The Lost Month

Yeah, so I guess I didn’t do so good about posting often again!  Oops!  We have had plenty going on, and I have gotten plenty of computer time.  I have no excuse, just procrastination.  I cannot believe that it is already March!!!!!!  Where in the world does time go?  Anyway, here is a bit of a recap from my lost month of blogging.

1.  Braden’s surgery—Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy

  Braden had huge tonsils for a while!  We got him in to see and ENT, and the Dr. basically took one look and said “How soon do you want them out?”  We ended up at the surgical center 6 days later.  Nice to have something move along so quickly in the medical field.  He recovered pretty quickly.  After a couple of days of being pretty wiped out, he was soon back to his active self. 

We have noticed an improvement in his speech, he eats so much better, and is sleeping better since he can breathe so much easier now.  Yea!

2.  Guess who is two?

All of these guys are growing up so fast!  I can’t believe that TanMan is already two years old!!!!!  He is constantly working to keep up with everyone else, and trust me, he does not fall too far behind.  Since the 11th was actually a snow day, we ended up spending part of the day visiting the nature center where I used to work.  The boys love going there and looking through the exhibits.  Then we celebrated with a daddy made cake over the weekend with Grandma and Grandpa Pogue.

3.  Snow Days—One week Riley had three and a half snow days!  Made for a short school week.  We got out and played in the snow quite a bit.  Of course this was right after Braden’s surgery, so we still had to take it a little bit easy.  The first day was great snow for building snowmen.  We had an awesome time, except for Tanner….

   

He was having no part of it that day.  Went and sat on the steps in the screen room, cried, sat in his car outside, cried, stood in the snow, really wailed, watched Riley and Braden building snowmen, said “uh-uh!”, cried hard shaking his head no, then finally got sat on the couch in the screen room to impatiently wait for his brothers to get their carrots on the snowmen.  Then we called it quits.

 

The next time we ventured out for snow play time, Braden was in about the same mood that Tanner had been in before.  We trudged on much to his dismay and played anyway.  Can’t please ‘em all all of the time!

4.  A Trip to the Grandmas’ house—Went to Clinton to help paint Ross’ mom’s upstairs hall and stairway.  Ross was tucked away making progress most of the weekend.  The boys did get to help with some of the prep work, and then made regular assisted appearances for inspection throughout the weekend.  The end result is a fresh clean paint job to brighten up the stairway.  Happy Birthday Grandma Glenn!

 

 

The boys found lots of time to entertain their grandmas.  They were such troopers for the weekend.  We did get to take them to the really cool playground in town one afternoon.  It was so nice to just get outside and run off some energy for a while.

5.  Visitors from NC—Adrienne and her new little guy, Bailey came for a quick visit while they were in the area visiting her grandma.  They returned the cradle.  Bailey was the 9th little one to get to use the cradle that Ross and my dad built just before Riley was born.  Such a cool thing to share with our friends and their little ones.  We then loaded them up with some other goodies for Bailey to use when he gets just a bit bigger.  Enjoy Adrienne, Brad, and Bailey!

 

Life is always busy with “normal” things too.  Scouts, school, work, laundry, dishes, sleep…  I just don’t know what I used to do before this “job” came along! Time flies and the next thing I know, another month is gone.  I have some other posts planned.  Even have them written down on my to do list.  Be on the lookout for some blasts from the recent past.

‘Til then,