Lots to update on! This is a long one!

I am able to take the time to update this past month because Riordan has sweet friends from school over and the girls are enthralled with all the boys! Also Mike is home for just today before he goes back out on the road tomorrow morning. One more week of travel and we will have him home for the rest of the year! Hooray!!

Yesterday:

We had dentist appointments for the three olders and I took them by myself! It was by far the best experience ever! I was very organized with the dental tecs and made sure that Teagan went first, then Riordan and Caden at the same time. Riordan and Teagan did EVERYTHING asked of them and didn't cry AND had fun! I was almost in tears I was so proud and felt we had a huge breakthrough for Riordan!! OT is still paying off and so glad we did it! Results:

Caden's first adult molars are in and we had no idea! They came in the last 6 months and he never noticed! He has a cavity in a baby molar and will be getting sealants on the new adult teeth.

Teagan has her first two cavity's in her back upper molars. Pretty deep, but we are going to attempt nitrous for the visit since she did SO well for this one. Dr. Welch is fast and great, so we trust his recommendations.

Riordan is completely cavity free! So awesome!

Needless to say, I was so impressed with them all that we went to Target and got new Wii games AND they were buy two get one free! Score for everyone!

Halloween:

Aislinn got the croup the day before and was feeling pretty bad. So Mike took Caden to Football and I stayed home with the three olders.. We had to miss Trunk or Treat at R and T's school in order to save up energy for Trick or Treating. They had such a great time! We hit the same houses as last year and then sat out on our porch handing out candy. This year was the first time the weather was so incredible that I think it brought more people out! I couldn't believe how many people we saw! We had to start rationing candy because we would have run out at the rate we were giving it out.

The day before Halloween:

Mike and I took everyone to the zoo. He flew in that morning and I kept Caden out of school. We have all been missing him badly with his constant travel schedule and took the time to have a family day during the week. Mike had never been to the zoo before, so it was fun to do things with him, like get TWO double strollers so no one complained, and do the hiking trails. A lot of construction going on at the zoo, so some things we couldn't see. We are so excited for the Komodo dragon exhibit to open, in the next week if I remember! Then we went to Oregano's for dinner, so yummy and came home and played the Wii. They love that so much!

Aislinn had a very rough night that night. I felt so bad for her, but boy do showers work with croup and she had a cold so she was snooky too! So not humid out here, so that didn't help. She still has a croupy cough today.

Last week was full of play dates and normal crazy busy stuff. We got to spend time with our dear friends, the St. Geme's and Riordan got to go to his buddy Matthew's house after school on Wednesday.

Caden has been excelling in football scoring touch downs, interceptions, safety's, flag pulls galore. We are broke ;-)

Teagan and Aislinn absolutely love their dance lessons and are doing great and improving each week with their skills, so impressive!

Riordan is taking his first piano lesson on Saturday and we are so excited! Hoping that he enjoys it so he can do it every week ;-)

What else... Caden had his Fall Festival a couple of Saturday's ago and it was an awesome turn out. The moms did an amazing job organizing with great items to raffle for and all the vendors were fun for the kids! Dunk the Teacher was the best I think ;)

Medical update:

Aislinn had her first skin test for her allergies and passed with soaring colors! However, dust mites and dog came up for the first time. We had to get her blood drawn to do the second phase of clearance and we are waiting on those results. She was a perfect patient getting that done, so impressed! She sat still and did everything she was told to do. I'm just impressed with the children all the time lately!

I had my DXA scan, which is a bone density test and I came out great results as well. So my recurrence of stress fractures are simply not enough healing time! YAY! 7 more months to go LOL, oh well...

And the next posting under this is about my San Fran trip with the girls which was an amazing time. I have been writing it for a couple of weeks now and still not done.. but soon, soon I will be!