No toothpaste filled oreos for us this year! Instead, we had cake for dinner (meatloaf topped by mashed potato "frosting")
For dessert we had hamburgers and French fries. The hamburgers were mini cakes baked in tuna sized cans. The patties were brownies, the pickles were really sliced kiwi, the catsup and mustard were frosting and the fries were long sugar cookies.
Fun, hunnh? Can you say sugar rush?
I had a friend come over and bake with me all during nap time and it was definitely worth the effort!

kids say the darndest...

The little kids came to watch a movie with me in the hospital today. (Like the nice outfits? I'm in two kinds of isolation, so everyone but my parents get this VIP treatment. For a full photo gallery go here.)

According to isolation rules, they're supposed to be wearing gloves too, but everyone hates the gloves so I usually sneak my patients in without the gloves on and give them a good dose of Purell instead. Today, after I'd got them all gowned and masked and was getting them settled in and starting the movie, I had completely forgotten to sanitize the kids' hands like I'd told them I would.

Suddenly Rachel turned to me with a shocked look on her face and said "Nin! You forgot to fertilize our hands!"

Another funny story: my new neighbor is a very sick, sad, continually screaming baby. The poor thing has been wailing since it came in sometime yesterday evening with very few breaks! After hearing the cries this afternoon Rachel asked, "Oh, is this the place where they pull the babies out? Because I think they just pulled a baby out and it is mad!" It took me a minute to realize that she was talking about birth....

News From the Road!!!

WE ARE ON THE ROAD. but we are puting a complete whats on in Jeremy & Maria's trip on our blog. You can look at it and there is a link half way down on the left side of this page. Love you guys. Maria's doing awesome with the up to dateness of it. We love you guys.

Jeannie askified for me to postify this video clip "to be shairn with all my sistren, both biological and marigically producified".

We both enjoyified it!

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hear ye hear ye

if only i could put pics in the reply section, Jeff could have saved face... but here it is. sorry bro.

We have had this wonderful weather for the past week or so. Just enough time for Robby and Dad to get a lot done to the back yard of the old house. But Sunday morning, we woke up to snow again! And here I was thinking it was spring!

I am not sure just how this happened, but I could swear that just yesterday, this guy was just a cute cuddly newborn and now he is a big kid, standing in his walker, happy as a clam with his cracker! Where did my baby go?