100!

wow, this is the 100th post on this blog! somehow i'm very surprised by that. here are some pictures! :)

we've had a pretty eventful past few days. on friday, we drove up to appleton for a surprise birthday party for my friend lora. grandma and grandpa rogers took us out for lunch as a belated anniversary present, and then we went back to their house. i had sat down to feed ian, and about 2 minutes later, james and hayden walked in! they decided to visit, mostly to play with abby. so around 3 or so, we left for the par-tay. lora's husband matt put it together, and all of us were surprised as well that she had no idea. it's hard to put one over on her, but we did it. :) anyway, we surprised her at her office, then went for a drink (giant tube of beer!), then to katsu-ya for dinner. brian and i had never been there, but it was excellent. brian had beef katsu (not willing to try sushi), and i had the chef's choice nigiri. not sure what most of the fish was, but it was delicious nonetheless. all of us also split a bottle of plum wine and a bottle of sake. thanks, lora and matt!! after dinner, brian and i headed back to menasha to put the kids to bed, then back to lora and matt's house for board games. it was a great night, and we had a lot of fun.

saturday, we headed back here bright and early for brian to get to work by noon. then, nothing much happened for a couple of days. :) yesterday morning, abby had an appointment with a podiatrist about her toenails. for those of you who don't know, abby was born with pretty messed-up big toenails. they're thick, discolored, and not really attached to her toe except at the base. the pinky toenails are similar. the middle three are fine, except they don't grow. i've never cut them. so, the podiatrist seems to think it's a fungal thing, but couldn't explain how she got the fungus in the first place, since i don't think i have fungus in my uterus. so, she took some clippings to send to the lab to check for fungus, but in the meantime we're supposed to start treating her for it with vicks vapo-rub, of all things. this is likely to be a long process, one that we hope won't have to involve removal of the toenails. because seriously? i don't think i could handle that. toenails skeeve me out big-time.

the last bit of news is that ian is officially crawling! he doesn't move very fast, but he's doing a great job. it's necessitated some changes in our daily life, though. abby hasn't quite gotten it through her head that he will take her toys if she leaves them on the floor. hopefully it won't take long for her to learn that lesson, since fits are thrown pretty frequently.