Melissa's Life

Getting back into the swing of things....

2011-07-19T17:09:00.000-05:00

I took a blogging hiatius! I can't believe that I haven't blogged in 5 months! Its going to take me a few weeks to get back in the swing of things, and to get caught up on all the posts that I need to do! So here are a few pictures of the boys from there 2 year pictures that my sis took a few months ago, to tide all 2 people out there that do read this blog, over! HA!

East and Cam

Easton front, and Camden in the back... I LOVE this picture!

Camden

Easton

Cookin' up some Pizza!!!

2011-02-22T11:03:00.001-06:00

This past weekend, we had some pizza left over from the previous night, and I had gotten it out of the fridge and had it on plate. I had fully intentions to heat it up for the boys for lunch. Well something happened and the pizza got forgotten for a while...

Well I guess Easton didn't forget and he was HUNGRY! HA, so he took matters into his own hands....

This is what I found when I made it back in the kitchen....

Along with this fella, "cooking" his pizza!

HAHA!!!

He even was stirring it all around and everything. HA... Silly boy!!

Spendin' the night with GiGi....

2011-02-15T10:49:00.006-06:00

I cant beleive I forgot to post about this.

But a couple of weeks ago, Easton got to spend the night on a Friday night with his GiGi, my mom, all by him self. He was soooo exicted! And so was my mom! From what I heard they had a grand time!!

Cam got to spend the next Friday night with her... but I forgot to take pics of him, like I did with East.. ooppss!!!
But I did remember, and took some of him on the way home! HAHA!

22 months

2011-02-05T10:26:00.008-06:00

Camden and Easton, yall are 22 months!! WOW!!! Time is flying by!!

What are yall up too?

-Easton you have started climbing out of your bed to now.
-its getting harder and harder for yall to take 2 naps now these days.
-Camden your vampire teeth broke through the surface!!
-yall have already experince 3 snow falls this year!! WOW (6 inches yesterday!)
-East your still in 24 months
-Cam your still in 18-24 months
-cam you still love your blanky
-East you still LOVE your caps
-yall love to play with any kind of ball.
-yall also try to play basket ball.. its hilarious!
-say more and more words every day.
-now that yall both can climb in and out of your cribs, yall have fallen off the bed time band wagon... but i am working on getting yall both back on!!
-but the best part of yall climbing out of your beds, is yall ussually will come into my room and climb in bed with me!! LOVE IT!

Camden

Easton

WOW 2 shorts months and yall will be 2!!

SNOW!!!

2011-02-04T10:38:00.000-06:00

I wish I were at home with my babies..... Since it looks like this out side right now...

But I know that we will get to leave early!!! YAY!!

update: We did, I was home by 1pm!

Mr. Potato Head?

2011-02-01T10:07:00.000-06:00

The boys got Mr. Potato Heads from Aunt Brittany this year for Christmas. And they have a had a ball with them!!

Especially Camden.

But instead of Mr. Potato Head wearing his accessories, Camden likes to wear them.

The glasses in particular!! :)

And he wears them quite often, as he is playing, like its no big deal!!

In fact its not a big deal at all. Its HILARIOUS!!

So the other night, they were playing, (umm I mean, getting into a drawer they weren't suppose to be getting into.)

But yeah, since daddy wasn't home :), they were playing, I noticed Camden had them on.

Just going about his business.

So I grabbed my camera and stat down next where they were playing and then started taking pictures.

Fair warning... IF you fall out of chair from laughin' so hard, its not my fault!!! HAHA!

Just playing away...

Ummm.. whats in here...

Still doing his own thing!! HAHA

Hey momma, you wanna Wii remote, Yes I know I'm not suppose to have it. That's why I am handing it to you. Oh and your taking my picture?? Alrighty then.....

CCCCHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

(he does this EVERY time he sees a camera, my little ham bone!)

Cheese!!!

Me: Cam your a mess!!!

Cam: cheese!!!

The Binky....

2011-02-01T09:47:00.000-06:00

I know I have mentioned it on here, but I don't think I have ever gone into FULL detail about Camden's blanky. Or his binky, that's what we call it.

To stay that he loves it binky is an understatement!! HA!

He hasn't always had a binky. In fact it was just around his first birthday that I remember every morning or actually any time that I went on to check on him, he would be sucking on a blanket.

But they weren't just any blankets. They were the really soft ones.

And then I noticed that he started favoring this one blanket. And so, me being the good momma that I am, I started making sure that he had that one particular blanket in his bed with him.

Well it just escalated from there. He usually just takes naps and has it at night-night time. But he does know where its at (it stays in his crib), and he will go fish it out from time to time. :)

It also goes with him to the baby sitters house on Mondays and Tuesdays. (But for the record, he only gets there at nap times, well I'm pretty sure he does!!??!)

And sometimes, he will carry it around all day with him, when he is at home. And if he doesn't feel good, we HAVE to have it.

But most of the time it just stays in his crib till the next nap or bed time.

So I'm not THAT worried about it.

And besides, I have already discussed this with their Pedi, Dr. C. And he said that this is perfectly normal. And he will grow out of it properly by 3 or 4 years of age.

But let me just say, Thank GOD we have 2 of them!! HAHA! They were a baby shower gift (along with a bunch of other stuff!!!) from my dear cousin, Brittany!

And now, with out further ado.....

The Binky!!!!!!

These were taken the other night when I went in to check on them. He just was so stinkin' sweet lookin'!!

Not for the weak at heart.... Eastons Thumb

2011-01-20T15:11:00.001-06:00

I have been meaning to do a post on Easton's thumb. I have been on the fence about posting pictures on here of it. Its just that it was sooo gory and nasty looking.

I didn't think people wanted to see it. But then again, this is MY blog, and more of a baby book for the boys than anything. So...

But I decided that I would!

I have just a couple of pictures of his thumb. It was week 3 after it happened. We had been to see Dr. T, the day before. I just remember thinking, I am going to want to see these one day. Gross, I know!!

But now its all healed up! We went to see Dr. T, a total of 4 times. And then we went and saw Dr. C, about 3 weeks later, just so that he could see it, and make sure that it was still healing properly.

While we there visiting him, I showed him the pictures, that I am fixing to show you, and he was a little speechless. He kept saying,"that's muscle, that's this, that's that!" I almost teared up a little.

But he defiantly reassured me the Mrs. K, had done an awesome job of getting us to where we needed to be.

And he said that it looked good, and then went to move it around and make sure that Easton had all his movements. Well Easton started whining, not really crying, but you could tell that it was uncomfortable for him. So he said that thier ****could**** be some minor damage. BUT not to get all worried. That if anything, in a couple of months, and when I say a couple, he means about 6-8 months, that if its still like this, its pretty stiff, not the thumb, the skin that is healing, that he would send us to a plastic surgeon in Dallas, and they would do a very minor surgery on where that re-open his scar in a couple of places, to help in the movement process. Sounds scary, but assured me, its not. So for the time being, Easton gets his thumb moved around, every day, and every time I think about it. And Dr. C said that he would look at it again at their 2 year checkup.

So that's that!!

Now on to the pictures.... Do NOT scroll down if you dont want to see these!!!

All I can say, Yes I know... ITS BAD!!!

And now its better!!!!

I love you sweet boy!!!

Happy Birthday Kinsler!!!! oh and a surprise too!! :)

2011-01-17T14:47:00.000-06:00

On January 6th, my nephew turned a year old!! Its hard to believe!! Its been so much fun watching him grow from a tiny little new born, to a very curious toddler!! :)

His Birthday party was a Texas Rangers theme. My sister out did her self! Everything was so very cute!!

VERY cute decorations!!!

Delicious cupcakes and cake!!!

Kinsler and his sweet momma!

Easton wanted no one but his GiGi(my mom)!

Camden eating my Nana's popcorn...

Sweet Creed!

Present Time!!!

Cam still eating popcorn!

Cam and Creed playing during presents!

More presents...

Kinsler got a cute shirt from his Momma and Daddy!!

It said,"Best Big Brother on it!!!!"

Yep that's right, Kinslers gonna be a BIG BROTHER!!!!!!

To say that everyone was surprised was a HUGE understatement!!!!

Cake time!!

Happy Birthday Kinsler!!!

I am DONE with this cake!!

Sweet Birthday Boy was partied out!!

After everyone left, my sisters poor house was turned upside down! And our kids were still going strong!!! (well Kins had a cat nap, but after that he was going strong again!!)

And for the record, I found out about Amy's pregnancy on New Years Eve. BUT she found on NOVEMBER 1st!! She is 17 weeks this week!!! That's a long time knowing, and it was HARD for me keeping it a secret for 2 weeks, so I know that it was hard for her as well!! Big kuddos to you, Aim!!!

Happy Birthday Sweet Kinsler!!!! And Congratulations on becoming a new big brother!!!!

Snow Day!!

2011-01-17T14:09:00.000-06:00

Last weekend, it snowed and snowed and snowed!!! We got about 6 inches!! And underneath all that snow was ICE. So this momma and her two little snuggle bugs, stayed at home come that Monday!! I did bundle them up and take them out side for a few minutes. One of the HATED it and one of them LOVED it!! Can you guess which one love it and which one hated it??

Camden watching it snow on Sunday...

Out my front door, Monday morning!

Easton LOVED it!!

Camden, not so much!!

Group picture!!

AWWW much better!! We came and stripped off all our clothes, well they did, I didnt! HA! And turned on some Mickey Mouse!!!

On a side note. The snowed stayed around for a while! And so when we would get out of the car, Easton would walk in the snow to the front door, while Camden took the side walk! To funny!! :)

Happy Birthday Creed!!!

2011-01-17T13:43:00.000-06:00

On December 29th, Creed turned a year old! Its hard to believe that he is a year old already!!

On Jan. 8th, they had his first birthday party!!

Camden was sicky poo, so he had to stay at home with Daddy, but Easton and I went to help Creed celebrate his big day!!!

The cup cake tower!!

Creed opening his presents! Do you see Mickey Mouse Clubhouse in the back ground??

My Aunt, Brittanys mom, made the Mickey Mouse Club House!!!! It was tooo awesome!!

Say Cheese!!!

Easton played and played!!

Sweet Kinsler was there too!!

Hmmm.... Im not so sure about all this!!

Easton was sure! He was going to town on his cupcake!!

Poor Cam. He just didn't feel good at all!!!

Happy 1st Birthday Creed!!!

I hope that your Birthday was as sweet as you!!!!

We Love you!!!

21 months!!

2011-01-04T13:12:00.006-06:00

Camden!

Easton!

On the 3rd, yall turned 21 months, I cant believe in less than 3 months, yall will be TWO!!!

Holy Cow batman!!!

These pictures were taking bright and early, before we left to go to the baby sitter! So they look a little sleepy!! :)

What are yall up too?
-Both talking up a storm!!
-humming your ABC's, yall are trying to sing them, it just comes out as humming the ABC song!
-point to numerous body parts
-working on putting puzzles together
-working on counting.
-you both can say, 1,2,3!
-Easton all 4 of your pointy teeth are in.
-Camden, yours have almost broke the surface.
-Cam your still in 18months
-East your in 24 month, or 2t or sometimes 3t.
-Easton your still wearing your hats everywhere!! Even to bed!
-Camden you still have your blanky!
-Camden, you are climbing on everything!! Lordy lou, I am paying for my raisin, because I climbed on everything too!!!
-Camden you can climb out of your baby bed, and into your brothers. I have seen this happen!
-Easton, you don't climb for the most part! Thank God!!
-Easton your thumb is looking really good!!
-Camden, your asthma is doing really good too!!

I am already working on their 2nd birthday party!!! This just seems so weird to me!! They aren't suppose to be this old already! HA!!! :)

Cookie Exchange!

2010-12-30T12:30:00.000-06:00

My aunt hosted a cookie exchange this year. It was the first year we did this, and it was so much fun! We all made 6 dozen cookies and exchanged them at my Aunts house. She is a SUPER hostess! We all made an ornament to take home. And the food! Oh the food was WONDERFUL!!! We all had a great, great time! I hope this is a yearly tradition!

I made red velvet cookies! These are all the ones with out nuts.

and the ones with nuts.

Yes.. I made a few "extra"

Ummm, Hello!? Who is snatching my cookies??

LOL! Its Easton! Well with that look, you can have as many as you want, baby! :)

Playing games!.

All the yummy food!

all the containers with all the different types of cookies!

My box!! Yummo!!!

Christmas with my Mom!

2010-12-26T18:30:00.000-06:00

So, Sunday night, was the final Christmas! Wooo Weee!! I am not going to lie!! I am was glad to see Christmas come to an end.

