Where did the time go?!?

My baby turns 2 today!


I don't know how the time has passed so quickly or how he has grown up so fast, but he's there... definitely in the "Terrible Two's" where he knows the word NO and exercises his right to use it readily... What I love the most is when he comes to hug me and tells me, "Mommy, I love you too much!"


I just can't believe how much he's changed over the past 2 years...









HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TRENT! I LOVE YOU!!

Hello!

It has been NUTS around here... The therapist at work has quit, and I have been taking over until we get a new one (middle of this month). In other words, I'm actually earning my paycheck now :) So, I haven't had a lot of time to post, though I have kept up with most of my blogger friends.

Anyway, so you know that I have to post some pictures from Halloween :)


Pirate posin'



Argh, Matey!



The boys... aren't they handsome :)


Trent hasn't quite mastered the idea of Big Boy underwear


But he sure has fun :)

Anyway, yeah, so they're both getting so big! Lane has a girlfriend that he calls "Baby" when he sends her text messages, and Trent will be 2 next month. He told me the other day that he kissed Brooklyn in church! Boys, boys, boys... I bet I will start growing gray hairs soon! (I may have already, but I would never know).

I don't care how much you hate Barney...

This will still make you smile :) (or maybe I'm just biased)

Play Time!

Last night, Lane, Trent, and I drove up to find this in our backyard.


Trent couldn't believe how big it was.


The boys couldn't wait to get on it.


I tried to get them both in a cute picture, but Trent just wanted to get back on the "Lide".


Lane was like a monkey crawling all over it.


Trent loved the slide and thought he was a big boy for being able to go down it himself.


He always landed on the grass with a thud, but he still had the best time.


Obviously, his stitches aren't phasing him one bit. His eye is a little bruised today, but it's still nowhere near where I thought it would be as far as a black eye.
So, we're all doing well. Lane has started football practice this week, and he's really excited about it. I just can't believe he's on the 6th grade team now, and he's as tall as I am... I feel so old and short.

I am getting my hair highlighted today... I'm a little nervous, but I'm ready for a change from the dark brown (mainly because I don't want to have to keep tanning, and a dark color on me without a tan makes me look a little goth...).

I hope you all have a great weekend!

What's up with Trent?

Trent had to hae surgery yesterday to remove a cyst from his face. So, we've had kind of a hectic week, but I've managed to get a few pictures.

Trent turned rocker in the bath:


When he got out of the bath, he tried striking a few poses for the camera:


Then he agreed to let Mom get in on the action:


After a busy day of posing and Pre-Op, he took a power nap before going to socialize:


Once rested, it was time to go see his girlfriend, Brooklyn. She met us at the door and greeted Trent with a hug:


This is Brooklyn (she likes to be really close to the camera):


She's pretty silly, but a lot of fun:


The next morning, we headed to the hospital bright and early. Trent was not all that excited when he woke up in the waiting room. You can see the cyst on the side of his nose pretty well here:


He finally woke up and started playing while we were waiting to be called up.

Dad, What's that on your head?


Oh, of course, it's a horse.


I can do it, too!


Ahhh, the things we do to keep kids entertained. Anyway, the surgery went well... He has 4 stitches, and we've found out that he has an adverse reaction to Lortab... it makes him CRAZY! I will update later with post-surgery pics.

Hope all is well!!

It's been a long time...

So, I know I haven't updated in a while, and I know all 2 of you who check this may have been wondering if I forgot. I didn't. I started my new job as Principal at Millcreek in Starkville, and I just didn't have a computer of my own for a little while.

Anyway, so now I'm back, and I will be doing my best to update with pictures and updates of the fam in the next few days. Hope you all are well :).

A Good Morning

Trent has been suffering from a double ear infection (the first ear infection since he got tubes put in in January, so I figure making it 4 months when we used to get them every other week is pretty good). Finally, last night, he slept through the whole night and woke up this morning in a great mood! I got some really cute pictures. So, I thought I would share :).

