Opa was here!

In September Opa (Weston's dad) came to Texas for work and

he was here for 3 weeks. 

During the week days he was gone but 

we were lucky to get to spend the weekends with him. 

We blessed Oliver while he was here and the boys were especially 

happy to have him around to be silly with. :) 

Opa & Oliver getting to know each other. 

Ollie was about 2 months here. 

There was never a quiet moment. 

As soon as he would sit down on the couch the boys 

would pile on, one by one, and snuggle up. 

He even let them play angry birds on his ipad. :) 

While he was here he helped Weston with a few projects around the house. They fixed the leaky tub, which turned into an all day project, nearly breaking the tub! ;) He also helped clean/snake out our dryer vent. What a grose job! It was taking us a minimum of 2-3 cycles to dry garments and this is why!! 

It was packed with lint and all kinds of stuff you really don't want to hear about. 

The important part is that it is fixed and we can now dry a load of towels in 1 cycle! Thanks Lynn!

We really appreciate your help!

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Also in September, Benjamin finally had his
surgery for meetal stenosis! 

We had scheduled it a few times.
 I was nervous about him having to be put under
and in the process of rescheduling the doctor told me that he often
can do the surgery with older kids with only partial sedation.
So, we coached and bribed him
 with a trip to Toys-R-Us and wah-lah! 

He braved it like a champ! 

Here he is in the waiting room. I am certain I was more nervous than he was but he did great.
He was really sore for about 5 days. Each time he had to potty we had to sit in a warm bath tub to ease the stinging. We felt so bad for the little man.

 When you enter the surgical unit of Texas Children's Hospital there are these tap dancing rhinestone cows ("Fred Asteer" and "Ginger Udders" I think). Anyways, when Benjamin saw them he ran up to them in awe and said "Mom, these are AMMMMAZING!" and insisted I take his picture by them. So there you have it. The iphone picture doesn't really do them justice... but they were very sparkly! ;)