News on the home front

Ok - step one - we get into fall and life is crazy. Mi loves first grade - although she will say that she hates it. She just doesn't like to work - but she is learning and will tell you all about how cool music class was. She is reading and loves it! Even tackles chapter books - a far cry above the five word on a page books that come home as homework. Spelling is easy - even the bonus words - duh mom. Kiki is all about Karen's house. She and her buddies are learning lots of cool stuff. Karen tried out a new preschool curriculum. Ditched it, she already does more and cooler than what they called for. Kik is way into art and singing songs. She and Mi are both in dance class, but I think Kiki has the edge on wanting to be there. Kiki's big deal is wearing big girl underpants. Came back from vacation and she one day told me she did not wear pull ups anymore. And with that we were done. She had 3 accidents in week one and we moved on in life as a big girl.

Step 2 - the computer crashes and takes three weeks to be repaired. Thankfully the hard drive was okay and we got everything (all of the digital photos I have taken) off of it prior to having to do a hard reformat to get it running. Now back on track, but having to slowly reinstall everything to get back into it all full speed.

Step 3 - I went in to the doctor for a stomach pain. Figured it was a hernia. It was, but it was really displaced pain from gallstones. There are several - some of which are 1cm + in size. Kind of crazy. So I am learning all about gallbladders and what they do and am figuring I have been dealing with this for at least 2-3 years. Crazy explanation for potentially all sorts of stuff. Could by why milk tastes bad, the yellow dye issue, feeling nauseous... on and on. I go to Iowa City on Thursday next week to get more info. Odd how things happen.