Landscaping

We put in a border around our flower beds a couple months ago. As you can see Luke did the supervising, as usual.



We used a blue hackett tumbled stone that we just couldn't be happier with.

The Climbing Begins...

Luke's First Haircut!!

Let's be honest, Luke doesn't have a whole lot of hair to begin with so why does he need it cut? The little guy's hair was growing faster on the sides than the top! So about a month ago we just trimmed it up some.



We never could quite figure out if Luke liked getting his hair cut or not. At least it will be awhile until his next. I don't think I liked this look he was giving me.

Bumper Bummer

I need to catch up on the goings-on at the Mehner household. About a month and a half ago, I was in a little accident. Exhibit A:



Fortunately, no one was hurt, the guy who hit us was nice (albeit a bad driver), and his insurance company was easy to work with. All-in-all, it could have been worse.

Luke's Great Adventure

As most of you know, Luke had the opportunity to spend some time at a very nice, expensive hotel called Children's Hospital. It's a very elitist establishment, only certain kids are allowed and Luke was lucky enough to have MRSA as his ticket in. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, to be exact. The employees there took great care of his every whim and fancy. Be it x-rays, ultrasounds, IV's, a little morphine, blood work, and all the tubes and wires ones little heart could hope for..



As you can see, once his fever was under control, he was his normal happy camera-loving self. And no, his arm is not broken as the blue brace might suggest. That was just to prevent him from pulling out that really cool tube in his arm.



I want you all to know that normally MRSA doesn't require a 5 day/4 night hospital stay. It was a combination of 1) the infection was deep in Luke's skin to begin with 2) lack of awareness on his parent's part and 3) he would throw up his prescribed oral antibiotics. Mix that together and you get a high systemic fever and no improvement. Thus, the IV antibiotics at the hospital. And boy did they give him the superstar of all antibiotics. The all-powerful Vancomycin. I really don't like to think of what this has done for his system in the future. But, at least, he doesn't suffer from MRSA anymore. Just a cold he picked up at the hospital. We like to think of it as his going-home-thank-you-for-staying-with-us-come-again gift.

Luke Begins Studying for the DAT

Enough with the toys...It's time to get down to business.



Now, let's see.. Yes, the finish line for the crown preparation should extend apically beyond the obturated pulp chamber. Just as I thought...



Boy, mom, this dentistry stuff is fun!!

Greetings friends and family!! I just wanted to announce that little Luke crawled earlier this week!! He's growing up so fast! Now don't get me wrong, he's not crawling all over the house or on demand or anything. It's more just like crawl a few feet, fall down, scoot a little ways, crawl a foot or two more, fall down...etc... And he doesn't do it all the time. Only when there's something out of reach that he really wants. Otherwise he's still content to scoot around. But still! It's so cute. I wish I could get it on video but unfortunately our video camera is being a little twerp and not working. (Of all times!)