Happy Birthday to my Oldest Boy!

We also painted out guest room last week! I still have some more decorating to do but thought I would post a picture! I loved the color and was so happy with how it turned out! I was so nervous going into it because I did not want it to be too blue!

Here are the boys taking turns doing their breathing treatments!!

A little blurry but here is a picture of the birthday cake!! Of course it was a pirate ship!

For their birthdays we gave them crocodiles from build a bear, so this was them waiting for the store to open so they could go get them stuffed! They loved it! It was our first experience and it was really fun!

Last Sunday Caleb turned 4!! I can hardly believe it!! Saturday was their party and we had such a great time!! We are truly blessed with so many amazing friends and we are so happy for the ones that got to come and celebrate this special day with us! On his birthday we went out to lunch and were blessed to have weather in the 70's so we spent the afternoon outside playing! It was such a fun day! We were supposed to stick to tradition and bake cupcakes but we had birthday cake left over from the party so we decided to have that instead! Happy birthday my precious Caleb!! You are such a blessing to our family and I love you more than you could ever know!!

To back up just a little, we went to the Dr. on Friday before their party because both of the boys had the weirdest sounding cough. We get there and find out their lungs were weezing so Both were put on a nebulizer (not sure of spelling, breathing treatment) four times a day for ten minutes at a time! Needless to say we did a lot of bribing to get them to sit still for that long, they got a starburst each time they did it and got to pick their favorite show to watch during it. The cough did not seem to get better so on Monday they were both put on a steriod along with the breathing treatments. Let me just say this, I have NEVER seen my kids act like they acted while on this steriod. SCARY to see the affects of this medicine. Every morning while Parker was on it we would go take Caleb to school and then he would scream bloody murder kicking and throwing and all for seriously an hour. I could do nothing to get him under control. I tried offering candy, movies, I tried it all and no matter what he would not calm down! It was so hard on me!! There were moments that i just wanted to stop and cry with him. It felt so helpless! I could not get him to get control of himself! I had a friend over one of the mornings and she and I both were trying everything, he would cry for about an hour then all of a sudden he would turn into the happiest thing. It was weird!! As for Caleb, he was just moody and sassy! I am so glad they are done with that stuff and hope they never have to go on it again!

We continued to have an interesting week, poor Caleb did something he has never done before! He fell out of the bed at 3:00 am and when falling out of the bed he hit his bedside table! Well, I heard him hit and then start screaming so I jump out of bed saying "he fell out of the bed, he fell out of the bed" over and over to Eric. I went in there and he was standing holding his face, crying so hard and shaking like a leaf! So I bring him to my room and when the light hit him I saw all the blood on his face. Of course I wanted to freak out but tried to remain calm. Poor thing had hit his mouth and it busted his lip! I am sure you all know how bad the mouth bleeds. We finally got it to stop bleeding and he slept with us the rest of the night!! Poor thing!! So now when he gets in bed he makes sure he fixes the pillows so he can't fall out!

Well, that is about it on the updates!! This has been a rather long post!! Lots going on here I guess! Now I will post a few pictures to go along with some of the things I talked about!

Happy Birthday Baby Boy!!!

So yesterday we celebrated Parker's second birthday!!!! WOW!! I can't believe my baby is 2!! Where does the time go? We had a wonderful day! We went to early service at church where for the first time, Parker did not cry or need his pacy!!! YEAH!! This was a big thing for us, I was so proud! He only gets his pacy when he is in bed or at church!! But I am hoping after the big boy he was yesterday, we can just have it in bed and then, sooner than later it will be gone for good! After church we came home and played and had lunch! After naptime Parker woke up to a balloon and cupcakes! Caleb was such a big helper and helped me make the special birthday cupcakes. Since Sunday is Caleb's birthday I let them both pick what kind of cupcakes they wanted for their special day, so Parker picked yellow with vanilla icing and Caleb picked yellow cake with chocolate icing. So yesterday was vanilla and he loved every bite of it! Caleb enjoyed licking the beaters (I know, it has raw egg, but it is too good not to let him have a few licks), I tasted as well to make sure he was ok:)!!
We sang happy birthday and had a cupcake family party and since it was a beautiful day yesterday Eric and his dad took the boys out to play at the playground, which they were so excited about. With this cold weather we have not done that in a while!! It was a great day for our special little one!! He is such a blessing to our family and brightens all of my days with his sweet sweet heart!! He is so sensitive and hates to see anyone hurt or sad!! He is so much fun and has the most precious belly laugh!! He loves his brother more than anything (which I hope never changes)!! He looks like his mommy but is so much like his daddy!! We thank God everyday for blessing our lives with such an amazing little boy!! We look forward to all the memories to come!! Happy Birthday my sweet Baby Boy!!!



Here he is looking at us like we have lost it when we were singing to him!! He had just woke up so he had major bed head!!!

Daddy trying to teach him to blow the candle out!! He did it once and got kind of close and realized how hot it was!!

Eric's parents gave them these new towels for!! You all know how much they love pirates!!

I got this new plate to use on their birthdays!! I was so excited about it!!

Stuffing his shirt!!

Eric went in to kiss Caleb one last time the other night and this is what he found. He was dead asleep (he looks like he has his eyes open in this picture but it must have been because of the flash going off in his dark room) and had stuffed all of his stuffed animals down his shirt and was sleeping so peacfully!! I am telling you, you never know what you are going to find when we go in for the last time everynight. The lights all may be on, books all over his bed, animals everywhere, you never know!! I am fine with it as long as after a few min. he goes to sleep! Thought this was too cute not to share!!