Scrapbook pages

Here are the latest scrapbook pages I have done. Obviously they are of Ezra's surgery. I REALLY like the last picture! Aaron actually fell asleep holding Ezra while I went to the bathroom. I thought it was so sweet!

We survived (so far)!!

On May 5th, Ezra had his ginormous tonsils taken out along with his adenoids. The surgery went well and was over rather quickly. He was such a little trooper! The hospital was a children's hospital so everyone there did VERY well dealing with such a young guy. Everyone that was going to be in the operating room came in one at a time to meet Ezra and, more importantly, let him meet them. They told him about the gas mask they would be putting on him in the OR and even had a sample one for him to play with as we waited to go in. It was funny, they told him that it would get stinky and that he needed to growl the stinky air away (thus causing him to take deep breaths of the gas to knock him out). He hesitantly growled for practice into the mask. I then suggested that he sing "Hey Jude" into the mask which he was SO much more excited about. He sang it over and over again and loved the attention the nurses were all giving him! When surgery time came around he was all ready to preform for all in the OR. He sang and everyone LOVED it. After the surgery the doctor even said, "I have been doing this a LONG time and that is THE cutest thing I have EVER seen!" THAT'S MY BOY!! Ezra is now recovering and refuses to ever go back to the hospital!

"How to avoid swine flu"

DON'T DO THIS!!!

My sister Rachel sent this to me and I thought it was SO funny!  I can't stop looking at it thinking, "Oh my gosh!!  That is SO gross!!!!"  It does make me feel better about what my kids have put in their mouths.

Yard Work

These are obviously pictures of our day of yard work. We are tearing up the yard to plant a new one. Our yard has been completely taken over by moss so we are kind of starting over. The kids loved helping; however, Scotland's clothes did not. Her shoes are completely filthy with no hope of ever looking nice again. O'well... we had fun!

Simple but cute!

These are pretty simple but I thought the pictures were so cute and they needed to be by themselves. If you can't read it, click on it and it will enlarge. The quote is pretty much perfect for Scotland.

Tosils, and ankle, and window, oh my!

The past few weeks have been anything but fun for Ezra. He got over a cold and started snoring A LOT which I thought was kind of funny since he had just gotten over his cold. I assumed he was just getting another cold and didn't think much about it. His snoring got worse and turned into periodic gasping for air while sleeping. Needless to say he was a grump during the day because he was not getting any real restful sleep. Eventually I decided to look at his tonsils and sure enough they were pretty much taking up all the space in his throat. In the mean time, we decided one day (a Tues.) to take the kiddos to Seattle for the day. While in Seattle Ezra fell and sprained his ankle . He had to be carried everywhere for the next couple of days and a week later, he still walked with a limp. On the Sun. after we went to Seattle, Ezra and Landon were playing on our couch together. Landon came to me in the dining room and told me he needed the door open. I told him that he is not aloud to play in the front yard but could go out to the back. He said, that he needed the front door opened. I told him once again that he is not allowed to go to the front yard. He then told me that Ezra needed the front door opened. I told him that Ezra was not allowed in the front yard either. He stayed very persistent that I open the door for Ezra. I ended up following him to the living room to tell Ezra that he was not allowed in the front yard. As I walked into the living room I finally heard Ezra crying and saw that the screen on the window had popped out. I yelled for Aaron who came running and went outside to get Ezra who had fallen onto a rosebush in our front yard. Luckily, all he got were a couple of scratches. A couple of days ago I took Ezra to the doctor to look at his tonsils. The doctor looked in his throat, gave a little chuckles and said, "yeah... that's about as bad as they can get..." He told us that he will probably have to have those and his adenoids removed. He referred us to an ear, nose and throat doctor who we will go see on Mon. Unfortunately today Ezra has decided it is too tough to eat anything so he will be on a diet of Ensure until then. I feel so bad for the poor kid but hopefully after the surgery he will be sleeping a lot better so he won't be so grumpy or clumsy for that matter.

The 2 ball type things you see are his tonsils and believe it or not, they look worse then that now. They are actually touching eachother and coming up on his tounge. POOR GUY!

I never thought I would have to say...

Lately Scotland (my little princess) has decided that plating in her own poop in a very effective way to get me to change her diaper in a hurry. Although this is true, it is still disgusting! So the other day she had an especially bad diaper which she wiped all over her legs and shirt. I came into the room, smelled an awful smell and knew immediately what had happened. I looked at Scotland and in a very frustrated voice said, "SCOTLAND! Playing in your poop is NOT aloud!!!" I kind of had to giggle in my head after hearing what had just come out of my mouth. After this I started to think of all the things I have to tell my kiddos that I NEVER thought I would have to tell anyone! Here are a few examples. "Gabe, don't pretend to eat your brother..." "Landon, don't hit your brother with a hammer, that's not nice..." "Landon, finish your cookie and THEN you can have more salad..." "Gabe, don't lick the mirror in the bathroom..." "Scotland, PLEASE stop sticking your finger in my belly button..." "Ezra, don't sit on your brother's face..." "Scotland! Stop eating stuff out of the garbage!" "Landon, don't eat popcorn off the floor (at the circus)..."
Yeah... who would have thought! I'm sure there will be many more in the years to come. If my boys take after Aaron at all it will be things like, "Don't steal all the balls from the Dairy Queen ball pit even if you ARE going to return them..." "Don't open your car door and hang out while driving on the freeway, that's just not safe..." "PLEASE don't jump out of a moving train..." etc.