So it has been a couple of weeks since I've posted, we've been busy. I'll start with the most important thing. Valynn turned 7 today. Wow, where does the time go? She is getting so big and too smart. If Mark or I are reading a book and we make a mistake, she corrects us, she brought home her last list of sight words that she needs to know by the end of first grade, and is curious about how everything works. Unfortunately we weren't here to help her celebrate her birthday. We are fortunate to have such good friends that brought her a cake and help her ring in her 7th year. She got a horse blanket from Grandma and Grandpa Larson (great job grandma!). Mark, Kyleigh and I were in North Dakota to celebrate my "other Mark's" wedding. We had a great time. Friday night we drove to Eden Prairie and spent the night with my college roommate Christy and her husband. Another college roommate stopped by to visit with her two kids. We had a great visit with them and wish we could get together more often. On Friday we drove to Fargo (it was cold and rainy, and in IL, sunny and 80). We had a great time at the wedding catching up with old friends from college. A friend of mine was there with her little boy Emery who is one day younger than Kyleigh. We joked that they had their first wedding dates. Of course we couldn't resist taking a few pictures. I also had Kyleigh get her picture taken with the bride and groom. Kyleigh shares a birthday with Mark. We had a long drive back today but were very happy to have to turn the air conditioner on when we got home, much better than the 3 inches of snow in Lignite. The three older kids stayed with some friends of ours over the weekend. They had a blast playing with their three kids but were happy to get home. We brought back "Chippers" (chocolate covered potato chips) as thank you gifts for everyone who helped us out by watching the kids.
Valynn marched in the homecoming parade a couple of weeks ago with girl scouts. As you can imagine Mason and Kyra had fun getting the candy that was thrown. We're doing good, Kyleigh slept 6 and 7 hours stretches at night this weekend so we're hoping this trend continues. She was a very good traveler sleeping most of the way. Valynn and Mason have tomorrow off so we're going to be able to sleep in and take it easy except for gymnastics, get Halloween costumes, finish the head room mom list and buy groceries for Valynn's birthday supper. We should have a pretty easy week, Valynn's birthday party is on Saturday and Mark is planning on going to the school to help install the new playground equiment. We finally got another contractor lined up to do the garage and it sounds like he plans on pouring the concrete this week, yeah (keep your fingers crossed)!!! Mark finished his online class last week so he has a couple of weeks off. He won't know his grade until later since the class is graded on a curve.
Friday morning was hectic here because the school bus left without Valynn. It showed up 5 minutes early. The neighbor kids ran out to the bus when they saw it pull up but because we can't see the bus stop we didn't know it was early and Valynn saw it pulling away. I called the bus supervisor to discuss the situation and then the bus driver called me to apologize and tried to tell me she was on time. She didn't have an answer when I asked her if she realized that there were no kids waiting at the bus stop so she must have been early. If it happens again the bus will have to start driving down the street to pick up Valynn.
Thursday I took Kyleigh to the doctor. She hadn't slept well for two nights and has had a cold so we suspected an ear infection. The doctor was positive she had one as well based upon what I told her. As it turns out Kyleigh didn't have an ear infection, which was good, and the doctor thinks she might have had a sinus headache from being congested or just had difficulty breathing. Our little peanut is now weighing 9 # 5 oz. Wow, is she getting big.
That is about all from here. I think I have the last two weeks summarized. Have a great week everyone.
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