Walking on Water!!!

Ethan's NEW Trick!

Oh The Fun We Had!!

What an incredible, whirlwind weekend! We really had a great time on Saturday, up in Oxford with Aunt Lisa/Uncle Brad, Grandma/Grandpa, Aunt Jana/Uncle Mark and all the cousins! We cooked out, went swimming, playedall sorts of games/activities and did sparklers! We spent the night in one of the independent living program apartments that are on the children's home campus. After an early pancake breakfast we threw the kids into the car, with cousin Joshy in toe, and flew, ah hem I mean, drove back to Charlotte. We dropped off the kids, unloaded the car, put on our Sunday best and left for the Phantom of the Opera with Mike and Nikki!

OH MY GOSH! the Phantom was really incredible! I never got to see it when I lived in Buffalo, it was in Toronto FOREVER and I never went! If you havent been, GO! Dinner afterwords with Mike and Nik and then home! Enjoy the Pics!

Oh Please BEES!

It is not bad enough that I am allergic to bees, it is not bad enough that it really really hurts to get stung, it is not even bad enough that I have been through this 3 times before..this time takes the cake. Yesterday, I geared up on my day off to hedge all of our overgrown bushes. Out flies a wasp and stings me while hedging the very first bush!
So where, might you ask did this little darling ,who I was obviously disturbing by cutting down his home, sting me??? MY left breast! There I said it! Out Loud. The normal allergic reaction occurs, I finally decide it is time for medical care and begin the journey of showing off my left body part to not one, not two but three medical personnel (all of which who felt sincere pity but complete HUMOR in the situation)! TO add salt to the wound, I then had to debuff my bottom, very large body part to allow a shot to be injected by not one but two additional medical professionals! So now that I am done showing off all the body parts I am willing to show, I ask.... Please oh Please bees, leave me be!

What's Next?

We have been enjoying QUIET weekends and are gearing up for the next few weeks. This past weekend we took the kids out to dinner with Grandma and Grandpa on Friday, to dinner and the airport to watch the planes on Saturday and then to dinner and to Grandma and Grandpa's new outdoor "oasis"- okay, its just a great new porch with great new furniture, and a great new outdoor grill with attatched oven and smoker on Sunday. Somewhere in there we took a trip to the "Y" pool. We decided to join the "Y" so the kids could enjoy the awesome outdoor pool at the Siskey Y this summer. We really had a great weekend.
I am quietly enjoying a little bit of slow down at work. What I truly mean is I am enjoying doing some of the things I never get a chance to do...talk to parents, return phone calls, order supplies, catch up on continuuing education, talk to other therapists, update myself on new therapy techniques and ideas...well you get the picture. It wont stay slow for long....

So What's NEXT....

A lot of yard work this weekend (hopefully SANS any snakes!)

Nelly is off next week (YIKES!!!!)

Camp for both kids next week

A trip to Oxford next weekend to see Jana, Mark, Josh and Abbey before they go back to DC

To see Phantom with our good friends

Father's day

Josh is coming back here for the following week

Nikki's baby shower

Back to Oxford to return Joshy and Grandma

Garrets Dad and Joan are coming for a good long visit

4th of July

THEN 2 weeks of handwriting camps!

WOAH!!! SUMMER IS DEFINITELY HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Weekend in Oxford

The kids and I took an impromtu trip to Oxford this weekend to visit Aunt Lisa, Uncle Brad and Kellyn while Daddy looked for a new car. He has to turn in that awful Grand Prix that I have unabashedly complained about for the last 4 years. (NOT a great car while raising 2 babies).

So off we went to swim and go to the State Fair Grounds for a fun Saturday afternoon.

It was the first time that the 3 of us, E & E and I slept in the same bed. Emme is quite the topsy turvy sleeper. I awoke many times with her foot in my face and other times with her sleeping half way off the bed. But being able to spend good quality time with them, away from home, without thinking I should be doing one of a million things was awesome!

Lisa works for the Masonic Home for Children (Orphanage) in Oxford. It is quite humbling every time I go there; to hear the children's stories, where they come from and see how they live. The "campus" is beautiful, bought by the masons after the civil war. Right now, they have a baby (5 months old) on campus, who is absolutely adorable! There are approximatley 70 children who live on campus .