Avery & Rylee

I am going to try to post pictures. We are going to Austin 10/25.

The Maggie and folks Travel Blog

Mary has created a travel blog for when they depart for Vietnam. So far all it has is a picture of Michael Djoong Quigley, a clock showing Vietnamese time, and a book link with a review of a book called "The Kitten who Thought He was a Mouse" written by a seven year old. You can take a look at the little fellow who will soon be Maggie's brother.

Some News from North Carolina

Since there seems to be an effort to overcome our dry spell on the blog, I'll add our news. I am back at work. Can't say that I really like it. I have three classes, one with 150 students. At least that gives me two teaching assistants and I can get them to do most of the work.

Laura has a big black eye! She accidentally hit her face right at the edge of her eye with a DVD case while working at the library and it suddenly puffed up and looked like she'd been hit by a baseball bat. I am sure that when she went to church the next day all her friends thought she just made up the story to hide the fact that I've been beating her.

She also has a deep cut on her back where the dermatologist removed a spot weeks ago. It is not healing much at all. She has been back to the Doctor several times and she has cleaned it up and given her lots of antibiotics. We are going to see if there is any improvement this coming week.

Last, and not least, our friends the Quiggleys have gotten the final approval to adopt little Duong (pronounced like Marshall's middle name I think), who will now be Michael Duong Keiran Quiggley. They leave for Vietnam to pick him up a week from Friday. Laura is almost as excited as they are. It's almost like getting another Vietnamese in the family.

Tonight at the Mellow Mushroom I tried to tell Maggie the story of how Blaine met Judy, and how long he spent in Vietnam. She seemed interested, but I am not sure how much she understood.

That's about all that is interesting up here. Anyone else?

Well...Don't know if I can do better but....

Well...I don't know if I can do better.



Meghan got her "appliance" last week and has done rather well for 6 nights. Tonight her 6th night was probably the worse but it really only took about 10-15 minutes to settle down. She even had me singing to her, so you know she must have been desperate. Only 11 more weeks to go! That is until the next appointment at which time I fully expect him to say we will keep it on a few more months until the braces go on!



She has started to add more to her diet. She can now eat peanut butter sandwiches (pulled apart into tiny pieces - not bitten), and McDonald's nuggets (again, pulled apart). It hasn't seemed to stop her from eating chocolate - one piece got stuck in the appliance and I told her not to worry...it would melt.



We went shopping Saturday to make us both feel better. We even invited Jackie and Mother. We went to Kohl's (Jackie's new favorite store), then had lunch at Wendy's (Meghan could eat a baked potato and a Frosty), and then went to the Super WalMart in Brandon.



So, that's what we have been doing (minus a few hundred things).

What's New?

Well it seems noone has time to post what they are up to so I will.

Elizabeth introduced me to Kohl's in Brandon and Art & I are going there today (Monday).

That's about it. Can anyone do better?

Anniversary at the Beach

We spent 3 nights at Grand Shores to celebrate our 35th. Weather wonderful although hot. I think it's getting cooler here...not in the 90's. Art & I enjoyed taking Meghan to "High School Musical Ice Show". Skaters very professional and music good. Great to see something for kids that is clean and music not rap. Denise, Art's daughter, had the baby 8/30. Rylee Paige. Wish I could find my pictures so I could post. When I asked what Avery (3) thought about her new sister I was told the only thing she wanted to know & kept asking was "how did she get out of your stomach?"