Aric Gets His Stitches Out

This morning, all four of us went to the doctor for Aric's stitch removal. I was not looking forward to holding Aric down while he got his stitches removed, so I brought Jeremy along to do my dirty work. Amazingly enough, though, Aric didn't fuss or even try to move. He seemed to think it was all very interesting, and the stitches came out without incident. We'll see if he can make it a few days without splitting the tender new skin open again...We certainly hope so! After we get past the "splitting open" period, we'll start exploring scar minimizing treatments because his wound is in such a prominent place. Hopefully we can make it disappear.

Jeremy's working on the VW bus today. He's getting very close to completing it. He's got a few days worth of body work left to finish out the doors, and then he'll just have a little nose work and the body will be done!

We've been working a little on our landscaping (we've got SO much room for improvement) and it's nice to see things looking a little better.

Our only other noteworthy adventure of late is the ongoing battle with the ants. Anyone who lives near us will understand what we mean. We have tiny little black ants that try to invade about once a week. They're always sending out scouts to find suitable locations, so we stop one colony, only to have another colony moving into a different room. It's an ongoing war, and we always win (thanks to TERRO), but it's annoying. However, the boys really like the excitement of new bugs to look at. Aric will lay on the floor and watch one crawl around and say, "Hi! Hi, Att! Hi!" over and over until I come over and "make the ant go away."

I have a few pics to post but for some reason I can't right now, so I'll try again later.