Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Halloween Festivities

We had an interesting weekend and Halloween!  We had a GREAT Friday afternoon with Addison.  Courtnee and Cory had to work late and Beau didn’t get to leave San Antonio very early so we played…

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(I love that picture!)  They all look soo sweet and innocent!

 

Then Saturday morning we woke up with Brennen in bed with us and a temp.  I thought no big deal, gave him some Motrin and we played all day.

This was the first mess we had on our hands!  FYI-Do NOT leave 2 2 1/2 year olds and a 3 year old playing on the slide when there is mud!  But all we could do was laugh and clean it up.  The boys thought they had me foiled and that I didn’t think they were playing in there!  They had no idea their hinny did all the talking

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Then we let them decorate cupcakes!  FUN TIMES!  It was not near of a mess as we thought it would be and they tasted YUMMY!

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Braeden putting sprinkles on.

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Brennen is sooo ready.  He is patiently waiting his turn.

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Braeden getting ready to eat!

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Brennen’s turn for sprinkles

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Cheese..Now can I eat??

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THEN we decided to go trick-or-treating.  Brennen acted ok, then we we got about 2 houses down he wanted me to carry him..But he still ran up to the door. 

I was the referee..I feel like one most days so I felt it fit!

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My football players

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Trick-or-Treat!

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AND this house!  It had this HUGE blow up thing on the outside that you had to walk thru..Then they didn’t even answer the door!  STRANGE!

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AND then we came home and ate TONS of candy..THEN Brennen decided to get a spiking fever and NOTHING would stop it.  Thank God Courtnee is in Nurse Practioner school right now or I would have FREAKED OUT!   Ok, well I still did a little but it helped to say what do you think I should do??

Anyways, he fever got up to 104, we immediately put him in a cold bath..He kept telling me Mommy cooold!  He felt horrible! We gave him Mortirn, then Tylenol, then Mortrin again!  It finally came down to around the 100 range and leveled off!  So I thought ok, we will just drive home tomorrow (Sunday) and if it gets too bad I will take them to the ER.  Brennen woke up a couple hours that night but overall slept pretty well!  Then we wake up Sunday morning and he seemed fine!  CRAZY!  Around noon Beau had to leave and then I was going to leave around 2.  Well in between the time Beau left and I was getting ready Braeden’s temp started doing the SAME thing.  So I freaked out and didn’t want to drive home.  I decided to put them down for a nap and see how it went.  When they woke up they both still had fevers so this is what we saw next.

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I knew that if they had the Flu they could only get on Tamiflu in the first 48 hours of symptoms.  We were getting awfully close with Brennen so I decided to play it safe! 

Man I’m soo glad I did.  We went in, both boys had ear infections and were officially diagnosed with the flu strain A!  They do not have ACTUAL h1n1 flu tests so it is not positive, but the doctor was about 99% positive that it was swine.  They act fine.  It’s just the crazy temp.

We decided to watch Uncle Marshal’s last football game for the season at McMurry Monday night, then head home Tuesday morning.  Both boys hadn’t run a fever in over 48 hours so they would be good for day-care.  Then Tuesday night, Braeden’s fever went up to 101 again.  It went right back down with Motrin, but no day-care.  I do NOT want to get those kids sick!  So it’s just mommy and kiddo time until Monday.  I’m going to feel like a stay-at-home mom again!  YAY!

 

I love this!  The case of h1n1 that we got was not a horrible case and we caught it within the first 48 hours!  But man when I say the boys got it people FReAK out!  We are on Tamiflu AND an antibiotic.  Most cases of h1n1 are not serious but can lead to pnemonia or stuff like that so since we are on antibiotics too it should be cleared up in NO TIME! 

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Friday, October 30, 2009

Happy Halloween!!

Here are a few pictures of the boys this morning before their day-care Trick-or-Treat party!  This year is sooo much fun! They know exactly what is going on and LOVED being football players like Uncle Chance!  More to come from the weekend festivities.

Brennen saying WHOA!  (Brennen (l), Braeden (r))

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Braeden

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Brennen (l), Braeden (r)

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Guess What....

We get to see daddy this weekend! AND it has only been 10 days since the last time! WOOHOO I'm loving this living closer thing! We get to spend Halloween in Abilene with Daddy, Aunt Courtnee, Uncle Cory and our FAVORITE cousing Addi! Can't wait!


Thursday, October 22, 2009

Hmmm…

And this is why it took us 30 extra minutes to get ready this morning!

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Brennen refused to take off my shoes and put on his clothes.  He thought it would be totally cool to wear this to school today. (YES Mommy’s boots with only a pull-up)  AND Braeden thought that he could wear his pajamas just like this.  Because really who needs clothes, they both have their feet covered!  I finally convinced Brennen that Mommy needed to wear those boots.  Yup, totally had to change my entire OUTFIT!  And Braeden finally followed in suit.  We actually wore clothes to school today, their own clothes and shoes.  

Oh the wonderful life of boys! =/  Never a dull moment around here!

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

An Amazing Week...

