1. We were back at the Children’s Hospital today to have Jak’s orthotics made for his shoes. Interesting process — they had to mold this crazy, weird plastic stuff to his feet, and then she kept cutting them down ’til they were the right shape and size. The only bad part was having to hold Jak down on his stomach while the girl put the initial mold on — hot plastic over a sock, and then ice water to cool ‘em down real fast. So now we’ll see how he does with them! So far, they don’t seem to bug him one bit. Score!
2. JEN’S WEDDING IS THIS WEEKEND! (I pick up my moo moo tomorrow, in case you were wondering…)
3. Had girls’ night here on Friday night, and then the same girls (plus Kara and her munchkins) went to Theresa’s on Monday. Holy moly, what a difference in visits!! Friday night was all about the food and the conversation. Monday was all about chasing kids around, while snacking when we could, and broken chats between “don’t touch that’s!”.
4. Theresa’s new pad. Awesome. And HUGE. You could get lost in that place. 
5. Had a hair appointment on Saturday morning. With a new girl — only because my usual guy wasn’t available on short notice to do both a cut and a colour. My hair turned out just fine, but I don’t think I’ll be going back to her. For one reason. We had decided together on the lighter colour for my highlights, but apparently my hair (so I’ve heard) doesn’t take well to lightening (as in, it takes longer than most). But once she realized this, rather than say “hey, this isn’t as light as you wanted it to be”, she said “hey, I decided to go a shade darker than what we originally planned”. Riiiiiiight.
6. The Nick-ism of the week: He wanted to tell Jak to go get his Elmo…but instead he asked Jak to go get “Emo”. That’s right — Elmo’s distant melodramatic cousin who wears skin tight jeans, black t-shirts and listens to moody music.
7. When is fall going to get here?!? I know plenty of you enjoy this weather, but I truly don’t want 30+ degrees at the end of September! I want to wear sweaters, dang it!
8. The doc said my iron is low. So now I’m taking big blue pills. But I’m still sleepy. How long does it take for these suckers to kick in??
9. Jakzen developments: He’s mastered the art of the fake laugh, has figured out how to turn the TV on and off with the remote — although it still surprises him every time he does it, he loves socks and shoes — which bodes well for #1 above. And his poor fingers have taken a beating this week. He’s figured out how to open the cupboards all the way, but unfortunately he got his fingers stuck when he closed the doors back up. Yowch. And then we were at Walmart the other day, and the car parked next to us was real close, so I had to wait for the auto van door to close before Jak and I could get by. So I casually said “Hey, Jak — look at the door! It’s closing!”. Note to self: Don’t call attention to something you don’t want your kid to touch. He stuck out his hand juuuuuust as the door was about to close, and his fingers got pinched. Thankfully, I yanked him away before the door closed all the way. Coulda been way worse. Lesson learned.
10. Some pics from our playdate the other day…
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