Simple New Years Cake

Ok, so I didn't invest much time on it, but still came out cute and
banged out the whole thing in a couple hours, including baking time ;)
My friends out here are easily impressed, so they'll be happy I made a
cake, regardless of what it looks like...LOL!

Sharon, thanks for sharing some of your pro tips. I did use them, but
next time I will make more time to make it smoother, so I don't just
say "ah, good enough" *wink*

Countdown to the New Year!

Been a busy week so far with the countdown to the new year. We have been preparing and getting the house all spiffed up and ready to receive guests for new years eve, plus, I just like to start the year off clean. I just usually wait until after all the holidays are over, but with the party I was a little premature ;) We have been purging cabinets, refrigerators, closets, garage, toy boxes. Pretty much, most of the house (except my master closet, which I did last month). Even did a little furniture rearranging! Yep, you know me!!

Jamie our helper has been a GODSEND!! She is truly a gem. She is both my hands (not just my right hand woman). She helps me with my OCD too ;) Although, don't know if it's helpful to be my accomplice *wink*. We have done so much over the last few days. The house looks truly amazing!! She actually helped me do yard work today! Way above and beyond the call of duty! I did manage to even steal away, sans children, this morning to go to drop off donations at Goodwill and go to Costco with my friend and neighbor. That was nice! Thank goodness she comes tomorrow too, I will be like a chicken with my head cut off, I'm sure. I am always a psycho the day of a party. I have most of my prep work completed. Just saving those last minute things, vacuuming, wiping down the bathroom, etc. Oh, how I love to entertain guests! I don't know why, because it is so labor intensive, but I love to have people over and cook, talk over a cocktail, have everything look pretty. Silly, I know!

Ok, I am going nuts with the smell of that cake baking. Yep, decided to make a simple cake, nothing fancy because of time constraints. Also can't wait to test out my new bread maker tonight after I frost the cake! Thanks mom!

Hope you all have a fantastic NEW YEAR!!! See you in blogland next year!!!

Christmas 2008 Pictures

We had a great Christmas and here's our proof:



Kaylee Motoring around with her new walker. Hopefully she'll be walking in no time with some practice ;)

Clean up, Clean up, everybody clean up...

Out with the old and in with the new.  It's that time of year.  We are going to start our sort to make room for our new toys.  It's a good habit to get in to.  I don't want the kids to be pack rats like me and Grandpa Jim *wink* (I know you read this Grandpa).  The old toys don't get thrown away, they go to a good home, to someone that really needs them.  That is what I tell the kids when this time rolls around.  We purge every Christmas and Birthday (July).  I usually start it the week before, of toys that I know they no longer play with and they finish with the ones that are a tougher decision.  We have been doing this for the last few years, so the kids really don't know what it's like to keep stuff they don't use, so it's easy for them to let go.

Other than that, it's a day to start cleaning up the house and getting ready for the new year.  You may think I am a neat freak (ok, I am a little) but, I am really not a psycho or anything.  Our home looks quite lived in.  Too lived in for my tastes!! But I never wanted to be that mom that makes her kids put the toys away when they are in the middle of playing with them because I can't handle disorder.  It just makes me a little nuts when the whole house turns in to a playroom.  My kids and husband are NOTHING like me.  They don't care when things are messy.  It doesn't seem to phase them.  Ethan is a little bothered, but he can still make a pretty big mess.  He just doesn't like other people to ;) Sounds like mommy!! LOL  You should see my kitchen when I cook.  I am a really messy chef.  Appropriately enough, Mark tucked some Clorox wipes in my stocking this year.

I am hoping to have the house all purged and clutter free by our NYE party.  We decided to have people here.  We haven't had a party here since Ethan's birthday last year, so I thought it would be fun.  I like the fact that we won't have to leave the house.  We are going to have kids here too.  We'll be playing Wii karaoke, American Idol 2, that we just received for Christmas and grubbing out to some yummies.  It should be a nice relaxing time.  I LOVE to entertain, so it's fun for me.  I love cooking and having people enjoy my dishes.  Making a Mexican themed spread of appy's.  

Ok, better get to gettin' this house isn't going to clean itself!  Although I wish there was a self clean option ;) I'll post some Christmas pics later!  I'm also dying to use my new breadmaker, but I have to finish the kitchen before I bust it out.

