little temptation of spring

It was such nice weather when we went to holland a couple of weeks ago. The boys were loving playing outside.

 

 

 

 

pirate night

Jr and I went to a mother/son pirate night at his school. It was so much fun for him. We had to go to all these different stations and do things together.

 

Jr, Justin, and another boy play sword fighting

 

This is a picture of JR with his friend from school Justin

 

Jr playing tug of war

 

bowling

Sorry such a long time, was trying to get into the facebook thing. Again already now that we have internet, I have been upstairs for about 10 min and the boys are fighting downstairs.

About 3 weeks ago, JR and Jacob went to a birthday party at a bowling alley...They had so much fun just playing with everyone plus the fact that there was no way to get a gutter ball :) During the bowling at one point the lights all went out and there was like a disco lights, so much fun for the kids. I found out how much they really like it !!

 

 

 

 

update

 

 

 

 

Ok so I know it has been a long time since I have been on...Now that the holidays are over and I am finally staying put for a while in my own home I might be able to do more..We recently had a surprise aniversary and birthday party for my parents..they both turned 60 and it is their 40th wedding aniversay this month. The turnout was good but we had expectecd a few more..The nice part was that it actually turned out to be a surprise, it is hard to talk to them all the time and not say anything especially when I was talking to my mom when I was already in holland only miles from her house. I have not actually taken more than 20 picture since christmas, more of a reason why I have not updated much. So hopefully I will have more to come over the next week...we shall see!!!!

cardiologist

Ok, so we had the appointment with the pediatric cardiologist on Thursday. Jacob does have a heart murmur but it is benign and the Dr. states he will grow out of it someday most likely. The repeat xray shows he does not have dextracardia, which is soo strange but we are thankful...everyone (multiple dr's looked at the first xray and all thought the same thing). So all is good again on our end and he is healthy once again...but I just keep waiting...someday something is going to happen and they are going to say "now that is why all that other stuff happened, now it all makes sense" but I will pray that doesn't happen...thank you to all for thinking about him through this...

extra's, holidays

This was a picture of the day that we got 12 inches of snow...for anyone that has lived inland more in Michigan, they know that is unheard of in Sagiaw..The boys had a hayday our their with Jim snowblowing and them shoveling.

 

This is a picture of another Santa's secret shop present that JR bought for Jacob...it was a little hockey set, once Jacob opened it they played with it nonstop until basically it broke...JR was just sooo excited to play with it....

 

Christmas

So we started christmas morning with Jacob throwing up in our bed!!!! We spent the whole morning in between presents cleaning up puke...poor thing threw up 4-5 times that morning in about 3 hours, the only worning we had was his hand over his mouth and saying OWE. they really opened them fast and were definately happy with what santa brought them. We thought Jacob's illness was just from a runny nose that he was gagging on so we continued on with our day and packed up to head to my parents house. Of course he threw up 2 times in the car then too!!! Christmas was then the next day at my parents house and that day went well...But then later that night JR got sick, followed by Jim, the next day my mom, and the rest of my whole family...I decided to bring to HOlland the stomach bug..all my fault...My dad and I were the ONLY ones within the whole family that did not get it at all...But overall it was a really good Christmas. JR also made me an ornament at school for the tree, it was a glass ornament...I really about cried getting it from him..

 

 

 

 

Christmas Eve

The first picture is of something JR got me from Santa's secret shop at school..he was soo excited to get that he made me open it christmas eve. We started a Christmas Eve tradition of opening one present and of course it is pretty much going to always be PJ's...then the next pictures of them playing with wraping paper rolls (their true selves),
followed by the final picture of the angel that JR made at school for the tree...

 

 

 

 

Santa

Ok so I know this is like REALLY LATE...but I am going to try and catch up here by a couple each day...so here was the boys on santa's lap...JR is rubbing his chin wondering what else to tell Santa that he wants...trying too hard to think and not forget anything...as some of you saw...he too then wrote a letter to santa to make sure he did not forget...

