Andrew and pizza

Andrew loves pizza! It's one of his favorite things to eat. Whenever we go out for pizza or just throw it in the oven, he begins to describe the pizza. "Circle, tomato sauce, chesse on top. Pizza!" Well, we had a veggie frozen pizza the other night (Jarod's fav. by the way...) and Andrew went through his routine of the pizza. Then he looked at it and said, "No green peppers!" We were so tickled at that! We of course, took off the green peppers for him.

I love the fact that he's verbalizing so much more now. However, with that comes the "No's!" and "I want ...", especially when he can't have something. I guess we are entering that terrible stage, even at four. And I welcome it!

Cast is off!

Jarod's cast is off. He had in for only 22 days, but the doctor said that the bone had healed. Jarod's arm is stiff and sore and hurts when he moves it quickly, but I think he will be just fine.

Today is also the last day of school. I am very excited! I like not having to set my alarm and just hang out at the house. Jarod had a great school year and is looking forward to second grade.

Mother's Day

Today was a wonderful day for me. I wasn't so sure how it was going to be at first, but it turned to be everything I wanted.



Eric had to be at church early to set up for sound. That meant I had to get the kiddos ready and get us to church on time. I didn't think too much of it until I saw the rain pouring down in the driveway. Eric left me the big golf umbrella and I was thankful for that. But I wasn't sure how I was going to get all the bags, two boys, myself out of the van without getting soaking wet. Well, when I pulled into the church parking lot, the rain had pretty much stopped. God was good.



Church went very well. Andrew's buddy was not at church this morning, but there were not many children in SS so Andrew did pretty well. He sat through the songs during service and only kicked the nice lady in front of us a couple of times. She didn't mind and Andrew didn't cry. God was good.



After church we headed down to Eric's parents. We had a good meal, good fellowship and I had fun hanging out with my 12 year old nephew. Andrew went poopy on the toilet for the first time and I even got to nap in the car on the way home! God was good.



I was able to dink around on the computer this afternoon, read to Jarod, tickle Andrew, play games and basically do nothing for a couple of hours. God was good.



This evening we had some of our best friends over for the finale of Survivor. (A tradition of icecream sundaes and thrilling results!) God was good.



I even got to spend some time this evening listening to God and reading his Word.



God is good through all things.

Broken Elbow

WOW! What a week! I got the dreaded call from school on Tuesday that said that Jarod had fallen and that his arm was hurting. My friend took Andrew and I went over to the school. Poor Jarod! He was in so much pain! We went back to the house and I called the doctor. They said they could see him in an hour. I wasn't too happy, but thought it would be better than waiting in the ER. So, we went and the doctor on call said that he wouldn't be surprised if it was broken and sent us to the Imaging center for x rays. That was hard because we had to rotate his arm to get a good shot. Well, when your arm is broken that is very painful. But Jarod was a trooper and did really well. Then they sent us back to the doctor who then sent us to an orthopedic surgeon. The doctor there said that Jarod would need surgery and a possible pin in his elbow. That is not exactly what I wanted to hear. They put Jarod in a temporary cast and sent us home.

The next morning we went to the hospital. We had an amazing nurse, Penny. She was so great with Jarod. She talked to him about everything that was going to happen and took really good care of him. We waited two hours for all the pre-op "stuff" and then the actual surgery only took about 1/2 hour. The doctor said they didn't need to put in a pin. We were very thankful for that! Everything went very smoothly and we were home by 1:00 that afternoon. God was so good through the whole two days!

Jarod's main concern through the thing was that he didn't want to miss his first grade program on Thursday night. Well, he made it! He felt fine to go back to school on Thursday and the program was great! What a brave kid!

Here's Jarod waiting to go into surgery.

This was our wonderful nurse Penny taking Jarod to the car.

Here we are at home. Jarod couldn't wait to have his friends sign his cast!

I had to get a picture of the whole cast! He was so brave!

Birthday party

Andrew was invited to his first birthday party. It was today at Chuck E Cheese. He was invited by a little boy in his preschool class. Andrew loves Chuck E. Cheese. He loves the skee ball and climbing in the tubes. He also ate 4 pieces of pizza, one breadstick and a half of piece of cake. I of course being the terrible mom forgot to take pictures! I even brought my camera. But I was chasing Andrew around and left my purse at the party table. Anyway, I was touched that Andrew was invited and that he experienced his first party.

potty training part 2

Finally! We have had some success. Not a lot, but some. Andrew is going in the potty a couple times a day. He really like wearing big boy underwear, which has become a great reward for him. The afternoon is harder than the morning, but we keep trying!

potty training

After weeks of potty training and many, many setbacks, we had reason to celebrate this afternoon! Andrew went pee pee on the potty at school today! One of Andrew's teachers brought him to the van and told me that she has been working with him at school. She said that he had a long pee and that he looked down, looked at her and down again. Almost like he wasn't sure what was happening. I was overjoyed!

Well, I of course was smiles the whole way home and called several people on my cell. I was pumped to get home and see if he would have continued success on the potty. As soon as we pulled in the driveway and smelled a poopy. That smell and many clean ups continued all afternoon and into the evening.

I'm not sure what is causing it. Could be all the strawberries he has eaten the last couple of days. Or, could be that we gave him a glass of milk and a piece of cheese the other day. We're trying to determine if he has a milk allergy or intollerance of some sort.

Anyway, so much for potty training and a long awaited celebration of blowing bubbles and a new box of crayons!