Happy Anniversary, Ethan!

Open heart surgery; three years ago today. Not that many people will have such an extraordinary milestone to acknowledge each year. We are humbled to think about what we we're dealing with exactly three years ago. We had spent an agonizing afternoon waiting for Ethan's "turn" into surgery; another baby who was in worse condition, took his spot that day as the first surgery, so it was a waiting game as to when Dr. Hawkins would be finished with that surgery so that he could move on to Ethan's. At almost 4pm on the nose; an anesthesiologist came out to give us the run down on all the possibilities that could go wrong while he was "on the table" and then it was kisses goodbye and watching Ethan, our five month old baby, travel through the doors into the surgical wing over the shoulder of a very sweet anesthesiologist.

I have always said I wanted to "tattoo" the Superman "S" over his scar; as he has earned superhero status to his family. Happy anniversary little boy, WE LOVE YOU!

Big, BAD Cody!!!

Cody is my "big guy". At 16 he is taller and weighs more than his Mother; but he is reduced to a pile of  MUSH over his girl Latte! Never have you seen anything so cute as this BIG GUY getting kisses from, and talking jibberish to this little puppy!!  

Discovery Museum

Callie's kindergarten class went to the Gateway's Discovery Museum this morning; Doug and I  volunteered and  Ethan went along and had such a good time going into class with Callie and sitting with her classmates, repeat the pledge and go potty with all the "big kids" he loved it, and her classmates thought it was "cute"; a few of them would come up to her and say "callie, your brother....."

Aside from SO many kids that you thought you would go into a schizophrenic  seizure trying to head count your FOUR GIRLS, it was a fun place, and Callie LOVED riding the bus with all her friends.

W*H*A*T??????

BAD, BAD HOPPER!

Anorexic dog........

Latte went in for her first grooming yesterday; and as you can see.......NOT GOOD! She looks like some kind of frankenstein experiment, we have decided to love her anyway; but she will NOT be going out into the "real world" so people can say things like "well, she has such a SWEET SPIRIT that dog"!!!!!

First day of cooking class!

Summer is here (well, according to the calendar?) and that means Miss Becky's Cooking Class has begun; for Ethan that is. He was SUPER excited to start, this would be Ethan's first time in a classroom setting; and is great preparation for Preschool which he will start in August. Cody walked him into class and Teacher pointed out she had the "Thomas the Train" table and off he went; no hesitation after that. What a guy!

Sunday in the park.................

What a beautiful day it was outside! We packed up the little ones and the puppy and went to Grandmommy and Granddad's for some fun outside. Callie and Ethan ran through the park right across the street for awhile, and then to Memory Grove for creek wading! Ethan couldn't have been more designed for a day like today; he looked like a modern day Huckelberry Finn, just missing the hat, fishin' pole and straw from his mouth! Next time we plan an afternoon like that, I will go to the trouble to collect those things just for the photo-op, complete with some overalls rolled up at the legs!

It was such a pleasure to watch the kids roll, run and wade through the afternoon with their Grandparent's. Callie and Ethan ended the evening with a sleepover, to the delight of their parent's, THANK YOU Grandmommy and Granddad!!!!

(take the time to enlarge the picture, the look on Granddad's face is PRICELESS)