Update

So we're getting there.  The kitchen, dining room and family room are put back together.  We are finishing the painting in the living room and then need to work our way up the hallway stairs. With extra kids during the day (Anthony and some others I'm helping with - never good timing is it) and painting at night, I feel like I'm going to collapse all the time, but we'll get through it.  It really has been relatively quick and painless.  I just want it done.  There sure is more trim and doors than I ever realized though.  We'll get a wall done and be so excited and then I've got to go around and paint trim and doors and...well, it just takes forever.  Oh well. Then we've got to put the new floor in the living room, which my dad is going to help with so hopefully that will be soon.  I'll keep you posted.  I may or may not post what's already done. It's a bit anti-climatic because it's not finished, but I'm too excited not to share so I might not be able to wait until it's all done.  We'll see.  For now, it's hard to even find a minute to post (or even check my email).  It's just been crazy!

Oh and here's the latest on Dylan.  I think his glasses are going to be more for reading the board at school and stuff.  He'll totally wear them, but we've already bent them a couple of times and gotten hurt many times from something hitting the glasses, which hit him in the face. It's just a disaster trying to keep him from ruining the things so we're going to use them when he needs them to see far away, but not make him wear them all the time since he barely needed them anyway.  We went back and forth, but I think that's the decision on the glasses.  

And one more quick story before I check out again.  Dylan had his first cavity filled yesterday.  Yep, if it's not one appointment, it's another.  I explained the process and knew he was apprehensive about the shot.  Well, we got there and apprehensive became total and complete freak out over the shot.  I sat by him, Marcos sat by him, we talked to him, promised toys, offered laughing gas...nothing worked. The dentist finally asked what he was afraid of and he told him the shot.  The dentist said, "Well, we can try it without the shot if you want."  Dylan was thrilled.  Marcos and I were terrified.  What the ...?  I didn't even know you could get a cavity filled without a shot.  Sure enough the kid sat through the drilling and filling and biting down and filing without any numbing whatsoever.  Both Marcos and I were so impressed and freaked out at the same time.  We were both choking back tears.  Here's our kid so afraid of a shot that he'd rather have his cavity filled without it and he's braving the whole thing no problem.  Dylan informed me that he will not be having a shot next time either.  I told him that was fine, but that we should work on not having a next time.  Stupid cavities between molars. We brush and floss, but that's just a tough place to keep clean in kids' mouths. I guess my kid is tougher physically than psychologically.  We'll have to work on that so he won't psych himself out later in life.  Oh well, at least we didn't have to have an anesthesiologist put him out for the procedure.  That would've been a hefty old bill for the Uboldi clan.  Just another adventure in this springtime chaos that never ends.