Rainy days

We have been stuck inside alot this week since the rain won't seem to go away. Mom and I were going to take the kids to the pool on Thursday but that got rained out. We ended up just hanging out at the house and Maggie got to play with her new doll house that is as big as she is!

It doubles as a princess house and a house for her pets. Gracie is over at Patti K and Jim's house this week so she's also gone over to play with her some and has loved that. Friday morning we took Owen to the eye doctor to have his eyes checked out. He has had a tendency to have one eye turn in over the past few months and I just wanted to get it checked out while we were home. Well, he did awesome, they even had to put drops in his eyes and run lots of tests and the little champ didn't cry at all. The doctor told me what my personal doctor, Neila Susan(Dr. Thompson) had already said...he thinks it's just pseudo-strabismus. This is just where he has a wide nasal bridge and when he looks at things it appears that his eyes cross but in reality they really are not crossing. As he grows and his nasal bridge isn't so wide it will go away. He wants to see him again in 6 months or so to check it again but said he thinks it's not a problem. So that was good news and took that worry off my mind.
Last night we were supposed to meet JR, Lori, TJ, Jim, PK, Gwen, and Gracie at Camden Park but when we got there it was raining pretty hard so I didn't want to have my 2 little ones in all that so we headed back home. Maggie was pretty dissapointed since she was really looking forward to being with all her cousins, but I told her we'd do it another time. This morning she got right up and headed over to Patti's house to play with Gracie and stayed there about all morning long.
Joe got his plane ticket booked so he comes home Aug. 18th and flies back with us on the 2nd of Sept. I am glad he will be with us on the flight home. We have a busy 2 weeks planned when he gets here. We will be in Ohio, Peoria, Kentucky, and West Virginia so that will be fun. Amanda and Tres are going to my house in Germany the 13th of August and staying Europe to sightsee for a few weeks before coming back to my house in Sept. and staying a few weeks. It will be nice to have them there, we always love having company in Germany. I hope to get Owen in this weekend for yet another haircut! His hair grows so quickly and already needs a good cut again.