Merry Christmas!

Warmest wishes from the Grimes Family.

G5 Weekend Report

Hope everyone had a great weekend!  We are winding down on days left until Christmas.  Hope everyone has their shopping finished!  I got the last of our "wrapped presents" on Friday.  I headed up to Toys R' Us and got Ethan and Kaylee's last presents.  I have some gift cards to pick up, but that I will do tomorrow.  Nothing like waiting until the last minute, eh?

My mom came up Friday night and we headed out to Costco to do some shopping for our tamale making party on Saturday.  I did all the meat prep and cooked the meat for the next day. I also made the chili sauce and salsa.

The next morning, it was on! We went to McD's to pick up some breakfast and coffee and we got started. We wrapped and cooked for most of the day.  We enjoyed our Mexican feast of chips and salsa, taquitos, beans and rice while we wrapped.  Boy, it is a huge undertaking to make tamales.  We made a lot.  We also made several different kinds.  We have spicy beef, mild beef, spicy beef and cheese, mild beef and cheese, and all the same varieties of pork.  I also have another 5lbs of masa left to make sweet ones (cinnamon raisin).  I was going to finish it up tomorrow.  It takes so long to make everything that you have to make a lot or it's just not worth it.  It's the same prep no matter what.  We were so stuffed from the other food, we didn't even try the tamales until the next day.

Saturday night, I ended up going to my first live stand up comedy show.  Mark and I were supposed to go together, which was mostly the reason my mom came up, but he was still not feeling well enough by Saturday night.  We were going out to celebrate the birthday of a good friend of mine, so I didn't want to ditch out.  Also, when you have a two week stretch of the kids without a break, it's good to get out and have a laugh ;)  Had a good time, but don't know if I would do the whole comedy show thing again.  It was pretty pricey, considering they weren't big names or anything.  They were pretty funny and I did have a good laugh.  I got to visit with some old friends and even managed to learn a few words in Japanese!  All and all, good fun.  Wished Mark could have come :(

Sunday, I took the kids to a puppet show in Balboa Park.  We did get to see some really cute dogs dressed up in Christmas outfits.  I don't know if they had some event going on, but everywhere we turned there was a dog all dressed up.  They were really cute.  The kids had a really good time at the puppet show too.  We sang and clapped (clapping is Javi's fav thing to do *stimming*).  It was a Christmas program, so it definitely got us in to the spirit.

Sunday night, I took the kids to have dinner at my friend Carrie's.  We made some carne asada from my fav Mexican market, where I purchase most of my supplies from.  Most people in there don't speak english, so I get to bust out some of my espanol whenever I go there.  Mostly, I just say "Necesito arrachera preparada, cuatro libras, por favor" (I need marinated flank steak, 4 lbs please.) or "cuanto cuesta?" (how much does it cost?).  My Spanish is pretty rusty these days because I don't need to use it that often.  I can still understand it pretty well, but my conversational Spanish is pretty awful now.   

Had a fun, but very busy weekend.  Looking forward to relaxing a little now that Christmas is winding down.

...and then there were SIX!!!

Santa's hour glass is slowly winding down!  Hope you are getting close to finishing your shopping.  I finished my shopping for the kids today.  Hooray!!  Now just need to pick up some gift cards and we are set!  Yesterday we read the Night Before Christmas and the Christmas Mouse for our 12 days activity.

Tonight we are working on the prep for our tamale party tomorrow.  We loosely celebrate some Mexican holiday traditions, like Tamales for Christmas and Menudo for New Years, which is by the way, a hang over cure!  Tamales are typically made by the family and eaten on February 2nd, which marks the end of the holiday season, but for some reason, in California, it's become a tradition to have them around Christmas.

For those of you that do not know, a Tamale is a meat, cheese, fruit or veggies all enclosed in "masa" which is a corn meal dough and then wrapped up in a corn husk and steamed.  It's eaten by unwrapping it from the corn husk and eating the cooked "masa" and whatever is incased inside.  Yummy!

To lift your holiday spirits here's a musical interlude from the boys and also became part of our 12 days activity, which was watching Christmas movies ;)

Ethan's Preschool Christmas Party

Kaylee and I went to Ethan's Christmas Cookie Party.  We had a really good time.  I loved watching the kids sing.  Too cute!!

