An update about Tuesday on Tuesday

A few of you have asked about our twin friend Tuesday, so I figured I should give a quick update. She is doing great. This is a recent family picture. Dad and Mom-Charlie and JK, big brothers-Axel and Spencer, and twin sis Piper. They were at a party for a new friend they made in the hospital. An end of chemo party. JK says that Tuesday is acting like a normal little 2 yr old. She has to go back to the hospital soon for her 4th of 6 rounds of chemo. They are very grateful for everyone's thoughts and prayers. Keep them coming, as they seem to be working. Christy(another mom on our twin board) made the Tuesday tshirts for the family. A bunch of us in our group bought tshirts to help raise some money for Tuesday's family.

Today we wore our shirts to our new gymnastics class. Here is Elsie sprinting down the trampoline runway. There's not much learning going on, its mostly a lot of running around.

And Reid, laughing all the way down the trampoline.
Christy has set up a web site where anyone can go and buy Tuesday gear.

http://www.cafepress.com/christeez

So if anyone wants to buy something, all of the profits go to helping Tuesday's family pay for whatever their insurance isn't covering. Every little bit helps.

Birthday Weekend

Wow, if you can believe it, our kids turned 2 last Sunday. I can't believe it myself. It seems like just yesterday that I was confined to a bed and that room in the hospital.

We had a small party here at home on the weekend. Grandma and Chloe(the dog) came from SouthBend. Nana and Papa came from Exeter and were able to bring Taya with them. Everyone arrived on Friday night. We had some Jets pizza for supper. Pizza is one of the kids favorite meals. If only you could hear Reid saying "PIZZA" you'd understand the pleasure he gets from it. He loves it.

On Sat we ventured out to a couple of parks with the kids. This is Reid going down one of the slides. He looks like such a big kid here. No more baby at all. Elsie in the backyard. She likes to walk along the bricks around the flower beds like they are a balance beam.
Here are the 4 of us. Elsie looks a little scared in this picture. I don't know if she knew what was going on. The cookie monster and Elmo cakes were made by Nana. Thank you so much. I know the kids loved them!!!! We also had some Elmo cupcakes that Taya helped Nana make.
Blowing out the candles.
Admiring the Thomas the train set that Reid got from Aunt Lisa, Uncle Denny, Zak and Ally. (friends of mommy's)
Finally the next morning Daddy set up the train. They LOVE it.
As you can see they absolutely love the train. It has to be hidden completely or all I hear all day long is a little boy forlornly(is that the correct word??)saying "choo choo" In this pic they were touching it and making it stop. They were giggling sooo hard.
On Sunday morning we wanted to go to the Toledo Zoo and take Taya. Well it was pouring rain in the morning, so we decided not to go. We went to the local petting farm instead. Here are Elsie and Taya with the rabbit that hops around the lobby.
After the barn you have to wear off some energy. Running, running, running. A favorite thing to do these days.
There is a small pond that has some big gold fish and painted turtles.
On Monday we went for our 2 yr checkup. Everything was fine. They had one shot each and had their hearing tested. No problems at all. Hopefully we won't have to return until our 3 yr check next year. We will be hoping for healthy ears for Elsie. No ear infections this year.

Labor Day Weekend

So we had a pretty mellow weekend. I spent part of Saturday sleeping because I was on call got home at about 5am. That night we just bbq'd and made a fire in the fire pit. Our neighbours Chuck and Lisa came over for a few drinks. We let the kids stay up a little later than usual to watch the fire with us. On Sunday Rob went to see the Grand Prix Race on Belle Isle in downtown Detroit. I didn't want to stay at home with the kids so we went to Elizabeth Park to do some people watching, play on the playground and walk along the river. Rob got home in time to join us for a bit. Then on Monday, our neighbour Lisa invited us to go to her work(the Automotive Hall of Fame) to an event that was being held. Hot Wheels was celebrating its 40th anniversary. Its a travelling event that started in California and has come across the country. Well who knew this would be such a huge event. I guess I didn't realize there were such huge Hot Wheels collectors. We stood in a huge line to get our commemorative edition hot wheel car.(they're selling for $35-$80 on e-bay) There had to be at least 1000 people there. We had no desire to stand in such long lines to get autographs of the designers or to spin a wheel and win a car, so we just wandered around a bit and then went in to the museum. So unfortunately I didn't take a lot of pictures.

This is Reid checking out one of the life size cars. Of course his favorite thing was the tires. Why are little boys obsessed with tires???Here he is inside. He was looking at things so much that I couldn't get him to look at me.
And then, this is Elsie. She wouldn't stand up, so you couldn't even see her.
I took this picture today. They were sitting on their play garage pretending that it was a train. They kept saying "choo choo"