Trent is learning the parts of his body. So, when someone says, Show me your nose, he will point to his nose. Show me your belly, he picks up his shirt and pats his belly. This is what happens when you tell him to Show me your teeth.


We were watching The Upside Down Show this morning, and this was Trent's reaction to their not knowing what a golf ball was.


This is Trent's best friend, Neigh. You can see how much he loves him.

I'm in love....

... With the Juno soundtrack. Trent, Lane, and I will all sing and dance in the car to it!

Here are our favorite songs from it. Enjoy!

The Games People Play

I had to go to the local high school yesterday, and I was visiting with one of the principals and a couple of teachers. They were talking about playing the game "Ashley", at least that's what I thought they were saying. They asked me if I wanted to play, and they went to explaining the rules to me.

(WARNING: some bad words follow, but I will do the best to make them look as unoffensive as possible. This story was just too precious not to share).

Apparently, the game is all about strange names of students they have encountered through the years. I will put in caps the syllable that should be emphasized. First off, the name of the game was not "Ashley", it was As-SHO-le, named after one student a friend of the teacher's had taught. These were some of the names that followed:

"AB-sid-ee" spelled Abcde
SHI-thead
Sy-PHIL-lis
Nylon (Anisa and I actually went to school with her)

There were a few more, but I don't remember all of them right now. Just wondering if any of you have any names that I could use at the next playing of what I will from now on still spell "Ashley".

Goin' Home Again

It's official, I'm going to be working back in Starkville, beginning at the end of this month. This has been the first year that I actually lived and worked away from Starkvegas, and, while it was finally nice to develop some ties to Louisville, I miss my old job.

So, I will be the principal at Millcreek of Starkville Day Treatment, and I will also (hopefully, it looks good thus far) be contracting with Oktibbeha Co. Schools as a Behavior Specialist. So, that would be super cool :)

People used to tell me that Starkville would suck you in, and I guess they're right :) (I can already taste City Bagel and Mugshots!!)

Goodbye, Old Friend...

Trent is off the pacifier! I know this seems trivial, but his "pap pap" has been his constant companion since Day 1 in the hospital when the only way I could get him to calm down was to let him suck on my finger, and Ronnie replaced my finger with the GINORMOUS baseball pacifier that was on our wreath.

The weekend before last, Trent hid the last of his pacifiers, and I just thought we would see what would happen if we didn't replace it. Well, other than having a little bit of trouble going back to sleep when he wakes up at night, he's done great!

It's somewhat bittersweet. It's great that Trent doesn't need his pap anymore (apparently it can really mess up his teeth or something), but it's just one more thing to remind me that my little man's growing up.

Congrats, Trent!

Party Boy

We went to a birthday party this weekend for Trent's friend Sam.


It was a Spongebob party, and it was so cute with pineapples on the table and Krystal burgers filling in for Krabby Patties. Trent had a fun time, and he really loved the slide and the balloons.

Look, Mom, I can slide all by myself!


I would have to get my height from you, huh, Mom?

Poor baby...

It was a crazy weekend. We had Lane's birthday party Friday night (of which I got no pictures... I know, I'm horrible), so he had two of his friends spend the night. They actually made it until 1:00 am in the treehouse before the rain scared them and they all came knocking on the door.

Saturday afternoon, they had baseball practice. So, as I was packing up the car with all of their stuff, I let Trent play in the yard. When I was walking over to get him to load him up, he tripped. A few seconds later, he started crying. Assuming that he had landed on a stick or something, I rushed over. I found ants all over his hands; he had landed in an antbed! Well, I got them all off of his hands and took his shirt off to make sure there weren't any on his belly. He had quit crying ans was jabbering away at this point. Then, in the absence of hydrocortisone, I rubbed some alcohol on his hands to try to relieve the stinging. I had to take him to Ronnie's aunt's house where Ronnie was working in her yard, anyway, and I knew that she would have some hydrocortisone.

