Charlie and the Easter Egg Hunt

Well this is late but it's now or never...kinda like those Christmas cards I meant to send out but never did and finally just bagged them until this Christmas. One of those things. Anyway, Frank and I had this great idea of having a huge, wonderful egg hunt outside while my parents were here for Easter. This was the first time we'd spent Easter together and it was going to be fun! Sadly we forgot to factor in one small, tiny brown and white thing...Charlie!

Charlie was having such a grand time finding all the plastic eggs and cracking them open with his teeth and eating the candy inside them...shiny tinfoil wrappers and all!! That had the most colorful...well you get the idea. I think it was the best Easter for Charlie yet! Note to self: Put Charlie IN the kennel before we hide the eggs and while the kids hunt the eggs...

As you can see Charlie found an egg here... Ian and Lee found an egg or two.

Eli found one in his car. He did pretty good this year all in all with the egg hunt. He picked up on the concept pretty quick. Which is a good thing cause he's got bigger competition to deal with!

Even Grandpa Jolly went on an egg hunt! He brought his own basket and everything! Kidding! He was 'helping' Eli...and Eli got distracted with his car. Someone had to continue on with the arduous job of egg hunting!

We had a good Easter this year! The Easter Bunny was good to the kids...all outdoor things and the big gift was a slip and slide!

Yoga and Other Things

Dru...doing whatever it is that he does. Yes his name really means trouble. Today, with this cousin, they filled the sandbox up with water...NAUGHTY! The two of them were soaked head to toe. Not that I didn't need to make sure one of them was fed and ready to be out the door for pre-school or anything. OH they were naughty! Now our box needs to drain or whatever and Eli can't use his new sand toys he got from his Oma and Grandpa...today would have been a good day for that. Arrggg those boys!

Dru started putting this thing on his lips and it reminded me of myself when I was a kid and had clothespins all over myself. It was a way to hold the clothes pins while I hung clothes on the line (by the way I HATED doing that and I HATE the way the clothes feel after drying on the line!) Anyway, I took a picture of him and as you can see my Wii fit board was there and he likes to occasionally work out with me. He really likes to do Yoga which cracks me up. So here's his Yoga position: Standing Tree (I think, this is all from memory)

And this one is called Half Moon...this one rolls me cause he does it for like a second and then goes Oh mom I can't hold it anymore I have to rest...uh OK Dru...you do that! Funny kid! The weather is good today and in awhile I will let Dru back outside...I hope the sandbox has dried a bit or that will be more laundry.

Our weeks have become busy and I can't keep up...what will I do when there are 4 kids in sports? I don't even want to know. Right now Ian has practice Tues. and Thurs. and as of right now Lee has it Mon. and Wed. At some point in the fall Dru will have soccer...we are crazy I think. The jury is still out on that I believe!

Have a good day everyone!

Question

OK, what does one do with the teeth that your children lose? Am I suppose to keep them or throw them away? I'd like to throw them away but I don't want to be that mom that didn't keep their kids teeth for whatever reason...illogical I know. Sign me up for Hoarding: Buried Alive!

OK, I'd have more if I could get with it more mentally but I don't feel good and I'm tired. So there's my post.

Going Bankrupt

So it wasn't enough that last Friday Ian has some teeth pulled and the Tooth Fairy came and left money for him, but tonight Lee lost yet another tooth today. He was half way out and so I asked him to if he wanted to pull it out for him. At first he said no and then after awhile when he tried eating he finally said yes. So I just yanked it out and there you have it. So you could say it's my fault but it would have been a matter of time really and I'd be back where I'm at now. Catch 22.

This is Lee's tooth for the Tooth Fairy...written by his own hand! Very important!!He lost his other bottom one, and of course due to that lost tooth there is of course yet another lost tooth. I'm telling you the tooth Fairy is going to go bankrupt! He did ask me today or was it yesterday? Either way, he asked me when it was his turn to get his teeth pulled...I love how somewhere along the line Frank and I have glamorized getting teeth pulled so that now the next big/cool thing is to get your teeth pulled! *shaking my head* Where have we gone wrongFor those of you who want the up close and personal view it's there! Blood and all, of course you can see the white of the new tooth coming in...that's one tooth...I'd like to know where the other tooth is going to come in...if it comes at all.

So here are the Toothless Wonder Boys! Hear the wind whistle through their heads? I mean their mouths! Yes that's what I meant! Silly me!

Personally I think the two of them just look like trouble all sweetened up...but that's just my take!

Update: My cousin's husband is doing well. He's awake and they have been able to take him off the ventilator and taken all tubes out. He's talking and doing well. He does have an infection right now and they are working on that...MRSA has been tossed out there but I've not heard anything definite on that yet. He's going to stay at the hospital awhile longer while they run some more tests and hopefully they'll figure out what's wrong. So thank you for your continued prayers they are much appreciated!

Toothy

On Friday Ian went to the dentist and had 3 teeth pulled! He was a CHAMP and did great! I'm so proud of him! He did cry when they did the shots, the ones they really had to get way in there. I had such a hard time not crying with him...I was good and didn't but I sure had to blink a few away quickly though. After all was said in done, after those shots we were in and out fairly quickly, amazing!

Having those teeth pulled has changed his smile a bit I think. Sure hope that Tooth Fairy comes through! Boy howdy I see some $$ for pulled teeth (well actually his dad does...lol). After this go around we will have an appointment with the Orthodontist and see what they want to do next...I'm gonna guess braces...I'm not sold on that yet...not sold yet...we'll see what they say though. No one says I have to do what they suggest...beauty of being an adult!

These are the teeth that were pulled. I was truly amazed by the eye teeth and what they looked like. I have never in my life seen anything like this and the hole those two teeth left in Ian's mouth was a sight to see. The eye teeth have the roots on them still, not like the other small one there which has no roots. That's because the incoming adult teeth wear down the roots and that's how the teeth become loose. Kids generally loose the eye teeth around the age of 12...Ian's 8. We are a few years ahead of schedule. It just looks gnarly to me and crazy! Well I hope everyone has a good day, it's suppose to be great this weekend with some better weather than what we've been having this week. YEAH!!! The kids can go outside and hopefully on Sunday I can mow the lawn!

Prayer Request

This is my cousin and her husband.

Two nights ago, her husband had a seizure and is now in the hospital sedated and with a ventilator hooked up to him. As of yet they don't know what caused this seizure. Please keep them both in your prayers...for her to keep it together for as scary as this is (she had to preform CPR on her husband) and for him to get well and the Dr's to figure out what is going on so they can start helping him. Thank you so much I appreciate it. They live in OH and are too far away for me to go and hug and be with them...

Plugging Along

Just going through some of my folders of pictures so I can get them ready for back up. These photos just stood out to me.

This was June 2009 in Ohio
October 2007

March 2007 Whibey Island at the beach

Tulip Fields 2009 Eli~ I forget the folder this was in, but I'm guessing late 2008 or early 2009

Haven't been up to much lately. This week is Spring Break and I'm already ready for school to get started up again. I have at least 2 sick kids and 1 kid that's going to have 4 teeth pulled on Friday. Things could get interesting at some point this week! Take care and just keep plugging along at life!