Labor Day Weekend 2008

Happy 5th Birthday Quinten!!

Okay, so I'm about five days late in posting this, but for good reasons. Mostly, I wanted to put pictures up with the post, and I am having serious issues with photobucket. This is about the 5th time I've tried and it keeps freezing on me. So no pictures, I suppose (maybe later).

Anyway - so our Quinten boy turned FIVE on September 18th. I can't believe it. He's not supposed to be that big. My second born is five years old! Yikes.

On his birthday he had PJ day at school and got to wear some new Incredible Hulk jammies. Then he got to spend the next few hours at his cousin's house while I played in a company golf thing. After that we went to his favorite restaurant, Chilis, for dinner and he opened up one of his presents - an Indiana Jones whip!

On Friday we had his "friends" party at Fat Cats. We had Me, Matt, Blaine, Quinten, Corlin (well, and Maveri, but she didn't bowl LOL), and Isaac, Tanner and Dominic. We bowled, ate pizza, had cake, opened presents, mini golfed and played arcade games. It was a lot of fun!

THEN, on Sunday he had his "family" party at our house. He got lots of fun presents and lots of money. He even requested to use some of his money to go to Wendy's for lunch today!! Out of all the cool stuff he got, I'd have to say his favorite is his "buppy puppy", a little stuffed animal dog that plays "Happy Birthday" when you squeeze his belly, that he got from Brad and Savs. That thing has not left his sight except when he goes to school.

So there we go. Quinten is five years old. Amazing. I promise to try to post some pictures of the birthday boy at his parties as soon as I can get some to upload!

Happy Birthday my little doodle bug!

Okay, pictures - sorry if they're huge!

eating pizza at fat cats for his friends party


Friends and Fun at Fat Cats







with his "cool cake"





At his family party



the not so cool cake!

Brace yourself - for another month!

Urgh. So I went back to the surgeon yesterday for the grand removal of the brace, only to be told I have to wear it for another month at least!

Because of the blood clot, and where the blood clot is located (top of the calf, almost behind the knee I had surgery on) I was told to stop all therapy that put any kind of stretch or pressure on that spot. Well, just WALKING put some pressure there, so I had to basically stop ALL therapy. So, now I'm that much farther behind and have to keep wearing the darn monstrosity.

Oh well - maybe one day I'll be "normal" again!