Kitty

We have a little kitty staying with us this week. She's not ours, we're just watching her. We're really enjoying her too. She's just a baby - 9 weeks old. She's so cute and fun! Tonight she purred for the first time when I was holding her. Kittens are the so great!

Bounce Party

I'm a little out of order here, but before we went to our friends' house where Roman got his with a bat we were with those friends at their kids' joint birthday party. It was at one of those bounce-house places and we had the whole place to ourselves. The best part? Adults could go on too! We had a blast jumping and sliding, it was fantastic! Here are a couple of my favorite pics:

Roman, mid-jump:

King Jeff:

The Royal Brackmans:

Bumps and Bruises

I need to write more (non-depressing) stuff...

The boys continue to be boys and acquire lots of bumps and bruises. Trey's eye has healed up nicely I'm glad to say. Then Tuesday we were at a friends house and Roman got hit in the face with an aluminum baseball bat. Ouch. It hurt a lot and had a nice welt on his cheek. It is still pretty tender, but no visible damage. I really thought he'd have a purple cheek, but I guess not this time. It was actually kind of amusing thinking back on it, most of the adults were inside and the kids were in teh back yard. Trey came running in saying "it was an accident, it was an accident, but... I hit Roman in the face with a bat." As soon as the words were out of his mouth we heard the screams from Roman's. Trey really did feel bad though.

That was Tuesday. On Wednesday Trey was running toward the car when he stumbled and fell into it. Good thing his TEETH broke his fall! I wasn't here to see it, but I guess it was a pretty nasty mess. When I saw him he was calm and clean but he has two very loose front teeth, and they weren't before. One is a little cock-eyed too, his smile looks different.

My poor sweet battered children!

Ugh.

I might be whining a little bit here, so if you don't want to hear it, stop reading now.

Things are tough. No worse than would be expected I guess, but it's not easy. Jeff's been out of work now for 8 1/2 weeks with almost no leads on a new job. He's very stressed out. I'm working about 30 hours/week at the flower shop. I do enjoy it, I have nothing negative to say about my job, except that we're not used to being in this role reversal. Jeff isn't used to being home with the boys so much, and they miss me. I miss them too. Roman especially is having some trouble with the whole thing.

Kodak hugely screwed up Jeff's termination paperwork causing all kinds of frustrating delays. I'm reviewing the termination agreement we finally got in the mail and they actually want us to sign and have notarized a statement that we received the agreement on or before April 26th and have had 45 days to review it. We didn't get it until this week. It's postmarked Jun 10. I don't imagine we'll be signing that statement.

We still have no answers as to Cobra benefits or any potential vacation pay. I'm afraid our medical coverage is going to lapse because Kodak isn't getting us the paperwork we need. We also don't have dollar answers from unemployment because they too were waiting for information from Kodak which was delayed.

I'm so frustrated. I just need to be able to make a plan. I also need some ice cream.

Black eye

Our church has a large population of young kids and they all love to run around together after the service on Sundays. Our boys are no exception. This past Sunday Trey was running and playing and somehow stumbled and took a bad fall onto a very hard floor. He hit head-first with is brow bone and was in a LOT of pain. He usually bounces back pretty quick, but this one had him out of commission for a while. Thankfully one of our good friends who is also a pediatrician was around and took a look at him, assuring us that he would be fine with a little time and ice. He also approved an adult tylenol for Trey (the only thing available), and Trey was able to take his first ever whole pill, and on the first try! That helped with the pain and he got back to his normal self. These first two pics are from later that evening, the last one is from today (Tuesday), two days later and you can see how the bruising has settled. I don't really think the ones from Sunday really give justice to the amount of swelling he had, so you'll just have to believe me that it was very swollen until the next day.

Turtle!

Trey and I stopped near the road today to check out this huge turtle! This was as close as Trey was willing to get to him, and you can see his hesitancy! I wanted to take the turtle home (away from the busy road) to let Roman see him then let him go in the field or near the river. I put a stick near his face to see if he'd snap and he didn't, so I touched his shell and he didn't move, but when I put a hand on each side to see about picking him up he swung his whole body toward me on one side... enough to scare me into leaving him there. He certainly didn't think he needed my help!

Kidsbowlfree.com

If you haven't already heard of kidsbowlfree.com check it out! We got bowling passes for the kids for the whole summer. You do have to pay for shoe rental though, so it's not totally free. Still a good deal for something fun! The boys and I went today, here's Trey:

And Roman... can you tell how slow the ball is moving already?

Waiting to see what happens...

And the final score, although by the end they weren't really playing by whose turn it was, just by whoever felt like going next. :)