Ezra could swing all day.
Ahoy Matey's!!
I thought this one was funny because they have the same expression on their faces.
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Park Day
I really love taking pictures of my favorite subjects these days. When Drew was gone we spent a couple days in Mattawa. One day we went to the park where the kids had fun playing and I had fun capturing their fun.
Monday, June 16, 2014
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Drew was gone this past week (from Sunday to Sunday) for a certification course in San Diego. Not only was it hard to have him gone all week to begin with, but it felt like everything was going wrong the whole time he was gone. At the time I thought I was going to lose my mind, but looking back now it kind of makes me laugh. My crazy week really made me appreciate having my husband around!
It turns out Drew was having his own crazy week in California. He was in training every day from 8 am - 8 pm (the last day it was until 9 pm). He would wake up every morning to study flash cards at 5 am, go to training all day, and then go back to his room to study again until around midnight. They got a break for lunch, but didn't get dinner until after training. He was overwhelmed with information and wasn't feeling confident at all about passing the test. If he didn't pass he would have to pay the $600 and he would have to go back and try again some time. Thankfully, he did end up passing!! He was so relieved and I was too!
I had to write down my list of unfortunate events.
-Sunday I drove to Royal City to spend some time with Drew's family. Before I left I was trying to figure out how to get driving directions on my new phone but it was downloading so slow. I kept trying to call Drew was he was on his flight. (I really don't like not having access to his all-knowing brain!)
- I found some directions but not an app where someone would talk to me while I drove. When I ended up in Othello I was confused. I didn't remember going through there. Once again I tried to call Drew, but no answer. I called maybe four other people and couldn't get ahold of anyone. I was so confused and frustrated and about to turn around and go home when I got a call back.
- I wasn't clear about where exactly I was and I ended up driving over half an hour in the wrong direction. My 1 hour and 15 minute drive ended up being close to 2 and 1/2 hours.
- Ezra was eating a little snack on the way home that I had assumed would be safe for him but I was wrong. A few minutes on the road and I started noticing him coughing in the back seat. It was getting worse and worse and I stopped to try to find my benadryl, but couldn't find it anywhere. I got back in and put the pedal to the medal because I knew we were only about 10-15 minutes away from the Othello hospital. I kept feeling around in my bag as I drove and I found the benadryl. I stopped and gave it to him but he wasn't getting better as quickly as I would have liked so as we got into Othello I stopped at the first gas station I came to to give him more. Right when I stopped he threw up. That is never something I want to clean up but it really was a relief this time because his breathing immediately improved.
- Parks had started sleeping through the night before Drew left. The first night he was gone and every night since he has been waking up in the middle of the night again, and often having a hard time going back to sleep.
- Tuesday, the day before Darcy's dress rehearsal for tap, Darcy drew all over her legs with a pen. Luckily it was only barely visible by Wednesday night.
- On the way to the Moses Lake aquatic center I got lost again. Parks was crying and ready to eat. Drew said I should never leave the house without him again. Haha! I agree!
- When we got to the aquatic center I discovered, to my horror that Darcy had drawn all over herself once again. Legs and arms this time and covering a larger area. Her recital was the next day. We had to spend time scrubbing before swimming. (Under different circumstances I may have been able to laugh at this, but along with the frustration of getting lost, a crying baby, and trying to get everyone and everything out of the car to go swim it about did me in.)
- Darcy lost her temporary filling at the aquatic center and her tooth was hurting her.
- I called the dentist on the way home and they could only get me in at 7:30 the next morning, and I needed to go to the pharmacy to get her a prescription that night. I was to far away to get there in time. I wracked my brain and eventually called a very sweet friend who was willing to pick it up for me.
- We got to my parents' house and I fed Parks. He kept falling asleep so I would put him in his seat for us to go and he would wake up. I think this happened three different times.
- Parks slept particularly poorly that night. I was up for the day on Friday at 4:45.
- That miracle drug prescription that was trouble to get seemed to do nothing and Darcy screamed for her whole dental appointment.
- I was sooo tired from our rough night and early morning and tried over and over to get Parks to take a nap. I eventually would just let him cry. He would finally fall asleep, I would wait a little while to go lay down myself and he would wake up right when I was about to fall asleep.