I also published some still photos to Flickr.

...and then there were EIGHT!

Today was not the most exciting 12 days activity.  We wrote out Christmas cards to our teachers and wrapped their presents.  It had to be done, so I thought why not try to spice it up and make it an activity!  I actually wanted Ethan to stamp some of the cards, but as it turns out, no stamp pad!  So, he helped a little with the presents for all the teachers and therapists while Javi wrote his cards out.  Ethan got tired and bored with this activity very quickly, so we never got to his cards.

We have 15 presents for teachers, aides, and therapists.  We actually don't even give them to every one either.  I only give them to people we know well and the kids see regularly.  I would be giving out 25-30 presents if we did one for everyone they work with.  Not that we don't appreciate what they do, it just would get really pricey to do one for everyone.  They are little Christmas boxes filled with assorted yummy chocolates.  They look pretty cute.

We presented Jamie, our friend and helper, with her present today.  I gave her a "bonus", a gift for her, and one small gift for each of her two kids.  She cried and said it was "too much".   I only wish I could have done more.  She actually told me it was the first present she has received in years.  I couldn't believe my ears!!  She has been going through kind of a rough time lately, so I wanted to do something special for her, since she is always so good to us.  She has offered on more than one occasion to just watch our kids with out payment.  She even came when I was sick and tried to leave with out me signing her time card.  She is such an awesome person.  I wanted her to know how loved and appreciated she is.  We really are fortunate to have found someone that is so great with me and great with our kids.  It felt good to do something nice for her.  She really is more than a "nanny" to us.  She is a good friend.  That is what the spirit of Christmas is all about.  It wasn't about the gifts, or bonus, it was about sharing that bond of friendship and appreciation for each other.  The exchange of thoughtfulness.  It didn't matter who gave what.  That is what gift giving is all about.  We can sometimes get wrapped up in the reciprocating monetary values.  "So and so bought me a $10 item, so I have to buy him a $10 item.".  It really takes the fun out of giving a gift.  A gift as defined by the dictionary:

A gift or present is the transfer of something, without the need for compensation that is involved in trade. A gift is a voluntary act which does not require anything in return. Even though it involves possibly a social expectation of reciprocity, or a return in the form of prestige or power, a gift is meant to be free. 

So while we are out shopping and wrapping and getting caught up in the Christmas hoopla, remember the true meaning of a gift this Christmas.  

To me the greatest gift one can have are friends and family like you...Thanks for following the G5 family blog.  We love you!!! 

10 days to go!!

We baked some cookies for today's 12 days activity.  We made Gingerbread, GFCF Sugar Cookies (click for link to that recipe, in my opinion, they could have used some Xanthan Gum and I put about 1/4cup more sugar)  and these yummies, that were Mark's fav, Toffee Oatmeal Chocolate Chip!  Sounds weird, but they were delish!  I found the recipe in Cooking Light in their 12 Christmas cookie recipes section of this month's mag.  I altered it, of course.  Me being me!!  I hate to follow recipes, they are merely a suggestion to me ;)  So here's what I changed:

I used butter flavored Crisco instead of margarine and I added an extra tsp, Almond Extract instead of Vanilla, Added refined baker's sugar about 1/4 c  and just a handful more golden brown sugar (the recipe wasn't sweet enough for my tastes) and semi-sweet chocolate chips.  

Ok, so they probably aren't very light any more, but what the heck, it's Christmas!!  

Here are the pics.  Our friend Audrey came over to bake with us.  She brought an apron for Ethan, so we all had them on.  Ethan was asleep for most of the baking, but we did get a few pics while he was awake and he of course got to be the official taste tester!

G5 Weekend Report

Ok, so I know I missed last weekend's report, but I'm trying to make it a regular habit. Mama Skates sets a good example ;)

Ethan and Kaylee's sickies are still lingering, so we didn't do much with the kiddos.  Ethan is battling it the most and is still home sick with me.  Let's see...

Friday, we did our 12 days, even though I know it was really 13 days 'til Christmas, I wanted to make sure Javi got to participate before going to Dad's for the weekend.  We "elfed" the kids with Elf Yourself.com as you can see from the previous post.  We had left over pizza and watched movies until we passed out.  We also finished up our holiday cards and mailed them out.  So, look for them in the mail this week!

