Rainy Day Activites

Days that it rains.. it's like God's test to mothers.
Let's see how patient, kind, creative, and patient you can be today.
Did I say patient twice?
I don't know about you other stay at home mommies, but my children LOVE being outside. They spend about an hour and a half in the morning outside and about two hours in the afternoon playing outside. There is only so many things you can come up with to do in the house. My little darlings stand at the door crying on rainy days.
So it's up to super mom to come up with fun indoor activities for my outdoor darlings! There is only so much time that play-doh, crayons, paint, and blanket tents can fill...
Have you ever tried finger painting in chocolate pudding!?? So fun!
Only lasted about 10 minutes though.
What's next!?
Hurry, they are heading to the doors crying again!
Singing, "Rain Rain Go Away, Little Babies want to play, Rain Rain Go Away..."
Every second counts... keep singing... think, think, think...
A towel, 4 tupperware, 2 cups of water, wooden spoons, soup spoons, and about 15 seedless grapes.... oh fun!
And it lasted for 2 hours!!!!!
WHOOO WHOOO!!!
Just don't use all the grapes at once, add them gradually as those little children make them disappear ;)
Had to share with the other rained in angry housewives out there!

Lets Go Fly A Kite...

These pictures we took yesterday evening while we all spent some time together. So much fun!!!
Troy was so excited and Sophia loved it.

A story from Daddy to Sophi

"Once upon a time, there was a little princess named Sophia. Her Daddy was a King, a very strong brave King. Princess Sophia had two pet bunnies. One day the bunnies escaped from their cage. They were hopping all around the yard. Queen Mommy found them and called for King Daddy to rescue to bunnies. King Daddy ran into the yard and caught the first bunny. This bunny was a fat bunny and she was very slow. The other bunny was a lean fast bunny and she was harder to catch. King Daddy chased the bunny all around the yard and he finally caught her. The bunny kicked and scratched and got away. Princess Sophia was sad she didn't know if King Daddy was going to catch the bunny. But he did! Princess Sophia was so happy! The bunnies were safe and Princess Sophia gave King Daddy a big hug and a kiss. The end."

Now, I am sure you can guess what happened here on Saturday afternoon. ;)

Oh, and here is a picture of King Daddy and Queen Mommy from the beach.

Thursday... I want...

Red Lobster!
What do you want?

escape from reality

Life has really taken its toll on us, health, jobs,insurance, and finances... Need I go on?
We escaped from reality yesterday and took a trip to the beach, it was a trip we had planned to take later in the year and for a more extended period of time but with Tony's work and money I wasn't sure the trip was going to happen so we decided to take what we had already paid and put it towards a three day getaway and go now!
I am typing this on Tonys blackberry -which is no easy task, but I wanted to update and let everyone know why we aren't answering our house phone and why my sister's car is at my house and not the van, Lana is house sitting.
The beach is beautiful I really don't want to come back home. We stay here every year it is a beautiful little cottage we can see the ocean from our bedroom window. I hav e taken lots of pictures. Sophia ia our little travler and loves staying in new places. She loves the ocean and building sandcastles. Troy had to get used to the new place and he is terrified of the ocean but has been swimming like a fish in the pool. Jumping in the water and swimming all around people get a kick out of watching such a little guy swim like he does. We are all having a wonderful time, but it will end tomorrow and we will have to deal with life again, for now I am going to enjoy my last night in my little piece of heaven on earth.

Saturday catch-up

Hi Everyone!
It has been a very long week. Troy is still holding on to that stinky cold. He has been up a lot at night and coughing lots. I took him to the doctor yesterday and he changed his asthma and allergy medication. I was hoping he'd give him an antibiotic but I guess he didn't think it was needed. The doctor thinks his allergies are aggravating his asthma but so far the medicine isn't really helping. Well, it is a bit but he still isn't sleeping.. at this point I just want him to sleep! Good Night do I want some sleep!

Sophia has done great on her medication this week. She is a tad bit more emotional but that could just be coincidence. We are really pleased with how she is doing.

