Random catch up
Have I said I very much prefer this blog to Facebook? Facebook makes me nervous.
Anyway, it's been a while. Here are some random things we've been up to:
- This weekend, we'll be having around 30 people at our house. Our small group, which continues to grow by leaps and bounds (4 new babies in 2009 with 2 still to come), is coming for a cookout.
This has led to all sorts of beautification projects around the house - spreading mulch, tilling the garden, pressure washing, clearing of junk piles, trimming bushes, putting screens up in the porch windows.
I took off a few days in honor of the event, but Brandon has done most of the hard work. Trey has been helping too, even surprising us sometimes.
I had intended to do a separate blog post called "Climate Control" for this picture, but forgot. Here you go:
That would be a Fisher-Price umbrella from Trey's Sand and Sea table on the tractor. In their defense, it was ex-treme-ly hot and humid.
- The garden continues to do well. We have canned and frozen quite a bit - maybe as much as the last 2 years combined, with more still to come. Brandon seems to have conquered the raccoon with something called "critter ridder". Sounds like something from blue collar comedy. But it seems to be working.
Here was today's take:
- Trey's 2-year checkup went well. He is growing fine and met all of his milestones. To help with the asthma, the doctor put Trey on Singulair, one pill each night. So far, everything seems good with that. Trey is very good to remind us that he needs his medicine every night - apparently it tastes good.
They did some blood work on his allergies, and we just got the results of that. On a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being an extremely severe allergy, his peanut allergy ranked a low 2 and his milk allergy ranked at almost 4. That is acutally comforting to me about the peanuts, since it seems harder to judge what foods contain peanuts vs. milk.
But, praise God, we're handling the milk allergy well and have no issue with just sticking with what works.
Trey is maturing so fast, being very helpful around the house, conversing, almost counting to 20, even able to entertain himself some. That's quite nice. If he's in a different room, I can call to him saying, "Trey, what are you doing?" And he'll answer me, telling me what he's doing. Even if it's something he's not supposed to be doing.
Still struggling with discipline. He acts up as much as any kid, I guess. He tests us. I've gone to praying out loud when he does this, because honestly I have no clue how else to handle it.
And for the couple of folks who reminded me that it's been over 2 weeks without a picture of Trey on the blog, here you go. Will try to write more this weekend.
Anyway, it's been a while. Here are some random things we've been up to:
- This weekend, we'll be having around 30 people at our house. Our small group, which continues to grow by leaps and bounds (4 new babies in 2009 with 2 still to come), is coming for a cookout.
This has led to all sorts of beautification projects around the house - spreading mulch, tilling the garden, pressure washing, clearing of junk piles, trimming bushes, putting screens up in the porch windows.
I took off a few days in honor of the event, but Brandon has done most of the hard work. Trey has been helping too, even surprising us sometimes.
I had intended to do a separate blog post called "Climate Control" for this picture, but forgot. Here you go:
That would be a Fisher-Price umbrella from Trey's Sand and Sea table on the tractor. In their defense, it was ex-treme-ly hot and humid.
- The garden continues to do well. We have canned and frozen quite a bit - maybe as much as the last 2 years combined, with more still to come. Brandon seems to have conquered the raccoon with something called "critter ridder". Sounds like something from blue collar comedy. But it seems to be working.
Here was today's take:
- Trey's 2-year checkup went well. He is growing fine and met all of his milestones. To help with the asthma, the doctor put Trey on Singulair, one pill each night. So far, everything seems good with that. Trey is very good to remind us that he needs his medicine every night - apparently it tastes good.
They did some blood work on his allergies, and we just got the results of that. On a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being an extremely severe allergy, his peanut allergy ranked a low 2 and his milk allergy ranked at almost 4. That is acutally comforting to me about the peanuts, since it seems harder to judge what foods contain peanuts vs. milk.
But, praise God, we're handling the milk allergy well and have no issue with just sticking with what works.
Trey is maturing so fast, being very helpful around the house, conversing, almost counting to 20, even able to entertain himself some. That's quite nice. If he's in a different room, I can call to him saying, "Trey, what are you doing?" And he'll answer me, telling me what he's doing. Even if it's something he's not supposed to be doing.
Still struggling with discipline. He acts up as much as any kid, I guess. He tests us. I've gone to praying out loud when he does this, because honestly I have no clue how else to handle it.
And for the couple of folks who reminded me that it's been over 2 weeks without a picture of Trey on the blog, here you go. Will try to write more this weekend.
Comments
I love the umbrella pic!