She is officially the smartest 17th month old on the planet! Joy and I were sitting with McKenna and playing the week before last and my little angel blurted out "I'm gonna call my dada," while playing with the phone. The week before that when I took her to her childcare she said "I love you mommy" when I was walking out the door. Yes, I know, you are asking yourself..."How on earth did Mark & Jaime make such a perfect child?" The answer my friends is quite simple, PURE LUCK! Things are going to be a little less hectic around here from here on out (at least I think they are). We officially moved my dad back into his own home, with a lot of hard construction work put forth by Mark, Shawn and Jeffrey to make it more handicap accessible (thank you guys). Dad had his operation on 4/12/07 and it went smoothly. In the end, he opted to have all the toes on his right foot amputated instead of two toes and the meta-tarcel of his first toe, the surgeons thought it would mean less recovery time and an easier transition to walking again. He is in good spirits and I am sure he will not let this defeat him (no pun intended).

I am getting ready to go on a Las vegas vacation with my good friend KD next week and I am both excited and sad at the same time. It is going to be very hard on me to be away from McKenna and Mark for 3 nights, I think the longest I have ever been away from McKenna is 12 hours and that may be stretching it. It will be good to get this away time though, it has been a tough year so far and I think this will be a good way for me to relieve some tension at the slots :) Well, I suppose I should go. I here my little bumble bee buzzing about in her crib. Until next time, J