I can't believe it's already July! Our June was kind of busy. After our Myrtle Beach trip we celebrated 2 birthdays in our family - David turned 2 on May 30th and Sadie turned 6 on June 3rd. The next day Eli went to a preschool day camp and I got that dreaded phone call an hour or so later. Providentially, I had decided to forego my errands for Mary Jo to have a morning nap and David and I were enjoying a quiet morning at home, much closer than I could have been to Eli. The sweet voice on the phone had some urgency in relaying the message "Eli's hurt his eye, he's ok, but you need to come." I scooped up a sleeping Mary Jo, picked up Eli (who of course had stopped crying until he saw me), left David at the preschool, and headed out. I didn't know where to take him so we ended up at the pediatrician's office, I was still hopeful for glue.
To make a long story short (sort of) we ended up having the gash repaired at the surgery center the next day by a pediatric eye doctor. All he did was fall on the playground and somehow the muscle above his eye was severed, go figure. All the jumping and climbing that kid does, this was inevitable, and I'm sure not the last time he'll have stitches. He looked so cute in his little "hospital gown." Thankfully it has healed really well and the only real meltdown was when he found out he couldn't swim for a week.
The weekend after school got out we celebrated Sadie and David's birthdays at Bounce U, we had 24 kids show up and a handful of adults. It was a fun but exhuasting hour and 45 minutes, needless to say I didn't have time to get a lot of pictures. Here is Sadie with one of her classmates.
And this is as still as D would be for a picture. He had a blast. I can't believe my little guys is 2! He is such a joy and makes us laugh, quite often. His talking is really improving and it's so funny to have him repeat everything he hears. My favorite right now is when he sees Mary Jo he lights up and gets right in her face, saying "Hey baby!, hey baby!"
The next week the kids and I drove to Charlotte for the week so Sadie and Eli could go to vacation bible school at my parent's church. My sweet cousins, Margaret and Charles, came for a visit and we all enjoyed it immensely (and possibly convinced them to only have 2 kids).
Finally a week after Eli's "surgery" we celebrated by going to my parent's pool, the kids had a blast. Taking them swimming, without extra hands, is just stressful. But going with fun grandparents is great!
Thankfully, Mary Jo likes the water. She will probably see a lot of it this summer!
We had a great time in Charlotte, I got to spend a lot of time with my BFF from home, Julie, as her kids also went to bible school. Steven drove to Charlotte at the end of the week and the next morning we left for our annual Skyland Bible Conference, in Tennessee. It was a great week with Steven's family, lots of fun cousin time, some friend time, and great ministry. Here's my little rascals, sitting still for a brief moment in time. You would not believe the number of pictures I had to take in order to get ONE with them both looking at the camera and sitting still.
And my girls. I still can't believe I have 2 girls! They're quite fond of each other!
Sadie and David each took 2 naps on the way home, Skyland (for my kids, anyways), is not a restful place.
But a great one.
But a great one.
Even Mary Jo was pooped!
Since we've been home we have been trying to catch up around the house with little success. It's probably not a good time for this but I've been reading "100 Days of Real Food" blog and have started trying to cook more naturally and get rid of processed food. One night at the bible conference Eli had 4 bowls of Fruit Loops for dinner, it was kind of a wake up call that my kid's nutrition is lacking, to say the least. It will be SLOW changes, especially for Steven. Sweet man, but he is like the poster child on what you shouldn't eat. He and the kids have done well, at least trying each new thing. I also took the little 2 to the doctor for their check ups. David is 28 pounds, in the 50th percentile, while sweet little Mary Jo is 10-13, just the 1st percentile. She has doubled her weight, though! As her daddy says, "she comes from a long line of squirts". I'm thankful she's teeny. That being said, the clock is ticking on the next time she's going to eat so I'm going to shut this marathon blog down. I'll try to get back sooner. Night!
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