City Museum visits

We got a City Museum membership again this year. We went for the first time on January 1, and we have already been enough to pay for the whole membership!!!!  We did not have membership last year and have missed a few things. They are always doing something new.  They have a bunch of these Tom Otterness sculptures and I love them.  I hope they are not just on loan!!!!

I took a few pictures in the architecture gallery.  I think this would look good over our front door!!!!

This is a little scary.....

No idea where this came from but it's one of my favourites

Ben's IEP meeting

I had the first IEP meeting for Ben at Brentwood this week.  They say he is doing really well.  They are ready to "let him off the leash" and get rid of his services altogether.  They don't think he needs them any more.  Of course, he is still behind with some things and definitely needs to improve in some areas, but some of that is him figuring out how to do that.  He is a very good advocate for himself.  His downfalls (have never changed) are that he works through things quickly and then doesn't check over it afterwards.  As one teacher said "he wants to get it done rather than do it right"  That is something he needs to figure out for himself.  We have a semester to see how he does and if he's still doing as well as now then he can change his schedule to get rid of the support.  They suggested that he does an academic lab after chemistry next semester.  It's run by the chemistry teacher, so he can help Ben with chemistry and math if he needs it.  I hope it works out, Ben will need to be independent to move on to what he wants to do.  He still wants to go to medical school.  It's a lofty goal and one I hope he achieves if he truly wants to do it.  If he gets there, it'll be more than I could do....

Not much going on, apparently

If I was honest, my work week last week was so busy that nothing got done at home.  I worked late every single day and even worked 14 hours on Thursday!!!!  Hopefully that's just a one-off week.  I had our department research week, interviewing MD-PhD students, teaching, a seminar presentation, meetings for the dean search and AOA student poster session.  Plus, I had 2 grant deadlines!!!!
Anyway, on Saturday I ran the #4 race in the Snowball Series-a 6K run in Creve Coeur Park.  I had to run it on my own because Sam was working this weekend.  We ran past the Dripping Springs waterfall, it was mostly frozen

This picture of the cats pretty much sums up our lives since we went back to work, everyone has been very mellow!!!!

One of the faculty in my department used to own a flower shop and is really good at arranging.  She did these for research week and we snagged them after the meeting for our break room.

It inspired me to try to do better with my flowers.  This was my first attempt!!!!  Apparently I need more filler!!!!

Is this fashion????

Ben came downstairs in a black shirt, orange and black shorts, maroon tights and orange shoes.

Ben: I need to change my shirt
Me: why?
Ben: cos it's covered in cat hair
Me: please don't put anything other than black on Ben: why? Me: because my eyes are going to start bleeding

He runs upstairs and comes back down with an orange shirt. Then he runs downstairs to show Sam

Ben: let me stand in the light
Sam: stand in the light? You're making your own light
Ben: but I look good, don't I????

Ben's latest growth stats

Well, despite us not doing Ben's GH shots as often as we should, he has still managed to keep growing.

Height 166.3 cm (5ft 5.47in), 39%ile

Weight 53.4 kg (117 lb), 44%ile

BMI 19.4, 45%ile

He is definitely taller than me now, there's no denying it in any way!!!  He's grown 2 inches in the past year, so he is slowing down but Dr T think he could still get another couple of inches if he keeps doing his growth hormone.  She did talk to him about how important it is and hopefully he did pay attention and will keep going for as long as he needs to.  She is getting ready to retire so she said I'll quit when you do!!!!!