Doctors, Tigers, and Boys, OH MY!!!

Some quick tidbits here. Tomorrow I go in for my ear surgery, my TYMPANOPLASTY. I am nervous but not freaking out. We go into the hospital in the morning and the surgery lasts about 2 hours or so. I should be done and home early afternoon they say. That sounds good to me. Mike will be with me at the hospital and my friend Kelly will be here with my kiddos. (what I have gotten her into?!) :) Not so crazy about going to the hospital tomorrow but...
There is news to be excited about. Tonight Michael and I, Kelly and her Michael are going to the Missouri/ou baseball game! The Big 12 tournament is in town and I get to see my boys play! I'm SO excited. Mizzou is great this year. Should be a wonderful game: beating those stinky sooners just miles from their home base. Awesome. MIZZOU-RAH!!!!! Let's go Tigers!
And last but not least, here is the cell phone pic of Luke and Kaden at our Redhawk game. This is Daddy's foul ball. I told you this photo was cute to miss!

Jedi's-in-training

A few days ago Michael discovered our long lost lightsabers up in the hall closet. They were confiscated some time last year when our boys were doing more hurting then playing. We have a red and a green one. That would be a 'good' and 'bad' for those not so it tune with Star Wars. We have 2 lightsabers and 3 boys. Notice a problem?! So after dropping Kaden off at school, Gabriel, Josie, and I headed out in search for another. I ended up buying 2 more, the blue and purple ones. (purple after all is my favorite color and we couldn't have a missing color, not for true Star Wars fans...) Now we have 4 and they are the most important things in our house right now, even trumping the end of school.

When Michael ANAKIN came home yesterday, he was jumped by our 3 Jedi's-in-training:

(yes, Michael doesn't have Darth's color--Kaden wanted it, fear not other Star Wars freaks, we do know what character belongs to what color :) And this morning I found this: I don't know what the fridge did to deserve it but it must have been quite bad:

School ended today. I don't know that Kaden quite understands that yet. I think he will be awfully sad when he realizes he won't get to see his teachers again, he really did like them! We are looking forward to a fun, fun summer! The wedding bells are rapidly approaching!!!! :)

Kindergarten ends!

Luke had an award ceremony at his school this morning. The 2 kindergarten classes came in and sang 3 songs and then were given 'diplomas'. Very fun. Luke had a great time singing with everyone. I don't know why my camera is giving me fits but it is. It must be on a strange setting because my pics are blurry. It drives me nuts and I am sure that you don't like seeing them like that either. I guess it's better then nothing though... Here they are!

Here is part of one of the songs. Luke is in the middle with the navy blue Superman logo t-shirt. You can hear him singing too! Aren't they cute?!

Daddy's Birthday!!!

Yesterday my hubby turned 31! Can you believe it?! We had a great b-day weekend! On Saturday our good friends Michelle and Jonathan watched our kiddos so that Michael and I could go out for dinner AND a movie. Yep, that's right. We got to do both! It was awesome! We

went to the Haunted House Restaurant and had a great time and a wonderful meal! Yum. Then we went to see Prince Caspian, but that didn't work out, too many people, too late of a show, etc. So we opted for Iron Man, which I loved by-the-way. (Mike had already seen Iron Man which is why it wasn't our first choice on Sat. But he certainly didn't mind seeing it again!) Then on Sunday we stayed home and just chilled out. Everyone needed that! I even took a nap! I can't even tell you the last time I was able to do that, It was awesome and much needed! Here are some fun pics from the day.

Cake time. Michael made his own cake while I was napping...that is terrible but he didn't mind, he likes to bake. We didn't have any b-day candles (I am such a slacker) so I reused the kiddos #1 candle. Mike's thirty-1, so that works, right?!
Happy Birthday my sweetheart! May this year be filled with nothing but blessings and joy :) I love you!

Sooner Start started

Today the state early intervention program came to our house for an initial screening on my Josie. Basically he asked me a huge range of questions from my pregnancy to her favorite toys. After about an hour and half we were done. It was Josie's nap time but she was the sweetest, most adorable girl ever! She was dancing and "da-da-da"-ing the whole time. In the areas of socialization, personality, and fine motor skills Josie was at the very top of the scale. It was in communication and gross motor skills that she was lacking. Her communication was in the mid-range area not the intervention area. It was low because she does not have another word besides "da-da" and does not yet point at things. Her gross motor was VERY low, but we kinda all expected that huh? 5 or 6 questions were about walking or taking steps and since she is not doing that---the answers were obviously "no". So all this to say he is going to send out the Evaluation Team to actually work with Josie. The earliest they can come is the end of May (2 weeks) and then the beginning of June we have to go the office for a hearing screen (not that he or I think anything is wrong with her hearing but that is just a formal part of the evaluation). By the time this all comes around I won't be surprised if Josie hasn't taken a step already. She has changed leaps and bounds since her first birthday, she is pulling up and crawling on her hands and knees and all. So there is the update. Good things today. And yes Grandmas, he did think Josie was gorgeous. He loved her smile. I took some fun pics tonight. SO adorable:

"What's in here?":

"Look Momma, I'm in!":

Here she was kicking her feet so hard she was lifting herself off the floor. Josie was cracking up. Could she be any more adorable? I think not.

They're here!

And I LOVE THEM! They were delivered on Mother's Day---quite appropriate, don't ya think? I sat on the floor and watched both the washer AND the dryer. I was so excited. It's amazing how much water I am saving already and how 'dry' the clothes are after the washer's spin cycle. Awesome. Thanks to my honey for my Mom's day gift!

Quote

Yesterday I finished reading "Surprised by Joy", an autobiography by C.S. Lewis. While most of it was INCREDIBLY WAY OVER MY HEAD, this quote stuck out and I wanted to share it with you. I especially love the first part, how true it is.

"The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation."