End of an Era

Sadly, tonight was the last night of cake decorating class. I don't know how much I actually learned, but it was so fun getting together with a bunch of women that I otherwise would never have gotten to know like that. When our class started at the end of September Charlie was still so tiny and I felt like I was trying to do everything underwater. Cake class was my weekly release. My two hours of stress-free laughs. We started with about 15 in the class and by the time it ended we were down to just 6 (but the best 6). I will miss my new friends, but hopefully I'll see them again soon...there is rumor of a 5th course! And next month I'm starting another round of classes.. spinning and gourmet cake baking! Good thing we love cake in our family!

Unfortunately, something else came to an end this week. Our poor Beta (AKA Siamese Fighting Fish) named Leall (pronounced Le-el) was with us for almost a full week before swimming on to his Heavenly home. Jayson is very excited about the prospect of getting another fish so we can give him another strange name. Hopefully we can break our record for number of days we keep the fish alive.

I was doing laundry the other day and came upstairs to this...and Aidan saying "hot. Hot Mommy. Hungry?" He always says hungry in question form. If you're wondering where he was when I took this picture...I'll tell you. Being punished. Sitting on the stairs and not very happy about it. I just took this picture to record how difficult it's been to keep him alive and without any major injury to himself or others.