It's been a while!

I realized I haven't blogged in a while. Let's see...the quick catch-up...Dad had brain surgery, it went really well. Phase 2 is next week. He had his deep brain stimulators implanted for his Parkinson's. It was weird to have him on my unit. I was in charge the day he got admitted (pre-op). I had the actual surgical day off of course. It was supposed to be an 8 hr surgery, but it only took about 4 hours. They were going to discharge him the next day, but he wanted to stay one more. The next surgery is getting the generator placed. And...only my dad...he's having them implant a dual-channel generator, so there is only one for both stimulators...which means he can still go deer hunting and not worry about the butt of the gun on the generator. That was the biggest news these last two weeks.

The kids are still growing like weeds. Abby turns 11 months next week!

Caleb and Brent are camping tonight...it's our caregroup's famly camping trip. I stayed home with Abby. Something about having a crawler/almost walker in a campsite and not wanting her to eat all the dirt, bugs, twigs, etc. deterred us from taking her along. Caleb was so funny...all week he's been asking about camping...we kept telling him that he'd go on Friday. This morning when he woke up, I asked him what he was doing today. He said "camping?" I said "yes!" Then he said "is it Friday?" I laughed so hard. He was so excited he didn't nap today. I asked him where he was going to sleep tonight. He said "in the tent. With a nite-nite hat." Now...that's what we called it last year because it was so cold and I wanted his head covered. We haven't talked about the hat since camping last year. I thought 2 year-olds weren't supposed to be able to retain memories! Anyway...I love camping, don't get me wrong...but I'm kinda glad I'm in a nice dry house. We're supposed to get an inch of rain overnight and another inch and a half tomorrow! I kinda think Brent and Caleb will be back tomorrow instead of Sunday...but we'll see!