The boys presents! My mother out did her self as usual. As well as my 2 sisters.

Easton opening presents.

Camden doing who knows what.

For the record, i am NOT going to lie. I was tired by this point. Tired of opening presents, tired of taking pictures. Just plain TIRED! So these are not the best of shots.

My mom gave them this tent. To say they loved it is a understatement!!!

They played and played and played in it!!!

We had a wonderful Christmas. And I cant wait till next year, when the boys will hopefully finally "get" it! HA :)

Christmas at my Dads...

2010-12-26T13:00:00.000-06:00

Sunday, the 26th, was also a big day for us. We had Christmas with mom and dad. And since they are divorced, that means two separate Christmas's!

First off, Christmas at my dads!! Its very low key. We had pizza and chips and opened presents, and then went out to my Papa's house (who passed away back in the spring) to ride horses! Fun, Fun!!!

My dad got the boys these cool tricycles that they can either pedal, or the handle flips underneath it, and it rocks. They LOVED them!!!

Cam testing his new toy out!

Easton rocking on his new tricycle!!!

Sweet Kinsler was there!!!

Kinz opening his toy!!!

Camden!! This expression reminds me of some one that was caught on Canid Camera!!! HAHA! :)

Big Daddy (that's what the boys call my dad) showing Camden how to work a toy!

My niece playing her new drum set!!

All the excitement finally caught up with Cam! Poor little guy had have snooze break!!

And Easton? Not so much! He was going strong!!! HA!

After we had our fill of pizza, we all loaded up and went out to my Papa's house, and caught the horses to take a quick ride on them! It was soooo cold!! And I should back up and say, that my dad and brother, and BIL, all loaded up and went and caught the horses and saddled them, and had them ready when Amy and I finally showed up! HA! Thanks guys!!!

Camden and I on Nickel. He loved it!! Even though you properly can't tell... He did! It was just so cold!

Easton and I!!! He loved it too!!

And Justin and Kinz just a quick ride too!!

We all then loaded up and went back into town to my Nana and Bo's house for Christmas with my mom and them!!!

Thats next!!

Christmas Day Afternoon at my Meemaws!

2010-12-25T14:35:00.000-06:00

Later on in the day, I went to go gather the boys for Christmas at my Meemaws. Robby wanted to hang out with his dad and Nana, so him and J stayed at his dads for a little longer, while the boys and I went to my Meemaws (my dads mom) for Christmas with all my Aunts and Uncles and cousins!! Its by far my favorite Christmas get together!

Camden before he left to go to Robbys Dad's house-Grandpa Jerry!

Easton-so sweet! and so sleepy!

From what I heard, they had a GRAND time at Grandpa Jerrys house. By the time I got there, they were in need for an outfit change. Then off to Meemaws house!!

Cam opening presents...

Easton and his man hats. At the time of this picture, he had 2 hats, can you see them?!

My cousin Alyssa holding my neice, Kaiten.

My Meemaw!!!

Easton playing with one of his many toys!

And its meltdown mode for Cam... Sweet little TIRED boy!!!

And Easton just wanted his momma!!!

I love all the crazyness that happens when you have a big family!!!

My little cousins and nephews and SIL...

Sweet Creed and his momma!

My neice Marlee, holding my other neice, Kaiten!!!

We had LOTS of fun and ate TONS!!! We got home late, and the boys were asleep in no time flat.

Next up, Christmas at my dads house!!

Christmas Day!!

2010-12-25T13:46:00.000-06:00

Santa came!!! The boys must have been extra good this year!!!

Santa came!!!

LOOK at all the goodness that Santa left!!!

Christmas morning pre santa picture...

Come on fellas!!

HUH??

I LOVE this picture!!! and take notice of the shoe!! ha! :)

a car!!

ummm.. what to get into first???

Hmmm.. what do we have over here, and here and here??

I love you Cam!!

move it or loose it! You got it East!

Giddy up Cam!

J got a new basketball goal!!

But he got really excited once he finally found that he got the new Wii game, Just Dance 2!!!

Table set for Christmas morning breakfast!

Playing with some of their new toys!!

traffic jam!

Cuteness!!

Here let me help you brother!! :)

The boys and Robby then got ready and went to Robbys dad's house, while I stayed at home and had to get some things together for the afternoon at my Meemaws house. Thats next!!

Christmas Eve!

2010-12-24T10:55:00.000-06:00

This year on Christmas Eve, we found our selves with NO plans! This is unheard of!! So we decided to open gifts from each other. And then go look at Christmas lights!! It was so much fun!!!

Camden opening his presents!

Both the boys just had a diaper on, because Mommy and Daddy give them their Christmas PJs to put right on. I have them washed, and ready!!! :)

Easton helping J out with his presents.... Notice the shoe and the cap! :)

J opening presents..

Cam in his Christmas Jammies!!

Easton checking out one of his MANY presents!!

After presents we all loaded up and went and looked at Christmas lights!! This in return, put the boys out way past their bed time! They were out before we got home!

Easton, my sweet little baby boy!

Camden, my other sweet little angel!!

Next up?!! SANTA CLAUSE!!!!

Yummy in my tummy!

2010-12-17T16:58:00.000-06:00

I guess I made a pretty good dinner the other night!! HA!

Glad you liked it Cam!! HA!

Never a dull moment!!!!

2010-12-14T15:28:00.000-06:00

Around my house, I have what I call, "the witching hours." Its usually from about 5:30 till bed time. Which is about 7:15 to 7:30.

The boys 85% of the time act like little toots. And I'm trying to get dinner cooked, and love on them, and get a load of laundry started and pick up a little.

You know, mom stuff!

So anyway last night was just, "one of those nights!" Cam was mad because he fell asleep on the way home, and I woke him up trying to get him out of the car seat.

Easton was in a pretty good mood.

And then we get in the house, and I give them both little bowls of cheerios to keep them occupied while I get dinner going.

Well then, after a few minutes. Easton wants Camden's cheerios and Camden gets mad. And then fight is on. Camden is screaming, Easton is running like a banche indian with Cams cheerios.

Lordy lou!

I get that fixed and then dinner finished. We sit down to eat. And dinner goes GREAT.

Nothing thrown on the floor, nothing thrown on me. It was a good dinner!

So now its bath time.

I go and run the water. And then Camden starts.

He just was crying and throwing the mother of all fits. Hitting and biting and screaming like a... I don't know what. All I could was laugh, or cry with him.

So I laughed.

And that made him cry that much harder.

So I am calling for Easton to come to the bathroom so that he too could get in the bathtub with Cam. He doesn't come, and Camden was screaming like a little toot, so I decided that they were going to get separate baths.

So in Cam goes.

And Easton?

Well he is running around the house like a mad man.

So Cam gets a bath in record time, gets dried off, diapered, jammied and into bed with his cranky self.

And that's all he wanted.

He quit crying as soon as he hit the sheets, curled up with his blanky was happy as a lark.

So as I headed to go get a sippy cup for him and Easton, and as I fixing them, I was calling to Easton, "Easton, its time for your bath, where are youuuu??"

And as I pass the bathroom to take Cam his sippy cup and put Easton's in his bed, for when he finally got to bed...

This is what I saw.

I just busted out laughing!!!!

He decided that he would just help me out and....

...get in the bath. All. By. His. Self..

Fully clothed!!

Having him self a grand time...

I just sat there and took pictures of him and laughed!

Nothing like little moments like this to make you sit back and think. I may have some little toots sometimes. But at least they are in good health (for the moment ;) ) and they are GREAT little toots most any other time!!!

And for the record, those jeans were hard to get off those cute little chunky legs!!! HA! :)

It takes skills.....

2010-12-13T13:11:00.000-06:00

....to walk around with a water bottle in one hand, a wise man in the other, with a baseball cap on your head, backwards no less, and in one of your mommas boots! Oh can you think of the all black mailing I am going to do with these pictures in years to come??? HAHAHA!!

Easton, you crack me up all the time!!!

Thanksgiving 2010!

2010-12-07T11:47:00.002-06:00

We did Thanksgiving twice this year! We did Thanksgiving at Robby's grandmothers house in Ft. Worth on Thanksgiving Day and then again at my Nana's house the Friday after. That way we got to eat twice and not feel soooo stuffed! HA!

OH and I forgot to mention, that Robbys twin brother, Bobby came down from Seattle to spend Thanksgiving with the family.

Cam and Bobby

And my attempt to get a group shot of the brothers holding Cam and East...

And Easton said, NO! (quiet literally too, I might add! HA)

Thanksgiving at my Nana's that Friday!

Mr. Independent aka Camden. He had to sit all by him self and ate all on his own.

While East and shared a plate...

Miss Kaiten enjoying her first Thanksgiving!

And its always chaos at my Nanas house. I LOVE IT!!

And their is always people everywhere!! Fun times!

20 months!

2010-12-03T11:55:00.000-06:00

On Dec. 3rd, the boys were 20th months old! Its hard to believe that they will be TWO in 4 short months!! They are so much fun right now. They are very busy. Not bad, just busy. They are defiantly ALL boy that's for sure! They will take playing out side in the dirt than playin' inside any day!

Cam

Easton

And this is my attempt to get a together shot of them!

Yeah it wasn't happening! HAHA!

What are yall up too?

-Easton you are cutting all 4 of your eye teeth right now!! (is that what they are called, the vampire teeth!HA) any way.. Poor little guy, you constantly have your fingers in your mouth!
-Camden you still just have your 12 teeth. You are about 6 weeks behind your brother in the teeth cutting department. Always have been.
-Camden you have really opened up and have started talking. You new word(s) these last few weeks, is "Got it!" when you pick something up or searching for something. Its so cute!
-Easton you constantly mimicking everything I say. You love to say "whatsit" for what is it...which I think you were saying that last month too.. But you still say it, all. the. time!!!
-You both love trying to put your own clothes on.
-you both love to brush your teeth, comb your hair. Anything you see me or daddy doing, you want to be doing too.
-Camden, my little tiny hiney, you are in 18 month clothes, which are little big on you.
-Easton, my little chunky monkey, you are in all 24 month or 2t clothing. Even 18-24month stuff on you is a little snug! :)
-Easton we are still going to Tyler for getting your thumb better.
-Camden you still are on breathing treatments.
-You both are starting to wean your selves into one nap I think. This makes mommy a little sad! :( HA!
-We went out to eat the other night, and yall did AWESOME! No outbursts or anything! (we hadn't been in a while, because you both have been little turkeys the last couple of times!!)

I cant wait for yalls 2nd Christmas!!!!

Story Continued...

2010-12-03T09:04:00.000-06:00

Please the read the next entry below for the first part of this story!

So we go to the Pedi Clinic here and see Dr. U. She looked at it everything on Easton and agreed that it was a 2nd degree burn and she told me that it was going to take time to heal. I asked if I was doing everything right in keeping it wrapped up. She told me I was.

And that was it. She walked out of the room.

Alrighty then.....

The nurse walked in a few minutes later to re wrap his bandages. And She told me that Dr. U wanted to see Easton again in a week.

I told her that we would be seeing our regular Pedi in a week.

Seriously?? I am not going to come back here, for you to just walk in and say, yeah that looks ok, when it clearly does NOT!! And then just say yeah, keep doing what your doing.

So we called Dr. C's office when we left there to schedule our next appointment with him.

Easton did so good that week. He never cried. He never acted like anything bothered him. I kept his bandages changed. We did everything that we were suppose to do for it.

Then Saturday night, when I was changing his thumb bandages, it just didn't look right. I don't know how to explain it but it just looked bad.

Well Sunday came and I called the pedi clinic here in my town to try to get in to a Dr. Well they didn't have any openings. They suggested if it was that bad to take him to the Er.

Well I didn't think it was "that bad" so I just opted to wait till his next appointment with Dr. C which was less than 24 hours away. So that's what I did.

The next morning we get to Dr. C's office, and we get the news that he is still out from the death of his dad. Which is totally understandable.

But I told them I REFUSED to go back to the pedi clinic where I lived. And they told me that they had me scheduled with Mrs. K. who is a nurse practitioner.

We LOVE her too. I was soooo relieved! (Easton saw her when he had roseaola)

So in we go to the exam room.

I cut the chest bandages off his chest burn. She examines it and told me that it looked great. That it was healing nicely. blah blah blah! :)

I go to cut the bandage off his thumb. And as I am doing so, I am telling her what every one else (the ER Dr, the ER nurses, Dr. U.) has said, basically that it was a 2nd burn and all it needed was time to heal. And as I am taking the last little bit off, I say, "and I just don't think that's all its going to take."

