How time flies.....

Hello, all! Our USB cord is not working, so I wasn't able to upload any recent photos, but I found this while I was digging through my files....

Not much is new. We are still working closely with Jack's alternative medicine doctor to help keep Jack's autistic symptoms at bay...vitamins, minerals, chelation etc...we are thinking of getting a special mattress pad for him as well. It's a little voodoo, but it's electronically charged and is supposedly very successful in treating and healing all kinds of ailments. Also, we are considering what's called cold laser to treat his food sensativities. He has an appointment with his child psychologist at Devos tomorrow, Thurs., to be reevaluated, so we will keep you all posted on how that goes!

Well, not much else. We're gearing up for Thanksgiving. We are looking forward to seeing family...and eating some yummy food! Aunt Cindy, we are anxious to see you Tuesday! Also, Bill and Judy Shearer and David Ward and his brood are coming up! We will also be at the Tamlyn house for the weekend, Nana's birthday and possibly a new little baby!

Love you all! Stephanie

Updates.....

Hello, friends and family! Just a quick update. Not much new...we switched antibiotics for Jack's double ear infection and we're already seeing results! Praise God! Also, some of you don't know Wendi (Smith) Yee's boys Noah and Collin...but I watch them 2 days a month. Here is a picture of them! Cuties!

Also, the boys were in the bath the other night....

Tonight, Heath was "reading" to me and here is a little bit of it.....sorry it's so dark! (again)

One of those weeks...!

Hi, all! It was one of those weeks. Between housework and school schedules, soccer practice and swimming lessons, parent teacher conferences and voting, I had a busy week, but we threw a double ear infection for Jack on top of that! Hurray for surprises!

Also, the boys are really into legos suddenly. This is a picture of a tower daddy built with Heath (yeah, those are my arms)

Happy Birthday, Chris! You're 31! Craig's family was down this weekend for Chris's birthday. Craig's Cruisers, cake and YMCA fun!

Renee worked a 70 hour week at Munson Medical Center last week, so we let her sleep whenever she wanted!

Also, I hope you all enjoyed the video of Heath singing and dancing (where do you think he gets the dramatics from? Craig?) He also has another song he likes to sing and dance to. It involves clapping and stomping...now, Heath has known how to clap for awhile, but it's as if it's a new skill he's aquired. He claps all over the house now....during meals, after meals, walking down the hall...in bed......

I hope you are all well. We got our first snow today! Love you!

This weekend...halloween, dancing...spite and malice

Greetings friends and family. The boys went trick-or-treating Friday and loved it! We went with the Stonehouse family. Their oldest girl, Elaina was a deer and their younger daughter Emma was an angel and their youngest, Ellerie, was a pumpkin! We had a blast. My parents were also here (Thursday and Friday); who didn't make any of the pictures again! (sorry Mom and Dad...we love you, we promise)

Also, I taught Jack how to play "spite and malice". Hopefully by next summer he'll be all ready to play for hours with Great Grandma Balyo! And Heath also has a new dance he's been doing for 3 days..."wobbly whoopsie" from Playhouse Disney CD....here's a clip....ENJOY!

Leg hair...

This is just a quickie....today while Heath and I were having rest time, I was lying on the couch with a heating pad and he came out from his room; we were talking and snuggling and I asked him when he got leg hair. He said, " i'm getting so big amn't i?"...and I said yes. He said, "when i get big i'll have ginormous hair!" (I'm not kidding that's the word he used) I said yes he would. Then he pulled up my pant leg of course to see my leg hair, and there wasn't any...."where's yours?"... "do you clip it?" I said, "Have you ever seen Daddy shave his beard"...he said no. "do you clip your hair while i'm at school is that why i don't see you do it?" I said no I do it in the shower. He said, "that's kind of diasappointin' isn't it?"....I laughed to myself and said....yeah.

Kids are FUNNY! It couldn't have been a more serious conversation to Heath! I was laughing in my head the whole time. Funny, funny, funny. Oh yeah, and what adds a little to the story is, he was having this conversation in nothing but his "cars" underwear....super cute!

Carving Pumpkins, swimming at the Y!

It's that time of year: where we get ready for all hallows eve and everything that goes along with it.....but seriously, it is that time of year....we are decorated and costume ready, with pumpkins carved! Here are some pictures of our weekend...

If you can't tell, the pumpkins have a "Winnie the Pooh" theme. Eeyore and Lumpy. (can you guess who did which one?) After we carved pumpkins we went to the Y. The boys are really enjoying swimming...actually we have Jack signed up for swimming lessons in November and Heath signed up for soccer.

Well, that's it for now. Hope everyone is having a nice autumn. Winter is just around the corner. We're looking forward to Thanksgiving;some of you we will be seeing and some of you, we wish we were seeing. Love you all!

Crazy outfits, pumpkin patch and old friends...

I have a little of this and a little of that to update you all on...this first picture is of an outfit Heath put together on his own...I'm glad it was too cold for him to wear out of the house and what you don't know is he had a pirate patch on with this, until it broke....

This is a pix of the boys at a pumpkin patch last night...look at all those pumpkins! People call the man at the house "pumpkin guy"...and you can see why.

Today, my old college friend Nancy was in town. Her inlaws live in GR and she came over for a couple hours this afternoon..it was so nice to visit with her. Even though I'm still paying off student loans, you can't really put a price on old friendships I made during those years.

Nancy's son is 7 months old. His name is Julius. Jack of course took to him right away. Here are some pix of Jack consoling him and talking to him....super cute.