Playdate

Friday, my friend (and A.J.'s former preschool teacher) and I decided to get our kids together for a playdate at McDonald's.  Isaac and Gisele had a great time playing and eating...we'll definitely have to have another playdate soon!

The Gecko

Lately, we have had a ton of crickets around our house.  We were told to use those sticky glue traps to catch them, so I put a couple in the garage.  When I was returning from taking A.J. to school one day, I noticed a gecko was stuck on one of the traps.  We carefully peeled the gecko from the trap and set it free...my good deed for the day!!!

Isaac and the gecko

He wanted to hold it, but once it started moving, he tossed it!!!

Happy Birthday Abby!!!

Today was Abby's first birthday!  The boys were so excited and wanted to get her presents to celebrate.  A.J. even wrapped her presents and drew pictures for her too!  She was spoiled rotten with a new light-up ball, chewies, and ice cream...she even got to go swimming!

A.J. was so excited to give Abby her birthday gifts

The pretzel chewie the boys picked out for Abby

Happy First Birthday Abby!!!

Abby LOVED her chewie!!!

Abby's birthday, the first day of fall, and it was warm enough to go for a swim

What a good-looking dog!!!

Abby LOVES to swim!

Abby

Yep, these crazy boys are mine!!!

Doesn't he just look ornery???

More Baseball

Here are a couple of videos of A.J. playing baseball...

Baseball

This season, A.J. decided he wanted to play baseball again. We got one of his buddies to sign up on the same team, so I think he's having more fun this time. What a difference a year makes!!! Last year, A.J. could barely hold the bat and had no clue which way to run! This year, well, at least he can hit the ball and run to first base!!!

Pre-game picture

Hitting the ball (I was also videotaping at the same time, since Andy was out of town, so the pictures are not the best quality)

Below: scoring a run

Pneumonia :-(

I haven't posted in a while, but I have had good reason. Both boys have been really sick for quite some time. On Monday, August 29, A.J. started having some coughing. We didn't think much of it, as we just figured he was catching the beginnings of a cold. On Wednesday, he came home from school and was running a fever (and still coughing a ton). The fever was only in the evening, so we sent him to school the next day. Thursday came and again Thursday night, he was running a fever. Although he was fever-free the next morning, I kept him home from school anyway. He started running a fever in the early morning. I looked in his throat and his tonsils were super swollen and his throat was red. Then Isaac started running a fever and coughing. I figured since this was day 3 with a fever for A.J., I better take him to the doctor. We went to the Pediatric Urgent Care. They took a throat culture of A.J., but it came back negative for strep. Then the doctor listened to his lungs and he was wheezing. She took a chest x-ray, and sure enough, he had pneumonia. Since we were already at the doctor, I had her check Isaac out as well. She listened to his lungs, got a chest x-ray of him, and sure enough, he had pnuemonia too. So we got our scripts for antibiotics and off we went. Both boys still sounded horrible all weekend long, coughing and hacking and still running fevers. So on Tuesday (Monday was Labor Day), we went back to the doctor. A.J. was still wheezing and now had an ear infection to boot. They both still had pneumonia and the first antibiotic was not working, so we got a new antibiotic and nebulizer treatments for both boys. They started to look and feel better by Wednesday, but they were still running fevers, so A.J. had to stay home from school. On Thursday morning, A.J. puked all over the bathroom floor, but after that, he seemed fine, other than a fever (poor thing...he ran a fever for a total of 9 days)!!! Then the diarrhea hit both boys. A.J. was so embarrassed because he kept having wet toots...I told him it was because of the antibiotics and I think he felt a little better. On Friday, we decided we would send A.J. to school. He was all dressed and ready to go when he puked all over the floor again :-( He bawled when we told him he had to stay home again, but that gave him the weekend to recover. I think the boys are all better now...they just took their last dose of antibiotics tonight...hopefully, they will stay healthy for a long time!

A.J. kept wanting to lay down and have his back rubbed. He totally fell asleep on me while I was rubbing his back (not to mention left a big pile of drool)!!!

Poor Isaac fell asleep at Wal-mart while waiting for our prescription to be filled

He fell asleep again on the way home from Wal-mart

Below: Isaac getting one of his breathing treatments