Austin's August Journal

I am going to put in some select passages from Austin's August Second Grade Journal. I couldn't get the scanned images to upload so I will just write them out as he did.

1. August 19, 2009 - "I love my mom. My mom is nise. I go swimming at my Gramas. I love Mrs. koch."

2. August 24, 2009 - "I go To my gramaws. She has a broken nie. her hasbin is 64. he is nise." (translation - I go to my grandma's. She has a broken knee. Her husband is 64. He is nice.)

3. wants I went to bransin. and we stad in a apartment. we went to a play. it was calld nouwa s ark. the cow Peede on the stage." (Once I went to Branson and we stayed in an apartment. We went to a play. It was called Noah's ark. The cow peed on the stage.)

4. August 31, 2009 "I have a dad. He is kind of nise. He has a cut finger. He has a apartment.

The secretary at the school told me the following story about Austin - Austin was taking something to the office and the school secretary had a bandage on her finger. She said Austin seemed very concerned that she was hurt. He asked how she had gotten the cut. She told him that she was doing some dishes and cut it on a knife that was in the sink. My sweet boy told her, "well you know you could get a dishwasher and that wouldn't happen". I just love some of the things kids say.

Miscellaneous

Since I have again been neglecting my blog, I have a series of things to blog about. First, Austin and Cady celebrated their birthdays together this year because our family has had so much going on. Anyway, Aunt Krista made a princess cake for the two of them. Austin didn't seem to mind. And the cake was cute!
Austin's second attempt at blowing out the candles. I think someone bought the trick candles ;)

Getting ready for attempt #1. Paige looks excited too!

Austin's brown princess cake.

I am also posting a picture of the brochure that Austin had to make for school. It took us forever to finish it, but it turned out well.

I will post pictures of Austin in his Halloween costume and pics from his operetta shortly.

CPAP

The lady came to set me up with my CPAP machine today. She had a standard size set of nose pillows (the part of the nose piece that is actually inserted into the nose). She looks at me and says, I can tell just by looking at you that these are not going to fit you. My first thought - Goodness gracious even my nostrils are bigger than average. Then she proceeds to tell me that I need an extra small. Now I can say that at least one part of my body is extra small. It would be nice if it were some other body part but you get what you get and you don't throw a fit.

Rock Climbing and Court

Today was my court appearance. There were some shady looking characters there. And I saw a prisoner pass by me almost shoulder to shoulder (of course in hand cuffs). Still in my dreary mind, I pictured her grabbing my neck and trying to strangle me through her shackles. I also found out that the judge on the original divorce papers did not sign the joint parenting agreement. David's lawyer was arguing that there should be no visitation schedule at all, meaning David could have him whenever he wanted. This was when I was truly glad to have paid for a lawyer. She was kind enough to inform him that the order that the judge did sign made reference to the attached Joint Parenting Agreement and therefore it was legal. So, for now, things will stay the same. And, David has to pay half of the mediation costs. I hope that God can just put some sense in his head so he agrees to a reasonable plan instead of just continuing to want to win.

Tonight was Austin's rock climbing. I have yet to get any good pictures, but will post the ones I do have at a later date. Austin has been extremely lucky. Of the seven weeks that he has attended the lessons, he has been the only one there three times. So he got one on one attention each time. Pretty cool and his teacher is dorky, but awesome with kids (even though he's probably not more than 16 himself).

boy free weekend

This weekend I am Austin free, which I am in desperate need. Although he does not intend to hurt people's feelings, his brutal honesty gets to me sometimes. The other day, I was reaching up to the cabinets and he said, "whoa mom, your arm has A LOT of fat on it". True but hurtful. He then apologized, but that doesn't really make me feel better.

On another note, just earlier this week I realized that it was the middle of October. Holy cow, where did the time go. I only have three weeks until Halloween and Austin's birthday. I haven't bought or planned anything for the birthday. Last night we went out and got Austin a Transformers costume. He wouldn't get the Super Mario one that I thought was so cute. I miss the days of getting to choose. Anyway, I am attaching two pictures of Halloween costumes past. More to come at a later date.

Pictures of ourselves

My dear sweet little boy came into my room tonight with the binder from his early childhood days. The teachers had collected pictures and wrote about each area of development and how Austin was making progress towards each thing. He was looking through all of the pictures and laughing on the bed. He did some reading and said, "This is a great book! We should read this more often." He is a boy after my own heart. As some of you may know his mother was a bit vain as a child and used to sleep with a photo album and a shopping catalog. Great minds must think alike.

Liposuction

I briefly scanned an article on my sister's blog stating that early research may suggest that fat cells taken during liposuction may yeild similar results to using embrionic stem cells. I could save an entire continent of people if this is true.