Christmas 2011!

Christmas for us was CRAZY!! Always is. We have so many parties to attend, shopping to do, and places to be it's just ridiculous. We have Christmas at our house that morning with us the kids and momma, then with my mom's family that day at lunch, then we drive to his family's house and do Christmas with his dad's side usually.

This year was a little different. I had to work Christmas day and was not planning on being able to attend the festivities. I ended up getting off work early though and was able to spend some time with my family and then go to his family's house. We did Santa and opened our gifts on Christmas Eve morning. The boys were spoiled by Santa this year, as in the years before. We spoiled them a little too. MiMi and Paw always have lots of toys for the boys and KK always has very practical and useful gifts. We enjoyed everything. Here are a few pics from the opening festivities.

December 2011!!!

So a quick update on the boys.


Bryce........
Bryce is almost 4! It's so hard to believe he has grown up this fast! I miss my lil baby who I could hold in my arms and rock the day away! Anyway, he is sooo active. Into everything. He loves trucks and tractors and he is asking for a " big jeep for in the mud" from Santa. Yes, it is that time of year, and yes he is all about Santa this year, and yes we are doing Elf on the Shelf. Our elf's name is Sid. We got him on Thanksgiving day this year when K.K. brought him to meet the boys. When I asked Bryce why he wanted to name him Sid he told me "off IceAge momma." Then I finally figured out that he named our elf after the sloth on Ice Age. LOL!! Anyway, finding a new place to put Sid every morning before they wake up is pretty much a pain since we don't have very many places up high where the boys can't reach him. Yesterday he ended up in our ceiling fan.
Anyway, back to Bryce. He is 40 pounds and up to my hip. He is soooo sweet at times and then other times he is capital B-A-D, but so is his brother, LOL. He is loving "play school" as he calls it or mother's day out at north monroe baptist church. He and Jace go there every Tuesday and Thursday and love it. They are also at Mrs. Stephanie's just around the corner on other days and we are so blessed to have her and Jessica. They have truly been a God send this year. Bryce now knows his ABC's and can sing them for anyone who asks. He can count to twenty most days, he is fully potty trained with only a few accidents here and there, and he is working on yes and no maam and sir. He is really growing!!

Jace.....
Jace is now 22 months old, my how time flies! He is above my knees in height and he weighs 29 pounds. Jace is my sweet lil man. But remember he is BAD too!! He likes to cuddle, but only when HE wants too. He is funny, lord, he is a clown!! He loves balls, and right now the Christmas tree is covered in balls. Thank God they are all plastic on the bottom or I would have lots of broken glass around my house. He is a busy body, always doing something and he loves to clean. He likes to help out around the house and if you ask him he will pick up toys, throw things away, and he especially LOVES to help unload the dishwasher. He still loves shoes, and tractors like his brother, but he's starting to like cars. I think a ball will always be his number one toy though, LOL! He can now say Momma, DaDa ( even though he calls Shaun Momma), Bryce which sounds like Bice, K.K. Which is "Tay Tay", Paw, ball of course, and many other words. He still meows at the cat for her name.


My boys are growing so rapidly everyday it's sometimes hard to keep track. SLOW DOWN TIME!!!

The Boys Today

     So.. My friend Lindsay tells me I don't blog enough and in truth she is right. I want to keep up but it's so hard to do right now with all I have going on. School is kicking my bootie!! But I wanted to update you on the boys.
     Bryce is all boy as always. He has picked out EVERY toy in the Toys R Us big toy book this year and he drags it around everywhere! He is completely potty trained and has slept in his "big boy bed" in his room with Jace for the last three nights in a row. YEAH!!! Mommy and daddy have their bed back after 3 almost 4 years!! We have started a new routine where we have baths at 7:30 and in the bed by 8:30. If theres a movie they want to watch great, but bed by 8:30 it is. So far it has worked!! Bryce is almost four and it breaks my heart to think he's growing up soo fast. He is 39 pounds now and he's up to my hip in height, however tall that is!! LOL!
     Jace is almost two and yet again my heart breaks when I think about how fast he has grown. Before long I'll be writing about how he will be driving it seems. Anyway, he is 28 pounds now and he is up to Bryce's shoulder in his height. Shaun keeps saying how he thinks he's small for his age but I think he's probably just right. ;) He has become more active over the last few months and he's getting where he is all about tractors. Who would have thunk it? Wonder where that came from? He is still a little sweetheart, kisses all the time. Last night after bath time he had to play with daddy and everytime Shaun would blow in his face he would grab Shaun's cheeks and pull him to him for a big 'ole smack!! He is too funny and sweet!
     Just a quick update on the boys and how they are growing so fast!! A glimpse into my beautiful life!
~Luv

