Breathe in... Breathe out..

Allergy induced Asthma.
Its not the official diagnosis, but that is what it is looking like.
Tina had another wheezing attack the other night. That would be two times in the past month (last time we had the ER visits). She has had no fever, no cold, nothing like that. She just started up with a cough and then the next thing you know she is wheezing.

So we are now starting up home nebulizer treatments to keep things in check. It will also be nice to have the machine at home because Tina REFUSES to use the rescue inhaler.

I took them to the base yesterday for treatment and we had quite the experience. We took Tina down to the radiology department for an X-ray to make sure that there was no pneumonia.
As we are walking back the tech says to me "do you have anyone to watch him?" looking at Hunter. I politely tell him "Your looking at her."
He looks a little freaked out like how is he going to get Tina to sit still by himself. Keep in mind, the kids are being wonderful at this point. No running, no jumping around, plain ole good kids.
I tell him that Tina will be fine and I'll sit with Hunter.

So the tech takes Tina and starts getting the xrays and about 5 mins into it Hunter has to go Pee. OF COURSE HE DOES.
I Look around and spot a bathroom down the hall. We shuffle down there and I send him in to go to the bathroom *NOTE: In the bathroom they have those emergency pull cords... if anyone is going to grab that its going to be Hunter.* I choose not to point them out because I think the temptation would be too great so I tell him to hurry it up. At this point the tech walks out of the room and says "Maam. I need to go drop this off. She is right here." and he walks off. UMM HELLO I have one toddler in the bathroom with pull cords and one sitting in her underwear on a xray machine.
Hunter is taking FOREVER to go so I jog back down to him, tell him to wrap it up and go back to Tina.

A young guy walks out of a room and sees Tina sitting there in her room, Hunter walking out of the bathroom with his pants unzipped, and me standing in the middle. He just started laughing.

I think I'm more proud of the fact that Mr. Mischievous did not pull the emergency cords.

But Tina did great, Xray was clear and we're just going to wait this out and see what happens as far as the asthma goes. I've got some allergy medication for her so hopefully that will help.

Ahhhh Shucks

Memorial Day 2008

Tina, Hunter, and Caleb were our corn shuckers today. It was such a beautiful day that we had to have a BBQ. It was such a nice day and the only thing that would have made it better would have been to have Adam home with us. We all had a great day and it ended with the kids swimming for awhile

Step one. Proudly show off what you are working with.

Step two: Concentrate as hard as you can on pulling the shucks off. Note: If you stick your tongue out it works even better

Step Three: Keep it clean. Tina was the clean one out of the group.

Step four: See step two about keeping tongue out.

Step Five: Show off the finished product.

Crazy things kids say.

Lately the kids have been coming up with some funny little sayings.

For example. The other day we were driving on the road and Tina was singing. Hunter told her to stop singing because it was hurting his ears. Tina replied back "OH HUNTER, THROW UP"
To this Hunter replied back "I Cant throw up Tina!"
SO I tell Hunter "Hunter honey, Tina was trying to say GROW UP not THROW UP"

Hunters reply " I cant grow up I have a seatbelt on"

Hunter had his preschool graduation yesterday. He was all hyped up telling us how he was going to be dressed up and was "graduating". It turned out that only the 4 year olds were "graduating" so I had to cheer Hunter up on the way home because he did not get to wear a cap and gown. One of the things the school did though was to ask the kids questions and let them fill in the answers so I have been asking the kids the same things to see their reponses.

In the car I asked Hunter "what do you want to be when you grow up?" He replied" I want to wear a blue coat like last night" I said "you want to be a graduate? And he said "yes a gradumate" Then I asked him how many children he would like to have and he said "10"! At this point he proceeds to tell me "I'm going to have a bunch of Hunters!"

All the more power to ya little one. I wish you luck my son.

Tina wants to be a princess and she only wants one child .. and it has to be a girl.

I'll post some videos of last nights festivities later tonight. It has been a very long day and I need to go get some rest for a bit.

