Quick updates

I'm off to Houston this afternoon for a conference. I won't be home until about 11pm Friday night.
Addie and Ben both went to the pediatrician on Monday. Both came home with Augmentin for upper respiratory infections. They both went back today for Ben's 2 year check-up and to get flu shots. Both came home with orders to do nebulizer treatments ever 4 hours or use an inhaler and spacer every 4 hours. The spacer takes about 2 minutes; a neb treatment takes about 20 minutes. I hope they choose the inhaler!! Ben did his like a pro at the office. Addie wanted nothing to do with using the spacer for herself. We'll see. Actually Brian will see- since he's on 100% parenting duty for the next 72 hours!
Yesterday was Veterans Day and Brian had off work. He decided to keep the kids home and chill with them. I called in the afternoon to see how things were going and he informed me that they were visiting Brian's Grandmom. She's 88 years old and still on her own. Really a fiesty, fiercely independent woman. Addie was all lovey on her. Ben, as Addie said, "was scared of Great Grandmom." When I asked why, she said, "She has scary teeth." Ben then told me, "No hugs for Geat Grandmom."
After their visit Brian took them to lunch at a diner. Each ordered a drink. On Addie's lid, the waitress wrote "APPlE" for apple juice. The lady's handwriting was such that the p's looked like capital D's. Addie took one look at it and said, "Daddy!! How did they know my name?" It really does look exactly like how Addie writes her name, with capital ds. They had to save that cup, since it was so special to her.