A boo boo for Miss Em and Scouting...

                 ~October 17, 2012~

How is everyone doing on this 17th day of October?

So let's see....happenings...yes we've been sorta busy around here. I have lots to talk about and photos to post.  I may need to take a few posts to catch up!

First off, Miss Em fractured her collar bone on September 26th! OUCH!!! She and Bubba were horsing around on the floor in his room and I guess he rolled over on her or jumped on her and fractured it. We made a trip up to Cook's Urgent Care Center and after x-rays some medicine... that she spit out on us both and a grape Popsicle we were doing better.  All they could do was put her arm in a sling.  She had to wear the sling for 4 weeks! Night and day! Today was her last day!!!! This really put a damper on her birthday party planes(which was to be at a jump house location).  We changed it to Chuck E Cheese...in hopes that it might be a bit safer! HA!

Miss Em sporting her sling!

We got out our Fall books this past month.   This includes fall themes, Halloween and Thanksgiving. I did decided to take the Thanksgiving books out until November.

I tried this recipe from Pinterest! I {heart} pinterest!!!!!!!

Cheerio Treats!  They were yummy!!!!

Hunt joined the Boy Scouts in September! He loves going to the meeting and doing fun activities with the other boys!

We took Hunt to the Boy Scout store and purchased his shirt, scarf, belt, scarf slide, book and cap.

Little sister wanted to help hold all his goodies!

Here are a few photos of Hunt's first ever Cub Scout Meeting!

Doing some physical agility test!  It was suppose to be a forward roll...not sure why he decided to do a headstand...that's my boy! HA!

Balance beam walking!

This was his second meeting.  He got his dull pack 321 t-shirt! HAHAHA! can't miss these kids!!!
Here they were working on how to tie knots.

And then making paper airplanes. Hunt had to come over and let Daddy help him fold his.

My sweet boy! Love him so much!

And now for the air plane race.  Poor Bubba didn't do to well, but still had fun!  Guess Mama should have folded his air plane for him. HA!

Here's Hunt holding his temporary Cub Scout Card! He was kind of excited!

This photo was from last Monday.  We decided to wear his cub scout attire. Isn't he a cutie?!
I sewed on the patches and he was ready to go!

Doing his cub scout salute!

Bubba and Em!

The back of his scarf.

The third meeting.  They had a to go around and recite the cub scout motto and etc.

Then they learned how to stand around the flags. After that they headed upstairs to learn the proper way to fold the flags.  I didn't get any photos of that.  I stayed down stairs with the parents.

Miss Em! My sweet baby girl! Love this little toot!

Ok, so that's some of what's been happening.  I got lots more to put up, but this is a start! 

Catch you later!

results and new things...

~September 20, 2012~

My sweet men!!!

We got the results Tuesday from the Dr about Hunt's spine x-rays.  And it seams that he does have scoliosis. Luckily he only has a mild form of it!!!! YAY!!! We have an appointment to meet with a Ortho Dr. in December.  From what I've read, anything over a 10 degree curve they consider scoliosis.  Hunt has a 12 degree curve.  More than likely they will just want to keep an eye on him until after he's finished growing.  Maybe doing x-rays and checks for a while. I'm just happy he doesn't have to worry about a back brace or even surgery. I pray that it doesn't get worse as he grows! Guess we'll know more after the Ortho visit in December.

We've been doing a small amount of Fall decorating around the house.  The kids put up fall clings on the front door and the hall bathroom mirror..."their bathroom".  These are such cheap and easy decorating for kids to do.  No mess and they are re-usable!

We'll be adding Halloween and then Thanksgiving clings in the future.

Have ya'll seen these?!

Mini marshmallows!

Here's how tiny they are!  Sweet! I may be behind, but I just noticed them a few weeks back and bought some. They taste like marshmallows to.  Can't wait to try them in all sorts of fun things!

Have ya'll been hearing the rave over these?!

They're called water beads. 

Em has been having a blast playing with them!  She loves to scoop and dump them the best! And let me tell you they feel so cool! I love just sticking my hands in them and gently moving them around! So awesome!!!

