.

Dancing again..

I'm gonna get the camera

Ainsley's crawling!

Ainsley started crawling last night and I missed it!  I hadn't left the house in five days and desperately needed to run to Walmart, so I ran into town when Joel got home.  Mom had stopped by after work to bring Ainsley a few new hats and that's when Ainsley decided to crawl.  Joel and Mom got to see it and I had to hear about it over the phone.  I was very upset!  I made Joel keep her awake until I got home so I could see her crawl.  It's amazing how excited, proud, happy, and every other emotion under the sun you can be for your child when they start something new.  She is so cute and she acts like it really wears her out, which I'm sure it does!  Here's a video of her crawling to get her puppy.  She dances and does "So Big" after she gets to the puppy, but for some reason YouTube cut the video off after a minute and I don't know how to get the whole video to upload.


Around 4 Sunday morning, Ainsley threw up again.  I'm talking about all over her, me, and our bed.  She hadn't thrown up since Thursday night and I thought she was over whatever she had.  So far, she hasn't thrown up again and actually ate quite a bit today.

What a difference a week can make

I don't even know where to start with everything Ainsley's done in the past week.  I'm so proud of her!  She already has an "I'll prove you wrong attitude" at 9 months.

Had to make it a quick picture....

because the little monster was itching to knock all the blocks down!

Last Friday night I took her clothes off to put her in the bathtub, and noticed a rash on both of her thighs.  Joel thought it looked like dry skin, but I wasn't sure.  It was more of big red blotches all over her legs rather than an actual rash.  I ended up calling the nurse's hotline on Saturday morning because it had traveled down to her calves and there were a few spots on her arms.  They told me to keep giving her Benadryl if she seemed uncomfortable and put hydrocortizone cream on it.  Of course, I worried about it all day.  All I have to say is:  I'm glad I now have a pharmacist as a sister in law that I can call! 

The best picture I could get of the rash on little legs that kick constantly

In the past week, Ainsley has (somewhat) perfected bye-bye and "So big"...where she holds her hands up.  Sometimes she tries to do the two simultaneously, but she's just killing two birds with one stone, right???  Here's a video with some of her new tricks.  She's back to saying mamamama, which makes me VERY happy!  Babababa has also come back.  I work with her on dadada, but she hasn't even come close to saying that.  She loves it when you praise her after she's done something by clapping and saying "Good Girl".  I found that I could get her to eat more supper by doing that after each bite. 
She is now eating puffs, yogurt bites (broke in half) and the baby mum-mums (banana flavor).  She hasn't gagged on a puff in days now and eats them like a champ.  Baby food has taken a back door to the puffs now, so I have to try to feed her the baby food before I put any puffs on her highchair tray.  A few days ago, she picked a puff up for the first time and put it in her own mouth.  Of course, Mommy clapped and got a little too excited and Ainsley just smiled and enjoyed the praise.

Eating her mum mum

Nothing is safe anymore on the floor if Ainsley is in that room.  She can scoot her way half way across a room to get something she really wants.  It's more like she gets on her belly and reaches as far as she can to see if she can reach whatever she's after.  If she can't reach it, she walks herself back up to a sitting position with her hands and goes at it from another direction by getting back on her belly and reaching as far as she can.  She'll continue to do this until she's finally close enough to snatch it.  She loves playing with the handles on my hope chest in my office.  The vent under my office window is another new toy that she's found to play with.  Check out this video to see her playing with the vent. 

She likes the refrigerator toy

She also enjoys standing and playing with her table.  Here's a video of her standing while playing.  Here's a video of Daddy swinging Ainsley.  I do not approve of swinging so high, but she seems to like it.

A few days ago I put Ainsley in her crib to take a nap.  Of course, as soon as her body hit the mattress her eyes popped open.  I turned the monitor on and walked out thinking she'd fall back asleep.  I could hear her "talking" to herself and it sounded like she was playing with the crib toy I have attached to the side of the crib.  I just assumed she was lying on her side and reaching over to play with the toy.  This went on for 10-15 minutes.  I was beginning to think she would be wearing herself out any minute and falling asleep, but then she started whining.  I let her whine for a minute or so and then finally got up to peek in at her.  I about died when I walked in her room.  She was at the opposite end of the crib than I had laid her and she was sitting up with a foot caught in between two slats.  SITTING UP?!?!  I don't know why I didn't think of her sitting herself up in her crib, but she had been in there the whole time sitting up playing with her crib toys...that is, until she got her foot caught!  She's trying to pull herself up, so I called Joel and told him we would have to lower the crib this weekend. 

Ainsley has also started dancing.  It is the cutest thing ever!  They dance at the sitter's, but I'd hadn't actually witnessed her doing it, until earlier this week.  Any time music come on, she now dances.  I can assure you, she didn't get her dancing ability from her mother, who doesn't dance.  At all.  Not even for Albert Hoots!  Here's a video of her dancing.  Here's another video with her dancing with her hands in front of her...which is how she usually dances!