Then snip the rest of the bandage is off. And his thumb is exposed.

The look on her face tells me what I needed to know. I WAS right. This was bad. Really bad.

I just started to bawl like a baby.

She immediately handed Easton over to a nurse and hugged me. And told me that things like this happen. That it was totally an accident. And that it was going to be ok. That we were going to get his thumb better and that he would still be able to use it and basically not to blame my self.

I got Easton back in my arms so that she could really get a good look at it. And told me that she was going to call the wound center over at the hospital. She wanted them to see it and maybe get Easton under there care until it got well. That his thumb defiantly needed someone with a better knowledge of what they were looking at than she or even Dr. C. could provide.

So she left the room and the nurse wrapped it up.

And we waited. And waited some more.

After about 15 minutes she came back in the room.

I was all ready to walk over to the hospital with Easton and just needed her orders. And I thought that's what she had in her hand.

It wasn't.

She told me that she called over and talked to Dr. D at the wound clinic. And explained everything she saw. And that she thought that we needed to come over and see him. He disagreed.

My heart skipped a beat

She said that Dr. D explained to her, that Easton being the age he is (19 months) and what with everything that she (Mrs. K) had told him that Easton need to go to somewhere were they specialize in burns.

My heart skipped 2 beats.

She then went on to say that Dr. D. suggested that we go to Children's Hospital in Dallas.

TODAY... As in right now, when you leave here, you are to drive there.

I started bawling.

She hugged me and told me that it was going to be ok. That my mommy intuition was right.

But DALLAS???? That's 2 hours away!!!

I just said a silent prayer to God saying,"I will do what ever it takes, what ever YOU want me to do. I will do it. If its Dallas. We are going to Dallas."

So she left the room to get a hold of Childrens.

She came back in and said,"well I'm sorry but Childrens has no possible openings. So I tried Parkland. (another huge hospital in Dallas) But Parkland said that we would have to go through ER."

She then went on to say, "But there is NO way in hades I am putting yall through that. So I called Tyler Mother Francis, and they have an opening tomorrow. And yall have that appointment."

I was so grateful!!!

So we re bandaged it, because the first bandage was just to get us to the wound clinic at the hospital. And we got all the instructions of when and where we were going to need to be tomorrow.

I felt aweful. My baby(he literally is, he was born 2nd!! ha) is needing extra treatment, for something that was so preventable. I just about cried all the way to the baby sitters house.

But all was good with Easton. I promise you, he never crys about his thumb. He does everything the same, from playing to eating to everything. The only thing he has had to compromise is how he gets a bath. Because he cant get his bandages wet. But that's it!

He is such a trooper!!!

So the next day, East and I head to Tyler to see Dr. T. at the wound clinic.

I have to say, I have never been so impressed!

From the moment we walked in the door, they have ran to us with open arms. It was like walking in to a room with long lost friends.

They were that nice.

And Dr. T? We LOVE her as well! God knew what He was doing when he put her in our path. She is the greatest thing since sliced bread. And Easton loves her too.

This past Tuesday, the 30th, was the 2nd time we saw Dr. T. and she that is burn is improving. But she wants to continue seeing him for a while. Which is fine by me. I will do WHATEVER it takes to get my baby healed.

Here are a few pics of us waiting on Dr. T. last week.(the first time we went.)

Oh and I forgot to mention. Last Monday, when we left seeing Mrs. K. Easton went back to the babysitters house. And like I mentioned before, his thumb does not hold him back. And he was running and chasing all the other kids and fell on her low window sill, and hit his nose again like he did in August. And of course it swelled all up and looked awful for a few days. But now its back down the normal.

We went by ourselves the first week. And then this week, my dad wanted to take us. So he tagged along and carried Easton everywhere. (my arms thanked him!!) He was so impressed by Easton. At one point, when Dr. T was in the room doing what she does to Easton, he said, "I am 50 years old and I would be bawling like a baby." And Easton wasn't. He just sits there and watches her likes its nothing.

Very Impressive.

I will have to say, no one truly understands how bad his thumb is UNTIL they see it. On Tuesday, as the nurse unwrapped Eastons thumb, my dad was all standing up ready to see it. And I told him on the way down there to not to spas out or nothing. That it was bad but that's why we were going to Tyler. He said, "and when I have ever spas out?" and he was right, I wouldn't ever remember time where he had.

Until that bandage came off.

Lets just say, he had to sit down, and look the other way the whole time we were in there. And he just kept rubbing his fore head, say, "I cant believe how bad it looks." I had to remind him, that's why were here. That's why our pedi sent us here. And I think I saw a tear or two in his eye. I'm not sure though. It could have allergies.

But I will say... His thumb is looking better and better every day. I even saw a difference in it this morning while I was changing his bandages. So that's good.

So that's the story of the "flippin hospital bracelet" I hope I NEVER have to go through this again!

Remember...

2010-12-01T14:04:00.001-06:00

Remember this post? The one about the "flippin" hospital bracelet?

Yeah, so do I. Like it was yesterday...

I still cry about it. In fact I did yesterday while we were at a big city hospital.

I told you it was bad.. Yes that BAD.

Im sure you wondering what I am talking about. I would, if I stumbled across this blog. So let me back up 2 weeks for you...

Here goes... (like I said before.. this is mostly for me to come back to and remember what happened)

2 weeks ago, this past Sunday, I was getting the boys and I ready to go to my nieces birthday party. I had just got through ironing all of our clothes and had them laying out on my bed.

Yes my ironing board and iron is set up in my room. That's how I roll!

Anyway... The clothes were all laying out on my bed. They boys were on my bed playing, wrestling, doing boy stuff. I walked out of my room, across the hall to the boys room, grabbed 2 pairs of socks from their dresser and their shoes out of the closet.

I heard a thud.

I heard Easton screaming.

We collided in the hallway.

I scooped him up and saw a place on his chest. He was sobbing in my arms, I am frantically looking for what is wrong with him. I look in my bedroom to see Camden still sitting on the bed. And then I look around to see what the thud was.

Then I see it.

The iron was laying on the floor.

My heart sinks. I go into full panic mode. I still have Easton screaming.

Then I see what literally made me almost pass out.

His thumb. His left thumb is white with a huge, nasty already swelling blister on it.

I freak smooth out. I start screaming, Oh my God. Over and over and over again. I run it under running water. It wasn't helping...

Then everything from then on is a blur. .

I somehow throw clothes on. I throw there clothes in my purse. Pick both of them up in my arms and run to my jeep. Buckle them in. Throw up in the front yard from being so sick at my self, I guess. Im not sure. And the find someway to call my mom and I scream at her to meet me at the hospital.

We get to the hospital. I flagged down some random couple. They looked nice enough and basically ordered them to watch Camden. I then ran Easton in side the ER. And basically sat him on the nurses desk.

She took one look at it and told me to meet her in the back.

We all ran in the first room open ER room and the Dr on call came in, and basically looked at it said that it was a 2nd degree burn on his thumb and chest. The nurse explained that the had the ambulance coming in with a child that wasn't breathing. So the Dr had to go and tend to him. I understood. The nurses were super sweet to me and Easton. She told me that she had a niece do the same thing. And that it was an accident and things like this happen sometimes.

Oh and Camden? He was fine. Once I got Easton in the room with the nurses, I told them that my other son was in the car and I had to go and get him. So basically, Camden was out side with those folks for all of a minute.My mom showed up right about the time, I was running outside to get Camden.

So they gave Easton some Tylenol with codeine in it. And put some silverdine cream on him him and got him all wrapped up. And that was it.

Seriously? Thats all I could think and thats all your going to do about it.

It was bad yall. Really bad.

The nurses kept telling me that it would heal on its own and everything would be ok.

All the Dr. said to do was keep it wrapped with the silverdine cream and gave a prescription for some Tylenol with codeine and make sure that we see our Pedi first thing the next day.

From the moment it happened till them moment we were getting back in the car was no more than and hour and half. Thats all...

So the next day I called our Pedi. Just a little back ground info. We use a pedi a couple of towns over. Its a little bit of a drive. But I have never second guessed my self or him when it comes to the boys. We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Dr. C.

I received devastating news. Dr. C's dad passed away the night before. Dr.C would be out at least all week.

I was heart broken. Not only for Dr. C and his family but also for him not being about to treat East. Dr.C's office recommend that I use the Pedi clinic in the town that I live in. Now I have never had to use the Pedi clinic here in my town. I have always go to Dr. C. Even when Camden has been super duper sick, I have always taken him to the hospital where Dr. C could see him.

So we make an appointment with the Pedi clinic here in town to see Dr. U.

too be continued since this post is getting way to long!!! HA.

Miss Kaiten

2010-11-30T10:36:00.000-06:00

I have been so busy that I forgot about updating about my niece! She is just perfect. She came into this world weighing 9lbs 5oz and 20 inches long.

Our little chunky monkey!!

Oh and her hair. Oh my goodness!!! Whenever I hold her, I just run my fingers through it.

I promise I have never seen hair on a newborn like what Miss Kaiten has.

Now for some pictures!!!

Family of 3!! (and Kaiten is brand spankin' new here!!!)

FINALLY (after like 3 hours!!!) I got my hands on her!!! Isn't she a doll??

Lovin' the hat!

fixin' to go home!!

Look at all her hair!!!

After a few days, Emily decided that Camden and Easton really needed to meet Kaiten.

So they came over... Um yeah.

The boys could care less!!!

This is as close to her that Easton would get...

This pretty much sums up what Camden thought about her!!

He did finally lay down beside her.

She has came over several more times since then and the boys still pretty much don't care. I really concerned that they would get jealous when I held her and want to crawl up in my lap.

Big fat NOPE!!

Traders!

No, actually I am kinda glad that they could give a rats big toe! That means more snuggling for me and my sweet little(BIG) niece!!

Happy Birthday Kaiten!!!

2010-11-17T08:35:00.001-06:00

I cant NOT believe that today is THE day!! My little sister is being induced as of right now!! (its 8am as I type this!) I just feels like yesterday that my twin sister called and told me the news. We were all shocked to say the least.

But now that the day is here?!!??

I am shocked that its time!

I cant wait to meet my new sweet precious niece. I am just a little excited.

That's a complete lie.

I am beyond excited, I'm nervous, happy, overjoyed, and everything else in between!!!!

Here are a few pics that I MADE her take on Sunday night.
(I know one day she will want to look at these !)

Johnny(her boyfriend, and Kaiten's daddy) wanted to take a few with her...

Me: "Emily your head was down in that last one, Look at the camera."

Me:"Johnny you looked like a major dork in that last pic, act normal! Emily, you NEED to smile!!!
Just FYI-this is the best picture in my opinion.
Seriously?
Work with me people!!!

Me: "Johnny just sit down. Emily you need a good belly shot. PLEASE SMILE???!!!"
And this is the out come!
Lordy lou!!

Me; "Camden show Aunt Emmy how to smile!"
That's my baby!! (i just love him to pieces!!)

Me: "One more Em."
Emily: "Melissa, you have already take like 10 pictures, I don't want to take any more"
Me: "Seriously Emily? I have taken 6 pictures, NO LIE and 1 of them was of Camden!! You will want these one day. I promise!!"
As I am saying this, I snap this picture. Then she promptly sits down.
Emily: "I'm tired!"

Oh Goodness!!!!

Yall know I will update as soon as I can!!!

Seriously?? Again?!!!

2010-11-15T16:14:00.001-06:00

If you cant tell what the above picture is, its a FLIPPIN' HOSPITAL BRACELET!!!

Seriously?

By the way, I stole the word, flippin, from the the new show Sarah Palin is doing on TLC. Its my new word, kinda like, "seriously." Ok and Im off subject...

Anyway I am still to mad and upset at my self to do a full out post about it.

Lets just say I have a HUGE case of Mommy Guilt going on.

But anyone who is anyone to me, knows about this. And if you dont, just drop me a comment and I will fill you in.

I havent decided if I am going to do a post on this or not. Its that bad. And I am still very upset about it.

(and the only reason I did this post, is because this blog is almost like a baby book for me, for the boys. I wanted to remember when this took place.)

Brown Paper Packages!

2010-11-15T16:04:00.000-06:00

Have you checked out the blog Brown Paper Packages? If not, you really need too!! She is giving an AWESOME giveaway right now! Its a $50 gift certificate from The Vintage Pearl. One of my favorite jewelry sites.

SSSHHHH I already have a necklace from there, but would LOVE a number of other things from that site, I would have that $50 spent so fast my head would spin!!!

