June

So I still don't have the best picture of Spencer's lump at it's largest, my sister took one with her nice camera. When I get it I will post it, but it was really tennis ball size, it was huge. With the antibiotic it shrunk quite a bit, and on June first, the surgery day, the doctor said it was a great size. Spencer had a cough, but it was not in his chest, so we decided to go ahead with the surgery. Right before the surgery the doctor said Spencer would need to stay 2 nights, but right after the surgery he said it went so well we would only have to stay 1. The surgery took a long time, mostly to set up all the sensors since the problem was right on top of all of the nerves that go to his arm, and also very close to the lungs. I am very glad we went to primary children's to do it. He had a tube coming out of his neck the first day- it was gross and too bad we don't have pictures. He felt great the first day. He tells everyone they should get surgery because then the surgery fairy will bring you something, and people will visit you and bring you stuff, and you can go to the playroom and you get to choose whatever you want for breakfast. Pretty pricey breakfast, but I'm glad it went well. The second and third day after were a little rough, but then he was back to normal and has a cool scar that he will be able to impress the ladies with later in life. A few days after the surgery we took Spencer and Jase and Anna to the Natural History Museum. My sister suggested it and offered to watch James, which was great, it wasn't really his style, but Spencer loved it.

They had lots of fun kid activities.  They had these things that you could smell what it smelled like in dinosaur time (how do they know that?)

Jase spent forever putting this puzzle together while Anna and Spencer dug in the classic sand box with dinosaur bones glued to the bottom.

There was lots of other neat stuff too, it was very hands on.  On the last floor they had a Native American exhibit and the video playing was about Monument Valley and the boy talking was one of Devon's former students.
We also go to go to Gabe and Anna's for a few days.  We didn't get to spend a lot of time, but the boys enjoyed legoes

And the marble run

And Spencer wished he could jump on the trampoline.
We were back in MV for a few weeks before heading to Texas in the end of June.  I have been doing science at the library.  We made oobleck, if you never have, you should, it feels amazing and is surprisingly easy to clean up.