By the time I got to his aunt's house, Lane and his friends were all asking me what was wrong with Trent's face..I turned around, and it was bright red and swelling. So, I left him with Ronnie with instructions to put some lotion on it and give him Benadryl. Ronnie called me minutes later, stating that he was headed to the ER. So, I dropped the boys off at practice, and I hauled butt to the hospital. I walked in the room, and poor Trent was bright red all over with little bumps all over him. The doctors took care of it with a shot and a couple of medicines.

He's been in a great mood this weekend, even though his hands itch terribly, and his right hand is all swollen. Now that the bites have come to a head, you can count about 40 bites on his right hand and about 5 on his left.

This was his hand Saturday night..

Spring is definitely in the air! Besides the fact that everyone is sick from all the rain and pollen, there are definite signs all over the place...

Trent is giving me the Thumbs Up that he's ready to mow the lawn


Lane's playing baseball




Trent has apparently caught Spring Fever and is climbing walls


Who me? I'm innocent


He got grounded to Dad's lap for a while..


He was allowed to get down and play with his girlfriend, Brooklyn, though

Rest In Peace, Little Warrior

Ethan's Website

Ethan Powell, born 5 days before my Trent, passed away Saturday, April 5th, at St. Jude's Hospital. He had been fighting Leukemia for over a year. While 16 months doesn't seem like a very long life (especially to his parents), little Ethan touched more lives than I have in my 28 years. He reminded what it is to pray and actually believe in the prayers. He reminded what faith is. Most importantly, he reminded me of priorities and how I should be enjoying my family now instead of worrying about the things of tomorrow.

So, Ethan, as you are looking down on us today, seated in Paradise and hanging out with the coolest guy who ever lived, I want to say Thank You, Little Man. You will be missed.

It's music to my ears...

So, most who know me know how much I like music. And, of course, I have my favorites, and a few of them have new stuff coming out all at the same time. I know I posted about Jason Mraz's new album that's out. Also, Gavin Degraw has a new single out and is working on a new album, and a lesser known but just as talented band, Scratchtrack has just released a new album. So, I thought I would share some of these guys with you all...

Gavin Degraw - I'm in Love with a Girl:


Jason Mraz - I'm Yours:


Scratchtrack - Will You (Not the best recording of them, but all I could find):

Alanis - Shakin' that thing

I love Alanis Morissette... and this cracks me up... probably a lot more than it should.

Happy Springtime!

I hope everyone had a happy Easter! I ended up with pink eye in both eyes, but it's finally clearing up. For that reason and the fact that Lane was at his mom's this weekend, there are no Easter pictures this year.

I did host a baby shower for a friend last Thursday night, and this is the diaper cake that I made for her. (I added decorations like pacifiers, baby booties, etc. later on when I had it all set up):

Trent has learned to drive the little car at his Gran Gran & Pop's house (though he drives it mostly in reverse). However, I think he may be a little too aggressive with the horn.

So, last Thursday was the first official day of Spring... I hope everyone is enjoying at least a little bit of Spring Fever :)

Goodness to my lobes!

SWEET!!





Jason Mraz's first EP, We Sing, from his album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. has come out for order and digital download today! I, being the impatient sort, did the digital download, and I am so in bliss right now. I had live versions of a few of the songs, but recorded is always so much clearer and better. Go check it out... If you click the "music" box on the front page of JasonMraz.com you can hear previews of the songs.

Let me know if you enjoy :)

From warm to wintry

Yesterday was so sunny and warm that we just had to get outside and play.... Since Lane starts baseball Sunday with his first practice, he and Ronnie decided to practice throwing, catching, and pitching.


I took Trent for a wagon ride and convinced him to pose for me a couple of times.





Lane, however, was not all that enthused to get his picture taken...



Now it's booty cold outside and there's talk of snow (talk is usually about all we get in the way of snow, but who knows what might happen). But next week is Spring Break, so I'm crossing my fingers for at least one pretty day :) I hope everyone has a great weekend!