Funny lyrics and a difficult task

We've stayed busy this week. Monday I took the kids swimming in the afternoon. Maddie had a birthday party that evening. She spent the night and had a great time. I feel like she can finally enjoy being a normal kid. She doesn't have anything to worry about now.

Yesterday we went to stay with little miss Addie. She was just a doll. Her momma always tells me what an "Addie-tude" she has, but I keep telling Addie her momma is just fibbing to me.

There is a pic of her below. On the way home we were listening to a CD that's a compilation of some of my favorite songs. The kids like them, too. We usually all sing them, but I was thinking and wasn't singing this time. "When a Man Loves a Woman" came on and C-man was the one singing. This is what I heard... "When a maaan loves waaa-ter." I started cracking up and told him what the real words were, then Maddie says, "I thought it said, 'When a man loves a walnut.'" That kept me laughing for several miles. It reminded me of a time I was singing in the car with my mom to a Huey Lewis song (am I showing my age or what?). I was belting out, "I want a new truck..." when my mom started laughing and told me it was actually "I want a new drug." I think it happens to everyone at some point, I think it's probably better to have your mom correct you than your friends.

Maddie also had an appointment to check up on her hand on Tuesday. It was the fastest appointment we've ever been to. Maddie timed it and it took 28 seconds. It looks sooo much better. It was a staph infection, but not the bad kind (not MRSA). It's healing nicely.

Carter has been busy trying to learn new skateboard tricks and trying to talk us into buying him a new skateboard. I think I finally convinced him that all the people that are really good have banged up boards. If the board was new and shiny then they must have just started skating... There's a video of one of his new tricks below. He went to Lake Eufaula with one of his friends today and will be back tomorrow evening or Friday. I know he'll have a great time.

Today we just stayed around the house and cleaned. I finally went through Mav's things. Everything from the hospital was just piled in his crib. Putting his things up was one of the hardest things I've had to do. I cried some, but Maddie helped me stay on task and get it finished. She's the organizing queen. The things that were special to us went in one storage box and the baby things that he hadn't worn went into another. He had so many stuffed animals. We kept the ones he liked the most and I think we're going to give the other ones to the Unzner Center. It's a place children of abuse go to have their exams. They give them a stuffed animal when they're there. We haven't taken the crib down, but I'm sure we'll do that pretty soon. I have a list of things I want to get finished before school starts and that's one of them.

Well, enough for tonight - or this morning by now. I just had to post a few more pics of the kids. Love you all, jc