Saturday, Kaylee and I headed out  to the mall. It was a mad house, just as I thought it would be.  Thank goodness I had a yummy Starbucks coffee to enjoy while battling the crowd.  We went on a three hour shopping sprint.  We did get a lot of stuff, but we have to return some of it sometime this week.  I purchased a Apple Airport Base Station 802.11 N for Mark, but he decided we should wait on such a big purchase with Christmas and Ethan's birthday coming up.  We donated at the Epilepsy Foundation's stand at the mall and got a shopping bag, gingerbread house and two cookies to decorate.  Dr. Neuro's admin was working the stand, so we finally got to meet her in person.  We actually have an appointment tomorrow.  Saturday night was ladies night for Mommy. I made some yummy spinach balls and took a bottle of wine over to my friend Carrie's.  We had a lot of fun.

Sunday I picked up some McD's breakfast for the whole family and some much needed McCafe's coffee.  We enjoyed our 'hashfries' as Ethan  calls them.  Yummy!  The best part of the breakfast, besides the coffee.  Then it was a mad dash to the supermarket to pick up some ingredients for the cake I made for the neighborhood holiday party.  A gift from Tiffany's which I thought would also be holiday neutral ;0)  

Sunday night, I walked over to the neighbor's house with cake and a bottle of wine in hand (Mark decided he would prefer to stay home).  It was a great turn out.  It was probably the best turn out ever as far as the holiday neighborhood parties go.  They had a lot of delicious food including a full ham dinner.  Yum!  I hadn't really eaten a whole lot that day just to prepare for it.  I ended up just having a little nibble of each thing. There was some goat cheese pizza with sun dried tomatoes and really delish artichoke jalapeno dip, just to name a couple of my favs.  Everyone was afraid to cut in to my cake.  They said it was too pretty to eat, which of course it was no big deal.  Nothing in comparison to a Sharon original ;)  I knew I could count on my neighbor, Jon, who always boasts about my cakes, to hack in to it.  I made a cake for his daughter's bday a couple years ago and I always take cake to all the hood parties.  He ended up having two slices!  It was half gone by the time I left.  Thanks I'm sure to Sharon's wonderful BC frosting recipe.  Mmmmm....I love that frosting and I hate frosting!!  What I can't figure out though is how you get the butter cream cakes so darn smooth!!  I will have to pick the expert's brain about that ;)

This AM I wasn't feeling to hot, due I'm sure to the three glasses of wine I had at the party.  I am becoming a little bit of a wino this holiday season.  I really enjoy wine.  They had such a huge selection last night, that I felt like I was at a tasting, which is why I ended up having a few glasses.  

 

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

The G5 Kids have been Elfed!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

It's a Princess...just like Mommy

Ethan: Look mommy!! (playing Super Mario Galaxy, while Mommy was checking email)

Mom: Yeah baby, what's up?

Ethan: It's a Princess, just like you!

God, I love that kid! He's my boy!  

On this weekend's agenda:

Friday, we are celebrating the 1st day of the twelve days of Christmas.  We will be doing a different activity every day.  Today, I think we will be doing Elf Yourself.  I know the kids will get a big kick out of it.  I will also be sending out our holiday cards today, so look for them in the mail sometime next week.

Saturday, I will be heading out to do some more Christmas shopping and hanging out with the kiddos.  Of course another 12 days activity in the evening, then after kids go down, wooo hoo, it's ladies nite!!  I am going over to Carrie's house for some girls fun.  We are going to have some app's and a little vino.

Sunday night is our neighborhood Christmas party, so we will be stopping by, or I will.  Still haven't really gotten a definitive answer from Mark on whether he wants to come ;0)

Cracking up to be a busy weekend.  It's the holidays!

It's tough being sick!

Ethan got to play Wii laying down for the better half of the day. He had a fever of a 103 last night and has a nasty cough. I don't think he will be going to school tomorrow, but we'll see. He hasn't been to school since Monday, so what is one more day? Besides, he might bring something else home with him if I send him back!!!

Kay is finally drying out. Her nose has been leaking like a seive for two weeks now, but she hasn't really had any other symptoms. Thank goodness!

I'm finally well. Though I have played it safe and tried not to wear myself down. I have been disenfecting like a mad woman everyday, so hopefully it will be gone after Ethan gets well.

