Jackson did great getting his staples out last Friday. I anticipated that it would be a bit traumatic for him...boy was I wrong! It took just a few minutes to get the staples out and Jackson was a champ! He didn't fuss or even flinch. I was so proud and relieved!

The twins started going to Marianne's (Jackson's old babysitter) one morning a week last Friday. It's a big job to take care of twins and a 3 year old and I was in desperate need of some downtime. Thankfully, Brandon is very supportive of me and agreed that I needed some help one day a week. I'm very glad to be able to take them to Marianne's since I know her and trust that she will love on them the 4 hours they are at her house. My first Friday of "freedom" was spent getting a manicure/pedicure :), but in the future I plan to use the time to run errands or do other things that it's hard to do with the kids. Tomorrow morning while they are at Marianne's I'll be packing for a trip down to Dothan.

Jackson treated us to another trip to the ER last weekend...that's two weekends in a row! He woke up early Sunday morning with a very high fever that didn't respond to motrin and complaining that his neck hurt. Our pediatrician was concerned about meningitis and sent us to get Jackson checked out. We were very thankful to farm William out to Adam & Jenny and Maggie out to Dad & Janine. It was an answer to prayer to find out the Jackson just had a bad URI and after 3 days of fever he's feeling much better (and WILL be going to school tomorrow!). Unfortunately, I came down with his cold and have been sick the last couple days...I've never felt so bad from a cold my whole life. I'm still not 100%. Brandon has been awesome...home from work the last 2 days taking care of us and keeping the house running. William started having a fever last night...please pray with us that the twins and Brandon do not get sick.

As I mentioned earlier, we're excited to beheading to Dothan this weekend to visit family. I ask for you prayers concerning Ross. He and Margaret were out in Houston this week at MD Anderson for his quarterly check-up. Two suspicious spots were found in his neck and will be biopsied tomorrow morning at 9am...surgery has been preliminarily scheduled for next Wednesday. Please pray that the spots are benign and that the doctors get all the info they need from the biopsies. Please also pray for Ross and Margaret's spirits and for safe travels as they are driving home on Friday and possibly back out to Houston on Monday.

The twins are continuing to grow and change so quickly. They are sweet babies and generally pretty mellow...but, don't get me wrong, they definitely let you know when they are frustrated/hungry/tired/cranky, etc. They will be 5 months on the 20th!

Last but not least...pictures!! I have no idea why some of the pics are sideways...I edited them all before uploading to http://www.slide.com/ - looks like I need some more practice! Click on the slide show to read the captions. If the pictures don't show up click "view all pictures". Enjoy :)