Emergency Visit

We had an emergency visit today with Griffin. It was very scary for us both but he is doing fine now. At about 2:30 pm Griffin spiked a temperature of around 104.7 degrees. I called his doctor right away and she told me to go to the hospital. So off we went to visit the ER. Our first trip there and hopefully our last. By the time that we got there Griffin's temp. reached 105.1 degrees. The nurse asked me how I gave him medicine and I told him that I usually give it to him in his bottle. He didn't understand why that was until he tried to give him medicine himself. Griffin is very strong and refuses to take medicine for the most part. It is a wrestling match to get it down. With much patience, he got it down but did tell the doctor he is a very difficult child to give medicine to. So he received a double batch of medicine and it started to come down. He has an ear infection and some congestion in his chest. A shot was given to him so that a strong dose could start working on him right away. He has to have around the clock medicine very three hours so his temp. doesn't spike again. So off to bed we all go. I am praying that tomorrow is a much better day for all of us.

Telling

Don't you just love when your own son or daughter tells on themselves! Gavin is big on this. Yesterday he came to me after hearing Griffin wailing in the background, "I didn't mean to bite Griffin!", "I didn't mean to..." So Gavin went to time out. I didn't even have to ask what happened because Gavin had already told on himself.

Up and Down

Griffin has accomplished the stairs very well now. If you tell him "No No!!" he goes even faster up them, laughing the entire way. His favorite part is that you will chase him up them and bring him down just to have him go right back up them again. The other day I chased him up four times and he loved every minute of it. Gavin seem to enjoy me going up and down the entire time too.

Picture from not so long ago

Aw!! Gavin and I were playing in a box right before we moved. So this picture is takes Jan. of 2007.

Tractor Day

Today Gavin receives the biggest reward he would ever want. He is going with Papa 4-wheeler and Mama Kathy to a tractor sale. I told him that if he were to continue he's great progress on the potty he would be able to go with his grandparents. And he has for five days with only two accidents!! So this morning he was over joyed to know that Papa 4-wheeler would be showing up any minute to pick him up. When he did show up he kept saying, "Mommy, I ready to go now, Bye!!" with no hesitation at all just ready to take off. It will be interest to know how it goes because Papa 4-wheeler had to take the potty with him so if Gavin had to go on the trip over then they could stop and be able to go on the side of the road. Gavin would like for Papa 4-wheeler to buy him a skid steer, new big-green tractor, sprayer, and backhoe. Off they went in Papa's blue truck (that is actually a red truck). Side note: Gavin is still a little confused on colors except for orange although he is really big on what color everything is now.

Old Friends

Last Thursday a friend of mine came home from Nebreska. She has two children but was only able to bring her daughter with her on the very long 14 hour drive home. We got to spend some girl time together which was a lot of fun but our kids got to play with each other as well. Addie, Heather's little girl, is about a month and half older than Gavin and they played so well with each other. They were running through the house with the cars, racing and chasing each other. For a short while they played hide-n-go seek. Addie got out her sleeping bag and Gavin thought that was the coolest thing ever. I am sure they could have played for hours on end with each other.

Heather was lucky enough to get them to stop for a minute to get a quick picture. Addie really liked Gavin but I don't know what Gavin really thought of her. I guess Gavin is not one to really show how he feels about someone or at least another girl he has just met for the first time. Addie had no problems though.

Griffin wanted in on the fun too so we quick got his picture before he crawled away.

We are hoping that Heather and her family come home more often or better yet just move closer!!

Potty Training

Gavin is working really hard on his potty training skills. He has been using the potty for about two weeks now. It is a challenge in the morning to get underwear on him but once you do then he is better about wanting to keep them on. He went all day yesterday without having an accident except for nap time which is amazing to us parents. There was a lot of praise and a lot rewards given for such the awesome act of potty!! It also helps that Gavin's good friend, Thomas (at daycare), is potty trained and he wants to be just like him. I will keep you posted and hopefully he will be trained all the way very soon.

Should be easy decisions!