So head on over and check it out!

Oh and by the way....

The blog its self is really really inspiring. I love all of Kierste's ideas.

So even if you don't win, I guarantee you, you find tons of cute ideas!!!

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas..

2010-11-12T10:22:00.000-06:00

If I could find my camera, then I could take pictures of our new tree that we got the other day!!! I put it together last night after the boys went to bed.

Lets not get ahead of game. I said that I put my tree up.

coughcough itdoensthaveanydecorationsonityet!! coughcough..

I didn't realize how HUGE it was. I hope I have enough decorations to fill it up!!

On another note. I know Christmas is right around the corner when your watching TV and all the cute commercials come on.

I LOVE THEM!!

My all time favorite is the Pampers commercial, and the woman is singing "Silent Night"

Gets me every time!

I know this is soooo random, but oh well!

Have a great weekend!!!

Cliff Lee!!!!!!

2010-11-10T08:53:00.001-06:00

Does that name ring a bell with you?

Maybe you need a few hints....

He is a pitcher...

For a MAJOR baseball team..

Who happened to play in the World Series, but sadly lost...

If you haven't guessed, he was the pitcher for the Texas Rangers!!!!(hopefully still will be..fingers crossed!!)

And he stopped by where I worked last Tuesday! (not by accident, he was purchasing something!) If your keeping up, that's day AFTER he pitched in the WORLD SERIES!!! How awesome is that?

To be able to shake hands with him merely a few hours after he pitched in the last game of the World Series was pretty cool, if I say so myself!!

He was the nicest guy. And taller than I thought he would be. Defiantly a cool experience!

I'm cheesin' just a little big, dontcha think?? HAHA!

Our web guy shot this picture of us, then the camera jacked up (cameras are the story of my life right now, I tell ya! I'm starting to despise them! uggg!) and to top it off, our company decided to change all of our email around, so we couldn't email for days. Very nice!! So that's why it has taken me this long to post about it!

Switcheroo

2010-11-10T08:40:00.000-06:00

As mentioned in the last post, I turned the boys car seats forward facing the other day. They had been at my best friends Ashleighs house my one day, and when it was time to go home, I just decided on a whim to have them forward facing. So Ashleigh helped re do the straps and all that good jazz to get them the way the were suppose to go.

Eastons side....

Camdens side...

Don't they look enthused??? HAHA!

19 months old!!

2010-11-09T08:17:00.000-06:00

**This post will not have pictures. Why you ask? Because 2 little boys who shall remain nameless, have jacked my camera. And their are pictures that I still have yet to down load yet, including the ones of them on their 19th month Birthday. little toots!!!**

On Oct. 3rd, the boys were 19 months old! I cant believe that they just celebrated their 2nd Halloween, and they are fixing to celebrate their 2nd Thanksgiving and Christmas! They have done lots of growing up this past month. The major thing being, they are now forward facing in their car seats.

Or that could have been because this momma felt the longer they faced the rear, the safer they were. And well technically that's true, but poor East was just about sitting Indian style! Ha!

They are also talking some kinda crazy now these days. Both of them. Some words you can understand, some you can't.

Lets see, what else are yall up too?
-about the whole switcheroo on the car seat deal? yeah it took yall 2 car trips to get back in the swing of things. I don't think yall liked it in the beginning. But you both LOVE it now.
-speaking of facing forward, its hilarious to see you both moving your heads back and forth and clapping yalls little hands to the music.
-Camden you love the new Nelly song. Son, you get down in your car seat!! It is HILARIOUS!
-Easton, you like any kind of music, but I must say, your brother is way more in to it than you are.
-Speaking of dancing. Any time any music comes on, whether it be my cell phone ringing, music playing on the TV(esp. Micky Mouse Club House), Camden you stop whatever your doing and just dance. HAHA!
-You both just have your 12 teeth.
-You both are drooling like crazy, so I am thinking your both getting some new teeth.
-You both have had some episodes this last month with sleeping through the night. Mommy is not used to this at all!
-I think its a combination of things, teething, possible nightmares, being cold, ect.
-With all this waking up going on, one or both of yall have slept with us more than yall ever have.
-Cam, your still on your meds and breathing treatments.
-East your on allergy meds.
-Yall are both loving ice cream sandwiches. You both know that they are in the purple wrapper in the freezer. You both can get them out of the freezer(if I leave it open by mistake, say after I got some chicken out to defrost, and maybe forgot to close it...) and have them unwrapped and half eaten before I can even blink an eye. LOL!
-yes the above statement has happened. I have learned to be sure to close the freezer every time I open it!
-Long gone the days of just running about outside with no shoes on. Yall get so impatient with me while I am trying to get you dressed to just go outside and play.
-yall are both still loving your bath. Just last night, yall playing for about 30 minutes. Well until the water got cold. And yall started turning blue.And I made yall get out. Then the fight was on... :)
-Yall are very independent. Especially at the table. We've been giving yall your baby fork and spoon. It now takes yall twice as long to eat. But you wont let us feed you any more. (well sometimes, but its very far and few between!)
I can't believe that Thanksgiving and Christmas are right around the corner!! We (and them too!!) are going to have so much fun this year!!!

Happy Halloween 2010!!!

2010-11-01T09:31:00.000-05:00

My 2 little dragons!!!

We had a fun filled Saturday night hanging out with family. We started out at my Aunt Amy's house for a wonderful hot dog dinner. She went all out with the decorations. We decided that it was going to be a yearly tradition. We had so much fun! Thank you so much Aunt Amy for having all of us over!!

Then it was on to my Uncle Sherrells house, then on to our Meemaws and Pappys house, and then ending up at my Nana and Bo's house. We had family in from out of state, so we stayed up late talking and visiting them. This Halloween was the best!! I cant wait till next year, when the boys "get" what its really about!

My New Favorite Picture...

2010-10-28T12:46:00.000-05:00

... of my two favorite boys!!!

What a month....

2010-10-27T10:32:00.001-05:00

**WARNING!!**
this is a super long post, with NO pictures. Its mostly for me to look back on. Oh and my Nana and Bo are like my 2nd set of parents. I love them that much, if not more than my first set! HA HA!

I think its the moon. Or maybe just the month. Or whatever it is, I wish everything would just go back to normal. Or maybe this is the new normal. Who knows. Well I know one person who knows. Him. And as long has He knows then I'm OK with that.

So what I am I rambling about?

Let me just fill you in on my month of October.

October started off with out a hitch. We had the fair, the boys turned a YEAR AND A HALF (holy cow batman!) and we went to Ft. Worth. All in one weekend.

Fun times.

No Seriously, we were havin' a grand time!

Then out of no where. Well I really cant say "out of no where" because my Bo (my grandfather) his health has been declining steadily for the last few months.

But back to the, "out of no where" point I'm trying to make, my Bo, started to refuse to get out of bed. For NOTHING. OK well maybe if he had to do #2 (sorry for the TMI) but that's it.

Home Health had been coming over to their house, since his last stint in the hospital at the end of September. So it seemed that everything was kind of working its way back to where it was.

So we thought.

Then my Nana, up and decided to fire home health. Something on the lines, of she thought she could get something better for my Bo or something? I'm really not sure why she did this. But she did...

This was a Friday-the 8th if your keeping up...

Then the 9th-Saturday rolls around... And she calls me at work. Not surprised, but the next thing out of her mouth was a slap in the face type surprise....

"Melissa, my chest hurts really bad, I think its my heart, and I cant find your mom." My stomach hit the floor.
I said,"well she is at my house keeping the boys, but I'm on my way to take you to the hospital." I jump in my jeep and hit the gas pedal. All the while thinking, "how is this happening the day AFTER she fires home health? Who is going to take care of Bo, and then thinking, Oh God please let my Nana be OK."
All the while making arrangements with my sister and my mom of who was going where to take care/be with who via cell phone. Thank God to whoever invented those!!!!

So we make it to the hospital, and they decide to keep her a couple of days.

Then reality really sets in.

My Bo is at home in the bed, and refuses to move, and since my Nana fired the home health folks, their was literally no one there to take care of him. Lovely, just lovely.

So my mom basically had to move in with them to take care of him till my Nana came home from the hospital. Which would be in a few days. Or so we thought.

Things went from OK to bad to worse, and on Wed. the 13th (if your keeping up) the hospital sent her to a major hospital in a bigger town, 1.5 hours away. OH and she was in ICU at this hospital. NICE...

Yeah right!

So my mom, God love her, who still staying with my Bo, have Amy and I race down to Tyler-where they transported my Nana too, and stay with her for a few hours.

And to be with the ones to talk to the DR. Seriously that talk was the most grown up I properly have felt in my adult life.

Our options?? Open heart surgery or try to control everything with meds and diet. Seriously??

Amy then arranges for her MIL to stay with my Bo, so that my mom can head down to be with her momma too.

Stressed yet??? Yeah us too.. just a little..

Amy and I go back down right after I get off work, on Thursday night to be with Nana as well. We couldn't stand the thought of her being down their by her self. And then since Emily's baby shower was that Sunday, we did a little shopping afterwards.

Then we proceeded to get lost. With me driving. At 11:30 at night. With Amy in the back seat laughing her butt off hysterically.
I may or may not have started to tear up a little, and I may or may not have told Amy to ZIP it! We made it home and I was in bed by 2:00am.

My mom had called in her siblings... Dang skippy I would have too!!!
The 2 brothers made it that weekend to be with Nana. And they then all talked about the situation. My Aunt (who lives in PA) couldn't be here, but she had already made plans to come be with us the last week in Oct. (which is right now, and she is here!!! YAY!)

Oh and just for the record.... I had an "At Home" party that I went to on Friday night, then worked on Saturday, and then did 3 hour stint in Wal-Mart with Robby and the boys Saturday afternoon, then stayed up till 2am working on Emilys baby shower present which was the next day, Sunday the 17th.

They (my mom, her 2 brothers and sister) decided over the weekend to go with what Nana wanted to do and try to control her heart issues with meds and diet. And she got to come home Monday the 18th. I went to get her for my mom.

All by my self.

And I didn't get lost!!! Go me!!

Seems everything was rolling right along just peachy after my Nana got home.

Till Wednesday the 20th, when my Bo finally decided that he would after all go to his Dr. Appt. They did an X-ray. He had a cracked back. When my mom called to tell me this news, all I could do was shake my head. Seriously? Lordy Lou.

He came home that Friday. Not because the Dr. let him, but because he refused everything they tried to do for him. He is THAT stubborn! man alive, and people wonder where I get from?! Just saying!

Soooo we are now caught up to date. This month went from great, to bad, to really really bad, to bad again, to I guess the new normal.

My mom is still staying with them, because they really cant do anything for them selves. My Nana is just to weak, and my Bo is being him self and just ringin' his bell (literally, my mom gave him a bell to ring, cause she couldn't hear him when he called out to her!) whenever he needs something. HA!

BUT!!!!

Their has been good that has came out of this..... I have seen family, I would have other wise not seen because of all this. And for that I am grateful! I love visiting with them! And, we have been going over to my Nana and Bo's house just about every night for the last 2.5 weeks. I have really enjoyed that too. And the boys really have! They love to get their "coooookie" from Nana and Bo lets them sip Diet Coke (don't judge!) from his cup and straw. They are just a little spoiled.

So that's my month in a nut shell. Hopefully my Nana and Bo will get better. I hate seeing them like this. But I am preparing my self in case this is the NEW normal for my family.

Hangin' Out with Nana

2010-10-26T10:21:00.001-05:00

A couple of weeks ago, actually the very beginning of October, me and the boys headed over to see my Nana and Bo (aka-my grandparents!) This was before their health declined at the speed of light.

wheww weeee...

That's another post!

But anyway we over to visit with them and the boys wanted to show off their new baseball caps. These caps were a "prize" from Aunt Emily when she went to Missouri to watch her boyfriend, Johnny, graduate from the Army. To say that they love them is a HUGE understatement! They wear them all the time, especially Easton.

And a final treat before we headed home, ICECREAM!!!

Emily's Baby Shower!

2010-10-22T14:27:00.000-05:00

Saturday, Oct. 17th, my Aunt Amy and cousin Brittany, hosted a baby shower for my little sister, Emily. It was all done in PINK! They went to so much effort and everything was so pretty and perfect! Emily got lots of good gifts, and now we are just waiting for Miss Kaiten to get here!

all the food! YUM!

Cute drink station....

More food!

Pinkalious cup cakes!

Brittany, Emily and Amy

Cam saying, "Yay I get a cup cake!!"

all the gifts and Easton swiping someones phone!