Bryce's Checkup

So today was the day to see if Bryce's ears had improved since we started Augmentin and ear drops for the MOLD growing in his ear. We saw the nurse practitioner again who informed us that there is no more mold, however his tube is still occluded and there is still lots of fluid on his left ear. When she did her exam she also informed us that more than likely we will be removing both tubes and replacing them before the end of the year if we can get him well enough for surgery. OMG!! I can not believe we are considering this again. Has anyone had this trouble before? Am I alone with this struggle with ear tubes? Out of everything that could go wrong, ear tubes? Really? Anyway, please keep us in your thoughts while we make these decisions. Much appreciated.
~Luv

Jace's Ears!

Today I had to take Jace for a checkup with our new ENT!! I love him he is GREAT!! Anyway, we got there and saw his nurse practitioner today who informed me that Jace's hearing is excellent and his tubes were in good position and open when we had his hearing test done a week ago. She proceeded to do her exam and when she got to his right ear she gave me so news that I am sooo not happy about. In one week since his hearing test his right tube has stopped up!! So now we have ear drops and peroxide solution to try and unstop this tube. I almost CRIED!! I told her I am sooooo frustrated with this whole tube situation with both boys always having something wrong!! Anyway, we now will have a return visit sometime in late November for another check up! Please keep us in your prayers!
~Luv

Bryce's Ear's

Today is Halloween, and what are we doing? Well, not the usual activities that most people would be. No, we are at the ENT!! AGAIN!! But we chose to use a different doctor from the one who put their tubes in. If you have read my previous post then you know we had tubes placed in both boys ears in April and have been having trouble. Well Bryce woke up from his nap at MiMi's house yesterday late SCREAMING!! This is not his usual behavior so I was a little concerned when I couldn't get him to stop crying. He kept telling us his ear hurt and pointing to his left ear. Well that's the ear that the tube has been stopped up in and he has had an infection in it so I thought it was just regular pain. Apparently not. I ended up taking him in to the ENT today where I was informed that my sweet boy has MOLD yes MOLD growing in his ear. WHAT?! I know, gross isn't it? The tube is still stopped up and there is still fluid behind it, oh and his other tube in his right ear, well it's come out completely. Sitting in his ear canal. So we start a different antibiotic and different ear drops today. Jace will be coming to the ENT on Thursday for his check up and to get the results of hid hearing test we had done about a week ago, both boys did. Bryce's hearing seems to be fine but he has so much fluid on his left ear his hearing is diminished by 20-35% says the doc. I'm so frustrated with the tubes I could just SCREAM!! Anyway, we also ended up doing xrays of his sinuses and we will see where we go from there. Please keep my lil men in your prayers!!
~Luv

Ears, UGH!!!

So back in April of this year both boys had tubes placed by a doctor I won't name here. We were told that tonsils and adenoids should be removed for Bryce and tubes placed in both ears and Jace should have his adenoids removed and tubes placed in both ears as well due to the number of infections we had been having. So we decided to go ahead and do it even though we had our reservations about it. Both boys did fine although Bryce had to stay overnight in the hospital for his tonsils we left the next afternoon after a long sleepless night. So now here we are six months later and we have EAR INFECTIONS!!! Really? With tubes? Yes with tubes. We are starting ear drops on both boys and antibiotics. I thought when we did all this they would be better for a while but I guess six months is as good as it gets. Who knew?? I will update later on on their condition and how it's all going.
~Luv