Hey. It’s Wednesday.

Posted by Katie on May 16, 2012 | 4 comments

First:

Aaron is back and all is right with the world.

For a few days after he got home,  Luke would come downstairs for breakfast and heave a big sigh, “Finally! Things are getting back to normal around here!”

And every single time he would say it someone would agree with him.

5.9

Posted by Katie on May 9, 2012 | 2 comments

“Hey Seth, Water in the pool! IN the pool.”

5.8

Posted by Katie on May 8, 2012 | 16 comments

Thanks to a recommendation from my Mom, I ordered this book a few days ago. It came today and I am Totally Excited. Have you heard of it?

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I came across this video recently and it’s fascinating. FASCINATING.

5.7

Posted by Katie on May 7, 2012 | 4 comments

Today’s pictures speak for themselves.

(fyi:  The last one was Sam’s idea – to make up for a pretty rough afternoon and evening.)

5.6 dinnertime

Posted by Katie on May 6, 2012 | 3 comments

Sam, after dinner:
“You know what Mom? I don’t like eating salad but If I had to eat it to keep the world from being destroyed – I think I could.”

“Hey! That’s a start!”

“Yeah. but you know…I just don’t think I could do it, if it was between the world being destroyed and eating chili…”

“Well. Let’s hope it never comes to that.”

5.5

Posted by Katie on May 5, 2012 | 2 comments

The boys were invited to an ice-skating birthday party today. We went and had a great time (except for Sam, who got hurt…twice). It was a little tricky figuring out how to help all three boys as none of them have ever been ice-skating before. After Thomas got a little more confident he would yell up to me every minute or so, “AMEN’T I DOING EXCELLENTLY?” (as he clutched the wall and my hand).

By the time the party was over, Luke didn’t want to leave.

The rest of the pictures are just random shots from our day.

5.3 so happy

Posted by Katie on May 4, 2012 | 13 comments

As of yesterday – Seth and I are HOME from the hospital. phew!

That was really hard.

One of the hardest nights of my life was Sunday night. Seth was having trouble breathing and Thomas kept waking up with nightmares. Without Aaron around all I could do was go back and forth between the two. Finally Seth got to the point where his steroids should’ve kicked in and yet I was giving him way too many breathing treatments too close together. At 3:30 a.m. when he had just had a treatment and HOUR before I realized that he really did need extra medical attention. But who could I call when I knew Thomas would most likely wake up screaming in just a few minutes? I threw on some pants and a sweatshirt, gave Thomas some Benedryl, and called Molly – who came over right away. Yes, the E.R. and the following 72 hours were difficult but those minutes leading up to leaving – being overly exhausted,  not being able to get ahold of Aaron, feeling paralyzed that one child needed me at the house and the other one needed emergency medicine and being too tired and emotionally overdrawn to understand how to make it work? … yeah. I never want to feel that again.