We had such a great time. After everyone left, Amy, my sis, Brittany and I just hung out and caught up on everything, which we don't have a lot of time to do any more. We were all just a chit-chatting and all of our boys were just playing in the floor. And all of a sudden, someone pointed out the boys....

They were all playing TOGETHER!

I had dreamed of this day!!

I promise yall, it was almost so surreal! Brittany, Amy and I were so close growing up and I had always wanted our kids to be able to play together and such.

Soooo Sweet! We are defiantly going to have to do this more often!!

Fair Time!!!!

2010-10-18T11:44:00.001-05:00

A couple of weeks ago, we went to the fair here in town. Its an annual event and we always look forward to it! We went both Friday and Saturday nights. Well Friday night, I left my camera at home. And then I had to help out at the Livestock Auction on Saturday, so Robby brought the boys up after I was done for little more fair fun!

Just getting there!

Choppin' on a cheese stick..

Easton chowin' down!

Sweet Kinsler was there too!!!

Yum Yum Yum!!!!

Kinz chowin' down on a hot dog bun!

Then Cam started acting up...

Just look like at the face!

Sweet Easton!!!

We then decided to go into the petting zoo.... Yeah ummm, not so much fun for me and Cam, since he wanting NOTHING to do with the animals... But Easton...

He petted a few!

All the rides in the distance..

We then settled in the watch the Muttin' Bustin'. Were little guys around 4 to 7 years old, ride sheep.

Me and East!

The Muttin Fighters! These little guys were very entertaining!!!

Then Cam started acting like a little toot and so we had to pack it up and head home.**

But their is always next year!!!!

**After we made it home, I found out why is he was actin' a toot. His new jeans, which I had washed, were irritating him to the point of red whelps on his little waste. Poor little guy!!!

To Grandmothers house we go....

2010-10-15T09:21:00.000-05:00

Oct. 3rd was also Robbys Nana's 80th birthday. We drove up to Ft. Worth to be her on her Birthday and to join in on the small gathering of family that came in to help her celebrate as well.

Camden sitting his Jason and his little girl, Chrason.

Nana and Justin

East

Camden and Easton entertaining everyone! They were the center of attention this day!

Camden and Papa Jerry, Robbys dad, having a good ole time!

Jason and Easton playin'.

Camden and Sherriff playing trucks....

After leaving Nanas house we went did a retail therepy, and then found our selves at On the Border. YUMMO!!!

playing with a balloon at On the Border....

hmmm...whatja drop??

Playing with all sorts of odds and ends.

It takes a lot to keep these little guys entertained! HA!

We had a LONG but wonderful day!!

18 months old! or "they are a year and a half" :(

2010-10-14T09:20:00.001-05:00

**This post is super duper late!!! On Oct. 3rd they were 18 months old!**

This is what I tell folks now these days when they ask how old the boys are. Its sad because time is flying by. But on the other hand, it makes me so happy that they are getting so big, smart and everything else!

We spent Sunday, the 3rd, in Ft. Worth, for Robby's grandmothers 80th Birthday. We all had a grand time.(I am going to do a whole 'nother post on this!)

What are yall up to these days???
-yalls newest "thing" is loving on each other. You both will hug and kiss each other, the sweetest thing EVER!!!
-both talking more and more every day...I was little worried about Camden, but he is finally getting the whole talking thing down. I am sure he is saying all kinds of words to me, i just cant understand it all yet.
-Camdens new word is essssse. as in when I say, "cheese".... It may or may not be because I take a lot of pictures. :)
-Eastons new word is "wasit" as in, "what is it." So cute
-Easton is still calling Robby, Bobby, instead of Daddy... We are hoping its a phase.
-Easton still has 12 teeth...
-Camdens bottom 2 first molars finally broke through last week. So now he is caught up with Easton.
-both still love yalls bath..
-speaking of baths, yall take them more frequently now... Because you both LOVE playing in the dirt. We have a mole that creates these piles of dirt in our yard, and you both love to got play in those piles of dirt.
-Both of you are ALL BOY!!
-Yalls favorite toys right now are little toy cars, a tractor that used to be Jordan's and phones.
-Camden is still on breathing treatments through out the day and one at night, usually around midnight.
-both can point to your nose, eyes and mouth, maybe with a tiny bit of help, but you both usually ALWAYS get the nose right every single time...
-we are working on animal sounds. So far we can mimic a cow, horse, chicken, and several others, that daddy throws in the mix sometimes! haha!
-Easton is in 2T and some 18-24 months and size 6 diaper
-Camden is in 18-24 months, mostly 18 months, and some 12-18 months clothes and a size 5 diaper.

This is the best picture of them together that I got that day!!!

I cant believe that yall are already a year and half old. It just seems sooo surreal.

Silly Boy!

2010-10-07T13:36:00.000-05:00

Camden had been playin his room for quiet some time the other night before bed, and when he made it back to the living room, this is what he looked like! HAHAHA!!

I guess at one point he tried to take his shirt off, then maybe put it back on? Im not sure. But it was hilarious!

Im payin' for my raisin'!!

2010-10-01T09:56:00.000-05:00

Have you ever heard that before? That when you have kids that basically what ever you did bad as a kid, that your kid(s) would do the same? Well I am payin' for my raisin'!!

BIG TIME!!

You see, my sister and I were biters. My mom has told me numerous stories of how we would bite each other. Well now I am in her shoes.... Kinda..

I only have 1 biter. I will go ahead and let you guess which of boys is the bitten and the biter.

Did you guess Camden for the biter? Oh you didn't? Because you thought, oh not sweet, little Cam would bite Easton to the point that every time Easton would see Camden, he would take off running in the other direction?

Yeah.. it got to be that bad...

Take a look for your self...

BAD huh???!!!!

little toot!

Soooo what to do?

Lets just say that we had to become the bad guys(parent wise) for Eastons sake. And for the last few days, Camden hasn't sunk his little teefers into any one or anything other than food.

Thank goodness!!!!

Baby "K"

2010-10-01T09:35:00.000-05:00

Do you remember this post, and this post too? And any other posts that I have mentioned that my little sister has a "favorite" of Camden and Easton. Well if you hadn't notice or you just don't feel like clicking on the links, I will just go ahead and tell you that its Camden, by far. Don't get me wrong, she loves Easton too, but to say that her and her Cam don't have something special going on would be a big fat lie!

WELLLLLL.....

Camden is in for a rude awaking here in ohhh about 2 months... maybe less..

You see, Emily is due around Thanksgiving with her baby girl, Kaiten. (CUTE name, huh??!!)

So we have been trying to prepare both the boys for her arrival. Easton will lift Emily's shirt up and say" bbbaaayyyybeeee!!" Cutest thing ever! And Camden will give her kisses,(on Em's belly) SOOO sweet!!!

Going in for a kiss!!

Easton loving on baby K...

So I think they understand that she is having a baby, but I guess we really wont know how they will respond till baby K gets here!!!!

Update

2010-10-01T09:06:00.001-05:00

In my last post, I mentioned that if Camden wasnt doing any better by the second week, that we have to either go see Dr. B in Dallas or try some new meds. Well he wasnt doing an better by Monday, so I went ahead and put a call in to her office. She called me back, the DR, not a nurse, needless to say I was quite shocked to hear her on the other end of the phone. So we talked about how he was acting, what his symptoms were and so on. She said that she wanted to get him on steroids and an antibotic. So thats where we are now. He is still on all his med from the previous post plus these new meds, and breathing treatments every 4 hours during the day and at least one in the middle of the night.

Pulmonologist appt.

2010-09-18T12:35:00.001-05:00

I took Camden to his Pulmonologist appointment, Thursday, Sept. 16th. It went surprisingly well. Dr. B is a great doctor and very easy to talk to. We talked about everything under the sun and back tracked all the way through my pregnancy with the boys. She pin pointed it down to when Camden had RSV back in Feb.-Marchish. Then of course he had a spell at the end of May and then this past one, 2 weeks ago. She listened to him breathe and finally came to a conclusion that he has asthma. I was kinda expecting this diagnosis. She was more concerned about him getting so sick, so fast. And she is right, in the past 2 times that Camden has gotten sick he has been admitted to the hospital within about 24 hours of me first noticing any symptoms. Which is SUPER scary!!!! So as of now he is on 2 different types of breathing treatment medicine, one of them in 2 times a day and the other is 4 times a day. A prescription nose spray twice a day and a dhistimine syrup twice a day. We go back to Dr. B in 2 weeks if he isn't showing signs of improvement and if he doing good on these new meds we go back on Oct. 21st.

Oh No! Not again....

2010-09-14T12:38:00.009-05:00

The above title was my reaction to Camden being put back in the hospital last Tuesday.

Yep, he has been in the hospital twice in the last 4 months. Not good!

It all started last weekend. Well Sunday really, he just didn't feel good and was a whiny hiney that night, so I let him sleep with me. Then on Monday, oh my! You could just tell he didn't feel good. He was very congested. So I started doing breathing treatments, know that it was a holiday and that the Dr. wasn't in. I felt that we could ride it out by doing breathing treatments and little noses and lots of snuggling. That night he slept with me again. And we were both up all. night. long! He was not feeling good, now running a fever, and I was counting down the minutes till when he could have another breathing treatment. At one point I started getting ready to take him to the ER. But instead gave him a breathing treatment, since it was 4am. So 6:30am rolls around, and Cam is sleeping, finally. He had a rough night. So I decide to get ready for work and make him a DR's appt. when I got their. My mom showed up to keep them for the day and I instructed her to not to wake him, but to give him a breathing treatment at 8:30 am even if he was still asleep.

She calls me at 8:30am. Not a good sign, my mom NEVER calls me. She goes on to say that Cam isn't doing good at all and that he needs to go to the Dr. So I call the Dr's. office back,(I had already had a call in), and tell them if they didn't get me in now, that I would just be seeing the Pedi in the ER, because that's where I was headed! They told me to come right away.

So we get to the Dr. and stick the pulse ox on him.... 87 percent! This was 9:30, exactly an hour after his last breathing treatment. This wasn't good. Dr. Connor calls for a kick a** breathing treatment (his words not mine) and it raises it to 92 percent.

Oh and by this time, Camden is feeling great, doing his "happy dance," climbing up in Dr. Conners lap and just a talking and singing. All while his pulse ox was any where from 88 to 92.

Seriously??!!

Dr. Conner just kind of sat their and watched Camden. I could tell he was kind of lost for words. Here was a pretty sick kid, but not acting like it at all!

Soooo, after about 5 minutes of talking about his symptoms and the night we had, he said those dreaded words, "I am admitting him." His reasoning was he didn't think that he was breathing good at night, and I know that he wasn't, and he thought the pneumonia had come back because of his breathing.

Sooooooo..... back to the hospital! We were even in the same room we were in last time! What are the odds?

tuckered out from the Dr.'s appt, admitting, chest x-ray, ext.

Dr. Conner was right, his oxygen level did drop that night. So much in fact he had be put under the oxygen tent. It was kinda scary to tell you the truth. It just seemed like as soon as he went to sleep for the night, his oxygen level just kept getting lower and lower. I finally just scooped him up in my arms and ran into the hall way to grab a nurse. We got the tent all set up and then continued to say up till 2am.

Fun times, let me tell ya!!

the dreaded oxygen tent....

Anyway the next day, he did really good. He levels stayed up on his own during his naps, which in turn got us released around 3pm. yay!!!

Hanging out watching TV and flirting with all his nurses! (and all these pictures were taken with my phone.)

Now we have a Pulmonologist (lung doctor) appt. for tomorrow the 16th.

I will update after that appt.

17 months!!-Sept 3rd.

2010-09-08T10:30:00.000-05:00

I felt like the worst mother of the year when I realized that I had forgotten to take pictures of the boys on their 17 month birthday. I have ALWAYS taken pictures on the 3rd of every month with out fail. Well except for this month. But I guess I have a pretty good excuse. I was at home sicker than a dog that day. I hardly ever miss work because of me. But I did that day. Man alive I was feeling some kind of bad! But I made up for on Saturday, the boys and I got out and about and when we got home I took a few pictures of them playing out side.

say cheese!

East

Cam

i love this picture...

Camanator..

Easton-im not sure why, but this picture cracks me up...

East..

What are yall up too??

-both starting to talk more and more to each other...

-both still taking yalls diaper off at nap time and bed time...

-both love playing outside...

-both still loveing your baths

-Easton is in 24 month to 2T clothes and size 6 diapers

-Camden is in 18 months and size 5 diapers...

-Camden is talking more and more.. just the other day he FINALLY said "momma"-my heart melted!!!

-Easton says many words-his new latest and greatest his "bobby" which he calls Robby, as in, instead of daddy... ooppss!!! HA

-Camden has 10 teeth-his 2 top molars finally popped through.

-Easton has 12 teeth

- they have started eating with their forks.. they are getting the hang of it pretty fast!

- they love to brush their teeth.. so cute!

-they both have been really good the last 2 times weve have gone out to eat.. knock on wood!! HA!

-Camden has had his 2nd hospital stay. more about that in a later post.

But above all, they are still the light of my lives!!!

flip flop, flip flop, flip flop!!!

2010-09-04T09:49:00.000-05:00

I have been hearing this sound around my house a lot lately! Why you ask? Because my boys all of a sudden, love to wear mine and Robbys shoes! And since we wear a lot of flip-flops, thats what they wear!
It seriously cracks me up and is GREAT entertainment!

So cute!!

This just makes me smile!!

Popsicles

2010-09-03T09:40:00.001-05:00

The boys LOVE the cheap Popsicles. Don't get me wrong, they are prejudiced against any kind of Popsicles, they just like these the best!

ohhh weeee its COLD!!!

How is yours brother?

Yummy!!!

I think we may have to keep these around all year long!!!

Just a phase??

2010-09-02T09:30:00.003-05:00

A couple of times this past month, I have went in to check on the boys before I go to bed and have found them like this...

Camden

Easton

And sometimes its not all cute. A lot of times I will go in their and it will be too late, if you know what I mean. Their have even been instances where, I have gone to get them up from a nap and they have pooped everywhere! So GROSS!!!

So needless to say, they both go to bed with their diapers on backwards, even under their pajamas!

Camden, Easton,"J", Parker, Preston and Presley!!!

2010-09-01T09:59:00.000-05:00

A couple of weeks ago, I baby sat some of my dear friends kids for a little while. We all had soooo much fun!

BBBBUUUUTTTT! This momma aint going to be having no more kiddos after this fun experience!

These memories are still fresh in my brain! HA!!

But seriously, God bless all you that have more than my 2 little ones. I truly look up to everyone of you. I don't think I could do it. Well maybe I could, and Im sure I could. But still, you know what I mean, Jean!

In the bath...

Parker and Preston are identical twins, I counld not tell them apart to save my life. I kept having to ask their big sister, Presley, who was who! HAHA!

Easton, Camden, Parker and Preston or was it Preston and Parker? hmmmm....

Big sister Presley! (with "J" in the background!) She was a HUGE help! She is also like a 2nd lil' momma to them. They arent going to be able to get by with nothin' when they are older! ha!

the only picture of all 6 kiddos together!

splish splash, we love our bath!

2010-08-23T11:20:00.003-05:00

A couple of weekends ago, our air conditioner had had it. So I packed up the boys, left Robby a note, and headed to my sisters house.

We ate dinner, and then it was time for baths. Amy got the bright idea that the boys all needed to take a bath together. I on the hand, was a little nervous. My boys LOVE their bath! So much in fact that they splish and splash and have a grand ole time in the bath. And well Kinsler, he is just beginning to sit up, and well quiet frankly, I wasn't sure how my boys would behave in the bath with him.

BUT....

.... They did great!! no splashing, no pushing.... It was kind of like, why is HE in here with US?

my sweet little angels and nephew!

Yo Kinz, up here!!!!

Snap!

Hello my little Sunshine's!!!

The best picture, out of umm, a bunch, of them all looking up!!!

Caldwell Zoo-Tyler

2010-08-19T16:40:00.015-05:00

Last Monday, August 16th, I took off work to spend some much needed time with my boys. Robby had been out of town taking "J" back to his moms, and wasn't due back to Monday evening, so I just took instead of getting a babysitter. Well Robby surprised us and came home a day early, so we decided to take the boys to the zoo.

We had a great time, and I am pretty sure the boys enjoyed it too!

Here we are in the gift shop. I totally forgot to bring sun screen, so first things first, we had to get that out of way.

Right out of the gift shop we encountered these ugly creatures. Not sure what they were, but the boys took interest in them...

The lone rhino. I had to zoom in to get this picture, and the boys took NO interest in him until...

... we went into their little cage area type thing. Not sure what you call it. But in their, their were 2 rhinos. So we got to see them up close in person.. Very cool!

Cam was more impressed than East was...

What is that thing??

Easton was more like, "its hot and I really don't care, thankyouverymuch!"

On the the giraffes.. My personal favorite..

Easton and Daddy checking out the giraffes...

Camden and Daddy checking out the giraffes...

The elephants are next to the giraffes, but they had the gate closed where you couldn't get back there to really see them..

On the road again...

Inside the penguin and bird and fish house.

The boys really liked this building. I'm not sure if it was because it was air conditioning or if they really liked watching the birds and fish. Properly a little of both!!!

I just liked this picture because you could see the fish and the 2 birds on the ground above them.. Kinda cool..

The boys watching the fishes...

so sweet!

This little fellow pretty much hopped and flew all around us the whole time we were in there.

on the path again....

to see an alligator, or was it a crocodile? At this point I didn't care, I was sooo hot! I think we all were....

what are yall checking out??

a buffalo!!!

We came across another air conditioning building. It was the snake and bug building. Normally I would have said, "no way, Jose!" But considering it was hotter than hades out side, I was alllll over it! HA!

We did see this cute little lizard, that was about the only thing that was cute in there.

We high tailed it out of there and didn't stop till we got to the car! What can I say, we were pretty miserable at this point!

Our next stop was....

Mercado's!!! YUMMO!!! One of my favorites!!

Cam is ready to eat!

Are you ready eat Easton? "Of course I am, momma!!!" HAHA!!

All in all we had a great family day! We had no melt downs like we did here. And after we ate, we stopped by Toys R Us to get some ideas for Christmas, then headed home!

We can't wait till the fall, we already have plans to go the Ft. Worth Zoo!!!

Wordless Wednesday! (almost)

2010-08-18T14:18:00.003-05:00

Can you guess where we went Monday?

east

cam

Last clue!!!

16 months!!

2010-08-04T12:31:00.001-05:00

I decided this month on their 16 month birthday(yesterday), to document what the boys did from when I got home from work(5:00pm ish) till they went to bed (7:00pmish). The boys did not disappoint me! HAHA!

This is what I found the MOMENT I walked in the door.
Aunt Emily had been keeping them on this day, so she pretty much lets them do whatever. That's not to say that I don't let them play under the cabinets, because I do. But when Momma is home they know to play under "their" cabinet.

Quiet the mess...

Easton has to get every thing out from under there...

Even the things allll the way in the back!

I started dinner at this point and shoo'ed (is that even a word!?) the boys into the living room to play....

5 minutes later and this is what I see...

mess 2 in progress...

Lets zoom in shall we?

decorative items off the brown table into the floor? check

surround sound speaker from behind the decorative items, in the floor? check

all the wipes, lotions, and diapers pulled from their diaper changing basket pulled out and on the floor? check, check and CHECK!!

I would like to point out what is Camdens hand.... Its part of my phone. I had a flip ghetto phone that got broke. And to say that Camden likes playing with it, is quite the understatement. The kid has a obsession with it. HA! (I have NO clue where he gets that from!)

After cleaning up mess 2, the boys were starving...

Easton reminds me of the puppy off of 101 Dalmatians. "I'm hungry momma, feed me momma, I'm hungry, I'm SOOO hungry!" Crack me up!

Dinner is served!

This is one of their favorites. It has become my go to meal this summer.

Yum, Yum, Yum!

Notice the phone?

why are still taking pictures of me?

On to Bath time...

Easton rocking the soap mohawk!

So is Cam... I pried the phone out of his hands for the bath..

After bath time, we diaper, get out jammies on and play for about an hour before bed...

This night in particular, Camden mastered climbing up in the chair all by him self. He was so proud!!! Notice the phone?!!! (what did I tell ya? OBSESSED!)

Easton showing me that he could do it too!! yay East!

After playing and snuggling, I layed the boys down about 6:50pmish. And I didn't get pics.. OOPPPS! Oh well, I was a little worn out. And so were they. They were asleep by 7:15pm!

What are yall up too at 16 months??

-Camden wears 12 to 18 month clothes

-Easton wears 18 to 24 month clothes

-both size 5 diapers

-Easton has 14 teeth!! WOW! he has gotten in his 2 top molars and his 2 bottom molars in the past month!

-Camden still has 8 teeth.

-Easton is talking up a storm, and pretty much mimicks anything you say.

-some new words East says, cookie, nana, baby(comes out, bayyybeee), huh?, see, sit, sippy(what we call sippy cup).

-Camden still just saying a few words, dada, hi, hey, bye-bye. Were working on him!

-both have started throwing little tantrums. How is this already starting?
-both still LOVING your bath..

-Easton has been soooo sweet lately. I have witnessed him handing over a toy to Camden if he is crying. It seriously is the sweetest thing ever.

-This past month, I have also noticed the boys "looking" for one another. Example- If one gets up from a nap earlier than the other, they will keep going back to there room to see if that one is up yet. So sweet!

-Camden has started doing what we call a "happy dance" he stomps his little feet really fast, and claps his hands and then spins in circles! Soo sweet!

But more importantly, I love them soooo much! They are soo much fun right now. And I cant believe they are 16 months... Time really is going by way to fast!

Roseola

2010-08-03T11:04:00.002-05:00

So last Wednesday night, Easton spiked a high fever out of no where! I was thinking it might be to his nose or maybe an infection tied to his nose. So I gave him some advil and through out the night it kept spiking as soon as the advil would wear off. So Thursday morning I called the Dr.'s office and they asked me to bring him in.

So we go in and nope its nothing to do with his nose, which is doing really good, he has Roseola.

WHAT THE HECK??? Seriously!

Anyway, its a virus that is very common in young kids (6 months to 3 years) and basically it has an incubation period of around 17 days, and once it hits, they(kiddos) run a high fever, sometimes up to 105! YIKES! And some other symptoms include flu like symptoms, swollen eye lids, loss of appetite, and a rash all over their body after 3-5 days after the fever starts. Oh and its VERY contagious while they are running the fever.

NICE!

Well, Easton is in his rash stage now, and its barely noticeable. And Camden is running fever now, but I am more prepared with him. We've already stocked up on more Advil, Tylenol and Gatorade.

You wanna know something weird? Easton had all the above symptoms except for the flu-like symptoms. And Camden only has the tell-tell high fever and the flu-like systems.

Must be a twin thing!

But Camden has been like this for 2 days now, so in about 3 more days, our house should be back to normal!

My Poor Little Guy!!!-update!

2010-07-26T15:40:00.007-05:00

I am sorry if this grosses you out in any way, I just wanted to keep track of the healing of his poor little nose! :(

This morning(7-28-10)-its defiantly more bruised today than in the past.

I took this picture this morning(7-27-10). Its defiantly going bruise more before it gets better...

Late yesterday afternoon, (7-25-10)after I had giving the boys a bath, Easton had climbed up on the futon and was standing sitting their till it was his turn to get his diaper on. Well when I went toward him, he thought we were playing, and took off running and slipped on the blanket that was on top of the futon.

And you guessed it, landed right on the metal arm rest, banging his nose in the process. I felt so bad! We had been chasing each all around the house before their bath and he was still playing! Poor little guy just cried and cried.(I am pretty sure, he may have fractured his nose, really no way of telling. even his pedi, said not to worry about it.) He finally settled down after he got a chocolate chip cookie!

this was right after it happened.. Poor little guy!

And this about 10pm last night. I went on their to check on him and brother, and he just lifted his little head up and looked at me, so I had to scoop him up and let him snuggle in bed with Robby for a few minutes.

Unfortunately it doesn't look any better, I am sure that its going to take a few days!!!

2 little monkeys jumpin' on the bed!!!

2010-07-26T15:32:00.003-05:00

The boys love, love, love to crawl up onto my bed and have a field day. And they especially like to do it right AFTER I have had made my bed. But thats ussually how it works out huh?!!

Please tell me its gets better....

2010-07-22T09:09:00.004-05:00

Last night we went to out with just the 2 little boys. J had went to spend the night with Papa, and Robby and I just wanted to get out of the house for a change. So off we went.

Dinner was great. The ending was near and Camden was getting antsy. So I got him out of his highchair and sat him in my lap. He stayed that way for about 30 seconds. He grabbed a fork, and distracted him for oh about 15 more seconds. Robby is finishing up and Easton is getting semi distracted, and antsy as well.