Now back to reality! HA

Beau served me the shock of my life last Saturday when he UNEXPECTEDLY showed up at my dad's house around midnight. I had NO CLUE that he was coming. I was suppose to leave for San Antonio on Wednesday, but he decided to change my plans around. I was speechless when he walked around the corner. AND the boys, oh they were soo excited to see him Sunday morning. They woke up and I told them to go look at the surprise in the the living room and all we heard for the next two days was "D.A.D.D.Y.". We miss our daddy and it was GREAT to get to spend 5 days with him! I decided then to go with Beau to San Antonio on Thursday to get situated and the boys got to go on an overnight trip to Nanny & Poppas. The last few times I have gone to pick them up they do NOT want to come home with me. I try to explain to them that mommy is going to sleep in her bed and they would have to sleep there.. AND they just look at me like DUH that is what we want to do. So for 3 nights they got to stay with them. It is sooo hard leaving your babies for that long, but it sure was fun to spend some time in San Antonio with Beau. The boys had fun..And asked me Monday afternoon to go see Nanny. I flew home on Sunday and we are slowly adjusted back into schedule minus our crazy times last week and getting back into potty training..We have had a relapse. Beau got here Saturday night, we went to Church Sunday to surprise all his family (and surprised they were), we left Monday to watch Uncle Marshal play football for McMurry, we got to see Aunt Courtnee and Addi AND even Uncle Cory for a couple hours. We went to see our new possible home at Dyess and drove home Tuesday, Wednesday was crazy trying to get everything ready and Thursday was Uncle Chance's birthday! Yup..18...I can't believe it. I have been horrible about taking pictures, the main reason is I need a new camera. I can use my phone, but the quality just isn't the best...So for Christmas I was a new digital camera! =] So no pictures this time..Just me writing of our amazing week.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

WOW!

It has been a LONG two weeks.  It started out with a stomach virus and then today the day-care called me about Brennen crying after he woke up from his nap.  They couldn’t figure out what was wrong, but I kinda already knew!  Both of the boys have been pulling at their ears, so I figure it had come to the point where I needed to return to the ER for some antibiotics.  I think it is totally STUPID that we can not just go to a local doctors office for small things and they sometimes look at me funny when I walk into the ER and say…I just need antibiotics.  HA  I think they have finally learned me by name though and know my situation and the way my insurance works.  Anyways, at 4:00 today we left for the ER and Brennen was SCREAMING the entire time.  I felt horrible…I should have gotten it taken care of yesterday, but had a LOT of homework due.  I have loaded my schedule to the MAX this semester (23 hours to be exact) so I can finish quicker..But I’m starting to re-think my thoughts.  Should I load my schedule so I can finish quicker or take a lighter load and have to go another semester??  Anyways, I was right.  Brennen has an ear infection with an upper respiratory infection and Braeden’s ears looks pretty clear so they just determined an upper respiratory infection due to the HORRIBLE cough.  Braeden is allergic to Augmentin which means he is probably allergic to penicillin so it is very difficult to treat him for these types of illnesses!  I will NEVER forget the story about finding out how he was allergic to Augmentin.  We were back in Texas from Florida for a visit and he got an ear infection, they gave it to us and we took it for the required 10 days.  At day 11 he became red-speckled little boy.  A total body rash.  I immediately turned to the internet and sure enough, after you are FINISHED taking the medicine the rash begins, which is easily treated with Benadryl.  He sure did look HORRIBLE.  Anyways, they gave Brennen amoxicillin for 10 days since his ears looked so bad and Braeden Azithromycin for 4 days.  Here is the problem.  I have medicine LOVING kids.  If one boy needs Motrin or any medicine, they cry until the other gets it.  THEY LOVE IT! =/  I’m going to have to get creative for Braeden’s “medicine” for those extra 6 days.  I’m thinking colored water.  HAHA  Anyways, Brennen turned back into my outgoing Brennen within an HOUR of that first dose.  It looks like maybe we got rid of this.  I hope hope hope this isn’t a bad sign for the winter and they are sick all year.  I know with it being their first year in day-care that is a strong possibility.  But I was assured that they weren’t contagious and could return to day-care tomorrow as long as they felt fine.  I feel bad, I wished I could stay at home with them every day but it just can’t happen and me do school work too.  If I’m writing, they think they need to write, If I’m on the computer, they think they need in my lap to look at Daddy.  Hopefully they will be better tomorrow so I can catch back up for the week!

On a funnier note:  I have been asking the boys what their names are.  They will both call Brennen by his name, but EVERY time I ask what Braeden’s name is they SCREAM at the top of their lungs BROTHER BEAR!  I have no idea where this came from, but it is hilarious.  We might need to get an official name change because they BOTH refuse to say Braeden.  We will just have a Brother Bear Henry and Brennen Zain Henry. 

Today I was picking up their toys and Brennen decided to dump them all back out..It was hard for me to get mad since he is sick (I turn into a softy) and I said Brennen Zain in a goofy voice and Braeden then tried to disipline Brennen and YELLED No-No Brennen Zain.  It was too funny.  Braeden all a sudden has become Mr. Mommy around here…Every time I get onto one of them Braeden has to repeat EVERYTHING I say.  I guess it comes with being the oldest! =]

Monday, October 5, 2009

YAY!

In

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Beau will officially be back in Texas!

WOOHOO!!

Well all our stuff will still be in storage in Florida (please pray there are NO hurricanes)..

AND he will still be 8 hours away, but that is better than 18 hours away..

AND we can drive to san Antonio without a $1000 bill for flying to Pensacola..just me and the boys for the weekend

Him being back in Texas means sooo much.  It’s a milestone.  We often said..If we can just make it to here and look we did and we are that much closer to us all living under the same roof again!

Time to start planning out our living arrangements for Abilene..To buy or not to buy. TO rent or to live on base. Man too many decisions I better get busy planning!!

The boys sooo miss their Daddy..We talk about him daily and they always want to look at the computer at some pictures..Here are some of my favorite!

Beau was soo into the delivery..He wanted to watch the entire thing…

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At OTS graduation..Man it was soo nice to be together again…

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When Beau got his flight suit…

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Sitting on the couch watching TV with daddy and eating ice cream…

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Our first official FAMILY picture…

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When he was winged.  One of the last things we did together as a family…

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