Our Rather Simple Yet Chaotic Life

A lot has been going on lately. Seems like we are always on the run and there's never much time to update. Shawn started 1st grade last week and so far seems to be enjoying himself except for the one meltdown that occurred on Monday. The meltdown was probably due to the bad parenting displayed by his rather dumb parents in the fact that he was an hour late going to bed the night before.

Katelyn is doing well. She just broke her second tooth and is sitting up by herself fairly well. Shawn just can't get enough of her. She is saying "Da Da" a lot but I thing she is actually calling the dog and not me!

Shawn has the great pleasure of getting his first three cavities filled this afternoon; I'm sure this is going to be a great adventure for me. I drew the short straw. I get to take Shawn to the appointment because it is immediately following my dentist appointment. I'm sure he will now have the lifelong fear of the dentist!

Speaking of Shawn, he has been collecting the Simpson's toys from Burger King. The quest for the figures has basically become an obsession of his and unfortunately he was missing 4 of 16 of the little buggers. Well he entered a drawing for one of the "rare" golden Homer toys and low and behold, he got the call last night. Shawn was the proud owner of the coveted golden Homer. I have never seen a 6 year old more excited about anything. He wouldn't stop screaming for nearly 5 minutes and he jumped around like a kid possessed! I wish I would have captured it on tape to post, it was classic.

A couple of weeks ago we rented a cottage in the Hocking Hills area in southern Ohio along with some friends of ours. The scenery was beautiful but not too relaxing with three kids along for the ride. Thankfully we were smart enough not to have brought Katelyn. It seemed like at least one of the kids was having a crisis at all times. The kids hated the canoe trip we took them on, Shawn decided to breakdown during our hike at Old Man's Cave and I think I heard "I'm bored" enough for a lifetime. The cabin was a bit rustic but was comfortable. It had 3 bedrooms, kitchen, 2 bathrooms, living room, game room complete with pool table and dart board as well as a 6 person hot tub.

Lisa, Shawn and I made a stop at OSU on the way back from our Hocking Hills adventure and spent some time walking around and visiting the bookstore.

Last weekend we went to a couple of cookouts. And tried to catch up on the housework and shopping. This week I have a dentist appointment, doctor's appointment (physical/cholesterol check) and an optometrists appointment. Not sure what the weekend has in store for us other than more catch up around the house.

Lisa and I are tossing around taking the annual OSU football trip during Labor Day weekend. Columbus has a bunch of things going on that weekend. Probably go in on Friday and spend time at the Greek Festival, go to pre-game festivities on Saturday, watch the game at BW3 and then hit the Clippers-Mudhens game on Saturday night. Probably spend a few hours at Easton on Sunday before heading home.

Here are a few pictures that we took over the past couple of weeks: