Mother's Day Gift

Today when I got home, Adam and the kids had wrapped my Mother's Day gift and Alex had brought home my gift he had made at daycare.  He immediately asked me if I wanted to open my new purse!  I really didn't have anything to do with the opening of it, as both kids tore right in.  In my head I couldn't see Adam shopping for a purse for me even though he did know I wanted a new one.  My dream bag is a big Michael Kors bag.  It has MKs all of it, which just happen to be my initials.  They are pretty pricey, but Adam got a heck of deal and got me just want I wanted!!!  I really couldn't believe it.

The kids played for quite some time with the wrapping paper and fought over who got to carry the new purse.  I finally jumped in and said it was MINE and quickly took it away!  Alex made me a beautiful pink and purple bracelet.  As I went to put it on it broke and beads were everywhere.  He handled the situation very well.  The kids then enjoyed picking up all the beads.  We said we will make the bracelet again.  Both kids also made hand print flowers for me with a little poem.  I'm a sucker for any art project that has their little hands on it.

I'm feeling pretty lucky and super loved by my little family.  I love them to the moon and back, or the sun and back if it's during daylight hours.

Bubbles

Tonight we finally remembered to use the new Avon bubbles we bought from Nana.  They sure do make lots of bubbles.  The kids love playing in them and pretending to be Santa Claus with a bubble beard.  After bath time it was snuggle time!

Track Meet

Today Daddy helped with a track meet, so we headed over to check it out once we got home.  It sure was windy today, but the kids enjoyed seeing all the activities.

A Case of the Monday's

We spent all day at Nana & Papa's house on Sunday, grabbed some groceries (yes we paid for them Nana!) and headed home.  Miss Amelia really wasn't feeling it this morning.  Truth be told, neither was I!

An Old Friend's Wedding

Trista, Adam (Scof), and Molly
Scof was one of my best guy friends during high school

The Kershaw's and the Manar's
(that may be Senator to you, but not to me!!)

My Best Friend, Trista

Brian and Molly

Adam &  Katie
(They enjoyed talking English teacher stuff together.)

Bubs and Molly, with Micah photo bombing us!

Today we headed to Roodhouse, so that the kids could stay with Nana and Papa while we went to a wedding.  My high school friend, Eddie Gansz, got married.  I saw many people that I hadn't seen in ages.  It was like going to a high school class reunion and seeing basically just the people that you wanted to see!  I was so excited to get to hang out with Trista and Andy and it's been entirely too long.

 I was feeling much better than I had the last few days, and may have over indulged just a bit on drinks.  I felt terrible the next day and quite frankly the day after that.  I'm never doing that again!!!

Congratulations Eddie and Anna!

To Work with Mom

Photos with Mommy's phone

Alex came to work with me for about an hour this morning before we headed to the Dr's office to get his ear checked out.  He hit the jackpot in the little amount of time we were here.  We had donuts delivered to our office today, so it started of with 2 Mel-o-Cream donuts.  Then he made his way to the Senate floor to get a few pictures taken, compliments of our good friend Brandy.  Today was also the Policeman Memorial Ceremony, and we happened to run into a few Sangamon County Sheriff's officers.  Alex was super excited to get his picture taken with them.  Alex even got to shake hands with Senate President John Cullerton and Senator John Sullivan.  As you can tell from the pictures, he looks like a natural sitting in the President's chair in the well of the Senate Floor.  This little man could get some legislation passed in now time.  Now work on saving Mommy and Daddy's pension!!!  Quite a busy morning for this little man.

We headed to the Dr's office.  Alex did great until it was time to look in his ears.  It bled again last night and when we put drops in more blood just keeps coming out.  Dr. Veronica says that there is skin trying to form scar tissue around his tube and it's causing irritation, which in turn causes his ear to bleed.  We have to continue putting drops in his ears, and follow up with the ENT.

After the Dr's visit Alex and I decided to make a stop at Steak N Shake for lunch.  After we got our food he ate a few fries and that was it.  I knew he wasn't feeling 100% and felt terrible having to take him back to daycare.  When we got back it was nap time, so I sat by him on his cot and read him a story.  Then it was back to work for a broken hearted Momma.

After getting back to work, I started having an upset stomach.  One thing lead to the other, and I ended up heading home after getting sick.  I went right to bed and that's were I stayed all night long and pretty much all day Friday.  Luckily, it was some little bug that no one else in the family caught.

Riding in Style

Tonight Alex drove Little Miss Daisy up to the library for story time.  I'm waiting for the moment this summer when Amelia is no longer satisfied with simply being a passenger, but so far so good!

On a different note, I got a phone call from daycare today saying that Alex woke up from naptime with blood coming out of his ear.  I called the Dr's office and they said to come in the following day.  Basically, they didn't have anymore appointments for the day, and he wasn't screaming in  pain.  They said we could go to Prompt Care, but with his history of ear problems I felt more comfortable waiting and seeing our own pediatrician.  Well, as we were in the middle of story time it happened again.  Adam walked home, got the truck, and called to get a referral to Prompt Care.  The tele-nurse told us we had to go to the ER.  I was hesitant to do that simply because the wait would be long, he wasn't screaming in pain, and the co-pay is ridiculous.  Luckily, we have one of our nurses phone numbers, so we decided to call her and get her opinion.  She told us to administer the drops we had and come in at our scheduled time in the morning.

Poor little guy hates the ear drops, but what can you do.  Fingers crossed it's not something terrible!!