T's 2nd eye surgery

Well my brave little guy did it again. Travis had another surgery on his eyes. Even though is frist surgery went well the results were not that great. We made the hard dession to do it again. This surgery the doctor worked on the inner eye muscles, last time he had loosed the outer eye muscles on both eyes. The surgery went well. He said Travis had some scar tissue on his left eye from last time, so he removed that and he is optimitic. I am so proud of Travis, he was so brave. We had explain that we would be doing the surgery one more time, so he knew it was comming, yet it was still very hard on me. Travis has had a little harder recovery this time around. He didn't want to open his eyes the rest of the night when we got home and even into the next morning because they hurt. I ended up calling the doctor and they said since it was the inner muscles it can hurt more. Travis finally started opening his eyes later that afternoon... after I pulled out a intented Christmas gift to perk his interest. I am happy to say by say two he is doing much better. I pray this will be the last surgery.

Cookie Fun!

Well I did manage to let the kids decorate cookies this year. I must admit I cheated and bought the pre-made dough already cut into shapes. I just had to bake them. I figured the decorating was a big enough mess as it is... and I just didn't have it in me this year to do it all. The kids had a blast. Travis just likes to eat the frosting and sprinkles more than actually decorating the cookies, and Av's liked to shake the sprinkles bottle! Merry Christmas!

Pooping sitting down!

Finally my son is sitting down to poop! I decided to go back to the whole bribing thing since it seemed to work the first time. I offered Travis a skateboard if he would sit to go poop. For those who don't know, he would stand on the toilet seat to go poop. Once I offered him the skateboard he went right up stairs that night and went poop sitting down. So after preschool the next day we went to Target and he picked one out. The best $11 dollars I have ever spent!

So much to be Thankful for!!

We had Thanksgiving at our house this year. I thought it would be nice not to have to go anywhere and the kids would have all their stuff here. It was really nice to have everyone over!! I made the Turkey and stuffing from scratch! Thanks to mom who had all the great recipes. Amie came over the night before and made boysenberry pies from scratch!! They turned out great!! Travis couldn't wait for Courtney to come over. Courtney is Kyle's girlfriend who Travis feel in love with at Avery's birthday party. I am so thankful for my family and friends, they are the people who keep me going day to day!!!

"My tummy is killing me"

On November 17th just a typical Tuesday evening I put Travis to bed, yet he kept getting out of bed, once to go poop, then again to say and I quote "my tummy is killing me". He got in bed with us and then had to go poop again. I thought OK, he is just constipated and hopefully his tummy will feel better in the morning. An hour later I got woke up to Travis throwing up all over our bed!!! Then he rolled in it, and threw up more!!! I picked him up and brought him into the bathroom... the kid was covered in yak. I got him all cleaned up and in his bed, then spent another hour getting our bedding in the wash... and ended up sleeping with him. The lesson to learn from this is, when your kid says his tummy is killing him, get him a bowl just in case. :-)

Halloween & Snow??

Can you believe we had a big snow storm right before Halloween!!! Luckily the snow stopped for us to still trick or treat. Avery went to a few houses with T, but it was really too cold for her, so Clint and T went on to the rest of the houses. Travis was a baseball player and Avery was a lady bug. Avery did not like the little hat, so she was upset in some of the pics. Travis wore one of his dads or uncle Kyle's old baseball shirt, so it had his name on the back! Too cute!! My mom was out for Avery's birthday, so they had decorated pumpkins with her for Halloween. Overall the kids had a lot of fun and Travis got lot's of candy!

I turned 33!

Well, fourteen days after my daughter had her birthday I had mine. I am beginning to hit my mid thirties! Wow, life has really started to speed up. I am so blessed to have the wonderful family and husband. My actual birthday was very uneventful. I met Amie for lunch, since we do share this birthday, then had cake latter that day. I think it's much more fun celebrating the kids birthday's, but I am very gad to have had another year with my family.