What we've been up to...

I am floored that it is already May. The last month has simply flown by! A few things that happened in April...

We officially made it A FULL YEAR without hospitalization for Cece. (I'm not counting her surgery hospitalization, since that was planned and not due to illness!) Of course, when I mentioned that at her well-child visit this past week, our pediatrician told me to shush as to not jinx it! Yes, it will happen again...it is unavoidable. But PRAISE GOD for the months that we have had. We are so grateful.

Alec had his pre-kindergarten physical. Oh my gosh, my baby is going to kindergarten! He had to have two shots, a blood test, and the old "pee in the cup" business. Poor guy...but he made it through with just a few tears. He is measuring at the 95th percentile for height and weight. I always tell people that when he is 8 or 9 I am going to have to stand on a stool to reprimand him! When we were done we gave him a special treat and let him play in Play Land at McDonald's. I am usually not a fan of the petri dish play area but since he had three pokes, I just doubled up on the wipes and anti-bac spray. Needless to say they had a rollicking good time.

Cece had her well-child visit at the same time and is at the 50th percentile for height and weight! WOO HOO! For the longest time she wasn't even on the chart (i.e. below 3rd percentile) for weight, so it is fantastic to see how far she has come. Everything else was good, except that the doctor was a bit concerned about her flat feet. Kind of funny considering how BENT they were when she was born and how hard we worked to straighten them out during the first couple years of her life! So we'll have to keep an eye on that but in the whole scheme of things, it is incredibly minor. Once again, we are blessed.

And oh yeah, I had a birthday. It had a zero on the end. I'll let you figure the other number out...but let's just say it's not a 3. I was not really ready to leave my last decade behind but hey, my life is pretty awesome so what do I have to complain about??? Fred took me out to dinner and a movie (we hadn't seen a movie in a real-life-theater in several years) and gifted me with some money to purchase some much-needed clothes. Yep, blessed again.

Last night we took the kids bowling with an outing for families at our office.

Alec "wacky" bowling. He actually got two strikes that way...I wasn't able to get one bowling normally, even with the bumpers!

Cece was bored with the bowling after the first couple of frames, so she decided to "play the drums" (her words, not mine) instead.




But based on this shot, I'd say she had a good time regardless.

Alec working on his alphabet on the fridge. Ok, U comes before V, but so what...he did this by himself and was oh so proud!

And now I present to you...

Cece's potato song.

Sweet.