The lady from the Early Intervention Program (Four Rivers) came on Tuesday afternoon.  I thought they would be evaluating Ainsley that afternoon, but we just did paperwork.  She described the program to me and said that we would need to have two therapists evaluate her.  A developmental and physical therapist are both scheduled to come in the next month to do their evaluations.  If they find Ainsley to have a 30% or greater delay, she'll be eligible for the program.  The therapists would come to the house to do therapy with Ainsley, if they determine she qualifies.  After the great week Ainsley had, I don't think she will qualify for their program.  I'm still going to let the therapists come in and do the evaluations to see what they think.

Around 1:30 Thursday morning, Ainsley woke Joel and I up by coughing.  I guess it was just parental instinct, because we knew she was going to throw up.  Joel ran in and grabbed her and she threw up in her crib.  We laid her down in our bed in between us and she fell back asleep about 20 minutes later.  As soon as she fell asleep, she threw up again all over our bed.  At this point, she was wide awake and thought it was time to get up for the day.  So, at 2 AM, I was watching the movie Jack, while Ainsley was in the living room floor playing.  She played for a few hours and finally decided she wanted to go back to sleep.  She didn't throw up all day Thursday, but she didn't act herself either.  I could tell she still didn't feel good.  She hardly ate, and only wanted juice.  Thursday night before bed, she took about 4 ounces of formula for Joel and then immediately threw it all back up.  She slept pretty good Thursday night and stayed home with me again yesterday.  Formula was out of the question again yesterday.  She would gag every time I put a bottle with formula in her mouth.  All she would eat was puffs and juice.  She's only had 8 ounces, at the most, of formula for 2 days.   She slept most of the day yesterday and is acting like she feels a little better this morning.  She hasn't thrown up since Thursday night now, so I'm hoping she's starting to feel better.  I hate seeing my baby sick.

9 months

Ainsley was 9 months old on Tuesday.  Where has the time gone??? 

9 months

9 months

She's DONE with pictures!

We've had a pretty busy week.  Monday we had a follow up appointment with the neurologist.  I went into the appointment thinking it was going to be a routine check up and everything was fine.  Well, it didn't exactly go like that.  They did a few tests with Ainsley and asked me quite a few questions.  Ainsley wasn't where a 9 month old should be according to them.  They want to do further tests on her to check for developmental disabilities.  They're more concerned with her gross motor skills than neurological at this point.  She doesn't really stand up by herself and they said she should be holding onto the couch and standing by herself.  She is doing it a little now, but only for a few minutes at a time.  I'm sure you all have seen pictures of her fat thighs.  If you had thighs like that, I'm sure it would be hard to stand on them too!  There are quite a few other things that they think she should be doing, such as:  saying mama and dada (she said mama for a few weeks but stopped all of a sudden and quit saying it altogether), picking things up with her pointer finger and thumb, crawling, waving bye bye, and my favorite.....trying to get to a toy if it's in a glass bottle.  REALLY?!?  Who puts a toy in a clear bottle to see if their child will try to get it?! 

I called Joel on my way home from Springfield to let him know that the neurologist referred us to Four Rivers and wants further testing done on her.  We both have worried a little about her, but we were both questioning if she is really that far behind other babies her age.  She started playing pat-a-cake last Friday.  I've been trying to get her to do it for a few months to no avail, and while at Grandma Shelly's Friday afternoon, Grandma got Ainsley to do it.  I about died!  I was so happy that my baby could do it!!!  She doesn't exactly clap her hands together, because she leaves her right hand in a closed fist when she brings her hands together, but she definately is playing pat-a-cake.  Her hands are always in a closed fist, and that is something else that worried the neurologist.  One good thing they said was that when her hand is in a fist, her thumb is in a "good position".  If her thumb was a certain way, then they would have worried more about it, but it isn't that certain way.  I think they're making mountains out of mole hills at this point.  I knew we were going for Ainsley's 9 month well baby checkup the next day with the pediatrician, so I wasn't going to get too worked up over it until we talked to the pediatrician.

Trying to be like Papa with her shirt unbuttoned!

Tuesday afternoon we went for her 9 month check up and she weighed 23.2 pounds and was 28 1/2 inches long.  She was in the 99th percentile for weight, 75th percentile for height and 54th percentile for head circumference.  I told the nurse and the doctor what the neurologist had said the day before and the doctor said that there are a few things Ainsley isn't doing that most 9 month olds do, but she wouldn't be too concerned with it.  Pulling up and standing while holding onto something is something she would be concerned with if Ainsley wasn't doing it at a year old, not 9 months.  But, because of the neurologist's concerns, she said to go ahead and let Four Rivers come in and do the evaluation and we'd go from there.  The neurologist said they want Ainsley to go to physical therapy if Four Rivers doesn't take her on.  We have the appointment for the lady from Four Rivers to come on Tuesday afternoon to do an initial evaluation.

