Aunt Megan arrived Sunday evening and stayed with us until yesterday morning. We all enjoyed her company very much. The boys kept her busy with books, trucks, and trains...she can build quite impressive train tracks on the Thomas table. I took Monday off, so we hung around with the little guys most of the day and then took them to Meadow Music at Chautauqua. A local children's musician puts on concerts every Monday evening through the summer, so we packed a picnic and joined in the fun. The boys loved it and even saw a few friends from school. I worked part of the day on Tuesday, and then Megan and I drove to Denver for afternoon tea at the Brown Palace, a beautiful historic hotel in downtown. It was so fun and we enjoyed some good sister time together.
Justin has one more week of his seminar and teaching responsibilities and then his quarter is finally finished. The boys will switch to a M-W-F schedule at school beginning June 7 to give him some much-needed study time throughout the summer. Justin met with his committee this week to outline the last 12-18 months of his time in the PhD program. He's definitely got his work cut out for him, but I think they're behind him with the timeline and understand our present circumstances with Jacoby. They did switch things around for his comprehensive exams, so he'll only be doing two this fall instead of three (the third exam will happen in the winter). They'd like him to tackle Clement of Alexandria for his Greek exegetical exam to "really show his stuff"...apparently it's some of the toughest Greek around. It says a lot that they think he can master it for an exam. The graduate school in Denver also asked him back to teach Greek in the fall again and told him to just plan on teaching for them until we leave the area. So, it's nice to have that to count on once again.
Jacoby has been scheduled to have his ACTH test and MRI on June 18. It will be another long day of fasting, but I'm glad we can get it done at one time. I also got a call from the Gastrointestinal Eosinophil Diseases Program at Children's Hospital in Denver. They want to schedule a full GI work-up for Jacoby, so I expect that to happen sometime in June as well. Morgan has been having a lot of trouble with even the tiniest amount of egg in any kind of food, even things he's eaten multiple times in the past, so I've been working with the school to come up with a plan to keep him safe. He goes back to the allergist at the end of June to follow up on this new heightened sensitivity to egg...anyone figured out our theme for the month of June?
We're going to a birthday party this weekend at the children's museum which should be lots of fun. Jacoby is so excited that he gets to have a cupcake for the party--I made a batch for the freezer to have on hand for special occasions. He has just about mastered all aspects of pottying now. We're still working on being able to take clothes on and off by ourselves, and it can be quite funny when he waltzes out and the pants haven't quite made it over his little hiney. He's also very much into "having privacy" when going potty now. Morgan doesn't get this at all and gets frustrated when he can't visit Jacoby during potty time. They're both keeping us very busy with all of their energy, curiosity, and constant activity. We were supposed to go to a U2 concert in a couple of weeks but it's been postponed to 2011 since Bono had to have back surgery. We're kind of bummed but hopefully it will still work out for us to see them next summer.
I think that catches everyone up on our news. Have a great Memorial weekend!
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