Hey, look, I'm updating and it's not even been a week yet!

I was very upset to learn that Sunday evening, our pediatrician died of an apparent heart attack.  (My sister-in-law works for the practice, so you would think I'd have heard this from her, but no, I heard it from a friend.  She still hasn't called to tell me, and she knows he's our pediatrician.) He was 60 years old, but certainly didn't seem that old, he was truly 60 years young.  There is another doctor in the practice, but since the kids aren't sick much anymore, we haven't seen him.  There is also a new female physician joining the practice-she wasn't supposed to join until after the holidays, but given the circumstances, she is joining next week.  So I guess we'll give them a try. 

We've been pretty busy this week (so what else is new?), but it should be getting better soon.  Football ends this Sunday, so there won't be anymore football practices. (YAY!)  They lost their game last week, 24-14, but that was much closer than anyone really expected.  They were playing an undefeated team that had been winning by BIG margins.  So we were pleased with the way our boys stayed in the game.

Softball ended Saturday, the girls won the first game of the championship tournament, but lost the second game to the #1 seed.  Overall, I'd have to say I was somewhat disappointed with Fall Ball, but I think it was more disappointment with the coaches than the girls.  During these two games it was painfully obvious that some girls did not want to be there--no hustle, standing in the outfield with their glove off, etc.  But those girls played every inning because they were the coach's daughters.  Based on the way these two coaches presented themselves in the spring preseason, I just expected them to know the game better and teach the girls more.

Katie had her first Volleyball scrimmage today, and wow!  What an improvement the girls have made from last year.  Katie never got out on one of her serves, they were all good, and she was serving overhand, too.  They had volleys going that were going back and forth 3 or 4 times, and it wasn't just one hit on each side, it was 2 or 3.  They won 2 of three games against a 4/5/6th grade co-ed team.

Chris got elected Student Council Treasurer. He's tried to be room rep the last two years, but could never beat 'the incumbent' LOL.  Now that he's in 5th grade, the officers are picked by a school election, not just a classroom election.  All the kids have to register to vote, and then the candidates give speeches, and then the school votes. 

Jeanie, if that Teddy Bear of my brothers had been going anywhere but to his daughter, I would never have let it go--neither would my mom.  His daughter was only 7 when he died, and she treasures everything she has of his.  Last Christmas, I made her a small scrapbook of pictures of him from infant through his Senior picture (pictures I was sure she probably hadn't seen, because my mom had them) and she cried when she opened it.  Her mom told me that all the way home, she was on the phone with her friends, telling them all about it.

My mom's apartment complex got sold 6 weeks ago, and the company that bought it owns some nice apartments and some Section 8 (goverment subsidized) apartments, which in Cincinnati tend to attract a troublesome type of tenant.  My mom became completely convinced that they were going to turn her apartment into Section 8 buildings.  I'm not convinced that that would happen---we are pretty far out of town, and not on a bus route, and most of those complexes seem to be close to town and/or on bus lines.  But she got a bee in her bonnet last month about moving to a new apartment, and she moves this weekend.  I thought that as long as she was looking, she should look for something that didn't have stairs, since she has trouble with them.  She's moving into another second floor apartment, in the next complex over.  She can actually see her new apartment from her old one.  Now, if her old complex goes downhill, is she really far enough away not to be caught up in it?