Madalyne Calli Voges was born on 6/5/2007 at 11:00am, weighing in at 7lbs 3ozs. Congratulations Amanda!

 

So, as part of my 43 Things, I said I wanted to post more on the web. I think it would be a great journaling tool for when the kids get older. Hopefully you will see a daily post up here, and pictures posted more often also. Yesterday was the first of such posts. It’s kind of a cop-out, because I didnt actually write it. Oh well, gotta start somewhere….

My first (Alpha) version of muTunes is released today.  Check it out here: http://www.thesmithsplace.com/mutunes 

muTunes is a multi-user ”NowPlaying” plugin that works with WinAmp, iTunes, and many other music players.

NOTE: If you’re not a WordPress user, you probably won’t care. 

The website got hacked a while back. and so I thought it was time to update the website from Joomla to WordPress.  Joomla is great software, but it was much more than what we needed it for.  I also updated our Gallery software, thinking that could also be the culprit.  Well, we got hacked again today.  WordPress is watertight against bugs that we know of, so I started thinking that my ISP’s server could’ve gotten hacked.  So I was checking things out when I remembered we have one more piece of software.  It is called phpGedView, and it is the geneaology software that I run.  Well, I hadnt updated it in a long time, and there is a worm running around (SunTzu) that is exploiting websites using this software.  So I removed phpGedView for now, until I have time to update it.  So there ya go.

Well, Emily got through the surgery fine. She was only in the operating room for about 20 minutes.  The surgeon, Dr. Edmonds, found an “obnoxious amount of fluid” in her right ear.  That is the ear that has been hurting her so much.  She recovered very quickly and was soon eating a popsicle.  Since she has had a little bit of soup, and lots of ::wikipedia(”Jello”,”Jello”):: and pudding.  :)  She still has a little pain in her ears, but that is to be expected for a while.  Her throat was sore in the beginning, but the pain seems to have completely subsided.  Thanks for your prayers!

Emily has been fighting some inner ear problems for a while now.  She continues to have chronic ear pain and now has a loss of hearing due to fluid behind both of her eardrums.  We noticed back in November (a week before her 4 yr. check up) that she was not responding to us.  We had her hearing checked, and she didn’t pass in both ears.  We have visited the pediatrician and an ENT several times since then and the decision was made to insert ::wikipedia(”Myringotomy”, “tubes”):: in her ears and remove her ::wikipedia(”Adenoids”,”Adenoids”)::.  Emily will undergo this outpatient surgery tomorrow morning around 7:30 a.m.  Please pray the surgery goes well and that Emily’s hearing is restored.  Also, please pray the surgery will result in a cure for Emily’s continuing pain.

Stella had ::wikipedia(”Lasik”, “Lasik”):: surgery today, and so far everything is going great.  She had surgery at 10am, and about 1pm she had a lot of pain in her eyes.  She was able to get some sleep (they tell you to keep your eyes closed for over 4 hours) and she woke up feeling great!

The only bad part is that she has to put rewetting drops in her eyes every hour, and medicine drops every 4 hours.

 It’s a small price to pay though. 

Well, the site was down for a little while, due to some ::wikipedia(”Script kiddies”,”unsavory individuals”)::, and some major changes had to happen.  But it is back up, and hopefully better than ever.  I will get the Picture Gallery up and running soon.