Rex's Surgery

Everything went really well on Friday with Rex's surgery. He was such a little trooper, and very brave through it all. I was so relieved that the weather cooperated, and we didn't have an ice storm to contend with. We had to be downtown at the Children's Pavilion surgery center by 6:30 in the morning! It took a couple of hours to do the pre-op stuff, and then they took him to the O.R. around 8:45. He was out of surgery about 20 minutes later, and came to us in the recovery area about 30 minutes after that. The whole process was very quick. We left the hospital around 11:00. As you can see by the pictures (sorry the quality is so poor...we forgot our camera and had to use Tim's phone to take the pictures), Rex was all smiles through the whole thing. He did not complain of any pain or discomfort (except when they took out the I.V....he said, "ouch!"), and thankfully the anesthesia did not make him sick. Thank you for your prayers!

Mary and Joseph

Mara and Rex were playing together this afternoon. Mara put a blanket over her head and pretended to be Mary. Rex came and told me that Mara was Mary, but I misunderstood him. I thought he said, “Mara is married.” I then said to Mara, “You’re married? Who is your husband?” Without hesitating she said, “Joseph”. That’s when Rex explained that he had told me she was “Mary” not “married”. I must admit that I was very impressed that my 2-year-old daughter knew that Joseph was Mary’s husband. She really is a smart little girl. Now if we can only apply some of that intelligence to potty training. =)

Super Rex

Rex is modeling his new Superman costume. He earned this costume for good behavior at school. He receives stamps from his teacher in his daily folder for good behavior. Then, we put stickers on a chart on the refrigerator each day he gets a new stamp in his folder. The chart has 25 boxes, and Rex gets to choose a toy ($25 or less) when his chart is full. For some reason (not sure where he got his inspiration) he wanted a muscle chest Superman costume as his reward. He was very excited to wear the suit. He kept walking around the living room pretending to punch things, and saying, "this suit really does make me strong...it really does." I'm glad that he earned his reward before the weekend so that he can play with it as he recovers from his surgery on Friday. Rex is having a new set of tubes put in his ears and his adenoids removed tomorrow. Please pray that all goes well with this procedure.

Who should I vote for?

I am not an aspiring political scientist, but I do like to make an informed choice when it comes to voting. I pride myself on being an independent voter, but sometimes I have a hard time knowing which candidate would best represent my personal views. That's why I was intrigued by a website that I discovered on someone else's blog. http://www.selectsmart.com/president/2008.html This site has a simple survey where you can input your preferences, and then it generates a report that compares your choices to all of the presidential hopefuls. This allows you to see which candidates are most and least compatible with you on many of the major issues. I hope that you might find it helpful as I did.