this week...

The assembly at Mohawk was great! Joel stayed shockingly quiet (but was awake!) for the 1 hour and 40 minute car trip and then was also amazingly quiet during the assembly! we only had to leave the auditorium bc his little 'da, da, ga, ga' noises drew some attention and stares as high schoolers and teachers were a bit shocked to see a baby crawling around. also notable - I got quite the frown from the school secretary as I walked in with the baby and asked if I could see the assembly, she answered (speaking to little Joel) "Where is your hat and gloves?" see a video of our drive to Mohawk HS here - http://blip.tv/file/2969796

This pic is from Joel's first Thanksgiving, 'Baby's first Thanksgiving' is written on his bib... you can bearly see it bc it's covered with green beans. He loves green bean casserole.

This week is turning out to be crazy, We have 2 comeback events - Centerburg (Centerburg, OH)on Monday night and Mohawk (Sycamore, OH) on Wednesday night (our Comeback events start at 7pm). Even though these two are somewhat close (1 hour and 1.5 hours, yes that is considered close for us!) Joel and Ryan leave insanely early to leave enough time for set-up, meetings with volunteers and some practice runs. This means Joel will for sure be gone from 2pm-12am both Monday and Wednesday nights. Fortunately most of my Christmas shopping is done and I don't have a ton to do this week other than cram in my 16 hours at the hospital (I only work 16 hours/month as an RN at Nationwide Childrens) and oh yeah, buy a tree, keep it in the house for a few days, dig a big hole, and then plant it and hope for the best. This will be 'Joel's first Christmas' tree,.. hopefully it will grow big and strong like him.