My Girls

Marra started 2nd grade today, I can't believe my baby is in 2nd grade. She was very excited to be back at school, Kieran not so much, he loved having her home over the summer.























Aislin is getting baptised on Oct. 12th at Brentwood Presby Church, Brownsville Rd. The service starts at 11, we will then have lunch at my parents house in Finleyville. If you are available to join us that Sunday we would love to have you celebrate with us.

New additions to the Mizikar Zoo

Mizikar Zoo and Aquarium

The first stop on our tour through the Zoo is a female Shae Bug-a-boo, this animal is the oldest member of her species: Careful it's feeding time
Common name: Marra

The next animal we will be meeting was acquired by the zoo shortly after the Shae Bug-a-boo. This animal is a female faticuss caticuss:

Common name: Andromeda

Third on the tour schedule is in the same family as the faticuss caticuss but is a smaller, more active cousin known as the obnoxious caticuss:

Common name: Cassiopeia (female)

The fourth is the most wild of our collection, often mistaken for a pterodactyl because of it's loud screeching call. Kierboy Monstrosity: Watch your fingers it bites

Common name: Kieran (male)

Our fifth stop is a LiniKait Sleepallthetime, she has only been at our zoo for just under two months: It may look small and docile but it can take down MUCH larger animals

Common name: Aislin (female)

The next two exhibits on the tour both house two of each species. Both are brand new exhibits to the Mizikar Zoo.

The first is also in the caticuss family. This exhibit houses two black baby flufficus caticusses only 5 weeks old:

Common name: Hercules the larger male and Eridanus the smaller female

The second new exhibit is the first exhibit in the aquarium section of the Mizikar Zoo. This exhibit houses two Isawthemlastyearatthebeach Isavedupmymoneytobuythemthisyear:

Common name: African Dwarf Frog

This concludes our tour of the Mizikar Zoo and Aquarium, thank you and come again soon.

Yes we are crazy. A stray cat had kittens in our shed and then left them. We started with 5 and only 2 have survived over the past 3 and weeks. So we are keeping the two that are left, if they survive. And last summer when we were at the beach Marra asked if she could get a hermit crab or frogs, she picked the hermit crab. Well the stinky old hermit crab has been living at Mama Lou's house and is still alive, and this year when we were making plans to go back to the beach she asked if she could get the frogs for at our house, and of course like the sucker I am, I told her she could, if she paid for them. So we now have two cats, two kittens, and two dwarf frogs. The frogs don't have names yet and we don't know if they are male or female. We are open to any suggestions you might have.

Pawley's 2008

We just got back from beautiful Pawley's Island South Carolina. Mom and I took the three kids down for a short vacation and to pick up Aunt Kathy and Emma Grace. The five of us stayed with Aunt Kathy - thanks Aunt Smoochie! We had a really nice long weekend getting to spend lots of time with Aunt Kathy and getting to see quite a bit of Marc and Michelle and Emma. The beach was wonderful, as always, we were only there for four days but it was an action packed four days, going to the beach, getting stung by jellyfish, going to the pool, visiting Ripley's aquarium, buying frogs. Here is a slide show from our trip, sorry it might be boring to some of you it's mostly just of Marra and Kieran, but hey I think they are cute.

Jakey

Jake

May 1999 - July 2008

Marra Shae

It has been about a month and a half since Marra and Kieran had their tonsils and adenoids taken out. Both kids have put on some weight! Kieran is talking up a storm is and is more understandable now, he has also grown 3 inches in the last 6 months! Marra also had an esophageal scope and biopsies done at that time because of her weight loss and stomach issues. The biopsies were clean but the scope did show that the bottom of her esophagus is swollen and irritated. She is now on two acid reflux meds a day with the hopes that by the new year she will be completely off of reflux meds! In the past month she has put back on 5 of the pounds she had lost since January, she has also grown about 2 inches in the last 2 months.



If you remember Marra had surgery to untwist her right ovary in early May. When we went to get an ultrasound to make sure everything was going ok with that they found something wrong with her kidneys. We went back for a recheck yesterday and they did another ultrasound series.



They don't think her kidneys and bladder are emptying completely when she pees and her kidneys look a bit swollen. So we go on Wednesday for another test, a voiding cystourethrogram. Hopefully this will determine what is going on there. It could be nothing but they want to check it out just to make sure.



So if you could please continue to keep Marra in your prayers. Once we have the results I will post again and let you all know what is going on with my Marra Shae.

Marra and pal Janna in January

Lini

My Aislin girl is a month old now.
One month olds aren't real fun yet, as Marra is remembering from Kieran and as Kieran is finding out.


Kieran still calls her baby instead of Aislin, but I think he just does it to be difficult because he can say Aislin, sort of, and he says Lini very well. He is always saying, "Baby Dance" "Baby Clap" "Baby eat popcorn". I'm not sure if he just doesn't get it yet or if he is being funny or if he is just trying to get a rise out of Marra, which he does very well.

Marra is still totally infatuated with Aislin and thinks she is both Aislin and Kieran's second mother, cuddling and loving on Aislin, feeding her and holding her, and completely on the other end of the scale with Kieran, bossing him and yelling at him, telling him no and grabbing things out of his hands that he's not supposed to have.


Aislin was just at the Dr. this week for her one month check up, she is doing great! Not only has she put on a pound since birth but she has also grown 3 inches in length! She is starting to hold her head up and she has rolled herself over from back to belly a few times now. I know I know, as I said at the beginning one month olds aren't a whole lot of fun, but because I'm just a little biased, I think she is amazing!