Catching Up
Let’s see… All three kids and I were diagnosed with impetigo last week.  We are being treated with antibiotics and an ointment for the sores.  Liam’s sores were on his back and bottom, Gavin’s were on his face (around his nose, mouth and left eye), Raegan had one spot (thankfully) on her back and I had two spots on her back.  We all obtained this little bacterial infection while all of us were fighting a nasty head cold.  Gotta love it! Yesterday was our first ever (of many) Parent – Teacher Conferences.  It went pretty much as I expected:  teacher tells us that Raegan meets or exceeds goals and that Raegan has a talking proble

Upheaval
There have been some major life changes going on in our household.  I continue to seek joy in my children, but find it hard to write here.  I’m not giving up my blog, just explaining the lack of posting.  Raegan, Liam and Gavin are doing well and thriving.  I’m sure I’ll be posting again soon as we have Halloween and the rest of the fall and winter holidays coming up.

Raegan got her hair cut!
Last Saturday, Raegan agreed to her first professional haircut.  A year ago, she allowed my mom to cut a couple of inches off, but this was closer to 6 inches. Here she is before the cut: If her hair was straight, she would be sitting on it. So the first thing my hairdresser did was straighten her hair:

Big Boys
My mom weighed the boys yesterday. Twice.  Liam in at 39.5 pounds and Gavin at 42 pounds.  I’m hoping their growth slows a little.

Boys and Bugs
Now, I’m not going to say this is only a boy thing, but my boys are obsessed with bugs.  Raegan thinks bugs are cool, in theory only.  It started with the occasional slug slowly crawling its way into our home.  We’d let the boys play with them until the slugs died.  They moved up to daddy-long-legs.  Gavin will not hesitate to capture a bug.  As soon as he sees one and we let him know that it’s not a “mean” bug, he’ll stick his hand out and grab it.  We’ve had many daddy long legs captured and either killed in action or gone AWOL.  Recently, a friend of mine brought them caterpillars.  A total of 5.  Three are curren