A bit behind might be an understatement. lol. This is me making a sheepish face. Oh well. I haven’t even been taking that many pictures with the fancy camera. I’ve just been super lazy. At one point I went to take pictures with it, and I swear I’d almost forgotten how to work the functions on it. All of my photos were coming out dark and fuzzy, and I couldn’t figure out why. It was super frustrating. I was basically just out of practice.

So, life has been busy and the kids have been growing!

Not too long after the 4th of July, Wallace and I were at home one Saturday, and he started telling me his stomach hurt. His symptoms sounded oddly familiar to mine when I had appendicitis, but I didn’t want to project that onto him, so I suggested we both just take a shower and get cleaned up just in case, and I’d check his temperature and symptoms again in an hour. His temp rose a little and the pain on that side was still there… I called his pediatrician to talk it over with her, and we decided together that it would probably be best to get him checked out at the hospital. Turns out it was appendicitis!

It took several hours to get diagnosed because they tend to put kids through a battery of other tests before radiating them… But, they finally did, and we actually went into surgery late that night. He was so annoyed that the IV was right in his elbow and it just made everything difficult.

But he got TONS of iPad time. And we both just slept on and off the whole next day until they finally released him to go home.

And just a couple of weeks later, we were at the beach!!

And then…it was the first day of school. I actually have a middle schooler now!!!

It looks like I have some more photos sitting in my camera needing to be processed… (sheepish face)… So…maybe a Halloween update will be coming shortly. lol.