FSU-Miami Game

For those of you that don't know, I graduated from Florida State and Chris was raised in the Miami area. Needless to say, this puts us on two opposing sides of a huge College Football Rivalry. October in our house tends to be the roughest month of the year. Last year, I had the honor of serving on the President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors. One of the two co-chairs was Donna Shalala. It just so happens that she is also the President of the University of Miami (and the best one ever from what I hear!) We were invited to this years game and were treated like royalty!!! Valet parking at the stadium and the very best seats I think anyone could ever have for any football game. Prior to the game we attended a pregame celebration where President Shalala made a speech and introduced us as her special guests. She told a bit about how Chris was injured and needless to say, he received a standing ovation. It was absolutely amazing. I thought I would share some of the photos.

Riley lost his first tooth!

Okay for those of you that don't know, I have had a "shark boy" for the last six weeks or so. Riley's first loose tooth happened about two months ago. I went out of town for a week and when I came home the first thing I wanted to do was wiggle his little tooth. Much to my surprise, the new one had popped up behind it. He thought it was pretty cool. He said he was just like a shark. I called the dentist and they said it was actually a pretty common occurrence. Well, six weeks or so went by and the first one still had not fallen out. We even went to the dentist and he still wasn't concerned. Finally, today he came running down stairs and had his tooth in his hand. He is so excited about the tooth fairy coming. Sometimes he sleeps with us ( I know but I just love to have him snuggle with me before it is too late), but tonight he told me he needed to sleep in his bed because we had too many pillows on our bed and he didn't want to confuse the tooth fairy. Isn't he considerate? So, if I can figure out how, here are some pictures of him at bedtime.