Summer has finally arrived. This year I was soooooo ready for school to end. It has really been a struggle this year. We spent the morning in our new pool. It is a great size. Sarah can touch the bottom so she enjoys it more. We just got it this weekend and assembled it on Sun, so the water is still very cold! Elijah has been in it all day. The rest of us only lasted an hour. He swam yesterday as it was filling up too. Hope you have a fun filled summer.
Isaac is so close to walking. He has taken a few steps on his own, but not really walking. Mrs Karyn sent home a walker today for us to use to help get him walking. He is so cute walking with it!
Sometimes we go forever without a visit to the hospital, then we seem to visit often. Last week we visited twice. Sarah had her required 3 ear infections for her tubes to be replaced. So we went in for a quick ear tube placement surgery. She did great. Her speech had really been affected by her infections. She had fluid in her ears at surgery. She is now fluid free and talking much better. We go back at the end of the month for a full hearing evaluation. Isaac decided that weekend that he has never seen the ER, so it was his turn. He started screaming and we could not soothe him. Since he has a possible hernia and is generally a happy easy baby the pediatrician sent us to the ER. No bulging of the hernia area. No strep. All test were normal. We are not real sure what was wrong. We have been gluten free for Sarah and we think he got some gluten when we ate out the night before and had horrible stomach cramps. He is fine now. Praying we all stay well from here on out.
Friday night after finishing supper, my mother said Elijah had ran into a tree. Now the only tree on the side of the yard she was looking at was my tulip tree.
So I imagined that he had just ran into the leaves or something. Really did not take it seriously until I heard him scream and Doug and Mom jump up and run out the door. Needless to say when I looked I saw something like this (this is a re-enactment. I did not stop to grab the camera!).
He was actually in the tree further. I could see head and arms on one side and feet on the other and he was not touching the ground at all. He was screaming really loud and all I could imagine was him being impaled by a tree limb. I nearly knocked my mom down trying to get to him. He was fine. A bruised toe, several scrapes and bruises. The tree was fine too. This mommy though aged a few years in those few minutes.
For the last year or so I have been getting the Lowe's magazine. They have some really great ideas, but honestly way over my head. I am not real good at following directions and tend to cut corners. Not good for the crafty things! LOL. This month had an outdoor car play area and Elijah was very intrigued with it, so using what we had we made our version. All we had to buy was the pea gravel, we picked that over the mulch. We added a waterfall. We have a pond, tunnel, parking pad, sand pit and the road. Looking forward to many hour of fun.
Think I might try the outdoor chalkboard for Sarah next....stay tuned.
I was getting ready for our yard sale and little boy was helping! I love this boy so much! I have the best family.
Today I took Sarah to see her favorite band, The Fresh Beat Band, in concert. She LOVES this group. She knows all their songs and can sing the main parts to all of them. She did not understand prior to seeing them what we were doing. When we got to the venue she saw a poster and ran up to it so excited.
