So much to do, so little time

We made it safe and sound. We arrived late Friday night but it was worth it in order to have all day Saturday to spend with friends and family.

Yesterday afternoon we took the boys to a local church where they were having their Easter Egg Hunt and games. This wasn't our church but the cool thing is, it was the church my family attended when I was a baby. I was christened at this church.

Aunt Pammy met us up there so we would get to see her before she left on her trip to the Bahamas! Cade was extremely happy to see her because she carried him around and didn't make him sit in his stroller like I do!

Cody didn't know what to do about the heat, it was hot!! Gotta love Texas!

Cody actually enjoyed seeing the Easter Bunny this year. He usually runs screaming in the opposite direction!

At the egg hunt, Uncle Claydough helped Cody find all his eggs

Cade was happy just playing with the one egg he found

Needless to say, the boys had a great first day. You can tell they're already worn out...Cade didn't wake up until 11 am this morning!!

*sorry about the spacing issues, for some reason blogger has decided to have a mind of its own tonight and space where it wants to*

We're off!

We're off to The Woodlands. It might be a couple of days until I can update but I'm sure we'll have lots to post about! I'm very excited and if I have my way, I might not come back. However, I think the chances of that are slim to none but hey, a girl can dream can't she??

An Apple a Day...

Cade loves apples. Anytime someone opens the fridge, he crawls over there as quick as possible and snags an apple! It will keep him occupied for a good 20-30 minutes.

When he's finished, everyone knows. He will start using it as a ball and apple will go ALL over my kitchen! Luckily we have a dog to help clean up the mess!

Yummy!

Don't ask me what he's doing here, playing football with it for all I know...crazy boy!



Sammy waiting for the signal to "clean up"

Volleyball, Soccer, and Baseball

McKinly played her first Volleyball game Saturday morning. She has never played before so we were not really sure what to expect. She has played a few times with my nieces in their backyard but we had never really seen her on a full volleyball court.

She did great though. And I'm not just saying that because she's my kid. I have proof! I couldn't get over how well she did. She scored four points for her team in the game.

Here is a video of her serving. She scored two points here!




After McKinly's volleyball game, we headed over to Ty's soccer game. This was his second game of the spring season and it was FREEZING! I'm not kidding you! Cody's poor lips were turning blue.


Cade fell asleep buried in T.J.'s jacket



When T.J. couldn't hold him any longer, Cade curled up and fell back to sleep with McKinly


Poor Ty had to play soccer with his jersey over his sweatshirt. At least he got to run around and stay warm.

After we about froze to death, we came home and put Cade down for a real nap and Cody and I headed over to his baseball practice.


Cody hitting the ball



Running the bases


This is how our Saturdays will be for the next couple months...except this Saturday because we're headed to Houston!

The Culprit

Hopefully we have figured out what has caused Cade's slight disturbance of behavior.

About three weeks ago, Cade had a slight ear infection. So, he was put on Amoxicillin. Then, when I took him in for his one year check up, they discovered he now had an ear infection in both ears and his antibiotics never cleared up the first infection to begin with.

That brings us to yesterday. Cade was unbearable! Screaming non stop and just wanting to be held. If you know him, you know this is not like him at all. So, I decided to pack everyone up...which could be a whole other post detailing all that we have to do to get everyone in the car within a reasonable amount of time...and head to the doctor once again.

They discovered that his right ear has cleared up like planned but his left ear is still not showing any relief. There seems to be a lot of pressure which would explain why he has been banging his head against things and randomly slapping his face.

Thank God there was a reason for this bazaar behavior!! I thought my child was turning into that little kid on Parenthood...you know, the little boy, Justin who would just randomly bang his head into walls??

For now, we are just supposed to carry on with the antibiotic he is currently using and hopefully that will do the trick. However, his 10 days of using this medicine is up in just two more days so I don't see how that is going to make a difference. But that's why I'm not a doctor so I'll leave it up to the professionals!

If by next week, he still is ornery then they will try a third antibiotic and hope it clears up.

Here's to hoping the antibiotic he is currently on will miraculously cure this infection in the next two days because well, I don't know how much longer I can stand this fuzziness and plus, we're out of medicine after that!

*did you notice how clear the picture is?? My wonderful husband gave me an early birthday present and bought me a new camera in order to take better pictures. He decided to let me get it early since we're headed to Houston next weekend for Spring Break.*

The art of throwing a tantrum

My precious, happy baby boy...who used to be happy all the time, used to be very content playing by himself, and used to rarely ever cry...has learned to throw the biggest temper tantrums ever.

I have no idea what started it and I have no idea how to stop it! I'm not talking about little tantrums here. I'm talking about the screaming, Binky throwing, head pounding, face slapping type of tantrums!

Luckily, it's his own face he's slapping.

Don't get me wrong, he's still a happy baby but every once in a while he will just have a melt down. It's usually when he's in his highchair and isn't getting something fast enough! Excuse me for not being able to shovel food in this boys mouth as quickly as he would like. I go as fast as I can but I have to at least be able to get the spoon from his mouth, to the bowl, and back to his mouth again before he freaks out!

Oh, and if his daddy walks in the room and doesn't pick him up, we are usually in for another one of his fits.

How did my sweet baby boy go from this....

to this??

I hope he grows out of it real quick...like by tomorrow!

Rewind

We have been so busy with birthdays, soccer, baseball, doctors, etc. that I realized I never posted pictures from Cody's little birthday dinner.

The weekend before Cody and Cade's birthdays, my friend Tasha flew in from Houston to celebrate the boys birthdays with us!

Tasha with the boys



On Saturday night, we took Cody to a the Japanese Steakhouse to celebrate his birthday. He not only got to celebrate it with us, but Uncle Carl, Chelsi, Uncle Jonathan, Jilly, Ty, McKinly, Cade, Laney, and of course Tasha!!

After we got the bill we realized it probably would have been cheaper to throw him a party at Pump it Up or some place like that! He had a great time though and that was worth everything!

Cody getting himself some Sushi

Cody trying to catch the egg



Cade loved eating all the lemons

Ty helping to cook by throwing the egg


Singing Happy Birthday


Make a Wish


After dinner, we went back to our house to open presents and have MORE cake!

Cody is really into pirates right now so what better way to celebrate his third birthday than with a treasure chest cake??


Happy Birthday my little Pirate!