Glad that's over.....

Well, I survived my first school carnival as a PTO executive member. I was in charge of the food this year, and I haven't heard any reports of food poisioning, so I think I succeeded. I definitely do not envy event planners. That is not a profession that I would be any good at.

C has his first communion coming up in a few weeks, so I took him shopping Sunday afternoon. He technically only needs a white shirt, dark pants and a tie. However, I didn't want him to be the only one without a jacket, so we went out to look for a suit. This was his first experience in a store dressing room. I sent him in alone and stood guard at the door. I kept asking if he needed any help because it was taking forever. I finally snuck in, making sure to keep my eyes on the floor in case some male walked out of a dressing room half naked, or worse yet, naked. I went in his dressing room and he looked so handsome standing there in his white shirt, dark pants and jacket. In my flurry of instructions, I left off the fact that he wasn't supposed to remove the tags from the pants he was trying on. Oh well, we bought what he had on anyway, so no big deal. He also managed to talk me into some plaid shorts and a shirt to go with it. I had picked out an outfit similar to it for one of B's birthday presents, so we went ahead and got K some, too. My kids will be so handsome in their "preppy" outfits. Our next stop was Walmart, which is never fun. C tried to talk me into buying him some deodorant, but I told him that he was only 8 and he shouldn't stink yet. Then, he decided that he was too old for that little kid shampoo that I had been buying him and he wanted some like mine and dad's. Well, my kind is way to expensive for an 8 year old, so I got him the nice cheap Suave that his dad uses.

B is all geared up for his birthday next week. Now, if his mom could get some invitations sent out, he might have some guests at his "party". He decided that he just wanted a few friends to come to his house to play, so it sounds like I might get off easy this year.

K is doing fine. I took him in for a follow-up appointment last week on his ears. He was on his 4th ear infection and his doctor was concerned. He still had some fluid behind one of the ear drums so they did the test that sees if his ear drums move. Both of them failed. The doctor was surprised by this, because he only saw fluid behind one of them. So, he put him on Sudafed for 7 days and requested a follow-up test in a month. I really don't want him to have to get tubes in his ears, but I also don't want him to lose any hearing. He is really picking up on the words now and he gets excited when he can tell you understand what he is saying. He has mastered the word bus, complete with the ssssss at the end. We see several of those every morning on the way to daycare, so he gets lots of practice.

Ok, my lunch 30 minutes is over, so I better get back to work. Haven't been very good at keeping this updated, sorry.