A family update...

Berry Intolerance: Jackson seems to be having problems with strawberries and raspberries, so we are refraining from letting him eat either.

Dairy Intolerance: Jackson has had a problem with ear infections every since he was an infant (six in just over a year). Back in April we were referred to a surgeon to talk about having tubes put in his ears. We decided not to go the surgery route and instead on the suggestion of our chiropractor we've taken him off of dairy. Since then, he has not had even one ear infection. About 4 weeks ago we introduced yogurt in his diet and a day later he developed a cough and fluid in his ear, so we took him back off. We are about to try this again, to know if it was a coincidence or not.

Vocabulary Update: Jackson's vocab is really taking off. He's using two words together, such as, "Mommy's Car" "Wet Hair" "More Please".
He knows just about every animal sound we can think of teaching him, our favorites are bee sounds, seal sounds and lion sounds. My favorite of Jackson's latest words is cucumber. It sounds a bit like cuememember... it's too cute.

Favorite Toys: Fixing things with his toy tools, playdoh, books, remotes, see and say, toy trains, tractors and sand box toys.

Sara: I am busy with my Macroeconomics class at Century. We are in week 5, and I got an 86% on my first test (not as good as I had hoped, but I'll take it). I have been reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver and am tying to convince Ron that we should have a chicken coop in our backyard, he does not agree. I am still plugging away at work and enjoying the new excitment of the public radio world, the new Public Radio Tuner iPhone application.

Ron: Ron is busy as ever at work, many projects on his plate, keeping him busy and on the clock more so than I would like. He went to his 20 year class reunion this last weekend at Jimmy's in Vadnais Heights... he came back after 12:30, getting a ride home, and it sounded like he had a pretty good time catching up with folks all the way back to elementary school. Ron's softball season has ended (I'll have to check where they ended up in the standings) and his volleyball season has already started.

That's pretty much what is new in our world. It seems like before we know it another page is being turned over in our calendars (or whatever the equivalent is of that in our Outlook calendars).