This past Sunday was Ella's Confirmation Sunday. As this was an important day in the history of our family, we kept with the un-official 'tradition' of losing the camera, and therefore have zero pictures of this monumental occasion.
That being said, we are eternally grateful to our super-prepared Auntie Julie, who DID have her camera, and is burning a disc with the pics of the big day along with a recording of Ella's Faith Statement. Ella rocked, and only feared she would hyperventilate AFTER speaking, which was a great relief to her:-). We will be sure to post the pics once we have them...
This Halloween was an interesting one...Ella dressed as a pioneer girl (which won best costume at our neighborhood Fall Festival contest), Natalie was a card from Alice & Wonderland, complete with red paintbrush, Grace was a gothic princess, David was Batman (making his Halloween count 2 years as Buzz Lightyear, 2 years as Batman) and Claire was Ming-Ming, the Wonder Pets duckling. Craig mortified the girls by dressing as mom's nurse maid, (as mom was a muggle in a wheelchair since her armpits were still bruised from her crutches after a busy weekend), complete with curlers and a cigar. The scary part of his costume was when night fell, people really weren't sure if he was a man or an incredibly hairy and bulky woman, so fabulous a 'shelf' his shirt-stuffed bra was. (Grace kept chanting, 'I'm just hallucinating that my dad is in a dress. I'm just hallucinating that my dad is in a dress. I'm just...' Ella walked a good distance away from him and Natalie pretended to be with another family :-). The highlight of the evening was Claire deciding after 5 houses she had 'enough candy' and wanting to go home, only to fall asleep on mom's lap in the wheelchair while Ella & Nat took turns trick-or-treating FOR her. Then, at the last house of the night, Claire woke up and upon receiving her now-full treat bag from Nat and moaned "Oh! My bag's too heavy...I can't carry it!" She is SOOOO pampered, and we are SOOOO enabling her!
Oh, and for the record, as is also our 'tradition', we found our camera on Monday.
Last week Nia had an appointment with an ortho doc. The 'official' diagnosis is that Nia has a compression fracture of the heel that is too deep for a traditional cast to do any good. Two bones from the fracture are resting PacMan style on a cyst on the plantar fascia, and no one will touch the cyst for fear it would cause the broken bones to impact deeper into the heel. The sentence is 6-8 more weeks of the boot, the boot and the boot with NO DRIVING, which will make for an interesting Christmas season. (If you all receive homemade orange ornaments with whole cloves poked into the sides, you now know what happened!)
Today, Claire had an appointment with the gastro-neurologist, and despite our 'home test' of a gluten free diet, the doc still would like for her to have a procedure done where a tube is stuck down her throat and images and samples of her small intestine are taken. He thinks it sounds as if she does have celiac disease, but wants her eating gluten until the test (on 11/15) so that a clear diagnosis can be made.
So, that's our life in a nutshell. Not that we're nuts!
Love Much,
The Meissler 7
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