Family Stuff

Work for me (Tasha) has been crazy busy since I last posted. I was the only infertility specialist in the entire city for 5 days as everyone else went to our national meeting. I was originally scheduled to go as well, but clinic has been busy and I elected to stay back home. Not sure, but I may have regretted this. I ended up covering more than I anticipated.

Aside from busy work stuff, we have been up to normal family life. The last two weedends were very exciting cleaning out the garages and "Quintonizing" them. And this weekend I have been on a mission to organize our closet and get rid of a bunch of clothes we never intend to wear again....very exciting. Having said that...I have been enjoying the "boring family stuff". The bad stuff: both boys have colds and can't seem to breath long enough to sleep for a couple of hours. The good stuff: we have Christmas lights up outside and the Christmas tree went up inside today. I am definitely getting in the holiday spirit.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you.

Quinton

OK, so this happened just about a year ago and Tasha had been wanting to show some of her friends & co-workers so I have been working to get it posted for her.

Meanwhile, over the past week Q-Ball has had a terrible diaper rash that we have been treating with medicines & some good'ole nakedness ... you see where this is going?

Of course, this morning while Q was 'airing out' he told me he needed to go tee-tee. He is pretty good about that but has yet to show any interest in #2. While on the potty he actually went a little bit of #2 in the potty & I told him how proud I was of him. I was worried however how little there was so I took him to his room to change. He was waiting for me to pick out some clothes to put him in for Daddy's Day Out today, when my worst nightmare happened. He had a bad poopy on the carpet in the boys room and it was a mess! Got on his shirt & as I removed that it got all the way up his back & hair. Oof ... anyone that knows me knows this was quite a challenge for me. LOL!

All is better now, Q had a nice bath and Colby finally got his bottle. I need a Dr. Pepper!!!

On with another day of Mr. Mom!

Colby

Happy Halloween & a horse ride

Sorry that I haven't posted in a while. My plan is to at least post after each weekend. I don't really suspect anybody wants to hear about my exciting week at work.

Well, last weekend we had a good time....at least that is what I remember. I wait a week to post and I don't remember what all we did. On Saturday night Jeff & I went to my boss's house (Dr. Mannel) for a work get-together. Overall it was fun, but still work. On Sunday after work, Quinton and I went to the stables with one of the other physicians in the department, Roger Quinn. His wife Joy has 2 horses, one of which is Chico. He is very kid friendly and Quinton went on his first birthday. We had not been back since, mainly because Q had not been much into it at 1. However, after speaking at Dr. Mannel's we decided to go....and I am so glad we did. You will see a couple of videos before this post that Jeff put up. Q started riding alone, holding the reigns with one hand and the back of the saddle with the other. He is so much more inherinly cool than I ever was. After the visit to the stables Q and I hung outside planting plants (and he picked several newly planted plants.

This week was fine except for me getting sick. Both boys had colds and I finally had the same and lost my voice completely Thursday and Friday. So annoying when you have an hour new visit with a patient (and obviously many more appts). I finally sent my acupuncture research paper off for publication and I also had a talk with the residents (on Friday without any voice and it didn't go great).

Finally to this weekend. Friday night was Halloween and it was terrific. I came home not feeling very well from the cold and lack of voice. I dressed up as an Austin Powers type Go-Go girl with the idea of "look good, feel good". Quinton was dressed in scrubs and Colby was Mr. Longhorns (we originally planned for Q's monkey outfit from last year but it was more than 80 degrees and we were afraid how hot he would be) and Jeff was Mr. Mom (you know...himself). We had a get-together in our culdesac and then went trick-or-treating altogether in our neighbohood. We very much seem to live in this little Eutopia.

Saturday was a great lazykind of day. Great morning teaching Q how the sheet on the bed can be a fort or tent. Then Colby hung out outside with me while I planted pansies. The Kosir kiddos were hanging out enternaining Colby and then Q and finally Shala and I gave up on accomplishing much and just hung out drinking a glass of cold white wine (it really was hot today). Now it is Saturday night and I am watching the Longhorns lose to Texas Tech. It is halfway through the 3rd quarter and not looking good. Gotta run because Q has awoken again. Don't forget to set your clock which ever direction.

Here is a link to the latest pics (many of which I can't help but put up): http://www2.snapfish.com/slideshow/AlbumID=247540163/PictureID=6031618370/a=78723632_78723632/t_=78723632