Hello everyone! Lacy and I are sitting here in the waiting room at the Mayo Clinic for Katie to come out from her endoscopic ultrasound. Which should be any second now. Lacy is playing with everything she can get her hands on which right now is the id labels for a printer that is next to me..... A nice little lady from Mayo just came by and handed lacy a little handmade kitten doll and now she is playing away with it.... After the ultrasound we're scheduled to go downstairs and get a CT. Tomorrow has us starting at 8:00 a.m. and going through most of the day with follow up appointments after todays rounds of tests. Then if all goes well we will be heading home on Friday, but there is still a lot of things we need to figure out before then.

Everyone take care.

P.S. Lacy sat in the booster seat at a restaurant for the first time (for me at least, but not Katie) and was a big girl. She's sat in just the normal chairs before, but I've never seen here in a booster seat before.

Lacy loves playing the piano. Here she is with her MaeMae playing with her at their house.

The picture with just Lacy is from Super Bulldog Weekend 2007. She loves climbing into the cabinets in the kitchen of our condo and shutting the door. The other picture is of the two of us on Easter.

Katie, Lacy, Baxter and I will all be leaving tomorrow night (monday) to go back to Rochester, MN for Katie's one year post surgery check up. We'll be staying in Hannibal, MO (home of Sameual Langhorn Clemens, aka Mark Twain for all of you Huckelberry Finn fans) on Monday and then will arrive in Rochester on Tuesday. She has several rounds of tests scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, and if all goes well we should be leaving on Friday.

The worst case scenario (we think) is that Katie would need another surgery to fix the valve that connects her esoph0gaus to her stomach. Unfortunately to do that she would have to have the same surgery that she had last year. Which means that they would have to go in again and cut out her rib, pretty much crush the lower six and crack some of the upper ones, cut an 14-15 inch gash from her back to her chest, deflate her lungs, insert two chest tubes, all which we are told is worse the second time around. So we are really, really hoping that she won't need this. All prayers and thoughts are greatly appreciated.

On the plus side is the fact that we get to eat at a little sandwhich shop in downtown Rochester named City Market which is the best little sandwich shop that I've ever eaten in.