The Doran Kids...

Are finally official.

The family made a brief court appearance yesterday and even took pictures with the judge!

In typical Doran fashion this has been one heck of a year. Fortunately, we are on the down side. Mike takes his final this week and his state exam on Friday 10/29. Then we are off to the beach for a well deserved break.

November looks to be a quiet month. Kate asked Mike if he would help decorate the house for Christmas this year. It's not his favorite part of the holiday because I'm a little picky. He was such a good guy last year, he decorated and took orders from me (no, hell did not freeze over)... although he yelled at me twice for climbing up on a chair... and the ladder... and the couch.

So, he's off the hook this year, but has promised to help decorate the tree like he always does. I told Ethan he could be my little ladder-boy this year and he replied, "That's great, I love a good excuse to hurt myself."

Isn't that the truth.

I plan on getting him a t-shirt with a stick figure that has fallen down that says:

I Do My Own Stunts

Which is absolutely true... because he really does.

In the last year alone we've had the mysterious elbow injury, the dislocated fingers, a knot on head from running into the freezer... and probably half a dozen I've already forgotten. And, he does a great Dick Van Dyke over the ottomans in the den, all accidental too.