First Trip to the Lake~Sandling Beach

Tuesday~6/24

So this moring while Ed was working we went down the street and played with some of the neighbors children. It was fun the kids loved playing together and had a blast. After that we came home to chinesse checkers for Kayla Leapster for Aidan and playtime for Benjamin and Christian. Everyone had hotdogs and mac-n-cheese for lunch. Then it was nap/rest time for everyone including me! I think Kayla may have stayed awake and watched the whole movie Racing Stripes but I know I slept for a few minutes.

Brushing their teeth they all had to be in the bathroom and brush at the same time each morning

Kayla playing her leapster & Christian trying to sneak in a turnAidan playing with the bus take notice he is wearing a muscle shirt! :)Christian wearing Mommy's sandles- maybe that is why my beads are falling off??
Benjamin just hanging out in his swing!
Christian likes to honk honk on Benjamin's nose but Benjamin doesn't like it so much! :(Kayla reading to Christian before naptime

Later in the afternoon Kayla and I got everything together for our 1st trip to Sandling Beach this summer. It was so much fun. We got to the beach and everyone had a PB&J and then got ready and headed for the water. Chrisitan had gotten a Diego lifejacket he loved, Kayla had a fish float, Aidan had a beach ball but then decided he just wanted to swim with his lifevest. Benjamin was so cute. He was so happy in the water he loved it! Just smiled and smiled I think he would have stayed there all night if we would have let him. Kayla met another little girl and they built a sandcastle. Everyone one had a blast- then it was time to get out and head home for baths and bed. Another fun day planned tommorow....The puppet theater and the Mellow Mushroom!! As always pictures....

Everyone eating their PB&J before heading to the water! Christian was ready to get into the waterAdian was ready to goBenjamin sporting his swim suite and hat so cute he loved the water!!Aidan swimming in the lake- he had a blastKayla meet a little girl and they had fun building a sand castleThe whole gang (well everyone but me I was taking the picture)

A trip to Walmart & the Mall

Monday 6/23

We had a pretty lazy day today so to speak. Everyone was up and ready we went to run a few errands. The post office and the weekly Wal-mart run everyone was great and we were back home by 11am. After naps and resttime we took a quick trip to the park before Ed got home and then we were off and running to the mall!! Kayla loves to jump at the mall. Here are a few pictures some are blurry. We had supper while we were there Chick-fil-a and McDonalds. We then came home had baths and went to bed-we all needed some rest!! Here are a few pictures not many from today.

Kayla & Christian playing at the park

Hanging out Kayla, Aidan, & ChristianKayla pushing Christian on the swingJumping at the mall she loves to do this when she comes to visitKayla flipping she does so well she has a lot of upper body strength

Summer Fun~ 2x2=4 kids for 1 week!

Sunday 6/23~

So this weekend we went to Richmond on Saturday to celebrate Aidan's birthday- he is 4. We came home on Sunday and we doubled on the way back! That is right- we brought Kayla and Aidan back for the week and are planning on having lots of fun. We got back a little after lunch time and the fun started right away. Christian went up for a much needed nap and Uncle Ed took Kayla and Aidan to Walmart to get a few things- one of which included a slip n slide. We hooked it up outside with the Elmo sprinkler and little baby pool and ALL of the children (adults included) had a ton of fun. It was the fist time that Benjamin had been in the pool....he seemed to enjoy it. We then came in for a nice dinner of Spaghetti o's and meatballs. The for dessert we had homemade cookies and cream ice cream. Yummy!!! The evening closed with everyone just hanging out playing with toys and Aidan singing Mary Had a Little Lamb at the top of his lungs it was so cute. Here are some pictures from our first day....

Kayla & Aidan trying out the slip n slideChristian & Aidan racing to see who can get to the bottom firstBenjamin sporting his swimsuit getting ready to get in the baby pool for the 1st time! Playing in the kiddie pool- Benjamin enjoyed it

Sprinkler Time.....Christian having a blast with the Elmo sprinkler

Check out this face Aidan is making too funny!!

Christian & Kayla hanging out on the couch

Aidan singing to us: Mary Had A Little Lamb.....Benjamin had two first on Sunday one was getting in the kiddie pool and the second was that we pulled out the Bumbo Seat. He is growing way to fast!! He LOVED it. He thinks he is such a big boy now and he does really well sitting in it for as long as 15 minutes at a time! What a sweet little boyChristian wanted to try it out and had no problem sitting on Benjamin to do it.Benjamin gave up and let him have a turn. He still fits in it! Making homemade ice-cream yummy Kayla stirring it.....Aidan & Uncle Ed putting in the ice and rock salt....and everyone enjoying it! Yummy!!

Christian & Aidan playing with the Fridge magnetsKayla feeding Benjamin she is such a great helper! Milk time before bed time everynight this is what you will see. So cute....

