What We've Been Up To

I know that it has been way too long since I have posted, but I am just beginning to get some of my energy back and I'm not having to go to bed as soon as I put the kids in bed at night. Plus, even though my nausea had gotten better during the day, up until a few days ago, it was still pretty awful at night. I think that the worst is over and am looking forward to my second trimester. Hopefully it will only be a couple of more weeks before I start feeling the baby move and kick, which is always my favorite part of being pregnant.
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Parker and Eden have both been under the weather this past week. Eden didn't eat for almost 5 days and was extremely fussy. Parker stopped eating on Thursday and on Friday woke up with a rash that covered his whole body. I finally got them into see our pediatrician and found out that Eden has yet another ear infection and Parker probably has strep. (The lab results will be in on Monday). I had no idea that you could get a horrible rash with strep...you learn something new every day! After 24 hours on antibiotics, I am happy to say that they are both feeling much better.
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We haven't been up to anything extremely exciting lately...just enjoying the beautiful weather and doing a lot of playing outside in the afternoons. I am really looking forward to school being out (only 3 more weeks to go) but am dreading the HOT weather that the summer will bring.

As you can see, Eden is all ready for the summer!

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For his birthday, Cory and I got Parker a Lego table and his Aunt Emily, Aunt Meredith, and Aunt Sondra got him a bunch of Legos to go with it. He has really enjoyed them and we play with them every day. As much as I've tried to keep them out of the table, I constantly find Parker and Eden sitting and playing inside the table.

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While we are driving around town, Parker has gone through several stages of being obsessed with looking for things. The first stage was stop lights and then we moved on to stop signs. Next was looking for yellow school buses and his most recent is flags. I never know just how many flags were flown around our town! He can now identify and tell the difference between the American flag and the Texas flag. He also knows that the Texas flag has one star that is called the Lone Star and that the American flag has 13 stripes and 50 stars.

It's funny how the excitement that a 3 year old has when spotting a flag can so quickly rub off on me. I find that I am just as excited to show him a new flag as he is when he finds one. I am anxious to see what he becomes obsessed with finding next!

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One day a few weeks ago, I was getting onto Parker for something and I said:

"Parker, when Mommy says 'no', Mommy means 'no'."

He quickly responded:

"When Parker says 'yes', Parker means 'yes'."

This kid definitely keeps me on my toes! The sad thing is that things like this happen so often that I don't even remember him saying this. My mom was with us when it happened and told me later how she she had a hard time not laughing after he said it. (And don't worry, even though I don't remember this, my mom said I did follow through with proper discipline after his outburst.) This job of parenting is so much harder than I could have ever imagined! Thank goodness it is also the most rewarding job I've ever had and I wouldn't trade it for anything!