- That night I got everything in the car to take Darcy to her recital, got in and turned the key and what do you know, dead. Apparently Darcy had gotten in the car when I was finally able to fall asleep for a few minutes to get something. She left the door open and Ezra went out and turned everything on in the car. Thankfully he didn't get as far as driving the car.
- My mom was on her way so we figured the two of us could jump it. I looked all over for our jumper cables and tried over and over to call Drew again. (I could never get ahold of him!) I sent him a text explaining my emergency and when he had a minute he called me back to tell me the jumper cables were in his car which was parked at the airport.
- My mom let me borrow her car so I raced off to the recital. As I pulled into the parking lot I realized I left Darcy's costume in my car. So we had to race home and back.
- Darcy ended up falling asleep about 30 seconds before we got to the school where her recital was, and she woke up really cranky. She screamed and cried when I went to leave her with her back stage babysitters.
- I wanted to try to have the house at least a little bit in order when Drew got home so I was determined to do some wild cleaning on Saturday morning before Darcy's second performance. While I was cleaning Darcy got out her craft bin. I told her very specifically that this was not the time to play with the glitter. I left the room for two minutes. I came back. There was glitter everywhere! We spent a couple hours cleaning up glitter with Darcy crying that it was too hard the whole time.
- Right after the glitter fiasco Ezra got some gooey silly putty kind of stuff that Darcy got as her prize from the dentist (it is now in the garbage) in the carpet.
It turns out Drew was having his own crazy week in California. He was in training every day from 8 am - 8 pm (the last day it was until 9 pm). He would wake up every morning to study flash cards at 5 am, go to training all day, and then go back to his room to study again until around midnight. They got a break for lunch, but didn't get dinner until after training. He was overwhelmed with information and wasn't feeling confident at all about passing the test. If he didn't pass he would have to pay the $600 and he would have to go back and try again some time. Thankfully, he did end up passing!! He was so relieved and I was too!
I had to write down my list of unfortunate events.
-Sunday I drove to Royal City to spend some time with Drew's family. Before I left I was trying to figure out how to get driving directions on my new phone but it was downloading so slow. I kept trying to call Drew was he was on his flight. (I really don't like not having access to his all-knowing brain!)
- I found some directions but not an app where someone would talk to me while I drove. When I ended up in Othello I was confused. I didn't remember going through there. Once again I tried to call Drew, but no answer. I called maybe four other people and couldn't get ahold of anyone. I was so confused and frustrated and about to turn around and go home when I got a call back.
- I wasn't clear about where exactly I was and I ended up driving over half an hour in the wrong direction. My 1 hour and 15 minute drive ended up being close to 2 and 1/2 hours.
- Ezra was eating a little snack on the way home that I had assumed would be safe for him but I was wrong. A few minutes on the road and I started noticing him coughing in the back seat. It was getting worse and worse and I stopped to try to find my benadryl, but couldn't find it anywhere. I got back in and put the pedal to the medal because I knew we were only about 10-15 minutes away from the Othello hospital. I kept feeling around in my bag as I drove and I found the benadryl. I stopped and gave it to him but he wasn't getting better as quickly as I would have liked so as we got into Othello I stopped at the first gas station I came to to give him more. Right when I stopped he threw up. That is never something I want to clean up but it really was a relief this time because his breathing immediately improved.
- Parks had started sleeping through the night before Drew left. The first night he was gone and every night since he has been waking up in the middle of the night again, and often having a hard time going back to sleep.
- Tuesday, the day before Darcy's dress rehearsal for tap, Darcy drew all over her legs with a pen. Luckily it was only barely visible by Wednesday night.
- On the way to the Moses Lake aquatic center I got lost again. Parks was crying and ready to eat. Drew said I should never leave the house without him again. Haha! I agree!
- When we got to the aquatic center I discovered, to my horror that Darcy had drawn all over herself once again. Legs and arms this time and covering a larger area. Her recital was the next day. We had to spend time scrubbing before swimming. (Under different circumstances I may have been able to laugh at this, but along with the frustration of getting lost, a crying baby, and trying to get everyone and everything out of the car to go swim it about did me in.)
- Darcy lost her temporary filling at the aquatic center and her tooth was hurting her.
- I called the dentist on the way home and they could only get me in at 7:30 the next morning, and I needed to go to the pharmacy to get her a prescription that night. I was to far away to get there in time. I wracked my brain and eventually called a very sweet friend who was willing to pick it up for me.
