Alright Already

I've been under heavy scrutiny to update my blog more often. Now that I know Grandma Thompson is checking it, I may be more apt to update it more. Me and the girls went up to Clear Lake this weekend to see the family. Mom had a rough week last week with her business partner passing away and all. She wanted to see the girls so I headed up there. Grandpa and Grandma Thompson (my Mom's side) are making there yearly migration to their house in Kissee Mills, Missouri. For those of you who have never been to this booming metropolis, it's really close to Branson and a stone's throw from the trails of Syllamo Arkansas. Strangely, I've never been to the Syllamo trails. Anyway, the whole fam damily was there from the Thompson side. We had prime rib and put down a few frosty beverages. Brandon (aka Pudge) spent a little time with Ellen.

Stacey stayed home this weekend to work on projects both at work and at home. I'm sure she got done what she needed to at the office. I was hoping she would get our foundation painted too, but she ran out of paint at the final hour. Oh well, there's not much left to do there.

I don't think she'll be too anxious to let me take the girls on my own again for a while. We weren't in Clear Lake for 2 hours before the first injury occurred. Mara tipped her chair backwards at the table at lunch. She pushes her feet against the table in her booster chair. At our house the chair will slide backwards, which she thinks is pretty funny. At Mom and Dad's, the chairs don't slide so good, so she tipped backwards and banged her head pretty good on the back of the chair. She didn't think that was very funny.

Next up was Ellen. Both girls were having fun playing on the deck. Ellen was doing a good job all afternoon of crawling from one level of the deck to the other. The last time she did it, she slipped a little and face planted. Busted her top and bottom lips open and bled like a stuck hog. For those city folk checking this out, stuck hogs bleed a lot. She took it like a champ though, cried for a few minutes and then we got the old Ellen back pretty quickly.

Most of the rest of the night went on without incident. Mara just doesn't like crowds. I can understand that, since I don't either. She's content to do her own thing and is actually most happy with just a few familiar people in the room. She got to see her cousin Trenton again which was cool. Trenton is the son of my cousin Missy. He's a good kid, and I must say Missy is doing a great job raising her on her own.

Dad is busier than hell with work, so we didn't get to see much of him. Mom is coming down in a couple of weeks when Stacey is in Dallas. Maybe Dad can join us then. We'll see.