It's been a while!

Yikes! I can't believe it's been well over two months since that last message. A lot has happened in that time.

Kellen switched from daycare to preschool. The election (UGH! Need I say more??) And our kitty Mia was diagnosed with cancer. She is hanging in there although she's lost almost 5 pounds since June of 2007. She is teeny-tiny now. We put her on prednisone this week and she seems to be feeling a bit better. She's eating like she used to-which is good, but she still isn't grooming herself like she used to. Ted and I know that her time with us is limited and Kellen knows that she has "a really bad tummy ache" but I'm not sure he's picked up on anything else. Breaking the news to him is going to be hard to deal with because he's so sensitive. And Wrigley, well, I have no idea how he will react. I would assume that he would miss her but sometimes I wonder if he even knows there is another cat in the house (he's not the brightest bulb!)

We were able to spend much needed time with our families this Thanksgiving. It was great to see everyone! I'm looking forward to Christmas.

After Thanksgiving, we spent two nights at Great Wolf Lodge in Wisconsin Dells. It was a blast! Kellen absolutely loved it! He was so well behaved at the restaurants and when we told him it was time to leave the swimming area, he was entirely fine with it. We spent some time in Wiley's Woods, which is a huge play area that is part of the hotel complex. He had a lot of fun throwing balls around and filling up a big hopper that would dump the balls all over the place-including on top of us!

The waterpark was really nice. Some of my students said that Kalahari was better, but I think that's because they are older and Great Wolf has a lot of stuff for younger kids to do . There were three huge swimming areas, a couple of gift shops, a bar and a couple of food areas right in the waterpark.
I tell you, this is the only waterpark that I've ever seen where you can have a beer with you in the kiddy pool, put it down on the edge so that you can get your kid off the water slide and then pick it back up to drink it again. Only in Wisconsin!! I would definitely go back to Great Wolf. We are actually thinking about going back and also doing Noah's Ark next summer.

Now that I have some extra time, I should be able to post more often. I'm posting during my prep hour so I better wrap it up. Back to work!