Laundry and Packing

It's getting harder and harder to put up laundry these days.

And packing for our Thanksgiving trip? It was close to impossible with Rock around!

Although this shepherd/boxer look sparked thoughts of the upcoming Christmas season.

Infection

So, right before we left for our trip to Florida for Thanksgiving, Fix got an infection in his leg. At first we thought it was a spider bite, but when it got so infected and gross that he couldn't stand on it, we went to the doctor's for some further testing. Turns out it was the MRSA strain of staph infection.

Three doctors appointments, two lancings (where his wife almost fainted), two hard-core antibiotics, one emergency room visit and dozens of pieces of gauze later, it is healing up nicely.

The silver lining was that while it was healing up, Fix was able to spend some quality time bonding with our couch. Oh and his son.

Who knew that a Google image search for "dogs" could produce such delight?

p.s. Fix had me take many pictures of his nasty leg but as an act of kindness to our blog readers, I refuse to post them here.

These Pictures are Old...

...but they show something that Rock and his dad love to do together...Relax and Read!
Fix is usually prepping for his sermons and Rock is prepping for learning how to read.

This is one thing I love about our townhouse -- how much sunlight streams in the dining/family room. It's so nice to sit or lay on the futon and soak it in. Especially now that it's getting colder.

Leaves

Rock and I recently took a walk around the neighborhood because he really likes to be outside. This was the first time he really appreciated the leaves and wanted to pick them up.

I tried to interest him in large, pretty leaves like the ones I found (pictured above). But Rock was more interested in finding ugly, broken leaves.

In fact, this one is the prettiest of all the leaves that he found. Every other one was crumbly and brown.
Regardless, I love celebrating Fall with Rock.

Happy Halloween!

Hey Chunky Monkey! Turn around!
It's Rock! The cutest monkey this side of the Mississippi (apparently his Cousin Caleb also was a monkey for Halloween so obviously, he's the cutest monkey on that side of the Mississippi)! It is fitting that this ended up being Rock's costume because he has been known to eat 4+ bananas in one day.
We went to my parents neighborhood to trick-or-treat because it was the last night that Cousin Addy, Aunt Bethany and Uncle Kelly were going to be in town.
The monkey hangs out with his cousin Addy. Hard to believe Rock was wearing that exact same outfit this time last year.
At this point, the monkey was done with taking pictures. Time to trick-or-treat!
This is his punk face. Also known as his CAN WE PLEASE GO TRICK OR TREATING AND STOP TAKING ALL THESE PICTURES face.

We set off with stroller knowing that an activity that starts that close to Rock's bedtime is going to leave him too tired to walk. Of course he wanted to push the stroller rather than ride in it.

Aunt Susanna came home from work just in time to join the fun. Rock did a good job making noises like a monkey or saying "Trch" when we asked him to say trick-or-treat, and he always signed "thank you" for his candy. Also, he quickly learned that it's smart to take more than one piece of candy out of a bowl. Good work son.

Lasagna

Rock likes Italian food...

A LOT!

Forks are unnecessary.

Sweet Addy

Sweet Adele fell asleep on Susanna's chest. She is just so sweet and little and cuddly! We will miss having her around! Good thing we'll see her again at Thanksgiving.

Rock wanted to add another baby to Susanna's collection.