Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all the Fathers in our lives

 We sure are lucky to have our dad.

He is so cute.

He is so fabulous.

Our parents will be able to say at the end of their lives that there was 

NOT ONE DAY

that went by that they didn't do something for one of their children or grandchildren. 

They are truly the greatest parents in the world.

We had a fun day today celebrating...

This cute girl's 12th birthday...

 And good husbands too...

 I took this picture because I think Kori's legs look cute in

every single picture.  She was so happy to announce that

she had recently shaved them and Russ added that he had exfoliated them twice

We love our cute cousins...

And we finished off the day with a walk around the neighborhood.

We had a really good time tonight.  We laughed a lot and told some really funny stories.

And we also decided that we are going to "keep it real"  in our family when we are together.

When we are with family members, we get to say whatever we want, and feel however we want to feel and we don't have to apologize or pretend that this doesn't SUCK and we don't have to put on a show or a happy face.  If we feel happy, great, we can be happy....  but the same is true if we feel lousy.

And tears are allowed and so is swearing.  Additionally, the onlookers aren't allowed to squash the crap parade with a bunch of positive thoughts...  our responses, for now are going to be "you're right to feel the way you feel and I feel exactly the same way about it too."

We caught ourselves several times tonight 'going positive'.  It was kind of funny...

Mom said 

"in six months, all of these frustrating things will be a blur and you will hardly remember how it was".  

And Kori goes...  

"you keep saying that.... six months....  and it's ruining my goal of TWO MONTHS."  

We laughed so many times at her expense tonight.  

Don't feel too sad for her, she was the instigator of most of the poking.  

She has "left side distraction disorder" (this isn't the real term, but I can't remember the technical name of it right now)

and what that means is that she kind of misses all of the events happening on her left side.  

Essentially she only sees half of the room and hears half of the conversations and so it is really easy for her to lose interest.  

So sadly, right in the middle of a conversation, she totally zones out.  And focuses on other events far less important than the awesome story that I was telling her.

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...............Anyway..............

Mom says in therapy the therapist will say 

"focus on your hand.... try and make it move"

but she looses interest in her hand really fast

and she starts watching what the guy across the room is doing 

and Mom says she wants to yell

"KORI..... pay attention"

And then Kori said "my hand IS NOT GOING TO MOVE!  It's the same as him putting my cel phone in front of me and telling me to try and make it move."

I said.... "you never know.... before this is all over, you might be able to move stuff with your mind."

And she goes.... "yeah, I'll be able to sweep my kitchen floor by simply thinking about it."

We have a big week ahead of us.  

And by us, I really mean Kori...  Kori has a big week ahead of her

and we are the onlookers

and so our job will be to be supportive of her feelings

no matter what they are

BRING IT!!!!