Happy Belated 4th!!!

Well, we are up at Nana K and Bill's for the weekend - still here and will be until tomorrow. We had a great 4th and hope that anyone reading this did as well. The two older kids are outside at the moment playing with the H2Oly Cow with her aunts. I had never seen one of these before we were introduced to it up here. It is a one dimensional cow that you take the garden hose and hook it up to it's tail and the tail waves back and forth and sprays water everywhere. In little kid world, that is big fun!! In Cait world - not so much. She loves her bath but water being sprayed at her is not as fun.

I must say that I am pretty smitten with the new cat Hazel up here. She has laid on me like Wimbles used to :( I miss my WImbles. I wonder if they would notice if Hazel hid in our van tomorrow when we leave??? hahahaha

Tonight I believe that we are going to be seeing some fireworks. That should be a lot of fun for us. E & D love fireworks but I'm not sure about Cait. We will see. People around the neighborhood were shooting off some last night and she seemed pretty unphased.

I'm sure that pics will follow this week after we get home. Happy Belated 4th!!!

Praise, praise!

My brother's heart cath went well today. He was very nervous - rightfully so! But the Dr. didn't find any other problems other than left bundle blockage. On reading up on this condition, I read that the left bundle branch blockage can sometimes be a sign of other more serious problems. The Dr. said that Skeet was probably born with it. Come to find out, I have 2 aunts on my Dad's side have the same condition but one of them had a Dr. tell them that it is not hereditary. So - after Cait's tubes, I will be taking myself to Dr. Riley to see if I should be tested for this. I am so glad to hear that Skeet's heart is ok. I don't think I expanded a lot in a previous post but he went to the ER for having a seizure and the heart issue was just something that they found incidentally. So, I guess he will be seeing another Dr. to try and figure out what caused the seizure. His family practice Dr. thinks it was a medicine it was on and took him off it. He says he feels a lot better not taking that particular medicine. So thanks to those who were praying!!

Another praise since I know that she visits my blog. Congrats to Alicia & Aaron on their little baby BOY coming in November!! Active and healthy! Can I say "We told you so!" hahahaha

We had a little change in plans for the weekend. Still headed to Nana K and G'pa Bill's but we are going to detour a little and visit the Abraham Lincoln Museum tomorrow during the day - yeah! Shawn has been before and I have been wanting to go. Delainey has developed quite an interest in history - and that is allllll her Daddy! So we thought this would be a nice educational trip for her. Plus, we can claim our expenses on our taxes as educator credits I believe since Shawn is a history teacher!

A little funny from our day - it may be a "you had to be there" moment but I'll share anyways. In our town, the school district offers free lunch to all kids up to age 18. Then adults can buy lunch for $2 a piece. We think it is a great deal and take advantage of it as much as possible. It also gives E practice at how to carry a lunch tray and such for kindergarten next year! So, today the 5 of us go to school for lunch. We take Cait's portable booster chair that has a tray on it so we don't have to hold her the whole time. Cait gets her own tray of food because - well, she likes to eat! And I wasn't sharing! We put pieces of her food on her booster chair tray for her to eat. Chicken off the tray was fine. We didn't mind the school milk in our sippy cup. The potatoes just did not feel right in her mouth. The green beans? Well, apparently the green beans on E's tray tasted a whole lot better because she would reach over the side of her tray and pilfer E's green beans!!! I think we are raising a clepto!!!

And for those who care to pray...

Please keep my brother and my dad in your prayers....

Skeet has a left bundle branch blockage in his heart. It has more to do with the conductivity of the heart than an actual blockage. He is having a heart catherization tomorrow morning to scope things out. If there is any true blockages, they will fixed them at that time. I'm sure he is pretty nervous but at the same time also relieved that they found this before it could cause more serious problems. Oh, and he is 39 by the way - awful young for these issues. After we get Cait's tubes done and over with, I will be visiting my Dr to make sure that this isn't something that is hereditary.

