OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG

OH MY GAW....Gracie has a loose tooth. I don't know if I'm ready for this yet. At her 5 year old check up, her pediatrician starting talking about her loosing teeth in the next year. I had to stop him because I was nauseous. He laughed at me and informed me discussing teeth falling out shouldn't be that big of a deal. He said, "what are you going to do when we discuss her becoming a woman". OMG, it's too much, I can't handle this.

Where has the time gone?

I can't believe we are nearing the end of January. It's been almost a month since my last post. Things have been extremely busy (as usual) and Cameron has been keeping us on our toes. This little boy is NON stop, seriously. Just yesterday, we were sitting around in the living room and I was right in front of him as he began calling me, "mom""mom""mom""mom" (you get where I'm going with this) After about 2 minutes of this I started to ignore him. Well, the "moms" got louder and louder and LOUDER until I acknowledged him. I guess I could go on and on about how much of an independent little person he has become. He just seems to have gotten there a little quicker than I expected. He surprised Kenny & I yesterday. We watching a TV and flipped to one of the movie channels that had a movie called "Water Horse" on. This movie is about the Loch Ness monster and his relationship with this little boy Walter. Anyway, Gracie and Cameron watched intently. He jumped off the couch and went to the toy chest and brought out a toy dinosaur....the Elasmosaurus. This dinosaur looked like the "Water Horse". How amazing is that? Kenny & I were at a loss for words, neither one of us knew what to say. He just kept saying "horse, horse, horse" for "Water Horse". WOW. This is a picture of the Elasmosaurus.

Since the weather has been warm/cold/warm/cold, we took advantage one weekend a few weeks ago to enjoy 80 degree weather before the 40 degree drop. Cameron still doesn't know how to steer his vehicle but enjoys it immensely.

Christmas in Kingwood 2008

We had such a wonderful visit with Kenny's family. His sister and her family flew down from Chicago. It was great having everyone together. The kids really enjoyed Lindsey & Ryan. Cameron is still walking around the house saying "mimi".

School Christmas Party

Here are a few pictures of the kids at their school Christmas Party. The kids were able to wear pajamas the day of their party which made the morning a treat for me. I just changed a diaper, put on shoes, brushed hair & teeth and out the door we were. If it could only be like that every day. Oh well.


Gracie concentrating on decorating her waffle cone tree.

Ms. Kelly, Cameron, Carson & ColeCameron & Ms. Misti

Cameron making a BIG mess while I packed for our trip to Houston.......

Crazy Week!

This week was definitely one of the craziest, scariest, exhausting weeks I've had in a long time. As I wrote in my previous post, Cameron had a big boo-boo with his teeth. Wednesday night, our little one didn't have a good sleep. He awoke around 5:30 am saying "mooooooomy, moooooooomy, (you get the picture right) so Kenny brought him down. He was burning up - yup, fever. The first thing I thought of was an infection on his gums. We gave him some motrin and got ready. I had a dentist appointment that morning, so I took the kids with me. Luckily, I've been going to the same dentist for a long time, they helped me watch the kids. We rush to get Gracie to school and then make it to Cameron's appointment. They swabbed his nose to test for the flu, swabbed his throat to test for strep and drew blood. He was NOT a happy camper. The dr. said it sounded a lot like pneumonia since he had rapid breathing as well. All came back well.S ince he's had a nasty cough for a while, the dr. gave me some cough medicine that also has histamine. Cameron has plenty of allergies. With the wind from last week, I thought that was the cause of his cough. Anyway, we hoped for the best. Thursday night was hell. He was up all night crying as if he were in pain accompanied with high fevers. Back we go to the dr. Same drill, more blood work and a chest X-ray. He didn't have pneumonia but now had wheezing. We did two breathing treatments. This time, his white blood count was lower so they gave him antibiotics and a steriod to help the swelling in his lungs. He is now feeling a little better but hasn't eaten a thing in 3 days. The antibiotics are so strong, he now has really really loose movements. We attempted to see Santa on Saturday at Bent Tree, but Cameron was not having any part of that this year. I'm not sure when I'll get our Christmas cards out. Gracie also had a practice dance recital on Thursday. She is doing so good. I was really proud of her for remembering all of the steps. The formal recital is in April, I'm really excited to see how much better she gets. Here are some pictures....

He is seriously debating on whether or not he's going to rip the ornament off the tree.