MIA-Fathers Day Weekend~ A trip to the Park, Angus Barn, & The ER!

Sorry we have not updated the blog in sooooo long it has been a crazy few weeks! It all started Fathers Day Weekend. We had a wonderful day on Saturday. We started with a trip to daylight donuts and then the weather was great so we took our first trip to Pullen Park in Raleigh. It was a lot of fun and we got some wonderful pictures. Christian really enjoyed riding the boats and the carousel. The train was not running but we are hoping that it is on our next trip.

Christian ordering his donut....so cuteBenjamin just hanging out wondering when he is goning to get to eat some "good" food....Christian enjoying his breakfast (his mouth is full)

Now Pullen Park it was tons of fun- I am sure we will make many more trips back to this park!

Daddy & his boys I LOVE this picture

Mommy & Benjamin I know I have a crazy look on my face but it was the only picture of the two of us that turned out!

Daddy & Benjamin look at that smile on his face :)Christian getting ready to feed the ducks

All Boy here- climbing on the rocks at the park

Driving the boat he looks so seriousMommy pushing Christian on the swingThis boy loves a swingBenjamin riding the carousel- he looks like he is having fun....

Climbing up on the tractor all by himself! He did it!!Daddy & Benjamin hanging out

Fathers Day: Started out great- everyone went to church and then it was home for rest time! Once everyone was up and at it again the boys gave Ed their gifts. He really liked them. We all then got ready to go out to dinner. Ed had no idea where we were going it was a suprise read on a little bit further to see how the evening ended up.....

Christian helping Daddy open his cardsLooking at Daddy's picture with himChecking out Daddy's new bookDaddy loves to have both boys in his lap

After opening his gifts from the boys we headed out to dinner. Ed had no idea where we were going he just knew we had to dress business casual.....and then we arrived at.......Ed had been saying that he would like to try it sometime. Well I made sure to confirm that they were kid friendly and there were plenty of other children there and our dinner started out great....

Daddy & BenajminChristian getting ready to enjoy his dinner he liked the cheese and crackers they bring out The waitress we had was so sweet she gave Christian some toys to play with and took him on a little walk he really liked her!

Well then dinner arrived and as we were in the middle of dinner Christian spit up just a little bit. I actually thought he had choked on a piece of his PB&J and then all of sudden there was a lot more....EVERYWHERE!! Ughhh so at this point we knew we had to leave. We stripped Christian down to his diaper and Ed took him outside while I got our dinner boxed up and all of our things together.

When I got outside Christian seemed fine so we still thought maybe he got choked on something. Everyone got in the van and we headed home. We made it almost all the way home we were with in 10minutes of our house and Christian got sick again- not once but 4x's in the van. So we got home and got him cleaned up and everything else he was not running a fever or anything and went right to bed so we had no idea what was wrong.

The next morning he got up asking for his usual milk and a waffle. So I got him his breakfast and he ate it up. Ed was home this morning b/c he had a Dr. apt. As I was getting showered Ed came in and said ummm Christian is sick again. At this point I knew it was not just something he had eatten so I got cleaned up and got him cleaned up again and called the Dr.'s office to see when we could get in they said originally they could not see us until 2:30pm well that was fine until he continued to get sick 2 more times in the next 15 minutes. We called back and I took him in and they said he probably just had some kind of virus it was going around and gave him a shoot to hopefully stop the vomitting since he was getting dehydrated. We came home and he laid around and we fought him to drink for the rest of the day. We tried gatorade, water, apple juice, pedialite, and on and on he didn't really drink much and kept a little bit down maybe 1/2 of a sippy cup.

That evening and the next day he again started vomitting so the Dr.'s office advised a trip to the ER so when Ed got home that is where we headed. We didn't want to take Benjamin with us and we didn't want to leave him with anyone who had children so our friends Ashley and Nick kept him for us. When we got to the hospital he was still so sick they admitted him for monitoring, bloodwork, and iv fluids. We stayed until about 3:30 in the morning and then we were released. They had to give him an IV which was not fun at all they tried once in each arm and were unsucessful and finally got it in his foot. He was so tired and weak he just laid there and slept most of the time.

We took a couple pictures of him with our cell phone. We came home and he just laid around in the floor for days!! Finally by Friday- 5 days later he was feeling better. Thankfully no one else got it exspecially Benjamin although if I could have fixed it for Christian I sure would have he was one sick little boy. Now he is just happy and healthy back to normal and we are praying that he is never that sick again!

Christian laying in the floor on my homemade pilot he laid here most of the week

One day he feel asleep right on the floor and this is not like my child at allWhen we got to the ER they gave up a bucket incase we needed it and this is how he sat for a long time..

He was so tired he finally fell asleep for a little whilehis little foot where they finally got the iv in