Take Me Out To The Ball Game

We had so much fun with T-Ball this year.  I love seeing how the kids skills develop over the years and how much more confident they become.  Something that I learned this year that I haven't had to deal with before was that parent participation is KEY... I just about had it with the parents of extremely difficult children (one family had twins) just seeing a baseball game and practice as an hour and a half of babysitting!  Parents just sit there chatting with other parent friends while their kids are being monsters and they are completely ignoring it...some parents finally said something... although, Coach Lee is a very patient and understanding coach, I am sure there were days went home and drank a case... I couldn't have done it, I would have whooped on those kids!

Blake had a blast this year playing with his friends from school and some kids were new this year, and he made some new friends too that he was really excited about.  Most of the weather was fantastic, so we had minimal rain outs and no one got hurt!   When you have a bunch of 5 and 6 year olds throwing balls at each other, your bound to have something go wrong, but nothing major... so it was a great season!   Blake cant wait until next year!!

Schools...Out...For Summer!!!

So, Last Thursday was Blake's last day of his Early Kindergarten program, and next year, he's off to full days of actual kindergarten.  He is really excited, and he's ready to conquer the school... but he has to get rid of this nasty cold first!
Blake missed his last day of school and also the end of the year parties that he was invited to because this cold got the better part of him.  On Thursday, he was sick, but it was his last day and he didn't have a fever so I was trying to convince him to go to school, and I was going to volunteer in the class that day anyways, so I figured that we could handle it, but then he looked at me, and said in the most sad and pitiful voice " I just cant make it" and he is not one that EVER wants to miss school, so I knew that something was wrong. 

Poor Kiddo :(

 

I got him into the Dr and we weren't able to see the boys regular Dr. so we just saw another one in the office instead and she said that it was Croup... okay, we have never dealt with Croup before, but after doing some research, the kid doesn't have Croup, or if he did, he also has a nasty sinus thing going on with gross green boogers... and since sharing is caring, Luke has it now too... they are getting better, The cough is almost gone, but Luke's nose is like a running faucet of green goo....yuck, and nasty!!  They feel pretty good, so the hard part is getting them to sit still long enough to get some rest, but I definitely think that we are on the mend... hopefully we can start some fun summer activities soon!! 



They got to play outside a little on Sunday, and they went straight to the dirt!!



Lots Of Doctors

We have had a few big doctors appointments lately.  Blake had his annual cardiologist appointment last week and everything still looks good.  They always have something that their watching to make sure that his heart grows with him and that it cooperates, but so far so good.  Normally, Kyle and I take Blake to these appointments and we drop Luke off with a relative so that we can direct all our attention on Blake, but as he has gotten older, these appointments have become so much easier.  Getting him to sit still for the ultrasound was the hardest part, but now, he just cruses through it.  Luke was curious about it, and I couldn't think of any reason why he couldn't go, so this year, he was the spectator.  Kyle got held up at work, so he wasn't able to attend this year, and he was a little upset about that, but we got it all done.  Luke had so many questions and was really curious... he was all up in there trying to see it all.  It was cute... so, we are good for another year!!

I also had my loooong sequential screening testing with this new little babe!  With Blake, I just had the standard testing... like the one for downs, diabetes, and the 20 week ultrasound.  With Luke, I had some more testing done, but it was just lab work for CF and Fragile X, also that time around we had a 22 week fetal echo (which is miraculous by the way) where Blake's cardiologist did a echo on the baby in utero and checked his heart.  This time...3 years later, there are so many more tests available.  I just went in for the sequential screening.  All this screening/tests/poking and prodding makes me anxious, and I seriously went back and fourth on weather or not I really wanted to have it done.  Kyle and I weighed it all out and figured that it was better to be prepared then be surprised, and regardless of what the tests said, we would knew the love that we had for our baby wouldn't ever change, it was just intimidating.  I met with a woman who took medical history from both sides of our family... learning disabilities, mental disorders, disorders that I didn't even know where disorders, any health problems, types of cancers in the family, and who knows what else.  It was an hour long appointment with this woman and she was very nice, but I didn't know that I would have to answer all those things, or I would have been more prepared.  Then there was a pretty lengthy ultrasound followed by blood work, and all the basic health checks.  It was a long day, and I was ready for it to be all over with.  My ultrasound came back good, but I should get my blood work results this week sometime.  I'm in my 13th week and everything is going great.  I feel good, and we are having fun picking out different names and dreaming what its going to be like with 3 little kiddos running around... We cant wait!!!