Anyhow, I have some pictures too share...
Here are my babies the other day at the farm. Yes, they are naked.. taking a bath in a bucket. Farm children!


This is Troy helping Tony mow the grass yesterday. How cute is he with a pink mower!!??


Tony's brother is coming into town tomorrow so we will be spending the day at Tony's parents house. Tony has two younger brothers and when the three "boys" get together they act like "boys". So funny how grown men can sooo revert back to being boys when they are together. It will be nice to see Tony's brother, we haven't seen him in a while. We will miss his wife and kids though! Just a quick trip, he will be leaving Monday morning.

Hope everyone has a good Saturday!

Sophia upped her medication dosage today. We went from one pill in the evening to two pills, one in the morning and one in the evening. She is still not at a 'therapeutic level' but the doctors are going to continue to monitor her closely as we continue to slowly raise the dosage over the next two months.
She goes back to the doctor on April 30Th, for another EEG, and they are going do blood work to check her liver function and blood sugar. Her liver has had to work overtime since she was very little because of all the medication that she has been on. Last time her liver enzymes were extremely high so our new doctor is going to monitor that close. Have I mentioned how much I love our new doctor!!??? The blood sugar is just to check because when she has seizures it causes her blood sugar to go high so we like to keep check on it when she isn't having seizures just to have something to compare.
She seemed to do good today with the extra pill. She doesn't really like taking medication but I am glad that as she is getting old (3 and a half) she is understanding that she has to take it to keep her healthy. She cried yesterday and said that she hated to take medicine but she hated the doctor in the hospital even more than the pill so she'd go ahead and take it. Poor baby. I wish she didn't have to take any pills. I am just so thankful that so far she doesn't have any side effects from the medication. She doesn't seem any more tired than normal, not as moody as when she was on Trileptal.. I am hopeful but I also keep reminding myself that she is only on a very low low dosage and that can change.
If the medication controls the seizures though we are on the right track.
I just can't believe we are back to this place again. I was so positive that she was done having seizures.. 8 months was her longest stretch and it was a good run! I am also... thankful to God for a solid diagnosis (even though it wasn't what I wanted to hear I am grateful that we know have a name as to what the problem is).
Oh, keep my friend Megan in your prayers. Her son had a facial seizure on Sunday and they found out that it was from the ammonia levels in his blood being high from problems with his kidneys. They are at children's hospital until they can do further testing to figure out the problem. My heart goes out to her.. I know how it feels to sit in that hospital and wait and wait for an answer. Lifting up baby Colt tonight.

Very Blustry Day Today!

It is very windy outside! I need to go get diapers but I'm afraid the wind will blow Troy away! ;)

Here are some pictures from Easter that I wanted to share.

Easter ReCap...

There is no greater example of faith around me better than Sophia. She is so bright so sure of her faith. No question. I love the way she celebrated yesterday, "Jesus got dead, and today is when we celebrate that he got undead." Isn't that just perfect!?
We went to church, went to my mom's house for brunch, swam in the pool, then came home and rested. We had a nice day. It was a day of celebration!
My brother took all the pictures so once I get them I will post them.
Here is what I have so far...

Happy Easter

Happy Easter Everyone.

May God Bless your family today.

God was watching out for me, I got to sleep from 10pm-6am with NO interruption!!!
I'll include my latest chalk art that was done yesterday while the kids and I were outside waiting for daddy to get home from work. ;) Can't you see the attention to detail... LOL.

6am, and I'm up making a bow for Sophia's hair for church this morning... I have turned into my mother!
Sophia was so excited about the Easter bunny that she wouldn't even let me sing her to bed and she was in bed by 745 last night.
Troy was completely worn out. Now that he isn't as congested one of the symptoms of this cold is fatigue, he has been taking 3 and 4 hour naps. And he was begging to go to be at 7pm.. he's still sleeping!!
Tony who has the cold now too, was sleeping by 8pm.