Noticing a trend

I was sitting here at the computer for a moment and reading past blog entries from the year and notice that a lot of them were about the kids being sick; Mitch more so at the beginning of the year and Megan classically every 4 weeks or so. ugh.... We really aren't sick all the time but you would think so by reading my blog so to convince myself more than anyone here are some of the fun things we have done in the past week:

Went to breakfast at McDonald's after swimming last Friday
Had a movie night last weekend and watched Toy Story 2
Celebrated cousin Kelly's graduation with lots of family and friends
Celebrated Grandpa Marty's 90th birthday with lots of family and friends
Took Mazie to the vet and Dr. S. let the kids listen to her heart with a real stethoscope!!
Stopped for ice cream at McDonald's(drive thru) after the doctor and the very yucky throat cultures

Sick days

Both kids are sick today. Not really sure how you "stay home" on summer vacation but we seem to be doing it a lot lately. Mitch was upset to be missing swimming lessons today but you really can't or shouldn't swim when you are sick I told him. They both have yucky tonsils and Megan has pink eye as well. Can it get more fun?!! Probably, but let's not try to find out, huh?! After an extremely fun experience with "the sticks" aka a throat culture at the doctor neither of them has strep, it's just a virus so hopefully it will run its course before the 4th of July and our family's HUGE party because no one want to be sick for the annual water fight.

On the home front I have not gotten a thing done in about 3 weeks. I literally feel like I walk in circles. Today I put off vacuuming for another day because really, who is going to come to my house with 2 sick kids, especially with one that has pink eye!! I just roll my eyes at myself and started picking up clutter until I couldn't take it anymore and then went and watched Ellen for 20 minutes. She always makes me laugh and laughing is what I needed on a day like today. Keep praying for us. I know there is a reason somewhere amongst the sickness. Maybe we just needed some close family time this summer. Whatever the reason, I am trying to embrace this season and know that this can't last forever because I just might go nuts!!

Scheduled

Megan's tonsillectomy is scheduled for August 31st. I know, I know, it seems like a heck of a long way off and I have really been stressing about it this week and after much prayer and a major conniption fit decided that this is just how it is meant to be and I really have no control over it. I am now looking at the positive in that we will have lots of time to prepare for it.

Frank says, "relax..."! So I am trying to.

PS. If you see us soon...at my Grandpa's birthday, 4th of July or at Megan's birthday, please keep her surgery hush hush. We don't want the kids to know just yet. We will tell them in good time, but I don't want Meg to be freaked out all summer. Thanks!! : )

Megan update

Megan still isn't feeling well. We are on about day 12ish of this virus and I am hoping to see her perk up soon. We've been to the doctor twice this week and yesterday they did urine and blood tests which all came back normal. I'm glad they were normal but still a little frustrated that we don't really know why she isn't feeling well and has been running a fever for so many days. We are just hanging out this weekend and trying to keep her quiet...lots of barbies, art and movies. Send her some loving prayers if you could!

The rest of our week Mitch kept of busy teaching us about science and economics that he was learning about at Camp Invention. He spent the week with other kids learning about robots and building one of his very own that was battery powered. I was amazed because I never learned stuff like that until I was in 5th grade. I already know he is way smarter than I am because on Monday he used the word tessellation correctly in a sentence! WOW! His smarts amaze me everyday.

Next week we have swimming lessons but we'll have to see how Megan is feeling. It might just be Mitch out there swimming around like a fish this year.

We have an appointment

I called the pediatric ENT at Children's today and we are all set up for a follow-up consult with Megan and her tonsils...on August 20th. It seems so far away! Me, never the optimist and always the worrier, immediately thought that she could be sick 2 more times before then. Ugh! Everything happens for a reason though and God must think I need a heavy dose of patience and understanding. Till then...

Magical number 6

Megan isn't feeling well again and this makes for her sixth, yes sixth, round of pharyngitis since January. Like clockwork she seems to get these nasty tonsils almost every four weeks. When I saw her tonsils looking nasty again today I called into the after hours care at our doctor's office and told them that this was a chronic problem and was lucky enough to talk to our actual doctor and not the nurse. He kindly agreed to document this as her 6th case and said it was time to call back the pediatric ENT at Children's and for her to be seen again. Will that mean she gets her tonsils out around her 4th birthday or just after? I kind of hope so but she is so stubborn that maybe waiting a few months wouldn't be so bad either. Who knows! Honestly, I just can't believe she's had six rounds of this in six months. I feel so bad for the little thing. Pray, please, for her little body, my patience and the doctor's wisdom.

On another note...we've been working on re-doing her room into a "big girl" room. She is so thrilled. I let her pick out the color, cotton candy pink, and I painted it this week and this weekend we are starting to decorate and put it all back together. It's taking a bit since she isn't feeling well we are doing lots of snuggling, book reading and watching TV. We're having fun though and oh my is it pink!

Neat site

I love a good food website and I found this one that has the shelf life of all thing food www.stilltasty.com If you like to eat, cook and eat some more like I do then check this one out!! : )

2 Wheelin' it!

Mitch learned to ride a two-wheeler last week! (I have desperately been trying to post pics and just can't get my software to work, but I promise they are coming!!) He really had no interest until the 2 neighbor boys coaxed him a little; peer pressure really can be a good thing. He did it mostly all by himself; man does he remind me of myself and not it a good way! He's had a few meetings with the pavement, but other than that he's been free wheelin' it for a few days now.

It's June 8th and we are having a blast! This is such a fun summer and the kids are just so cute and both at really fun ages.

This is nothing?

Sometimes I forget that Frank does read my blog, on occasion, and he wasn't thrilled that I said we did "nothing" last weekend. Over the long weekend he did put the finishing touches on our fire pit. He did an amazing job and we have been able to sit out there and enjoy a fire in the fire pit at night and roast marshmallows. Here are a few fun pics from last weekend and our first fire.

Megan bringing the marshmallows to the fire or as she calls in "mincing marshmallows" and she likes to cook them but not eat them cooked.

Frank's work

Mitch chill-axin'

Almost perfect to start roasting

Last week was fun!!

These are pictures from our super fun and busy week last week. Mitch's school went to Lakeside Amusement park Wednesday night and Thursday we went to the Member Summer Kick-off party at the Denver Zoo.

Mitch and Frank on the bumper boats

Megan loved the Merry Go Round! She kept saying, "this is beautiful!"!

So cute!

Posing lakeside

Mitch and me at the Zoo

Megan and Mitch with elephants Dolly and Mimi in the background

Lazy!

We are on summer break now and all of us, but I am speaking for myself, have moved into "lazy mode"!! It is really nice after the routine of the school schedule and over the long weekend we worked in the yard some but on Monday we really did nothing and it was so nice! Frank and I kept looking at each other and asking, "should we do something?" and the answer was always "no". The kids didn't even want to go anywhere. For the next 2 weeks we plan to lounge around before some summer camps, swimming lessons and ballet start, and I plan to soak it all up because I know August will be here before I know it.