1. I'm grateful Joe's training is done and he's here for the weekend. It's nice to see him for a short visit before he deploys. I'm grateful he was able to catch a ride from someone in the class back to MD - saved me a trip from driving to NJ to get him, so that was nice.2. I'm grateful we were able to go to dinner by ourselves on Friday night. We went to Mimi's Cafe and had a very nice dinner (tasty food, sweet tea!, and yummy desserts) sans kids!
3. I'm grateful he's here to give Kayla someone to roughhouse with!
Because I sure don't let her bounce on my back!
4. At the beginning of Dec Kayla had some routine blood work done to screen for thyroid issues and celiac disease. After we moved here her dr from NM called to tell me the screening came back high for both of the tests. We finally got an appt w/her new ped here and had the thyroid redone (I wanted to have the celiac redone but the dr felt like it was an abnormal result and it wouldn't show up normal again so we didn't). I'm grateful that on Fri I found out the results from the thyroid are now back in the normal range! We'll still see an endo because she had the high range last month, but I'm glad that for now it is back in the normal range. She has a referral in to see the GI dr about the celiac screening so I don't have any answers on that yet.
5. I'm grateful for impromptu celebrations. Last night we had a chocolate cream pie for dessert. I quickly drizzled chocolate sauce on it to say "goodbye Joe" and then threw a candle on it to sing Happy Birthday to Lucas (since Joe will miss his birthday).
Kayla helped Lucas blow out the candle:
Hmmm...what is this stuff? It feels weird on my fingers:
Can someone wipe this off please?
Joe had to put Lucas's fingers in his mouth to convince him it was good to eat:
Well ok then!
Let me have at it!
Celebrate!