Hope everyone else is fairing well this Sickie Season ;)

Getting in the holiday spirit

My friend posted this to Facebook and I got such a kick out of it, I thought I would post it. It especially reminds me of you Danielle, since you are the only one of us that can really say you had Christmas in Africa!

This will song will definitely get you in the holiday spirit and put a smile on your face.

Battle of the Sickies

More than half of the family is sick right now. Ethan, Kay and I are all battling something nasty. We are wiped out and runny nosed. Ethan is missing day two of school and Kaylee missed PT. We are hoping things will be back to normal soon. We cancelled our helper, Jamie, coming to the house today. We could definitely use her help, but we don't want her to get infected.

Today I am going to try to do some cleaning. It creeps me out to think of all the germs flying around. I'm going to take a little nap when Kaylee does, then see if I can get a few things done before she wakes.

I have been reading blogs from my phone, but I haven't been at my laptop until now, so I am going to try to catch up on some commenting. The kids have been rather clingy, so I haven't been able to get on the 'puter much. I have been going to bed when they do, so not much time after they go down.

Hope we find all of you well. 'Tis the season for sickies.

IEP Warrior, take 2

Well, we had our second IEP meeting to finish up what we hadn't finished previously at the first meeting. It was completely pointless. I came out feeling 10x's more frustrated than before I walked in to the meeting. Javi is not really making a lot of progress in his current setting. In fact, he has regressed to the beginning of the year last year academically. His teacher said he is making slight and slow progress, but that is progression from a regression, so I wouldn't exactly call it real progress. Just as I said in my last post about this, it seems to be a complete class mismatch.

We attempted to use the "easy way out" and use an address change to switch him to a new class. Javi technically lives with his dad now, so using his address would put him at a different school. It was recommended and affirmed by a few people that this would be the easiest way to avoid all the complication of pointing the finger and saying that this was a crappy fit for Javi. The program specialist, flat out said he will not even be considered for a move until next year. She also said "considered", not guaranteed. She also seemed completely insensitive to the fact that Javi has no friends this year and that the kids in his class are starting to "tolerate" him now a little more than they were before. I guess in her eyes, the fact that he is tolerated instead of flat out ridiculed like he was before, is progress. I can also tolerate a pebble in my shoe, but it doesn't mean that I am going to learn to like it being there. I don't get a sense that Javi will ever truly be accepted in this classroom. I think his behaviors will be tolerated sometimes, but he may always be considered "the pebble".

We did at the very least, get a better feeling about the teacher. Definitely not to the level of caring we have felt from previous teachers, but a better feeling than we received in previous meetings with her. She seemed to show more of an interest in Javi being in a good place and making progress.

Ultimately what it comes down to is this, you can have every modification, assistance and service set in place in the IEP, but what matters most is whether or not the child is happy. Happy children typically produce better work and progress (just like happy employees). It's obvious to us that while Javi may be getting "used to the routine" he is not happy, not by comparison to previous years. I know that we can't go back to Deer Canyon (his previous school, the program specialist had eluded to the fact that this was not Deer Canyon and that there was no placement for him there) , nor do we care if we can. We just want our son to be happy and succeed to the best of his abilities. We want him to be well-liked and accepted and feel like he has friends, just like any other parent.

How long do we have to wait before we say enough is enough? How long will he have to struggle before they do something about this? I am willing to give it to the end of January, which would be when the semester is over, but if we don't see some positive changes and improvements, I think we may consider taking this to the next level. I think half a year for an "adjustment period" is long enough.

Ethan's Field Trip Pics

We had so much fun at the Children's Museum with Ethan's class.



The IEP after for Javi, not so much, but I will update about that later.

This Little Piggy

This little piggy looks better than it did yesterday!

It isn't slowing me down one bit.  It looks much better by comparison to Mark's toes, after the two times he broke them, one of those times was on our wedding day!  It doesn't feel too bad.  I have stayed loaded up on advil to help with the pain and swelling.  

I have a field trip for Ethan tomorrow to the Children's Museum.  Jamie Poppins, our friend and helper will be coming to watch Kay while we are out.  Straight from the field trip, I will be running to drop Ethan off at home, then whisking off to Javi's continuation IEP, to which I will undoubtably be late for.  I told Javi's dad to start with out me.  I only have 30 minutes between the arrival of the field trip bus and the start of the IEP.  Talk about cutting it close!!  Wish me luck!  With this troop, who has time to slow down?

