SCARED!

I finally feel like I'm in a spot where I can post about this.  This journey starts a few years back and with a longer back story which we don't need to delve into.  And mostly this is for me, the more I talk and write the more cathartic it is for me.  About 6 years ago we almost lost my mom and that was scary.  This last Tuesday we almost lost her again to a version of what happened last time.  I got a call Tuesday night that she was being rushed to the ER and it didn't look good.  So I made a few phone calls, hopped in the shower and took off for my mom.  When we could finally see her it was 6 years ago all over again.  I swore then that I never wanted to see my mother like that ever  again and there I was.  Seeing her hooked up to a bunch of different things, a ton of IVs, and she was put out because she was intubated.  It wasn't pretty when we saw her, scary is an understatement.  However, a few hours later when I saw her again there was a huge and visible improvement in 6 or so hours!! She just kept improving and before you know it they knew what was wrong and are able to treat it.  Pneumonia...that's the big thing.  Amen for answered prayers because my mom will be going home tomorrow!!! 

I went up to see her today after Frank got off work.  I needed to see her not hooked up and 'sleeping', I just did.  I saw her and visited with her for a few hours, she's working on getting better and done with the Pneumonia stuff. This roller coaster has been tough...and that's just for me.  I can't imagine what my dad or mom felt or will be feeling as things settle down.

I do know many prayers were said and they were answered, and that may be all we need to know.

Thank you Lord!

Ninja

SO...in the afternoons I have Dru go in his big brothers room and wait while I put Eli to sleep and lay him down.  When I'm done I let Dru know he can come out of the bedroom.  Today was no different.

However...when he came out I saw the front of him and didn't suspect anything.  When I asked him to get something, THIS is what I saw!  I died laughing it was SO funny!!

I asked if that was his cape, he said yes.  My husband and his co-workers however have decided that he is a Ninja Turtle (you know, TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle) ).

 

And that folks is his shell!  Take a look....that's a sad, little shell!  Poor super hero!  But I'm thankful for the laugh!

Almost

When we went to Spokane awhile back, Grandma Lea asked Dru a question when we were there.

Grandma Lea: Dru. 

Dru: Yes

Grandma Lea: Are you doing T-ball this year?

Dru: Yes

Grandma Lea: Are you good at T-ball?

Dru: (after some thought) Almost!

He had us rolling! So here is Dru the night of  his first game! Such excitement!

Dru getting some practice in before the game.

Lefty at bat!!! Swing batter!

Gotta love the batting hat!

Love looking at this picture, such joy in running from one base to the next.  Playing the game!

It is so fun watching Dru play, he always has this huge grin on his face.  He also dances a bit...OK not a bit a lot.  Why I don't know.  Boredom?  Either way it's funny to watch, he's out there shaking what his momma gave him! GO DRU!

GO BLUE SHARKS!

Advice

If you could go back to the day before you had children, what two pieces of advice would you give yourself?   This was really tough for me and then of course I kept forgetting to take pictures or write them down. 

" It is impossible to spoil a baby by holding them all the time"

I got so sick of hearing people telling me I hold my baby too much and how were they ever going to learn to sleep on their own and blah blah blah.  I'll have you know all 4 of my boys sleep in their own beds and the youngest one is working his way to sleeping by himself with out have me snuggle and rock him to bed!

Once or twice was all it took for me to 'get' this one.  My friend always told me this and I'm sure I've told every new mom I run into this one.  It is my cardinal rule (for my kids, however if it's your baby and I want to hold them it doesn't apply...KIDDING!  Sorta...)

"Never, EVER wake a sleeping baby!!!!!"

I don't care what mountains you have to move...DON'T wake that baby!  I have been known to move baby swings with sleeping baby in them so I could go to bed!

*There is no need to carry the car seat with the baby in it...
*Just because someone gives you advice and has years of parenting behind them, you do NOT have to take that advice as law.  It may not work for you, it may not be right for you or your family.  Advice is freely give it is also freely taken or not
*Sleep when the baby sleeps
*Nursing is a relationship, you gotta work at it.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
*Ask for help, there is no shame in asking
*You will always panic when you sneeze because you don't know what to hold first (you know what I'm talking about ladies!)
*Being consistent as a parent is one of the hardest things you'll ever have to do
*Be prepared to experience weird things: rocks up the nose and googly eyes up the nose
*Each kid has their own personality and each kid is different

Just a few more I thought of.  So, what would you tell yourself??

Faces

While waiting for Lee to get done with his Flag Football Skills Assessment tests, we all fiddled around the field waiting.  So I took a few pictures. 

Dru , don't tell him that sometimes when he makes faces like this he's really hard to say no to or ignore (although the older he gets and the more annoying he gets it's getting easier for me!).

 Isaac...I say smile and let me take your picture.  He says hold on until he gets this look just right.  Cracked me up!  We all were so excited to have Isaac! We got to have him over for a sleepover...Dru finally could have his Isaac for another night, yet again! 

 Eli...he's still cute.  Problem is he's going to turn 3.  I don't like 3 year olds...he's gonna get ugly soon!! Ish!

Hope you all have had a good start to your week so far.  We are busy the next couple of months.  We have started baseball and this year we have 3 in the league.  Which is fine just keeps us busy between practice and games.  And then after Easter Lee starts up doing Flag football, so from Sunday to Thursday it's go, go, go!  The upside to this?  I have 4 boys that go to bed MUCH better than they normally do! AMEN!  Now my only struggle is to go see two nephews play their games because they are in a different league than we are.  I have to make it to at least one...I'm the awesome Auntie remember!?!

Sunglasses

Put your shades on folks!  There was some sun on Sunday...then it snowed about 1/2 an inch that night and into Monday morning.  Mother Nature is a fickled woman!

Mad Scientists

Don't ask me what these two are cooking up but it entertained them while I was making dinner.  (Ian got a microscope and other things in a container from his grandparents...sometimes I don't think they like me very much when they get things like this ;)   ).