What has the Rhino been up to you ask?

Well the answer would be….what hasn’t he been up to!

Of course school is back into full swing and Rhino has a full class load this semester so that’s been keeping him busy. We’re learning French together…hahaha.  It’s comical in the household with Christian learning French and trying to teach his old mother, needless to say he hasn’t asked the teacher how to say some of the words that I REALLY want to know how to say (guess maybe he’s afraid to get kicked out of the class?).

Second, soccer season is full blown!  Unfortunately with Rhino’s ankle he’s not seeing to much field time…alot of riding the pine time…not too much play action.  But that’s ok, hopefully the upcoming surgery will make him stronger for next season and an added bonus to the team!

Third he’s still doing the Civil War Reenactment, infact as I type Rhino is on his way back from a weekend long event (which will be his last again due to his ankle surgery).  He had a living history day locally last weekend that I had the absolute pleasure in sticking around for.  One of the best days of my life and it was great to see Rhino smiling, enjoying himself, joking with the Pirates and all around having a good time!!

And fourth but of course not least Rhino is just being a teenager.  Driving us nuts with some attitude at times, texting away like crazy, counting down the days till he’s 16 (a lot of his friends have been turning the big 1-6 the last couple weeks!) and enjoying LIFE as he knows it!!  We continue to be amazed at all the wonderful things in life Christian has brought to us (even though there are times you just really want to sell him to the highest bidder or ship him off to a boot camp!!), we know we are truly blessed with our teenage rhino!!!

Will the REAL rhino please stand up!

Just thought we’d show you truly the REAL rhino.

Not to be confused with the “fake” Rhino.

But I can truly see where you can be confused!  The similarities are quite stunning, aren’t they?  I mean they both have a face only a mother could love!

And well this mother loves her teenage Rhino beyond words.

October is the date

Moments ago I got off the phone with Dr. G’s office.  Rhino’s ankle surgery has been moved up to Thursday, October 8th. 

Guess he can go trick-or-treating this year as a Rhino that got him by a safari truck…lol!

Thanks to everyone for all your positive thoughts and prayers…keep them coming if you don’t mind.  The next 4 months will be a long road ahead!

Part Duo!

Just when I thought dreamed that we had everything under control health/medical wise in the Rhino household….whammo!

Let me back up a minute, as previously mentioned Christian and I headed off to see the sub ortho specialists about his ankle, Dr. G this past Friday.  She’s WONDERFUL!  Rhino feels sooo comfortable with her and sure enough he needs surgery.  We scheduled everything that day for November 30th, so Rhino could continue to play thru soccer season and re-enactment etc, etc (this was per request of Rhino!).

Now today I pick the beast up from soccer practice to see him limping off the field, he crawls up into the vehicle to kindly state…”mom could we please move my surgery up because I’m in so much pain that I can’t play, so it’s either I’m in so much pain that I can’t play or have surgery and not be able to play.  Either way I’m not playing!”.  I could just see the pain in his eyes and the disappointment.  So needless to say, I’ll be on the phone with Dr. G’s office tomorrow to see what can be done!

In other Rhino news…….there’s a Rhinoette (we’ll call her J) roaming around the savannah these days!  Yes, Christian has a girlfriend.  And I believe this one is his first real puppy love…the words “this means alot to me” was spoken and he has a different demeanor about him with Rhinoette.  I’ve yet to meet J, and she lives in another school district, actually another state away but is only about 1/2 hour drive.  We’ll see how this pans out, specially with everything else going on in Rhino’s life.  But I guess if she can handle being thrown into a pond by Rhino and dished it back out at him, J’s gotten one point from me already!