You can get them at Michael's and I think JoAnn's carries them to.

Let me tell you Hunt just loves Boy Scouts! I need to post some photos of the Boy Scout pictures I've taken so far. He has such a neat time!!!  His meetings are on Mondays, and we found out this past Monday that they will be going camping in October.  The scouts will be going to Worth Ranch in Palo Pinto.  I had to check it out on their website.  It's such a beautiful place!!! I'm excited!  They will be camping October 5-7.  Normally hubs works on Sundays, but he was going to see if he could take off that Sunday.  So he went to ask and...he can't!!! Bummer!!! And to make it worse, he has to work that Saturday to!  He needs to cover for a co-worker. UGH!!!!!! So he is unable to go!!!! And it's either me take the kids by myself, or we don't go! Oh boy!  Not sure I can handle everything By My Self!  Lord help me!

If any one out there wants to come be my husband/the kids daddy for that weekend please let me know! HA!

So I guess that's about it for now! Ta ta!

still waiting...

~September 17, 2012~

Hello Monday...

Here we are welcoming another Monday!

A start to another week.

I've been sitting close by a phone at home today.  Waiting for a call from our pediatrician on Hunt's x-ray results. Last Thursday morning I took Hunt to the Dr for a little check up. Our pediatrician did her thing and towards the end had Hunt bend over and she proceeded to check his spine.  After examining him she asked me if we had ever had his back/spine x-rayed.  I replied no( a bit worried)!  She fills out a form and tells me to go over to the Imagining center and have it x-rayed when we leave. {*gulp!*}

I asked her about the hours and etc., because I was suppose to take Hunt to school.  She told me that they are open later and are on a first come first serve basis and that after school would be ok to. I looked over the form she filled out for me to take over when we go for the x-rays.  It stated under diagnosis...Scoliosis!!! I left the office a little upset.  I mean we have already been through the stroke, seizure and therapies and etc....now this!   Well of course this was the day Hunt had an afterschool Tae kwon do class and he REALLY wanted to be there! So I opted to take him the next day, Friday after school. 

Bubba in his blue dress...Sister wanted to be in the photo to!

He's cute in his little hospital gown!

They took a couple of photos of his back and then a couple of him turned to the side.  I asked the technician when they would have the x-rays to the Dr. and she said soon and that the Dr. should call me Monday for the results. So I'm still waiting....

Since Hunt started school I've been doing some school work with Em to.  I usually try to get in from 2-3 days a week. We do work books, flashcards, and other fun stuff...not all "school work" fun stuff to!

Today I took some photos of her working!

These are our LARGE alphabet flash cards! I remember Hunt loving these when he was younger!

Finger puppet goodness!!! HA!

Em playing finger puppets.

Alphabet letter tracing.  She's doing really good on some of these!

These are the cheap workbooks I usually use.  I buy them at Target for a buck!!! Can't beat that! I have others to, but these are great! And I usually tear out the pages and slide them into clear page protectors, that way they can be uses again and again.  A lot of these books I've had since Hunt was 3 and he used them! Another little boy that Hunt went to pre-school with even borrowed them to practice to.

This one involved Em circling the same items in the row.

And you can't see it, but Em is using the mini dry eraser to clean her work off the pages.

Most if not all these books come with stickers to!  So when the pages are complete...you earn a sticker!!! What a deal huh?!!!!  To a 2 or 3 year old...that's awesome!!!

Em also worked on her scissor skills! That girl loves cutting paper!!!

I saw this cute snack idea on Pinterest(i think)!  A fishing snack game!  You use large pretzel sticks, dip them in either peanut butter(we used) or a flavored butter, or whatever you choose as the "bait" then stick them to the fish!!! Now how easy and cute is that?!!! Sure beats real fishing! HA! No waiting for a nibble and no worms! ...Instant snack yummy!  Em loved it!

YUMMM!

Em also wanted to work with a little felt book set we have.  I need to make a big felt board!  I made a

felt set a few years back and would love to do more.  Just need a large board to do the stories on!  I

remember enjoying felt story boards when I was young!!!!