Happy Halloween!

We had a great Halloween. We trick-or-treated several times this week. We started with the downtown trick-or-treat last weekend with Auntie Lee and Uncle Luke. Addie had a costume day at pre-school on Thursday. Today we put on our family costumes and hit the neighborhood. Nana, Poppa, Grandma, Russie and the Gunnink girls made an appearance. We also meet up with some neighbors along the way. As you can see, I think the kids had a great time and we did too. I had fun putting together Brody's costume - way too much hot glue :0

Shriner's went great yesterday. As Brody said when we left - everyone that works there will be going to heaven for sure! They were so thorough and wonderful. The great news is nothing major on Jackson's mouth until he is 6 or 7 and will need a bone graft to accommodate his adult teeth. The not so good news is that his hearing is not great - some fluid in both ears that has compromised his ability to hear clearly. So tubes are in our near future. Pretty quick surgery and it sounds like it makes a huge difference with speech. Not sure if we will do it hear or down there, I guess wherever we can get in soonest. The best part of our whole visit was with the pediatric dentist who noticed some decay on one of Jax's teeth - he said that can't wait and got us an appointment in his private practice office later the same day, at no charge - he is spectacular with kids. I so wish he were closer. He even sent a princess toothbrush home for Addie. What a nice guy. I have to agree with Brody - Shriner's are amazing!!!!!

Onto the pictures:

Headed to Shriner's

Think about us tomorrow as we head off to Shriner's bright and early for Jackson's all day cleft lip/ cleft palate consultation. I have heard very good things and my expectations are high. His palate looks very good in my opinion so I hope that we get good new, ie. no surgeries for a few years at least. Still I am a little nervous because they will be poking and prodding my little guy. They sounds so nice on the phone - they even offered us a ride the hospital which I thought was above and beyond. We will be forever in debt to the kindness of the Shriner's I feel.

It will be weird to be a family of three tomorrow as Addie will be with Grandma and Grandpa because it is costume day at preschool and she didn't want to miss that. Plus an all day appointment would have been very boring for her anyway - better to stay home and eat candy with the grandparents :)

Only two days until Halloween - wait until you see our family. We are straight out of Oz.

Love & Hugs!