Yesterday while I was off I discovered memory books on the Wal-Mart website. They are basically books that you make the pages out of your photos that you take. I think they are to take the place of your photo albums that you have to slide each picture in and then make a remark about it. I love the idea about memory books because I don't always have the time to slide each picture in the album and then make sure that I just the information about the picture out to the side. The book cost $9.22 without shipping and handling for 20 pages of pictures and $1.50 for each addition page that are forever in the pages that you can't take out. If I were to buy each picture at a normal size, it would cost $12.34 (there are 111 pictures to develop). Okay with that all being said, I have several (okay-I have a lot)picture frames around my home that I put my favorite pictures in from my camera. I usually put the picture in the frame and then when I replace it I put the older picture in the album. Are you with me so far? If I do the memory book, I don't want to buy the pictures as well because they will be in the album but then what do I do with all of the picture frames around our home? They are my art work. And it is why to difficult for me to just buy my favorite pictures individually because I love them all. On the other hand, the memory books would last forever and you could put them out for everyone to see the one of a kind albums. What should I do? Make the memory book or should I just get the pictures and put them in an album myself. You can always go out to the Wal-Mart website to see what I am talking about under the photo tab.

Our 1st Family Vacation

We were fortunate enough to get to go on a vacation this year, this is our first vacation in about six to seven years so we (for Kerry and I)were extremely excited. Kerry and I decided to take the trip down to Lake of the Ozarks with the boys and my parents. We have never really taken the boys past Bloomington so we really didn't know how the five to six hour trip was going to go over with the both of them so we thought we would leave on Friday night in hopes that they would fall asleep around their bedtime and sleep most of the way down there. Boy! were we ever wrong. Gavin being the talker that he is, not sure where he possibly gets it from, talked the entire five and half hours down there unless he was eating or drinking his milk. Griffin cried for about an hour because he wanted held to go to sleep and he did end up falling asleep about an hour before we arrived. Not too bad for our first trip. The weather was beautiful most of the time. Only one day that really was stormy so we went to the enormous and awesome outlet mall they have there. We got some really good buys for the boys' birthday gifts coming up in October. Most of the time we played in the water. You could find us either learning how to swim, jumping off of the dock, riding the jet skis, or just lying out in the sun. We took both of the boys out on the jet skis and they both adored it. Griffin fell asleep more often than not but at least he enjoyed the ride. Gavin thought that it was like a 4 wheeler in the water. I was a little worried the boys wouldn't be so cooperative about wearing life vests most all day long but they did very well with little to no complaints.

Once Gavin was on the jet ski it was rather difficult to get him off. He was easily calmed down though with learning how to fish. A task I really haven't taken much interest in but was glad someone has shown him the basics. Papa 4 wheeler caught one fish with him and Mama Kathy caught another fish with him. He was so excited that he could hardly sit still.

Griffin enjoyed a turtle raft that he could just sit in and let the waves roll under him. He was a great trooper. He was a little ify on the water the first couple of times but warmed up to it quickly. He also enjoyed an inter tube that he could stand up in. He thought it was funny to float out away from you for a while and then be rushed back to you. Such a cutie pie!!

We ate at some really great restaurants that had really good food. Gavin didn't eat a whole lot but what is new with that. I was just thankful I didn't have to cook for a couple of times. I love to cook but on vacation it is really nice to eat somewhere out for a change. My goal at the beginning of the week was for Gavin was to jump off of the dock into the Lake. On Thursday night with Kerry and myself by his side HE DID IT!!! We were thrilled. He still talks about it today. He did it once and didn't want to do it again but at least he did it. Gavin also learned how to swim a little. Papa 4 wheeler was helping him with his skills.

I learned that I can still do back flips off of the dock and Kerry learned that he should have put sun tan lotion on the last day instead of not and then burning. In the end, we had a great time with my parents, with the boys, and Lake of the Ozarks is just as much fun as we remember seven years ago. We really enjoyed ourselves and I know that both of the boys did as well. We are thankful that we got the opportunity and hoping to return soon.