Acting all cool wearing Mommy’s heels around the house…
Sean got some new kicks (that match his shirt!)…
Enjoying the morning sun with Polly…
Having a very serious discussion about something that must have been very interesting…
Helping Daddy with the grill…
Seeing who can jump the highest off the ledge…
Celebrating Daddy’s birthday with Mexican food!…
We created our very own dinosaur habitat while Dylan was sleeping…
Who loves Superman??…
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here you go:
Yes folks, Polly is laying more eggs.
Very similar to what happened last year, poor Polly got another – even worse – case of bladder stones. She had so many and they were so big that our only option was have another surgery to get them removed. I asked to have one of the stones after they removed them (is that gross?) just to have an idea of what they looked like and Holy Stonehenge, Batman! they’re like real stones.
Last year, after surgery Polly had a rough day but was back to herself very quickly. This time around was agonizing for her and the rest of our household. I just felt so bad for her – she had a really rough week. I did my best to keep her medicated and as comfortable as possible but it wasn’t easy.
I can say that she has made a full recovery since all of this trauma (I cannot, however, say the same for me and John yet). Now I have to test her urine monthly to make sure her pH levels remain normal. Fingers crossed there are not more stones.
But really, we love you Polly, for better or worse.
I had it all planned out… I scheduled Dylan’s first dentist appointment on the same day as Sean’s regular checkup. Sean would go first while Dylan watched so he wouldn’t be scared and could work up to his turn in the chair. But of course, they decided to take both kids at the same time, in different rooms. A mother’s worst nightmare – what kid do you choose? So I did my best to hop between rooms, but I should have known that Dylan would start gabbing it up with the hygienist right away, not a fear in sight. He was more than happy when I left him to go check on Sean. We did learn that Dylan’s finger sucking (gee – wonder who he gets that from??) is causing his teeth to shift so that’s something we need to keep an eye on but all in all both boys were great.
I decided last year that I was not getting flower pots for the back deck. For the past few years we’ve had birds build a nest in the flowers (I’ve even blogged about it) but last year one of the baby birds didn’t make it and I felt so horrible for the poor thing that I swore off real flowers forever.
So you can imagine my surprise when I realized we had a family of lizards on the deck (and on the chairs, fake plants, side of the house… you get the point).
Maybe next year I should go with the birds??
I’ve been looking for new office furniture for at least 6 months. Everything I liked was sooooo expensive (imagine that) or just didn’t look right. One day I was looking at the desk and filing cabinet my parents bought me at Costco the first day I moved to Charlotte and got to thinking… it really isn’t that bad, aside from just being kind of plain. So I decided to YouTube how to repaint and distress old furniture and found one particular video that was awesome – this woman showed each step, explained the materials used and everything. I watched it a few times, wrote down the list of stuff to get at Lowes, and off I went. It took a weekend from start to finish and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. The only bummer is that my computer tower is just a hair too tall for the desk so it doesn’t fit, but we can live with it. I learned some things along the way that will make the next time (will there be a next time? I’ve been eyeing up my kitchen table…) even easier.
This is what I started with:
Step 1 – Sand (while begging husband, dog and kids to please just let me do this for a minute)
Step 2 – Two coats of white paint (while pleading with dogs and kids to please stay away from the furniture… attempt to make a barricade with wagon, coolers and the John Deere… laugh at self for thinking that would ever work…)
Step 3 – Distress (I only did a little around the edges)
Step 4 – Chocolate Glaze (afterwards, Step 5 which isn’t shown was 2 coats of polyurethane)
Step 6 - Put in office and enjoy!
Step 7 – Decorate office. This has not been done yet. Maybe by Christmas. Am I being to optimistic??
One more look at the final products:
Sean had school pictures taken in February and we were also able to get some pictures of him with Dylan. They had so much fun together – it was so exciting to watch!
We had lots of visitors over Easter weekend and we couldn’t have been happier. Even through all of the rain that weekend (and trust me – there was A LOT of rain) we had we kept very busy!
We spent lots of time on the back deck around the fire…
Had some very good meals (even if we burned them in the beginning!)…
Got some very cool presents…
Made rice crispy bunnies…
Had an Easter egg hunt…
Michelle asked be to be Matron of Honor at her wedding!!!…
Celebrated John’s birthday…
And had a visit from the Easter Bunny!…