One of the bigger things the pediatrician was worried about was that Ainsley gags on her baby food (stage 2) and puffs.  I think she is getting better with the puffs since Tuesday, but she is still gagging on them.  The pediatrician said that her neck muscles may not be developed and that if we keep feeding her and she keeps gagging then she could correlate all food with gagging and stop eating it altogether.  We'll see what the lady says on Tuesday in regards to this issue.

Yummy...

Other than the few concerns listed above, the pediatrician said she's perfect.  Ainsley had her first dose of the flu shot while we were there and we have to go back for the second dose in a month.  All the nurses loved her helmet and the "Just Fixin My Melon" on the back. 

Nosey Rosey watching the neighbors

Being outside wears her out!

LOVE that face!!!

After having two doctors tell me that they had some concerns about my daughter's development on Monday and Tuesday, I didn't know how the week could get any worse, but it did.  Tuesday afternoon Papa cut his arm with the chainsaw while cutting wood.  It was bad enough they had to take him from Carlinville to Springfield.  He ended up in surgery early Tuesday evening.  Surgery went well, and he was sent home that night.  What else could possibly go wrong???  Well, on Joel's way home Tuesday night, he hit a deer.  I go a call about 6 o'clock Tuesday night from Joel and he started out with:  "Tris, you're going to have to call State Farm tomorrow."  Seriously?!?  It's never good when a conversation starts like that.  He hit the deer pretty good and it did quite a bit of damage to the front of his truck ($3,100 according to the estimate).  Luckily, he wasn't hurt and didn't have Ainsley with him.

Halloween pictures!

She looks like a little old woman without any teeth!  LOVE IT!

Ainsley got her second tooth two weeks ago, so she now has her two center bottom teeth.  When I "brush" her teeth at night, she really bites down on my finger with them.  She's still trying hard to crawl.  Monday night after we got home from trick or treating, Ainsley got on her belly and from her belly "walked" her way up to a sitting position with her hands.   She did it 5 or 6 times in a row.  She hadn't done it before and was never able to get herself sitting up from laying down.  It was like she was telling that neurologist-"Take that...I can do things, and I'll do them when I want to!"

Standing and playing!

We went to Hanger a few weeks ago for an appointment to check on Ainsley's progress with her helmet.  They did a scan, which showed improvement.  I have been able to tell a difference in Ainsley's head for a month or so, and the scan confirmed it.   On 8/9, her cephalic index (CI) was 98.4% and on 10/18, it was down to 94%.  They like for it to be in the mid 80's, but we're very happy with this progress.  The cranial vault asymmetry (CVA) on 8/9 was 10.4mm and on 10/18, it was 6.6mm.  They start a cranial band on a baby when the CVA is 6-7 or above, and we're almost out of that range.   Below are pictures of the scans from 8/9 and 10/18.

Scan on 8/9/11-notice how the right side bulges out

Scan on 10/18/11-the bulge is almost gone and it's not as flat.

They think she'll be done with the helmet the week after Thanksgiving.  She may have to wear it to bed until she outgrows it, but that's just to get the life out of the helmet.  We might as well, since we paid for it!  The Orthotist was really happy with the progress Ainsley has made with the helmet, especially with the different foam, which is softer.  

I can't believe we have less than a month to go before she's done with the helmet.  She's going to look so different without it!  Her hair has really grown out, and it pokes out of her helmet around the ears.

Ainsley has a "sord" like Uncle Tanner!

We had family pictures taken with the Freeman family last weekend and also had Ainsley's 9 month pictures done.  It was cold and rained a little, but then turned out to be nice right as we were finishing up.  As always, I think we got some really good pictures and can't wait to see them all.   We've got a few sneak peeks already.  Check them out!

Oink, Oink. Trick or Treat!

We dressed Ainsley up on Sunday afternoon and went down to Hettick to trick or treat.  Ainsley's costume was a surprise, and Tanner was the only one that guessed what she was going to be.  Joel picked out her costume, and I think it was because the baby in the picture on the costume was so cute.  The baby had their tongue sticking out and was chubby, like Ainsley.  I have to say, Ainsley looked pretty adorable in her little pig costume also! 

I tried to think of a costume that we could work her helmet into, but I'm not very creative.  The pig costume actually worked ok, because we were able to get the head piece around  her helmet, and the pink helmet blended in quite nicely with the costume.  Two days before Halloween, Mom asked if Ainsley was going to be a pencil for Halloween....using her pink helmet as the eraser.  There were a couple more she thought of, but it was too late at that point. 

Uncle Tanner playing with Ainsley while Mommy tries to figure out her new toy from Grandpa Bill.

Ainsley and Rowdy.  Rowdy wasn't in a very good mood and didn't want his picture taken!

Drake (pirate), Ainsley (pig), Lani (Taylor Swift), and Jack (Rambo with a really bad haircut)

I'm really behind on blogging, and am hoping to get caught up tomorrow or later this weekend.  I've been terribly busy with work and we didn't have internet for a week.  We've had lots of doctor appointments and it seems like something pops up every day.  Ainsley is growing and learning new tricks every few days.   I'll elaborate more in the next post.  Stay tuned!

Happy Halloween!!!