Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts

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

IMG_0878  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. 

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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?

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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….

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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.

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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!

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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!

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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,

Mixed Emotions…

I know it has been a few days.  Please excuse the absence.  It has been a crazy week or so…

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February 11th—TanMan turned one!!!!     Where in the world does time go?  Seems like just last week we were bringing him home!  Oh, how he has grown and changed and fit into our family so perfectly.  Who would have guessed that we could love him soooo much!  His brothers are certainly at the top of his list of admirers.  Along with his parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors down the drive, friends down the road, the little ladies at the grocery store, you name it.  His smile will hook anyone in a heartbeat.  Just look at it, aren’t you hooked too?

 

February 12th-15th—Headed north.  We spent last weekend in IL to celebrate TanMan’s 1st birthday.  It was a good time!IMG_9985

He loved smashing his cupcake to smithereens!  Until he discovered how yummy it was, then he wanted it back on the highchair tray.  “Hey, that is yummy!  Give me some more daddy!” 

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Braden didn’t care what was going on, at least once he got his cupcake!  Talk about some intent concentration to make it disappear…  Riley, our non-cake eater, was tickled to share TanMan’s birthday with a customized nutty bar.  Grandma made it into a number one in honor of the birthday boy.

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Ah, such simple pleasures…  Cupcakes and nutty bars.

Ross, our personal cake master, did the honors of decorating Grandma Pogue’s freshIMG_9979 baked cupcakes.  I think he did an awesome job.  (I might be a little bit partial though.)  Love the number one, and of course the initials.  A road is a perfect addition for any of our motor head boys.  They have all had the built in motor noise from an early age.  After thought—could have done paper cars on toothpicks to put on the road.  Oh Well, hindsight is 20/20.  There is always next time.  I think more cakes are on the horizon.  Two more b-day’s in March.  Be on the lookout for trains and dinosaurs.

February 17th—Our loss…  Willow died today.  We had her for 5 short months.  It was a terrible accident, but she was hit by a car and didn’t make it.  Crazy Chocolate Lab will be missed!  She brought a lot of smiles to our faces while she was with us.  Now she joins Keno and KittyKat up in heaven.  Riley is glad that Keno and Kitty will be able to help take care of her.  =) Love you Willow Dog!!!!!

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Sure hope things calm down a little over the next couple of weeks.  I need a break!

Catch ‘ya again soon!