Christmas, in full swing

It's been a busy week.  I have been out shopping for Christmas every day this week.  I was trying to wrap as it came in, but I got about one thing wrapped and shoved the rest in the closet.  I know I will be spending my typical evenings of blogging, tweeting and facebooking, wrapping presents like a little elf.

I am 100% done with Mark's shopping. 90% done with Javi's, 60% done with Ethan's and 40% done with Kaylee's.  I will be happy to get 'er done by early next week.

We have our tree up, but we are waiting to trim it.  We wanted to wait, so we could do it all together this weekend.  The rest of the house is decorated.  I finished that on Monday.  I have been waiting to put up the exterior lights.  I have actually been debating putting them up at all.  With the energy crisis going on, I think I will probably just put them up before Christmas and turn them on on Christmas Eve, Christmas day and New Years.  I thought it would be a much more eco friendly approach.  We have exterior decor, but why waste perfectly good energy and money making the house look pretty for passers by?  I think we can muster holiday spirit with out the lights being on 24/7.  We have yet to switch to solar powered LED's, but hope to invest in them one of these years.  Then we can enjoy them eco style!!

Don't forget to BYOB this holiday season!!  That is to say, bring your own bag.  If you don't have your own, be sure to recycle the one's you do bring home.  I made the mistake of forgetting mine last night, so I had them put everything I purchased in one bag, which makes it much easier to carry anyway!  Remember, Santa carries a sack that he uses every year ;)

Well, Ms. Grace, as I've been called for most of my life, has once again injured herself.  I broke my toe while working out yesterday.  Yes, it was only my second work out, since I committed to trying to get healthier by making more time to work out.  Don't worry, I won't let it discourage me.  I'll be getting right back in to my routine as soon as this toe heals.  I am certainly not going to let it slow me down!!

G5 Weekend Report

Happy December everyone.  The countdown is ON!!  This year I wasn't as prepared for Christmas as past years.  For the first time in like five years, I didn't decorate the weekend after Thanksgiving and I also did not go out on black Friday.  

This year, I decided to stick to a very specific list of items for Christmas, which usually does not coincide with Black Friday deals.  I did do a little Christmas shopping this morning and I have been doing some internet shopping also.  We are taking it easy this year on spending, just like the rest of America.

Let's see...Friday we obviously did not go shopping early, but we did go to the arts and crafts store to get gifts to make for the teachers and therapists.  Later, we went to my friend Carrie's house to do yoga and we took the kiddos to lunch.  Ethan's new favorite thing to eat is hummus and pita.  I am so proud of him for trying new things.  I am also happy to report that he took a bite of everything on Thanksgiving, which was a first.  He usually just has plain mashed potatoes and a roll.  Friday night we got a call from Carrie that she needed help with her flat tire, so I took Kaylee with me.  I thought she might fall asleep in the car, but no such luck.  I ended up taking her tire home with me to take to Costco to get it patched on Saturday.  We came home and watched a movie.

Saturday I made Biscuits and Gravy for the fam.  Then we helped Carrie get her tire patched and back on her car, then she took her daughter, Lucy, Ethan and I to get some Mex food to say thank you.  Saturday night, Ethan and I went to our friends Brook and Matt's for Matt's 34th bday party.  It was a poker party, but I wasn't really up for playing, so I helped Brook play hostess, since she was playing cards.  Had fun playing with the kids at the party too.  I hadn't seen a lot of them since they were babies.  Brook ended up winning the first big pot.  Woohoo, you go girl!

Sunday I cleaned house, while daddy got a much needed sleep in.  We took the kids to the mall to go see Santa.  We decided to go to lunch first, then by the time we made our way over to Santa, he was going on his lunch break.  We tried walking around and wasting time window shopping, but by the time Santa came back, the line was so long and the kids (and Mark) were getting grumpy, so we decided to try another time.  Not a total wash though, because the kids did have fun at the Apple Store, the Pet Shop where we got to hold a puppy and pet a bunny, and we also explored the Build a Bear Workshop.

All and all, a fun, but busy weekend.  I am looking forward to taking it easy this week.  I will be enjoying the holiday season, decorating and cooking as usual.  

Hope everyone had a nice holiday!