So I am thinking, ok were getting things together and its all going to be fine, we will be out of here in less than 5 minutes TOPS.

That's was until, I give Camden a toy to play with and promptly throws it on the ground. So I let him down to retrieve his toy. This whole time I am thinking, its fixing to get bad, but I am also thinking, well maybe not, maybe we can hurry and get out of here before all, pardon me, hell breaks loose.

Seriously everything I just said, all happened in about 45 seconds.

Camden is still walking towards his toy. Then gets a wild hair and takes off like a cannon. I jump up after him. Catch him in about 6 LONG steps, and scoop him up. He then lets out this blood curdling scream, I swear I looked around because I thought it was someone elses kid, my precious little angel does not act like this.

Well I was in for rude awakening.

Camden proceeded to KEEP screaming. I announced to Robby that it was time to go. I start getting their things. I have twins, so I have A LOT of things. Mean time, Camden is still squealing like a banshee Indian.

And Easton has started standing up in his high chair, and Robby is pretty much spazzing too.

So Cam is on my hip, still squealing, i am literally throwing things in their diaper bag, and Robby is wrestling with Easton getting him out of the highchair and trying to pick their sippy cups off the floor.

I pretty much sprint to the car.

Robby is right behind me.

We agree'd that we have never been so embarrassed in all of our life!!!

Lordy lou, I am hoping this is just a phase.

"J"

2010-07-21T10:51:00.005-05:00

I lot of folks didn't know that Robby has an older son, "J". He is 8 years old and for the most part lives 3 hours away with his mom. But for the time being he is staying with us for the summer. I have to say the boys LOVE LOVE LOVE him being here! They have had so much fun with another person in the house, and they think that J is their own personal play pretty! HA. I don't think he minds at all.

Easton and J... This whole little photo session started when Easton crawled up in J's lap...

then Camden had to join in....

all smiles....

pretty smitten with one another!!!

cuties!!!

Its hard to go to work....

2010-07-21T10:48:00.001-05:00

....when you have this cute little face staring back at you!!!

Camden modeling my sunglasses last weekend when I had to work that Saturday...

Wordless Wednesday!!! (almost)

2010-07-14T11:05:00.002-05:00

Eastons face KILLS me in this picture!!! (in a very good way!!)

Well we did it!!!

2010-07-10T09:07:00.003-05:00

NO MORE BOTTLES!!!

Fathers Day weekend, I packed up all the bottles. I haven't posted about until now, because I wanted to be 100% sure that the boys would be 100% on sippy cups. But as of today, they still have NOT had a bottle since Fathers Day. And let me tell you I have been over joyed about not having to wash all those 50 million part to those Dr. Brown bottles!

They have taken to the sippy cups surprising well for me to stop the bottles cold turkey. They had been taking sippy cups here and their for some time, but they also had bottles too. But none the less, they did really good. Well I will say, Easton, maybe had a little bit harder time with it, than Camden did. But all is well now!

First Hair Cut...

2010-07-05T09:32:00.000-05:00

This is a bitter sweet post for me. I am not sure why, but the boys seem to be growing up way to fast now these days. First the bottles,(I am going to post about those later!) and now the haircuts! And also because these pictures aren't really of their "first" haircut, but of their "second" hair cut, because someone, who shall remain nameless, cut their hair to get it out of their eyes, and that resulted in Easton looking like a little girl. Don't believe me, take a look...

what did I tell you!

Yes I know, baby, mommy is (was) crying too!!

While you are still laughin', because I know you still are, let me show you Camden's hair, now not near as bad, but still cut none the less...

all his curls, GONE forever!!!!! i know, i know a bit dramatic!

But to go from this..

to this...

is down right heart breaking...

So Saturday morning, July 3rd, I made them an appointment with my hair dresser to get it fixed...

When we got there, Lori was cutting another ladies hair...

so we posed for a couple pictures..

And then it was time!!!

Easton went first, and started off in the chair by himself, but i then joined him, to help Lori out..

the first snip...

Camden went next and i just put him my lap and snapped a couple of pics in the mirror.. This was the best one...

The finished product! Don't they look handsome!!!

They did soo good, they didn't cry or throw a fit. I was sooo proud of them!

15 months!!

2010-07-03T10:27:00.001-05:00

Today the boys were 15 months old! It was also the day of their first hair cut!

What are the boys up to now these days???

-totally off the bottle and on to sippy cups!

-eating anything we eat

-still taking 2 naps a day and going to be around 7pm and waking up around 6:30am.

-size 4 diapers

-Easton wears 12-18month clothes and 18months, but I am fixing to have to buy him some 24month stuff.. he is my little chunky monkey!

-Camden wears 12 months, and those still just fit just fine..

-Easton weighs 29lb and 6 oz and 32 1/2 inches long..

-Camden weighs 21lbs and 7oz and 29 inches long..

-Camden is in a bad biting phase. I hope it passes soon, at least for Eastons' sake!ha

-they both still love their bath, they love all water for that matter, most definitely my little water babies!

-love playing out side

-playing more and more "together" and in their room..

-Easton says the following words,-sit, bye bye, mama, dad-dyyy(so cute!), serious-lyyyy(another sooo cute one!), tank you-thank you!, hi, bite-he says this when he is hungry, Gi-Gi(my mom) and his new one last night, baby-don't be gettin ideas folks!! we were talking about my nephew, Kinsler, and we refer to him as "baby Kinsler", and so he has started saying "baby"!

-Camden is more vocal in his own language, but does say a few words such as, dada, hi and bye.

-Easton still has his 4 top teeth and 4 bottom teeth, and last week he cut his first molar tooth on the right side.

-Camden still has his 4 top teeth and 4 bottom teeth, no molars yet, but I bet they are coming!!

-they love to play peek a boo, and do it with each other, its seriously one of the cutest things you will ever witness!

-Camden is defiantly the more dominant twin right now. Easton is more layed back, go with the flow twin. Its their little personalities shinning through, and I bet its going to flip flop too...

But most of all, they 2 of the most loving little boys I know, and I am so proud to be their momma!!!

Day of Blog Silence for Cohen

2010-07-01T10:52:00.003-05:00

My heart goes out to this family.

Uh Oh Cheerios!

2010-06-30T10:38:00.003-05:00

This past weekend literally reminded me of the movie title, Four Weddings and a Funeral! We were soooo busy. We were scheduled to go to two Birthday parties and a wedding. But we only made it to one birthday party and the wedding. I had Saturday off, and I just wanted to chill at home with the boys. I hadn't gotten to do that in what seems like ages, in reality its properly been about a month. So we spent most of Saturday chilling at home and started getting ready for the wedding after their afternoon snack.

I had been washing dishes and heard, ca-thud, as something hit the floor. I turned around and saw this....

Easton munching on some Cheerios....

then Camden joined in..

Does it make a bad mother, that I let them to continue to do this while I finished washing the dishes??

Birthday Party

2010-06-29T11:19:00.001-05:00

On Sunday, we went to Caleigh and Claires 4th Birthday Party! They had a swimming party at their house, but the boys opted to play on the slip and slide for a few minutes. And I forgot to get out my camera until after they had came in and changed clothes. But in all we had a great time!

The girls blowing out their candles...

Aunt Amy feeding them cake..

Easton all up his Aunt Ashleighs lap, while girls were opening presents..

And then Camden started making the rounds, it was almost as if he was looking for someone...

..then he found him!! This is Colton, Caleigh and Claires big brother! From what I hear, when Ashleigh keeps my boys, these two are pretty fond of each other!! So sweet!

Goin' to the Chapel, Gonna get Married!!!

2010-06-29T10:59:00.000-05:00

Ummm , NOT me! Just in case someone thought that title was about me, just wanted to clear things up! HA!! The boys and I went to a family friends wedding, Saturday night in a neighboring town. It was just a small church wedding. It was done simple but beautiful, and the number one thing, the bride looked amazing!!!

Katie and Will standing at the alter....

Easton and Camden munched on their snacks through out the whole wedding. I was very impressed of how good they were!

Of course Kinsler and Amy were their!! My mom held Kinz through out the wedding..

And my cousin, Britt and Creed sat next to us to!! If you haven't already noticed, were a pretty tight nit family, we do just about everything together! HA

Sweet Easton was so good, didn't make a peep the whole time!

Camden, sweet? yeah umm, most of the time!!! wink wink!!

Remember this couple? Yep that's right, Johnathan is Katie's brother...

And finally the bride and groom walking down the isle!

CONGRATS KATIE AND WILL!!!!

Love you both!!

One Year Ago Today.......

2010-06-25T08:04:00.000-05:00

... I took these pictures of the boys.. I couldn't believe how little they were!!!

Cam and East...

Sweet little Camden...

I love, love, love this smile on Easton...

Oh the memories!!!

Wordless Wednesday!!! (almost)

2010-06-23T14:57:00.003-05:00

Easton got up extra early, and then woke Camden, so I put Easton in bed with Cam, along with their sippy cups of milk, and a few toys. I then went and started getting ready for work. This is what I found when I went to check on them about 30 minutes later... AWWWWW...

Day 2 and 3!!

2010-06-22T08:26:00.015-05:00

DAY 2

The day started off with all of us at the cabin, slowing getting around and finally showing up at breakfast with the rest of the family around 9:30amish. We were suppose to be their at 8:30am. Yeah, well we didn't, and life goes on! Anyway, we had a wonderful breakfast and then decided to go down to the river.

You have to park in this little seclude open field type place and then haul ALL your stuff down to the river. I have never been so glad to have our wagon as I did on this trip!

Look at us! I mean, come on! We look like the Beverly hillbillies! HA! Brittany and I were bringing up the end of our group and we laughed the entire time!

we walked and walked and walked some more...

Here's my sweet little cousin, Creed!!!

the river at last!!! Were we went was the"gathering spot."

Easton, Robby and Emily playin...

Camden played in the water too. But someone (ME) had to take pictures of our day, and I had been playing with Camden in the river and so when I got, he had to get out. So anyway, I have no pictures of Camden in the river...Oh well..

Kinz in his pack and play. BIG kudos for my BIL for carrying that thing all the way from the car!!!

Everyone playing in the river...

another view..

All the folks watching other folks in their canoes and inter tubes come over the waterfall... This was quite hilarious at times!

We stayed a couple of hours at the river and then packed everything up and headed back to the cabin to get dinner going. Day 2 was by far was the funnest day!

DAY 3

We got up and ate breakfast on the deck and then started to pack everything all back up...

Robby called me in the bedroom and this is what I found. Cam was sacked out on the bed..

While *trying* to pack up the boys blankets, I turned my back for a mili second. By the time I turned back around, Hurricane Easton had already came through...

After we packed everything up, and before we headed home, we decided to go to one of our secret spots down in the park.

Emily and sleeping Cam...

awww...

The secret spot, isn't pretty??!!

It didn't take Cam no time to wake up and start playing in the water...

my attempt to get them in one shot...

splishin' and splashin'...

Amy and Kinz

Cam..

Emily and Camden...

Easton playing on the rocks...

East..

Easton...

Easton and I...

My only good shot of them... I LOVE LOVE LOVE this picture of them... Its my desktop picture here at work...

I am so glad that we went on this trip. We had such a good time. We all decided that next time we need to stay at least 3 nights, 2 was NOT enough!

2010 Family Camping Trip!

2010-06-17T13:36:00.015-05:00

Day 1!!

A couple of months ago, my Meemaw suggested that we take a family camping trip, like we did way back when. (Way back when, I'm talking like 15 years ago!!). Any way we all thought it was GREAT idea, and got so excited!! My twin sister and I and our cousin, Brittany, immediately started looking at cabins to rent, because of our boys. They both have 5 month olds. And my Meemaw and Pappy have a motor home and then my Uncle Russell has a RV. So it was settled, we were going camping!!! We picked the weekend, booked the cabin, and packed for days and made sure everyone had a bed to sleep in since we had lots of folks going,Meemaw and Pappy, Uncle Russell and Kristy, Me and Robby and our 2 boys, Amy, Justin, Kinz and our cousin Brittany, Mike and Creed, and mine and Amy's little sister, Emily, and our Aunt Shannon and her 2 kids, Alyssa and Logan. And then Brittanys Dad, Uncle Sherrill stayed with Meemaw and Uncle Russells boys, our cousins, came up and stayed with Russell . Told ya, LOTS of folks!! (around 20 folks, give or take a couple! HA)

So last weekend, June 11th-13th was the BIG weekend in beautiful Broken Bow, OK. It was a weekend that I am ready to do all over again! We had such a great time.

This is what we pulled up too! The beautiful, Mountain Star.

