Tea Party

On labor day, the Tea Party Express bus was in town so my parents, the kids and I made some signs and loaded up in the van to meet it. This part of the freeway isn't normally that busy and it was a holiday so we were shocked when the freeway was backed up. I was worried that we might miss out on all of the fun but then I looked out my rear view mirror and saw this:

and new that we would be just fine since the Tea Party can't start without the Tea Party bus.

We still almost missed out on the fun because there were so many people there they had to turn many away. There just wasn't room. I guess this one had the biggest show (except for D.C. ) with 10,000+ people.

Apparently, not everyone in Illinois is a Obama/tax and spend Congress fan.

I wish I could post pictures of ALL of the signs. Some of them were so clever. This shirt is one of my favorite though:

I'm glad the kids got to come along. I want them to see a peaceful protest and know that if they don't agree with what the government is doing that should speak up.

Take Two

No, you haven't accidentally gone back a month on my blog. Alexia ended up in surgery again. It's hard to believe that this has caused us so much trouble.

Wouldn't you know it, this all happened while Conal is out of town. Thankfully, my parents were able to come into town with only two days notice. THANKS Mom and Dad!

Here is the before. A calm 4 year old with a not so calm mommy:

I think the nurse felt bad for her having to have another surgery so she gave her two stuffed animals this time which Alexia promptly named Melissa and Max:

Mommy hates this part:

And the after:

Sure wish this surgery would've done the trick. Unfortunately, Jackson accidentally pulled out the drainage tube prematurely. Next week we are off to another specialist. It's pretty scary that 4 rounds of antibiotics and 2 surgeries can't take care of a little staph infection. She broke her nose in June............we'd love to put this all behind us!