Dad has been having issues with his back & legs for sometime now. His new Dr had him do a vascular study and they found that his bloodflow to his legs is not where it needs to be. So his next step is to see a doctor specializing in that - cardiologist i think - to fix that problem. Then see what relief he gets from that. If he is still having the pain down his legs, he will be going back to the original Dr for back surgery.

Thanks

Come on weekend...

This weekend we will be visiting Shawn's Mom, her husband and the family. So posting will be limited until next week - and even limited next week because of my schedule. We are so looking forward to getting out of DQ and visiting family. Eli is old enough now to count down the days until we go there and has been doing that all week. Delainey is, of course, old enough to do that plus ask me every few hours when we are going to start packing. Poor Lain - she was so looking forward to spending time with her Aunts Kari & Jamie but I'm thinking that Kari will be working a lot. I'm not sure about Jamie though. Eli, he just knows that G'pa is a whole lot of fun! Then Nana K is always good for some snuggles and talk. Cait, well - she is oblivious. I'm sure she won't be appreciating the 4 1/2 hour drive but thanks to portable dvd players and baby einstein, hopefully she will stay entertained. Shawn and I, well we are happy to see family plus have two more sets of hands to entertain the kids - helps us to relax a little.


There is so much more to do before then though. I think I for one overestimated the impact that a third child plus an almost full-time job would have on our lives. Don't get me wrong - I'm not alone in this. Shawn is wonderful around the house - laundry, dishes, diapers, baths, etc. Really, he is amazing. It is just overwhelming the demands of a family of 5 - especially when there is a 1 year old fearless toddler in the house. So anyways, there is packing to do but before that can happen, laundry has to be done. Then loading the car after that but then the car needs cleaned out! We will get there though - and have a great time while we are there!

Random...

So I was in Schnucks this morning buying some yogurt and I see this Pepsi guy in there. Poor man has no fashion sense whatsoever. Maybe I just don't pay attention but when did guys start wearing capris? The guy seriously had on navy capris and they weren't all sportsy with cargo pockets and such! I just don't think hairy legs and navy capris equal good fashion. Then to add injury to insult, he had on this mustard yellow and black checked button-up shirt. It didn't match at all! Maybe he is color blind and thought the navy was black....but that still doesn't excuse capris on a man!!!

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On another note - I am really loving this blogging business. Not necessarily my own mindless wanderings, but reading what others have to say about their lives. Thank you to the Secret is in the Sauce (see side button) for opening me up to a world of blogging! There are some really talented people out there! And funny too!!! Thanks for the entertainment!

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My funny note from last week -

My two oldest are in the realm of sibling rivalry 24/7. It is about to drive me and the hubby nuts!!! Thanks to our pastor's wife we have a new Bible verse that is repeated several times daily -

Romans 12:18 - "If at all possible, live in peace with one another."

(Personally I like the one about the child who obeys their parents will live a long happy life.....but that has a few unspoken assumptions that my oldest daughter would freak out about.)

So anyways, after telling E our Bible verse he says:

"Mommy, I try to have peace but Delainey destroys it!!!"

hahahahahaha.....we just rolled in laughter! It is so true though. But, he is a little destroyer himself a lot of the time.

Happy 8th Birthday Baby!

Delainey turned 8 on Tuesday! We had a family/friend party at the public pool in town. She had a great time! We had some tasty cake and she got lots of presents!!! We (plus other family members who gave $$) got her a Nintendo DS and she has played and played the thing since the next morning! I can't believe my first baby girl is 8 already - time flies!!!

Our precious Cait Cait

Some friends of ours gave us a toddler bed. We had never used one with Eli or Lainey but since it is free - hey! She loves it! She likes to stand on it and bounce or bounce on her butt. I have only laid her down for naps in it so far. I think it will be a while before we lay her in it for nite nite.

Then there are the piggy tails - LOVE THEM!!! And the question I keep getting is "How did you accomplish that?" My answer is - "While she is in the high chair!!" Without the high chair the piggy tails would be impossible. She is a mover and a shaker!!!