A Wet and Wild Weekend

Well this weekend was a little different than I had planned. Of course after 15 months, I have realized that plans are made to be altered. On Friday afternoon there were storms moving in to the area. Sandy had just put Brody down for a little afternoon nap when I pulled up and she wanted me to stay for a while until the storms passed and Brody woke up. So I did. My mother-in-law is a wonderful person and such a blessing to me!! She honestly treats me like her daughter and I can't even begin to explain how much she has done for Brody, Anna and Joseph. She keeps them all four days a week, usually. Adam stays home on Wednesdays and sometimes Bobbie Lyn is off on Fridays. She loves it. I really wonder how she does it sometimes. There have been a lot of times I have called and she has all of them asleep. It's amazing!!
Anyway, I stayed and helped her fix dinner. Well really I just chopped some vegetables for the tacos she was doing all the work. The rest of the gang came down in a little while and we all visited for a while.
On Saturday morning we took the kids to a local church to have their pictures made together. We had them all dressed in overalls, white t-shirts, and barefoot. They looked adorable. Brody is such a Ham, he just grinned the whole time. Brody and I went to Wal-mart to get a few things and went back home to play with daddy. Brody and Daddy took a nap while I did a few things around the house and when they got up we went outside to play for a little while. It was cold though, so much to Brody's disapproval, we didn't stay long. Sandy called and said she had a big pot of chili and needed us to help eat it all.
Sunday morning is where both the "wet" and "wild" come in. Brody was playing with my phone while I was doing some dishes and getting ready for church. After church, I was looking for my phone everywhere. I called it and everything and couldn't find it. When I finally found it, it was very wet. He had thrown it into the toilet. I made Adam get it out and we decided that we would have to go to Crossville and get another phone. While we were getting ready to go, Brody was playing. He went over to the end table and grabbed one of our wedding photos . He thought it would be fun to see how far it would go. It didn't go far but the glass in the frame busted everywhere. That is the wild part. Our little man has become somewhat of a wild man lately. It's pretty funny.
We go to the doctor tomorrow afternoon for his 15 month check-up. Pray for us as Brody gets shots. They can be very traumatic and I am a little worried about the MMR. I have prayed about it and feel like I am doing the right thing.

Meet Daisy

We have a new member of the family. Saturday after Lexi's birthday party, Adam, Brody and I went all the way to Manchester for our new Puppy. She is a 9 week old Border Collie. We had one when I was pregnant but someone stole him. ( Can you believe people would do that?)
We have been saying for a while now that we needed to get another one for Brody but we thought we would wait a little longer. Then we found these puppies so I guess we forgot about waiting! She is so cute and so good with Brody so far!! I am sure that there will be more posts about Miss Daisy in the future!!

E-I-E-I-O

Adam came home today with 36 baby chicks for Brody. He loves to farm and has always liked dealing with chickens. I, on the other hand, grew up "in town" where chicken farming was something we didn't do. I have to admit there is nothing as sweet as a baby chick, until it makes a mess, that is.
I don't think that Brody gave us quite the reaction we were expecting. He loves animals too and has never been scared of any one of them, not even the cows. We just knew he would love the chickens. Well he did for a few minutes and then he was more interested in squeezing them and throwing them than looking at them or being at all gentle. Adam suggested that we sacrifice one of them for Brody to "play with" and keep the rest safe. I didn't like that idea. I had to snap some pics.Some of them are priceless. I hope you enjoy!!

easter 2008

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Break time has finally arrived!!

Well needless to say I am so excited about being on break from school. Thursday was a really hard day for me. Sometimes things happen so fast we have no or little control and as a teacher, I have a really hard time accepting the fact that some kids get caught in a bad situation before they realize what has happened. Anyway, Break could not have had better timing this year for me.
On Friday Brody, Gramma and I met Brooke and Lexi Barton at Chuck E. Cheese's. I am sure this was the first of many trips here. I remember going to Showbiz when I was a kid and I loved it. It seems as though Brody is following in Mommy's footsteps. A lot of the activities were a little too big for him but you would have a hard time convincing him of that. Brody and Lexi were so cute together. We said that it was their first date.

Spring is in the Air

Well you have got to love this East Tennessee weather lately. I mean we have had temperatures ranging from a little below freezing to about 70 degrees in the last week. I really love the warmer weather and have been looking forward to it's arrival for a while now. My allergies on the other hand have been going a little crazy. Oh well I guess it's the price I have to pay for this beautiful weather.
Spring also means baseball season has started. Brody and I went to watch Uncle Curt play baseball tonight. Well we really didn't get to watch much of the game. There were too many things for him to get into. He loves the weather too, but I think he just loves being outside period. He is all BOY as they say. It's been a while since . Curt did pretty good. He had a really good hit and got hit really good once too. I hate when that happens but he took it like a man.( He turned 18 a couple of weeks ago, I can't believe it).
Spring Break starts next week too. I can't wait!! I think the kids are ready for a break too.It seems. I have been trying to post some new pictures taken at the game but for some reason they are taking too long. I will try againg later

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Using a lot of Sick days

Well the bugs have definitely hit our family over the past few weeks. It started with me on Feb. 21. Thank the Lord Dr. McGriff had called school off on Monday the 22nd. I went to the Dr and he said I had a sinus infection and probably a touch of the flu. I felt awful. He gave me an antibiotic and I started feeling better in a few days. I had to take Tuesday off because I still didn't feel like working. I went back to work on Wednesday and worked the rest of the week. The next week on Wednesday I woke up with a horrible migraine. So I stayed home again, I had already had a doctor's appointment scheduled for Thursday so I stayed home that day too.Thank goodness I was already off b/c I noticed Brody's eye was a little red and runny. I took him to the doctor and he had conjunctivitis (pink eye). They gave me some drops to use so I went to work Friday and once again school was called off on Monday for illness. I had to end up taking Brody back to the Dr Monday because his eye was no better and in fact it had spread to the other eye. I also noticed he had a runny nose. Well the doctor confirmed what I had expected. He had an ear infection, or should I say a double ear infection. He didn't act like it bothered him too much though and I am so glad that I went ahead and took him back.
Dr. Blevins told me something I didn't know, he said that the same bacteria that caused pink eye also caused ear infections. I had no idea. So I stayed home yesterday to keep him away from Anna and Joseph.
Man I am glad that I didn't have to use all my sick days when I took maternity leave! Well I think we are on the down hill slope hopefully the antibiotic will knock the infection out in a day or two. Keep Brody in your prayers!!