Let’s just pretend that I haven’t had an insane week and that this isn’t three days late, shall we? Thanks!

Oct 14

Henry’s 7th birthday and my grandma’s 90th (surprise) birthday party. We had a great day of beautiful weather, spending it at my grandma’s house. Because of the size of dad’s family, we hadn’t spent any significant amount of time at my grandma’s house, so it was a lot of fun to see my kids exploring her farm like I used to do.

Oct 15

Henry celebrated his birthday at school with skull cupcakes.

Oct 16

Extreme Green day at school because the football team was in the championships or something. Also the day that Ivy asked for her hair to be in a side ponytail and I got flash blacks of my fashion disaster youth. She looked adorable, though.

Oct 17

Erv’s 18 month checkup (one month late). He’s in the 35th and 40th percentile for height and weight now. For a boy that has “failure to gain weight” on his medical records as a newborn, he’s not having problems now!

Also the day we spent two terrible hours in the pharmacy and he fell asleep on me for the first time in, like, A YEAR.

Oct 18

Another trip to the vet. This makes, oh……like, 10 in a month? This time, it was the second trip for Diver. We could tell he was in a lot of pain and not feeling well at all, and the first trip, last week, did almost nothing to help. Turns out, after an x-ray, that he has arthritis in his neck, which is apparently pretty common for beagles. He’s doing MUCH better now, thank goodness.

Oct 19

The kids didn’t have school, so we went to lunch and shopping with my mom. And I got a bug in my bonnet to dye my hair, so I did…..the night before everybody came to our house for Henry’s party. Thankfully it turned out okay….not terribly even, but okay. It’s temporary, so I plan to actually get myself to a salon and have it done for real (and well) in the next few weeks.

Oct 20

Henry’s birthday party. Halloween-themed. (Hubs went as the guy who didn’t feel like dressing up. We also had a vampire and his bride, a zookeeper, a koala, and a meerkat)

Tomorrow, I’m having surgery to get all four of my wisdom teeth taken out. If you’re lucky (ha!), maybe I’ll have chipmunk cheek pictures in the next Project 365 post. If anybody wants to bring me soup or take my kids, I won’t stop you.