My dear sister Kristin asked me to re invite her to my blog. As I was about to do that, I realized my last post was September 16th... so i thought I should update before so that she has something to read! So Kristin this is for you!! (And any others who are interested)!
Since Sadie's surgery she has been awesome. No problems with the shunt and we are nearing the one year mark and are hoping to stay in the 40% group that has NO shunt failures the first year. She has a follow up appointment with the Plastic Surgeon to discuss her head shape. Until Hope was born i didn't really realize how different her head is. But we will see what the Dr says. If he leaves it up to us it might be a hard decision. I don't want her to go through another surgery but I also don't want her to ask me when she is 16 why we didn't do another one. Really we are just praying she will grow into it or it will even itself out. Either way, she is still Sadie and still stinking cute!
On December 6th, Hope Marie was born. She is now 5 1/2 months old and is fun to have around. Sadie adores her and vise versa. Hope can laugh at Sadie all day even when Sadie is doing nothing but eating or sitting there.
Spencer recently took an EMT class in preparation for taking the Firefighter test, with hopes of getting hired as a firefighter. He passed the EMT certification. He got an 88% on the fire test, but the cutoff was 91%. So he wont be moving on to the next series of tests. We are a little bummed but there is always next time...2012!
I recently started babysitting two little boys two days a week. A 9 month old and a 3 month old. On the day I have them both, it makes life interesting!! But I feel good being able to make a little mula that covers my food budget.
Spencer's business is still getting good jobs. Unfortunately they are still paying off the material bills from unpaid jobs from 2008. But they are close to being done. Its been a struggle and something I wish upon no one. but many lessons have been learned and we will emerge from this 'chapter' of our lives a little stronger in just about ever aspect of our life.
and for two short days, Spencer considered raising a baby raccoon that he removed from Dan's rental house chimney. Unfortunately the thing was WAY too high maintenance for me to even consider keeping. Luckily for the 3 raccoons, the neighbor called and rescued them from an early death. They currently reside with our neighbor, Pinky and Sue, who have in the past raised raccoons!