 

Jacob

Well my poor baby just nothing seems to go right for him...Lets start that he was born at 10 pounds and 1 ounce. His tounge was large and his head was big, so they did a bunch of testing and sent him to a neurologist, he was discharged from there and was ok. At one point he was sleeping too much on one side and his head started to grow flat on that side, so I was threatened for him to have to wear a helmet...that was enough for me...and I got him to sleep on the other side, all was good, no helmet...then he started with all the snoring and wound up with sleep apnea then his tonsils out at 2 years of age. Then the night before thanksgiving he fell and broke his clavicle. On the xray Jim noticed that his heart appeared to be on the wrong side, so I called a dr here and sure enough she believes the same, it is called dextrocardia..While at the dr's office she was checking him over and thinks she might hear a heart murmur. She is now waiting to hear from a pediatric cardiologist and thinks we might need a echo done on him and a follow up xray to verify things...so now there might be more wrong...I am about to loose it and just pray and hope that there is nothing more...Basically my baby has been seen by neurologist, ENT, and now cardiologist and is not even 3...he has had US and CT of the head, blood work, surgery, xrays and soon an echo...I do not know how mothers do it....

Commercial

We were watching TV...This commercial comes on for these things you put on your feet to slide around on the carpet. JR goes "I want these too mom" I told him he was to little, his response "it says for all ages" I again said maybe in a couple of years I will buy them for you...His response "well if I was 18 or older I would call"!!!! He loves to repeat commercials.

Out to eat

We went to a Japanese Steak House. You sit around this grill and they make your order right in front of you and do a little show. JR got a kids steak meal and they actually used Ribeye for that!!! I could not believe that and it was not like it cost that much...anyways when the guy put the steak fo JR's on the grill, JR goes "NO THAT IS WHAT I CALL STEAK!!!" He was soo cute...it was really good food and a lot of it.

swimmers

Quote: JR has school Mon/Wed/Fri afternoons. This morning I told JR he had only a few more minutes to play a game before he had to take a bath and eat some lunch. His response "good, then I have to brush my teeth after lunch so I don't get..(he pauses and thinks for a minute and finishes) sugar bugs on my teeth" He has never had an interest in brushing teeth, must be something from school...

One from yesterday that I thought about...JR calls down the stairs "mom you do not need to wipe me!" I asked why did you poop...he responded "yeah but it was just little poops so there is nothing there..." He was fully redressed and I did check his bottom and he was ok but he seems to think that unless it is a big poop you do not need to wipe and of course he never flushes, so I found that one too!!!

Picture:
My boys think by wearing goggles in the tub they will actually go under water...RIGHT!!! that did not happen...they do just like to wear them because then they can splash more and not get water in the eyes and they will put just barely their heads into the water and think they are in some huge lake or something.

 

 

trying it out

OK so here it is Jen!!! I am going to try on the quote a day and pic a day just for you!!!! or try at least every couple of days..

Quote: while at Target walking past the toys JR stops me and says "I want this for Christmas too" (that being the two foot tall dinosaur that you can ride on of course). My only response was pretty much I am sure you would like that. Then JR continued on to tell me "but I do not think that will not fit in Santa's sleigh, the box is too big" after that he was done talking about that.

The first picture is of Jacob after asking for candy, I went and got the candy and then he did this funny thing where he bent over with his hand up behind him waiting form me to had him the candy

The second one is of JR playing the WII action packed. He bowls like a 220 on that game, I think the best I got was like 150.

christmas question

JR is sleeping in my bed with me this week because Jim is on night float at the hospital. Last night as we were going to bed, I looked at JR and asked him "what do you really want for christmas" here was his response.
a pair santa socks
a telescope
a scooby-doo movie
and a batman toy

I really could not figure out where he came up with the santa socks...but i was really impressed with his list. I then proceeded to look at Jacob and ask him the same question. Here is his repsonse
A party (well what came out was a PODY?)
and candy (go figure)

Love my BOYS!!!!!