- We got to my parents' house and I fed Parks. He kept falling asleep so I would put him in his seat for us to go and he would wake up. I think this happened three different times.
- Parks slept particularly poorly that night. I was up for the day on Friday at 4:45.
- That miracle drug prescription that was trouble to get seemed to do nothing and Darcy screamed for her whole dental appointment.
- I was sooo tired from our rough night and early morning and tried over and over to get Parks to take a nap. I eventually would just let him cry. He would finally fall asleep, I would wait a little while to go lay down myself and he would wake up right when I was about to fall asleep.
- That night I got everything in the car to take Darcy to her recital, got in and turned the key and what do you know, dead. Apparently Darcy had gotten in the car when I was finally able to fall asleep for a few minutes to get something. She left the door open and Ezra went out and turned everything on in the car. Thankfully he didn't get as far as driving the car.
- My mom was on her way so we figured the two of us could jump it. I looked all over for our jumper cables and tried over and over to call Drew again. (I could never get ahold of him!) I sent him a text explaining my emergency and when he had a minute he called me back to tell me the jumper cables were in his car which was parked at the airport.
- My mom let me borrow her car so I raced off to the recital. As I pulled into the parking lot I realized I left Darcy's costume in my car. So we had to race home and back.
- Darcy ended up falling asleep about 30 seconds before we got to the school where her recital was, and she woke up really cranky. She screamed and cried when I went to leave her with her back stage babysitters.
- I wanted to try to have the house at least a little bit in order when Drew got home so I was determined to do some wild cleaning on Saturday morning before Darcy's second performance. While I was cleaning Darcy got out her craft bin. I told her very specifically that this was not the time to play with the glitter. I left the room for two minutes. I came back. There was glitter everywhere! We spent a couple hours cleaning up glitter with Darcy crying that it was too hard the whole time.
- Right after the glitter fiasco Ezra got some gooey silly putty kind of stuff that Darcy got as her prize from the dentist (it is now in the garbage) in the carpet.
2 Months!
Our baby is two months old and he is dreamy.
A few things we want to remember about Parks at two months:
- 13 lbs. 9 oz. I think the doctor said that was the 77th percentile. I don't know what his height was but I remember that it was the 90th percentile.
- He has started to sleep through the night. Not every night yet, but we're getting there. The more sleep I get at night, the more I want to squeeze him. :)
- He smiles so much and loves to talk back to me when I sit and talk to him. I could really do that all day. I think it is the sweetest thing ever.
-When he was first born I think he had two eyelashes on each eye. Now they have come out of nowhere and they are really dark and really long.
- He loves to be held facing me looking over my right shoulder.
- He loves having a bath.
- During his floor time Ezra likes to make airplanes out of blocks and fly them all around him for him to watch. He watches happily and follows the flight with his eyes all around.
- He is still mostly formula fed, but nursing seems to be improving so we are up to nursing twice a day and I'm about to try for three times a day.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Dancing
Tonight we had some music playing and Darcy asked Drew to dance with her. Her long blonde hair was flying all around and her face was pure joy. I love these shots of my sweet girl dancing with her daddy.
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Parks' Blessing Day
Today was Parks' blessing day in church. Drew gave him such a wonderful blessing and I am so grateful that my kids have an amazing dad that can do that for them. We were so grateful for all of our family (who came from an hour away for 8:30 a.m. church) that came for the blessing and to welcome this sweet new baby in our lives. We love him so much. A few things Parks was blessed with were, "the strength to withstand trials, to be a peacemaker and helper at home, and to come to know Jesus Christ and build a solid foundation in Him."
I was lucky enough to catch a little smile!
Two handsome guys right there!
Family
Grandma's and Grandpa's
Great grandpa's
Great grandma's with Parks
Darcy and her favorite person in the world (aka Ashley)
Chatter
I told Ezra to do a trick on the trampoline and he delivered!
Matthew is so sweet with "baby Parks".
Darcy's Ballet Recital
Yesterday was Darcy's ballet recital and she did such a great job. Her Grandma's and Grandpa's and Ashley came to watch with us which made her one happy girl. She didn't even have a melt down when I left her backstage with the baby sitter so that made it even more exciting! :) We love our little dancer!
Right before her performance (I have a million pictures of her with this same expression on her face. She has decided this is her picture taking face. Haha.)
The final bow
She was so sweetly happy about getting balloons and flowers
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