Finally Posting

Sorry about the few days without posting. We went to my Mom and Dad's for Thanksgiving and got back last night. The ride from Kansas to Illinois is a lot easier than traveling through the mountains from Virginia. It's not nearly as scenic, though.

Before we left, we had an interesting thing happen. Hannah and I had changed the bunny's litter. Mike bought pine bedding instead of the recycled fluff that we normally get because they didn't have it. I didn't think twice about it. We were walking out the door when Hannah says that her eye hurts. She had a bunch of little blister looking things all over her eye. Within 5 minutes, her eye was almost completely swollen shut. I took her up to the emergency room and they gave her some prednisone (she's been on so much of that lately) and massive doses of Benadryl. They said that it was an allergic reaction to the bedding. She's fine now but we've gotten rid of the bedding.

The kids' beds come tomorrow. We went to the store to get bedding and whatnot tonight. All three kids will be in twin beds (finally...I hate toddler beds) and they all got to choose what kind of sheets they wanted. Daniel picked Spider Man, Hannah picked Hello Kitty and Jacob picked a Monkey. He didn't want superheroes, he wanted a monkey swinging in a tree. Whatever.

I met more of the neighbors tonight. I was outside with Hannah and Jacob watching everyone talking in their little groups...desperately missing Virginia. I saw a girl drive down the street and stopped to talk to another girl across the street. She drove to the cul-du-sac and immediately came over to talk to me. Her name is Amy (the second Amy on the street) and she has two kids. She has also moved a lot but is hoping that this is it. They've been here two years. They also lived in Indianapolis (she says 5-10 minutes from Carmel) and in Joliet (Plainfield). The family on the corner (they've been here 4 months) is from South Bend, Indiana. We were laughing about the small world it really is when she happens to drop Jackie's (three doors down) husband's name. I stopped her and said, "did you say her husband's name is Todd?" Amy says, "yes." I explained to her that we had neighbors, Jackie and Todd, in Virginia. It just keeps getting wierder and wierder. Jackie and Todd, Cindy and Larry. Several of the girls are trying to get a playgroup together and I told her to definately put me on the list. She also gave me the name of a preschool for Hannah. I guess all of the kids on the street go there. That's handy.

After they get the new beds and stuff in, I'll take some pictures of upstairs and post them. We've actually gotten the upstairs pretty much done now so all that's left is the basement. Then, we have to hang all of the pictures.