They had seating like this all around the decks. The cabin was wrapped in decks!

Simply gorgeous. My boys had a total blast running and playing on these decks.

And we can't forget this. One of the "main" reasons we chose the cabin!

The pretty views from every angle of the decks.

The gorgeous layout of the cabin. This is really the only wide shot I took of the cabin. It was beautiful beyond words, and totally took all of our breaths away.

My little sister, Emily, found this chair, and fell right asleep, basically as soon as we got their. All of us pretty much lounged in this chair at one point. It was so comfortable. We all wanted to take it home with us!

We finally got settled in and fixed dinner and started to relax....

My boys eating a snack, waiting on dinner to be served! (just a side note, they both had been in the hot tub at this point, ran their little hearts out on the decks, and where pretty tired by the time this picture was taken!)

Kinz and Creed eating dinner!

While my boys were snacking, I took pictures of the arrangements in the cabin. I loved them all, and they were very inspiring. I feel a trip to Hobby Lobby coming on!!!

The one above was on the main table.

above the fire place...

on the end table...

Everyone joined us at our cabin for dinner on both nights. It was so great to have everyone come to us instead of us hauling the boys and everything, to the park where they were staying..

The master bath, was properly the prettiest room in the house... We all loved it, and took turns taking baths in the whirlpool bath!! But I think 2 little boys loved the bath more than anyone!!

After dinner, came our nightly bath. They didn't know what to think once we turned the jets on!!

I added a few drops of their bubble bath...

and they....

... had a blast!!!

This ends day 1 of our trip.. I will try to get the rest of our weekend up soon!

We had sooooo much fun!!!

boys being boys...

2010-06-17T13:16:00.003-05:00

One day last week, we loaded up and went over to my moms to get the boy's pack and plays for the camping trip that was coming up. While we were their, Camden found a pretty big mud puddle and had the time of his life! He ran back and forth through it several times and then finally just sat down in it. Easton on the other hand didn't want anything to do with it. He just stood back from a far and watch little brother.

Easton watching Camden...

Camden did this back and forth at least 5 times!!

the after math!!!

Way back When Wednesday....

2010-06-09T13:48:00.009-05:00

One of my favorite pictures ever...

Madi and Camden...

Graduation....

2010-06-07T11:58:00.005-05:00

My little sister graduated Paul Pewitt High School this past Saturday night. I honestly never thought this day would come. I can remember thinking way back when, "when Emily graduates High School, I am going to be 26 years old!" and then thinking, "Man that's forever away and I am going to be OLD!" HA! Well here we are in the present, and some days I do feel old, but most other days, I feel no different than I did 5 years ago. Other than you know, I have 14 month old twin little boys running around, and instead of getting ready to go out on a Saturday night, I am getting my two little loves ready for bed.

But I am off subject.

I am so proud of my little sister. She has become quite the young lady these last few months, and has done some serious growing up. She has gone from a free spirited young woman, to finding out that she too, is going to be a mommy and graduated high school on the recommend level. She still has a long way to go, but none the less, I am still so proud of her!

the Class of 2010 walking on to the stage...

Standing to receive their diplomas..

Emily receiving her diploma.. (walking back to her seat actually, oops!)

switching their tassels over...

Emily!! (isn't she gorgeous??)

Em and her boys!

The 3 sisters....

Emily, I am sooooo proud of you!!

14 months old

2010-06-07T10:18:00.003-05:00

I can't believe that 2 months have already flown by since their birthday!!! I almost forgot to take this picture!! I just put them down for bed, and about 15 minutes later remembered that they were 14 months! So I ran in their room, put Easton in bed with Camden and took a couple of pics, and this was the best one.

What are yall up too?
-both walking like champs!
-both still have 4 teeth on bottom and 4 teeth on top.
-still loving yalls baths.
-becoming very vocal, saying words such as, mama, dada, bye, bite, hi, and Easton really tries to mimic what you say. (oh dear, I really better watch what I say!!)
-Camden has really came out of his shell here lately, and has become quite the chatterbox.
-Camden also has been biting his brother like crazy. The only thing is I have never caught him in the act, and neither has Robby, we just notice it afterwards.
-They both sleep from about 7pm to 7am.
-Still on 2 naps, first around 9am and 2nd one around 2pm.
-both still great eaters. Camden has taken to spitting everything out on the first bite, but always takes the next bites. Weird!
-Easton has become quite the mommas boy, and I LOVE it...
-Camden still prefers me too, but he always has...
-Camden is still battling pneumonia.. he is on his 3rd round of medicines...
-They both love being outside, we will be really testing that, this coming weekend when we go camping.
-Also this weekend will be our first away from home weekend with the boys. I am so excited, and very nervous at the same time.

A Day Trip...

2010-06-03T09:50:00.005-05:00

This past Monday, Memorial Day, Robby, myself and my sister, Amy decided to head to Beavers Bend for the day. We had soooo much fun! And the boys had a blast just hanging out and being out side. We have a family camping trip coming up next weekend, and I know now that they are going LOVE it!

We ate a picinic lunch at the playground...

Easton and Robby playin'

After seeing brother and daddy having so much fun, Camden had to join in too!

Cam and Robby swingin', me and Easton were swingin' too...

Down by the river... It was soooo pretty!

And of course my sweet little nephew, Kinz, was their!!! He had a great time as well!!!

We had a great time and can't wait go back next weekend for the family camping trip!!!

a MAJOR first....

2010-05-27T11:37:00.006-05:00

My sister and I have been and stayed in the hospital numerous times. So I knew that it would only be a matter of time before one of my little guys would be making that first visit. And I honestly thought that it would be years to come before we would even set foot in a hospital. And also thought it would be some sort of injury, some thing boy related, you know, like stitches or broken bone or what not. Well I guess that's what I get for thinkin'!! Cause Sunday night about midnight,after being their for about 3 hours, our little CamCam got himself admitted in the the hospital with pneumonia!!! Yes sir re bob, I was scared out of my ever lovin' mind. My baby,(well technically he isn't the "baby", Easton is, but still!!!) was soo soo sick!

We had just gotten in to the ER room and they had just put the oxygen sensor thing on him. I don't think he or even me for that matter knew what was about to happen!!

Is little IV.

Poor little guy finally had had enough and just past smooth out. I don't blame him. He had just got through, a full HOUR breathing treatment, them sticking him to draw an obscene amount of blood, starting an IV' and doing chest x-rays and numerous swabs and such. He had been crying and I had been crying. I swear I looked up one time, and their were about 6 folks in our tiny little ole room, trying to help my baby breathe better!!!

We finally go to a room, it was such a relief!! He slept through the night, even through all the nurses coming in and out checking on him and through his oxygen sensor machine going off steadily.

the next morning, he was back to him self!! I was soo happy to see him laughing and playing peek a boo and just wanting to run around!

I bet we sat here for at least half the day!!

Brother came and saw us!! This was our attempt to try to get them to take a nap. NO such luck!! But they played and played until they got really cranky and so Robby and East went back home so that East could get a nap and so could Cam and I. It was the sweetest thing ever, when Easton and Robby walked in the door! Camden and my self were on cloud 9!!!

Packing it up to go home!

We finally got released to come home about 6pm! And by this point , you can see Camden was feeling so much better!!! I am sooo glad that we only had to stay about 20 hours in the hospital. But I am even happier that my baby is feeling better!!!

After the Graduation party, came a Birthday Party!

2010-05-27T11:21:00.004-05:00

So after Emilys Graduation Party, I loaded up the boys, and we headed straight to a Birthday party. My friends, Jeff and Tashas little boy, Morgun, was turning 2!! We didn't stay very long. I was beginning to feel really bad, and just wanted to do nothing but go home and rest. But here are a few pics of the boys "swimming!" HA!.

They loved this blow up frog pool.. I was a little worried that the water might be to cold, but the boys didnt seem to mind!

splishin' and a splashin'

They wanted to go down that slide soooooo bad. It really did look like a LOT of fun. Maybe next year guys!

Emilys Graduation Party...

2010-05-27T10:51:00.008-05:00

My sister and I held a Graduation Brunch for my little sister, Emily, Saturday at my sisters house. We had lots of great company, and lots of great food!!! I can't believe that my little sister, is GRADUATING High School. It just seems so surreal. I am so proud of you, Em!!!!

We had lots of yummy food!!

And of course our guest of honor, couldnt resist this little man, aka, her favorite! HA

We had cute decorations, made by no other than my sis.

a few guests...

And of course Kinsler was there, along with Johnny, Emilys boyfriend.

I love this pic!!!

And my little blue eyed, chubby cheeks, sweet little man of a cousin, Creed and his pretty momma came and helped out too! Love them!!!

I made the pioneer womans famous cinnamon rolls! They are heaven on a plate I tell ya!!!

This little man(east) even thought so.

See that little dug out hole?

When I caught him, he look at me and said, "mmmmmmm!" HA!!!

they past smooth out right after the party!

My weekend in pictures....

2010-05-25T12:14:00.002-05:00

I will do a more detailed post later on....

Pittsburg Homestead

2010-05-13T09:12:00.010-05:00

Last night, Emily, my little sister, invited us to come watch get her senior pictures made. I jumped at the chance! I knew the boys would have an awesome time running around, and I was really needing to take a few new pictures of them my self. Jennifer, the photographer, took us to the Pittsburg Homestead. Well needless to say, the place is a little bigger than I thought it was, and it is sooooo pretty this time of year! I didn't even see Emily getting her pictures made! HA. I was to busy chasing after my two little ones, and holding my nephew for some sweet pictures. We will be going back for pictures to come! And Lyndee, if your reading this, you seriously need to check it out, it has lots of great inspiration for pictures!

the Homestead... this isn't all of it, the place was pretty big!

Easton pretty much ran and played the whole time....He LOVED it!

Easton sitting in the blue bonnet patch..

Camden- he wasn't feeling very well, and wanted to be held the entire time...

my sweet little nephew, Baby Kinsler..

cam and east...

In front of the barn...

and again!

this is was what pretty much happened e.v.e.r.y. time I put Camden down..

My mom was with us too!

Sweet Camden...

GiGi saves the day with cherry coke! (Dont worry, they barely even drank any!)

Camden getting a drink too!

It was soooo hot out, I think that was part of why Cam was soooo cranky.. so I stripped off their shirts and let them have a little water in their own bottle!

East and his bottle!

Cam

East(I LOVE this picture, of my little chunky monkey!!!)

I will post some pictures of my little sister senior pictures when she gets them back, I heard that she got some awesome shots!!!

13 months....

2010-05-06T16:28:00.004-05:00

The boys were 13 months on May 3rd. I decided that I wouldn't do the bunny picture any more, and just TRY to get one of them together. So it worked in my favor when we went out to eat that night!! Its not the best picture, but it will work!!!

Camden right, Easton left.

What yall are up too...

-Easton is walking EVERY WHERE!!!!

-Camden is really trying.. He can stand up and take a few steps, but it wont be long!!

-Easton has 3 teeth on the bottom, and all 4 on the top.

-Camden has 4 teeth on bottom and the 4th tooth is coming in on the top.

-They will eat ANYTHING that is put in front of them. I am so blessed for this.

-They are loving their bath again!!! YYYYAAAAYYYY!!!!

-They both shake their head no-no.. right now its really cute. But Im sure it wont be for long!

-We are working on the sippy cups for all the time. Its going pretty good.I have a feeling I am just going to buy a bunch of sippy cups and just pack away the bottles. Just pretty much do it cold turkey!

-Easton is still on Soy "Silk" milk and doing really well...

-Camden is on whole milk....

-Camden has gotten in to this stage, where he takes his diaper off in his crib and throws it over the side. And then use your imagination for what he does after that! It is SOOO gross... and I am so sick of washing his bumper pads, that I havent put them back on in like 2 weeks. So now, we put his diaper on backwards when he goes down for a nap or bed time. Unless he has a onsie on. And when he does, he usually does have on shorts, or pj pants or something to that nature.. he just takes those off too!

-you both LOVE to be out side and to swing and to do just what ever out side...

I love you both soooo much!!! Yall are growing up so fast!!

Just a swingin'

2010-05-06T08:30:00.008-05:00

We went with Amy to where her mother in law was camping, this past weekend, just to hang out for a few hours. We found this playground with 2 toddler swings. As you can see Camden was having a ball.... Easton.. yeah I think he was just glad to get a good breeze, because it was sooooo hot and muggy that afternoon.

Camden, with Madi pushing him in the background...

Easton..

I love, love, love this face!!!

I love, love, love this face too!!!!