Cole's napping in my arms after sleeping up in bed for a while, and Accalia's asleep in the recliner. Accalia woke up in the middle of the night with a scratchy throat and stuffed up nose, so she must have caught whatever I have been developing over the past couple days. It almost feels like a bit of an ear infection for me, but it's been decades since I had one of those, so I could be wrong. I might move up my appointment with our chiropractor scheduled for Friday to see if he can help.

Cory's parents are camping out at the lake this weekend. They arrived yesterday, and we went out for a bit last night. We didn't stay terribly long because it was rather chilly, both kids were getting tired, and Accalia was a little bored. Tonight we're going out again to celebrate Accalia's birthday since Cory's parents won't be able to make it for her actual birthday on the 14th.

Last night Cory and I watched "The Sum of All Fears". It was an okay movie. I'm not a huge Tom Clancy or Ben Affleck fan. Affleck just doesn't pull it off as a convincing actor all the time.

Accalia, Cole and I have been spending a bit of time at our neighbor Kathy's house the past couple days. She's single and her only child is away at college right now, so she gets lonely, I think. We went over Friday because we saw she had a new little puppy, a spitz Chihuahua mix named Sasha. Very cute. It definitely helps that you can't see much Chihuahua in her. Puppies and four years old are the perfect combination because they have about the same amount of energy and wear each other out. Accalia and Sasha ran around for quite some time. On Saturday Kathy invited us to come over and blow bubbles. She has quite a supply of bubble blowing equipment, so that was fun. And later in the day we took her up on her offer to harvest spinach and lettuce from her garden and had yummy, fresh salads for supper.

I think this will be a fairly busy week. Accalia has dance on Monday and Wednesday. On Tuesday we're taking Lucy to the vet. She had an ear infection back in December, and we noticed a few weeks ago that it seemed to be coming back - or hadn't completely gone away. I've been putting in the antiseptic drops we got from the vet, but they don't seem to be doing much good. When we've pet her a few times lately, she's whimpered in pain if we touch around that ear the wrong way. I can definitely empathize with her since I think part of the reason all of the noise from the kids lately has had me on edge is because something is up with my own ears.

Anyway, my family is arriving Friday for our camping weekend and celebration of Accalia's birthday, so I'll be preparing for that and then spending all weekend out at the lake. I think it's going to be great. Hopefully the weather cooperates!

I have to stop typing now. My arm is rather sore with my 20 lb. guy lying on it.