Been a Long Time.....

I know I have been awful at updating my blog lately, but I figure there are only a few people that read it anyway, so no one is missing much! 

So far, October has been MAD busy!  The beginning of the month, a long lost cousin came to meet and visit everyone.  It was amazing to finally put a face to the name of the person I had been texting for over three years.  It was a little like Internet dating....you weren't sure if you were really excited or really nervous.  All was good though because we hit it off just as well, if not better, than we did via text.  During her visit, L came down with some strange flu.  We had a little family gathering and L was quiet all night.  He became more and more lethargic and eventually, he threw up on me.  We thought it might have been related to him hitting his head twice pretty hard, so we ended up in the ER.  Thankfully, there was no head injury, most likely just the flu as well as an earache.  While we were sitting in the hospital room, L gradually started looking better and becoming his normal self.  He was a little quiet for the next two days, then back with a vengeance.  On Thursday of that same week, my mom, L, and I headed to Columbus.  L and I were meeting up with one of my best friends from college and mom was meeting up with my brother and his family.  Amazingly enough, my friend (well, her sister) and my brother live really close to each other, so it worked out perfectly.  We went to Easton to walk around and have dinner.  We had a really great time enjoying the nice evening and finding the Lego Store for L! 

During the week, we heard from yet ANOTHER cousin that he was going to be coming to Wooster to visit the coming weekend.  This cousin is from Germany and is working in IN for four months and figured it would be cool to come visit his American cousins since we weren't too far away (FIVE hours....we heard about those FIVE hours quite often!  Hahaha)  We had a blast with him!  Took him to eat some good American pizza, my friend and I took him to a barn party and bar hopping so he could same as much American beer as he could, and we took him to pick out pumpkins.  Halloween is a very American holiday and he was completely in shock at the amount of pumpkins!  It was really fun. 

L had another bad earache that happened on Friday and we had to take him to the doctors again on Saturday.  Clearly, he is doing an earache every weekend kind of deal (he actually had one a week before we took him to the ER as well).  Poor guy!

This week, we haven't had any visits from people out of town...which is kind of a nice break.  This weekend, though, we have an important birthday party to attend!!!  My niece is turning a year old!  I swear, it is amazing how fast time flies!  I'm very excited to see that little peanut!  She is the cutest little doll baby ever! 

Here's hoping November might bring a calm and normal weekend...though admittedly, I love all the happening and visits.  It's so fun and keeps me on my toes!!!