Tina and Moving up Mass

Tina had her moving up Mass from K4 to K5 today. These are just pictures and videos from my camera. The "good" ones will be posted as soon as I get them from the picture taker :)




Our little angel did so wonderful. Actually, all of the children did great. It really made me want to start going to morning mass there. There was just something so peaceful hearing the school children singing.

Here Tina is receiving her diploma. There were a few that did not want to go up to the stage. Not Tina, she was all over it :) That a girl!!

They had a full Mass and Tina had a part where she went up and was supposed to say "For the sick and the hungry, we pray to the Lord." She came close. "To the sick and the hungry, to pray to the Lord." She was so well behaved, I actually had tears in my eyes. I so wish Adam could be here for this.

She was also a usher during communion. And posed and took pictures after it was all said and done. Remember, these are not the "good" ones.

Tina was just smiling at Father Fred.

Back Row: (Left to Right): Hailey, Brittany, Jacob, Sophie

Front Row: Cason, Tina, Anne Therese, Prisilla

Man I need to get her new uniforms. I had no idea hers were this short!! YIKES!!

After Mass her class had a little celebration and their prayer partners gave them a personalized princess sports bottle and a little necklace with a graduation ring on it that said 2008.

"Granny" Alice was there with us and we took Tina out for lunch to Burger King. Hey she requested it-and it was her day afterall. :)

She has proudly showed off her ring to anyone that will look at it :)

We have a child in Kindergarten!! "Oh my goodness gracious" as Tina would say.

Oh the things these children do.

Hunter strikes again.

So tonight I was preoccupied with something and the kids were playing nicely so I left them be. You know that rule about not waking a sleeping baby? Well its kind of like that.. if you can hear them and they are not fighting, then leave them alone. Otherwise the sight, the smell, or the noise of an approaching adult will turn them against each other.

Ok, so I'm doing something and I hear Tina all of the sudden say "OHHHHHHH, I'm telling Mommy!" "MOMMY!! ." I cant make out what she is saying so I just go ahead and go into the room where I see Hunter COVERED with pen marks.

I promptly stuck him in the tub but this is the kicker. When I asked him why in world he would do this.....are you ready...

"I wanted to do my homework so Daddy could see it." "See my H's??"

How could I be mad at that? Plus he is awful cute.

Thankfully it all came off very easily in the tub, and I'm happy it was on his body rather than on the walls. (cough cough, remember Tinas artwork last deployment).



Can you see his H's??? Ha!

You might be from middle Georgia when...

You let your children run around half naked in the backyard.

You might be from Georgia when you not only let them run around half naked, but you let them play on a slip and slide half naked.

And your definitely from middle Georgia when you let them run around half naked, play on a slip and slide half naked, but as a parent you run in a grab the camera to catch it all on film instead of having them put some clothes on first. We better get out of here fast before I get any worse :)

We had such a fun day today. We had friends over earlier for some outdoor fun. They played on the slip and slide for the longest time then we all headed over to the big pool. That did not last to long because we were all frozen from the waist down. Well the adults were frozen. The kids could care less. We left the big pool and quickly jumped into the "hot pool". Now that was relaxing.

I took the kids to 5 o'clock Mass and then out for ice cream for being such well behaved little children :) Hunter had the grannies and grandmas at church eating out of his hand. He was bit upset that the priest did not give him a 'cracker'.

When we got home they wanted to play outside for a bit more so I let them. Tina had no clothes on because I didn't want her to get ice cream on her church dress. Hunter did not have pants on because... well... because he is Hunter and he doesn't like pants.

Some of you have been asking for a Hunter update. He has not had any more headaches in the past week and I think his clumsiness is getting less. I have not heard back from the CT scan people so I don't know when they plan on doing it. I'll be sure to keep you posted though.

Hunter can now swing himself

Finally. He loves to swing. Well today it finally clicked and he's swinging himself. He still needs an inital push but then its all him.

Tina could care less about swinging. She's more for laying on the swing on her belly and doing the superman thing.


We're counting down the weeks till Daddy gets home.