Happy Birthday Ariel - I like the new hair ;)

Before the minor surgery.

Tomorrow Ariel will be 4 years old, but instead she looks younger. While I was at school yesterday, Ariel found some kid scissors in an art set and cut off big chunks of her wavy hair, which Carrie had to fix. I did not make a big deal out of it since we had all the scissors we knew about put away up high, so kids always seem to find stuff.

After the self manipulation

Well besides that life altering event. I finished up my swedish full body course this week and start into Deep Tissue Massage already without a break in between. I am still not perfect on the full body yet but I still have straight A's - I got a 91 yesterday on my massage theory test, went out to lunch with all the girls from class and said goodbye to our swedish instructor. Jim is a nice guy and was a good instructor.

I have a mild headache this morning, but the other day I had a whopper - Carrie climbed on my back risking my life or at least my mobility and popped some vertebrae and then pulled my neck into traction, though it was scary, it seemed to actually stop most of the pain. She's doing well lately, though some things still concern me, and the dream I had last night was stressful but not gonna talk about it here.

I need to work on cleaning today, then maybe sit down and figure some business card designs.

Carrie is running around today getting Ariel some Birthday stuff - cake and Ariel will help make the cake, so hope she has fun.

Todd

Welcome to the Jungle

Here is my latest scene, a jungle scene. Just finished this last night. I think it turned out pretty good ;)

Now to catch up on me since I have not posted in a couple days. I had my practical hands on exam for Swedish massage last week and got a 90% which is still an A average. There are some things I need to improve on yet, thats maintaining contact, making sure I communicate everything to the client.

I need to see a chiropractor soon. All this massage has aggrivated something in my back, pinching a nerve and causing some nasty headaches and pain down my left arm and shoulders. So I hope I can get that taken care of soon so it does not interfere with my schooling.

We start in deep tissue next week with a new instructor. We've actually had her before, I like her because she's into some of the spiritual / energy work type things.

Ariel turns 4 years old at the end of the week. She wants a 'hitting thing' (pinata) for her birthday, so I will try to get her one of those. I asked her what else she wants and she said "I just want some candy and you can be my best friend and share it with me."

She has said some interesting things lately, one of which she opened up to Carrie about while I was at school that may have been a past life of hers, which I feel adds more evidence that we do indeed have past lives, for a 3 year old who has never been exposed to this concept, to explain in detail who she was. She claimed one day her pop-pop went out for a walk and was not doing anything wrong and this police with long guns shot him and then with long swords cut his head off. Her grandmother wore a pretty dress like a princess and they lived in a big big house with a lot of colors.

I get the feeling that it was French military, sounds like something they would do back in the day.

She then further explained to me that she forgot to tell mom, that she had a lot of brothers and sisters in the house, and that her mom and dad were dead, but now she had a new mom and dad. She said her name was Sophie and she was 6 years old when her pop-pop died.

Here's a recent picture of Ariel with our new camera my father in law gave Carrie.