A requisite photo shoot . . . her cuteness factor has increased!

I soon had help. . .

Photo shoot continues . . .

You have to pretend a two year-old is in trouble to get her to smile.

You have to give a four year-old a new baby to get him to smile.

You have to exist to get your sweet baby to smile at you. Really, she is too generous!* We're so lucky to have her around--I would recommend you get a Mary Tessa, except there's only one!

*Of course, she's not quite smiling in these shots because she's concerning herself with surviving a SimAlli sandwich.

Ready for something different to look at?

Here's an oldey but a goody from Mary Tessa's blessing day.

Our camera card is full and I haven't been able to take new pictures for a week--all it would take is burning our pics to c.d. (you'd think I could manage that, but I haven't yet!).

In other news, I'm in physical therapy for my neck now, which is awesome. I have a bunch of exercises to improve my range of motion and I get to go twice a week for hands-on work on my neck (voice box, muscles, scar tissue) which just feels like a really fabulous massage.

I love my cancer center!

Also, it looks like I'm done having any other treatment (except the p.t.) for a year, besides checkups. Yay!

It's been really humbling and refreshing to be around all the cancer patients (and stretching to be one myself). All of the staff (from custodial to surgeons) and patients have such empathy and compassion for each other that it's a good check on how I treat people in other scenarios.

And you thought laundry was boring . . .

Lleaving a disposable diaper in the wash beats the pants off of a measly kleenex!

I spent a good half an hour shaking out a large load of clothes--it seemed like I dumped a *huge* batch of tapioca all over them!

Gotta go, kids in the kiddie pool . . .

Doin' pretty good!

Noteworthy:

Managed a shower by myself today.

Changed a diaper.

Got off narcotics.

Stitches out tomorrow!??(and JP drain--if you know what that is, shout hooray with me, if not, enjoy your ignorance)

Still wish Halloween wasn't so far away . . . a pretty good Frankenstein . . .

Also, completely unrelated, discovered Steve and Barry's. Which is clothing, but makes me think that Ben and Jerry's would be good.

I feel like Chinese take-out.

Hope you've enjoyed my post-narcotic daze.