Apologies and Excuses

So, I've been trying to think of a name for my memoirs, and laura suggested "apologies and excuses."  I think it's brilliant. 

Sorry for the delay.  it's been busy around here. plus sienna hasn't progressed AT ALL, so really there's nothing to blog about. We read that this is the Plateau, and she won't pick up again until puberty.  So, what we have is what we have (laura wants me to clarify.  see, lately, she has not been getting ANY of my jokes.  like, none.  so she wants to make sure that everyone else knows that I'm joking.  So yes, I'm joking, sienna changes every day).  Really, we've been busy.  interviewed in reno last friday, which went very well. like, really well, and the place looks great.  but in order to go, had to move everything around in one week's notice and make sure all the school work got done.  Plus, we had a little accident in the kitchen last tuesday.
you're gunna want to sit down for this... we were cooking tongue in the pressure cooker like we do every tuesday, and after the tongue was done, laura opened up the cooker and everything looked great.  But, when she went to "stick a fork in it," the thing exploded in her face.  From the other room, it sounded like a textbook being dropped on the floor.  Then I heard a yelp, then the cutting board hitting the floor, and then the most gutteral/terrified/horrific scream I've ever heard (way worse than childbirth).  With the liquified tongue innards (which were now cascading out of the pressure cooker) came all the boiling water and steam from the cooker, and onto laura.  she jumped away, and quickly sprinted for the shower.  after ten minutes in there, it looked like her whole right arm was turning red and assorted blisters were appearing in and around her armpit.  luckily, her face is as dreamy as ever.  also luckily, sienna was in her crib asleep, and not in her chair asleep (which was covered in tongue innards).  It was awfully exciting, though laura is okay and on the mend.  though, her wounds look really gross.  sorta like raspberry jam.  It's also worth noting that there is tongue all across the ceiling, with laura's silhouette inscribed within the tongue pieces.  Here's a pic taken an hour after the initial shock:


though it is healing, the blisters have all popped and the skin
has sluffed away.  her lower arm is actually more painful, though
it's less burned (first degree v second degree).

 Laura insists that we need to show more cute pics of sienna. 

hi



awesome.  these were sent along by
mr schultz (laura's seventh grade science teach).
No doubt who the boss is now.



She was awake??!!!  Here, daddy recovers
from his trips, and sienna humors him
(for about two minutes)

Anyway, I think that's about it.  we'll try to get some more updates.  in sienna world, she danced to the beat (no really. she was standing and stomping her feet in rhythm), switched toys between hands, and weighs 12#9oz.  I think she's stealing steel ball-bearings from my bike and hiding them in her cheeks.  that would explain the new squeek to my bike, and her added weight.  The social worker that is keeping an eye on us (because of laura's parole) said that sienna is right on target with her neurological development.  She did mention, however, that I was a little behind.  laura said, "tell me about it!"