This Post Has Nothing To Do With Soybeans

A few more summer events...

Lisa and I had our 11th anniversary (so we've now been married half of Greg and Lizzy's lives) and actually managed to do dinner and a movie (with a stop in between to feed Jake). We saw the Bourne Ultimatum, which was excellent, and hit the Olive Garden. At this point, there's nothing more enjoyable than going out for dinner without kids.

Jake got his first ear infection, and we discovered his first allergy - after the doc prescribed Amoxicillin, Jake broke out in hives, so we ceased that medication immediately. Lisa's allergic, too, but neither of the girls are. So, we switched antibiotics and took care of it. Not soon after, though, Jake got what the doc described as some viral infection that made him break out all over. We thought it might be heat rash, since it's been so warm and he lays on his back so much. Obviously, the doc said otherwise, but it didn't prevent Lisa from going to Chicago with the kids and her mom, so I had three nights at home by myself (with three cats, and our friends' dog for one night). With the prime opportunity to watch some movies at appropriate volume levels without concern for sleeping children, I watched the entire Matrix trilogy. I almost went for The Lord of the Rings but opted for shorter movies.

Also, the online summer class I was teaching is over, so we have a week's worth of emptiness before Greg and Katelyn get married and then school starts to kick in. Lisa and the girls don't start until after Labor Day, though. Abby's going to start preschool, too, at the ripe age of 3 - she'll have two years of it that way, but she should do fine, for less than three hours, three days a week. Millbrook is already a very familiar place for her, too.

Meanwhile, there's been some . . . progress . . . made on selling our house, but I don't want to jinx anything so that's all I'll say.

Finally, some brilliant words of wisdom from the Matrix movies:

"Some things never change." Pause. "Some things do change."

Wow, what pure enlightenment. Let's blow something up!