Outside Time!

The weather has still been very nice so the boys have been playing a lot outside, and without injuries! Here are just some pictures of them playing soccer together, and just enjoying the weather.

Preschool Sings!

Tyler sang at church today with his preschool class. He did very well, singing all the words and doing all the hand motions. He actually sang in two different services. For the first service we let Carter go to Sunday School, but for the second service we brought him into big church with us. He seemed to enjoy it and actually did very well for his first time. I will try to get video of the performances up soon.

Finally - Zoo time!

The boys have been asking for weeks it seems to go to the zoo. Unfortunate it has been to cold or we have been to busy, until yesterday that is. They were so excited to go. They both got ready on their own and reminded me to make sure I made their lunches. We did all the usual things - feed the giraffes and see all the animals. The boys also got to help feed a opossum in the Lodge and I let them play on the playground for a bit. Some of the animals weren't out, but we still had a great time.

16 weeks appointment

Yesterday I had my 16 week appointment. I was excited to see that I have finally gained some weight - 4 pound, so 5 pounds total. I am measuring right on track as of now and got to hear the heartbeat. It took awhile as the baby was hiding. Every once in a while we could hear the heartbeat behind mine. Eventually we got to hear it all on its own. After drawing some blood it was back to work. In just two and half weeks I will have my big ultrasound! Here is my 16 week belly picture. Please excuse the hair and expression on my face. I was practically asleep by the time Justin got home to take the picture.

Another Day, Another Injury

Well is has been beautiful the past few days here, which means the boys have been spending a lot of time outside. Yesterday they decided they would climb a tree. Tyler then fell out of the tree. His pants got stuck on a branch and then he fell, hitting his ear against another branch. The branch cut the top of his ear open. I called our pediatrician who said as long as I had the bleeding under control I could come in in an hour instead of rushing to the E.R. Tyler didn't want anything to do with me touching his ear, but I eventually got it cleaned and got him to calm down. When we got to the doctors it already looked much better. He once again didn't want them touching it, but let them look at it and clean it up. They decided that they could glue it together - so no stitches! This made Tyler feel a lot better (I think he remembered Carter getting his stitches). He did a great job while they glued it together. He keeps asking when the glue will come off. He still doesn't like showing it to people or having people touch his ear. However he now has no pain and doesn't even remember which ear it was that he hurt.

Compassion International

Tyler had another field trip on Friday to Compassion International. Justin stayed home with Carter so that Tyler and I could still attend. It was a lot of fun and I think Tyler got a lot out of it. First they showed a video of Haiti, before the earthquake. It showed how kids lived in Haiti compared to how we live here. We then got to see some toys that kids around the world made out of trash, because they couldn't afford to buy toys. Then the kids got to see a replica of a house that would be in some of the poorer countries. It was smaller than the boys room and seven people shared. They chose 7 kids to get in and Tyler was one of them. At the end of the tour each child got a flag of one of the countries Compassion helps. Tyler got India's flag. He was very excited to show it off to daddy and Carter when we got home. He still talks about some of the things we saw.

Sick Boy

All last week Carter had a little bit of a cough. It got pretty bad Thursday afternoon so I took him in just in case. They determined he had RSV and possible pneumonia. If his fever went up anymore (it was up to 102) then we were to come back in for chest x-rays. Luckily the fever went away and never came back. Also he is on breathing treatments and he is taking those very well and those seem to help a lot. Since he no longer has a fever and has had his cough for so long, he is no longer contagious so we went to church today. He had a great day and hardly coughed at all! While we were in the waiting room at the doctor's I had him wear a mask. He loved wearing it and continued to wear it wherever he went. The picture is at King Soopers where we stopped to get his inhaler on the way home.