Jealously

I received the following two pictures from Mrs. McCullough today...

Brody (yes, Brody) holding hands with a little lady friend... Owen was not pleased!

My Boys are FIVE!!!!

It has been five years since I became a mom....My babies are no longer babies, not even toddlers, they are officially FIVE, that means they are little boys now...

They came down to a mini celebration with balloons and steamers.  Brody walked around the house for a minute and came back to the play room and started to tear up..."what's wrong Brody?" With a broken heart, he replied "where is everyone?". Bless his sweet heart. He thought this was his party.

Owen was excited to share his Batman cupcakes with his classmates

Brody chose a pirate theme.  His cupcakes had gold coins

Celebrating with our classmates

This is the craziness at our neighbor's (across the street) house. Today was the WORST day I've experienced in Midland in ten years as far as wind goes.  Henley and I were at Sams picking up the boys cupcakes and my shopping cart (with Henley in it) got swept away! I was running like a crazy momma bear chasing her down.  Back to these crazy tumbleweeds...this poor guy took his fence down yesterday so it was like a vortex sucking tumbleweeds between his and his neighbors house.  He made it on the national news.  The kids thought it was AWESOME!

 

 

 

 

 

So proud of the sweet, precious, wonderful, handsome, funny, quirky little boys they have become.  I love you boys more and more each day!

Dentist

I finally took the kids to the dentist. Yes boys will be five next week and have not been yet. I've been procrastinating and hoping I was doing a good job brushing.

Henley actually went last Wednesday. She did very good considering she had dance and gymnastics and no nap. Dr. Wilkerson let me hold her and he checked her teeth and let her get prizes.


Today Owen did GREAT! He climbed up in the chair and let the dentist take a look. We did x-rays next and he did great. There was a little fear when the big x-ray camera came out but he powered through and was so brave! I was so proud of him!


Brody was not as happy to be at the dentist. We talked about it and were very positive and he watched Owen and was totally fine, but when his turn came...not too fun. They started with x-rays because it was set up for Owen and he tried to cooperate but it was too much. He got a pass on x-rays and a hold-him-down-speedy-exam-with-fluoride to tide us over for six months! Whew! Mommy was beat up! Owen is going back tomorrow to get his teeth cleaned, I think they wanted us out of there today after all the drama!

Happy Valentines Day

Happy Valentines Day!
 

 

 

We are so loved!
 

 

 

LOVE..LOVE..LOVE!

Valentine School Parties

The kids were very excited for their Valentine Parties at school.

Owen's class reciting this month's snapping turtle poem

Owen performing

 

 

One of my Valentines

Brody's sweet class

I love to watch Brody with his class.  He is so animated and happy with they sing or say their poems.

another one of my Valentines

Headed to church to celebrate with my Henley Valentine

Enjoying her party!

Happy Fat Tuesday!

I went to pick Henley up from Mother's Day Out today and..

She had been converted to the Mardi Gras Queen!

 

 

 

Recovering

After being trapped at home for the last three weeks with flu and tummy surgery...we escaped to the park for a little fun!
 

 

 

 

New Belly Button!

Todd, Henley, and I headed to Lubbock Tuesday after work.  We had an early appointment at the hospital Wednesday morning...to fix Miss Henley's umbilical hernia.

We arrived at 6:15am and Henley was actually in a great mood.  However, she was not too pleased with having her picture taken.

Checking out her new "bracelet" she was very excited about!

The reason for our visit.  Henley was born with this and our pediatrician was sure it would heal itself by her second birthday...it did not! After going to see Dr. Goldthorn we found the hernia was above her belly button and would not heal itself.  Her brothers kindly refer to it as a "weenie" and Owen once asked "Why is her weenie way up there?".

Coloring and reading helped us pass the time while we waited for our sleepy juice. Once the juice was administered, our girl was LOOPY!!! I really appreciated the goofy-ness it brought to sweet Henley because while she and I rode the bed down to the operating room, Mommy was getting weepy. Henley had all the nurses in stitches and she was hit! Then I had to give her over and wait....and wait...

About an hour and a half later our sweet girl was brought back to us. We waited for our sleeping beauty to awake...and waited...and waited...she had no interest in waking up.

her poor little arm with her iv's. At least it was pink!

At the shift change, the nurse was trying to help us get out of there.  Henley needed to go teetee in order for us to be released but we could barely get her awake enough to drink.  He said "popcicle" and she was wide awake!

We left the hospital with instruction to call if our angel didn't teetee by 11, since we had still not gone and we were approaching the end of our day surgery timeline. Hooray! Lets get out of here! Well...Henley threw up ALL the way back to the hotel...AWESOME! Now I was really in a panic about dehydration. After a nice long nap and pedialyte, we were good to go! Bring on the cheerios and hydro codine!

Repunzel had a medical bracelet to match Henley's because she went all the way through surgery with Henley

The Earls sent balloons...things were turning around!

The next day we let Dr. Goldthorn take off the bandages to reveal the new and improved belly button!