Brown Eyed Girl

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Drew Graduates from Pre-K

Drew graduated from Pre-K this past week. He did so good at his program, and in true Drew fashion had everyone laughing when we went to say his part.

Here he is showing off his diploma!

A picture with is brother.

He was given a "Treehouse Legend" award, because he has gone to the same daycare/preschool since he was an infant.

My parents weren't able to be there because they are traveling, but my Mother-in-Law was able to come.

Congrats Drew!! We are so proud of you!!!

Both of the boys birthdays are only 3 days apart in February. Instead of having a big birthday party like we do every year, we decided to take the boys, my parents, and Spencer's Mom and step dad to Magic Kingdom, at Disney World. We are only 5 hours from Orlando, which is so nice!

Me & my honey...

My awesome Mother in Law. Don't know what I would do with out her support and love.

Dylan & Drew and their hats. You'll notice in some of these pictures that Drew has a "Happy Birthday" pin, and Dylan doesn't. Dylan took his pin off because he didn't like people saying "Happy Birthday" to him. He is his father made over ;) Ha!!

While Dylan went to ride Space Mountain, Drew played in the spray that they had going.

Drew & Mommy riding the race cars.

Drew rode his first roller coaster, and LOVED it. He isn't quite the daredevil that Dylan is, but he did pretty good. We've come such a long way from the last time we went to Disney a year and half before, when he cried on every ride, even "It's A Small World".

He even raised his hands. This wasn't on a kiddie roller coaster either. He just reached the required height on the adult roller coaster.

Dylan ended up loosing his hat, the 3rd time on Space Mountain, so the staff at Disney was kind enough to let him pick out a new hat!

Waiting to watch the fire works.

My Mom & Dad, the boys, Sandra & Lamar. It was such a fun day. I think we should do a Disney trip every year for their birthday!

Christmas 2010

I know, I'm blogging about Christmas in May, but this past week, I was deleting some pictures from my camera, and thought "I need to blog more"...I always read other blogs on a weekly basis, and almost get annoyed when I click on a blog and it hasn't been updated in a while...that's the pot calling the kettle black, don't you think? So anyway, here's Christmas 2010.

Drew & his new bike.

Dylan & his scooter that has sparks when he puts on the breaks.

Nurf Bow & Arrow (which is now broken, but it was pretty neat while it lasted.)

Sponge Bob dvds...not my favorite cartoon by any means, but the boys love it.

Drew scored a Dino Kit.

Digging for the Dino bones.

Concentration at its best -- see the tongue? That's my Dad's trait. Ha!!

Clay got in on the action too.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Mother of the year award and a hopsital stay.

My poor Drew. Thursday, the 17th of December, I went to change Drew into his clothes for a his school play and noticed what seemed to be two small little bumps around his shoulder area. They looked like two small sores or bug bites. I covered them up with a band aid and we went about our night. The next morning they looked some bigger, but in the rush of the morning I didn't pay that much attention to them. Well by Saturday, Drew was uncomfortable and wouldn't let you touch his arm - but in true Drew fashion, he went on about his day playing. We decided to take his band aids off and let his arm air dry, as there seemed to be some puss around the bumps, and it seemed to be an area that was larger than the day before. Well, by Sunday it had started to spread and spread. Monday I took him into the doctor. (Insert Mother of the Year Award here - since I should have taken him in on Saturday or to the ER on Sunday.) Our pediatrician looked at it and consulted with another Doctor where they decided we were to go to the Backus Children's Hospital - straight to the 3rd floor... Nice, right? Here is a picture of his arm at the doctors office - 3 days after noticing 2 small bumps the size of a pin head.

Poor thing - he even started to get some places on his wrist, leg, and forehead.

Even though he wasn't feeling good - he still got a picture with his Mommy while we waited on our hospital orders.

The IV wasn't fun. I think, personally, they shouldn't have the parents step away, instead of trying to assist in the "holding down of your child" part of trying to get the IV in his little hand.

Cleaning of the area wasn't fun either - but they always managed to bring him some sort of toy, hat, or sticker to have.

The walls at the hospital were really neat. Drew said "take my picture with the shooting star, Mom."

On the second day of our stay, they allowed Drew to visit their play room! He loved it!

They brought him a Wii to his room to play. A local ice cream shop also stopped by to give out hats and ice cream. Yummmmm!!

They also had therapy Dogs that came around a few times. He loved them!

We spent 3 days in the hospital. They released us knowing that it was positive for staph infection. Although at that time we didn't know the type of staph, the area was looking better so they released us with round the clock meds ( and I mean at 1am and 3am - yawn!). Then on Christmas Even (2 days later) I had to take Dylan in because he had 2 spots that came up. Lord, Help Me! Well, they have him a topical antibiotic. By Thursday, the 30th, we found out that it was MRSA Staph. MRSA Staph - IS NO LAUGH!

Monday, November 22, 2010

A Really Big Update...

Dylan has learned to ride his bike with out his training wheels. He's a pro at it. All of a sudden - wam-bam-thank you-mam!

Halloween was a lot of fun. My boys, especially Drew, love to dress up anyway, but this year was extra special. We were able to be together as a family.
(Smile.....)

Dylan was the Transformer, Bumble Bee