Hoppy Easter and other shenanigans

Hope you all had a HAPPY Easter!!!! This Easter was a lot of fun for Brooke and Jack. This is the first Easter Brooke took an interest and Jack was excited about that. After the first easter egg hunt at mimi's, she knew just what do to at our house easter morning and at great Aunt Cindy's easter afternoon. She liked Jack's eggs much better because they had jelly beans and made noise...her's were gerber puffs and didn't make any noise. LOL

Jack was excited for "Easter" to come to his house this year. After class one night I went to "Easter's" house (aka Target) for some easter shopping. He was very excited that I got to go there to tell "easter" what kind of candy he wanted and what little surprise. After I got home he asked me about it and I told him that when I got there, all the bunny helpers were making jelly beans. He believes everything I tell him. LOL I LOVE it!!!!

Jack got some cars, jump rope, puppy, etc....but most importantly....NERDS!!! That's his all time favorite Easter candy. So funny!!!!

ALL OF US ready for Easter service

my mini-me

our little DIVA

OUR handsome guy

We had our first trip to a new doctor. A new specialty for us even. Brooke went to an allergist today. she has been having some skin issues and while it is exzema, there is a reason for it and the dr thinks it's food related. So after an extensive background history on her birth and eating, she got some bloodwork done to test for the top 10 food allergies. In 3 weeks we will get the results back and we will go from there. This is new territory for me, so any advice will be welcomed!!!!

Jack continues to amaze us everyday. He is so SMART!!!! He is a reading machine and he is SO excited for kindergarden. I think I need to start a calendar for him with a countdown....me on the other hand....I could cry just thinking about it. I never thought I would be like that since he has been at daycare full time since he could be. But I hate sending him into the unknown....AHHHHH!!!!!

Matt is doing great too. He is still with Red Bull distributing product around fort wayne and really loves it. He is coaching Jack's tball team and so far so good.

I am doing good too. Still at the hospital and teaching 2 classes at Ivytech. Started working out 4-5 days a week and so far I have lost 2 inches and about 10lbs!!!!! I am feeling amazing!!!!

I think that is about it from us today!

Have a great week!!!!!

I have a tballer and a princess

Jack signed up for tball tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is so excited!!! He is going to be BLUE.....and team BOB EVANS (his favorite) and he is going to be #5 (and he's five.....) and he just thinks it's so amazing....AND daddy is going to be a coach on his team and he LOVES that. He has been running around singing a song about daddy being is coach and how awesome it is. LOL.

Brooke is Brooke.....a rough and tumble PRINCESS!!!! Ornerier than cat dirt and can throw a fit just like a little diva......She is HELL ON WHEELS!!!!! But I wouldn't have her any other way!!!!!

2 posts in 2 days......WHAT?!?!?

I thought I'd give you a little update on the kiddos, since that's who we all care about anyway...hahaha! Jack: He has been AMAZINGLY healthy all winter and so far this spring. We started new allergy meds and it seems to be working. We also signed him up for kindergarten......WHAT?!?! He is SUPER excited and can't wait to learn!!!!! He is doing great in school/daycare right now. His teacher has a pre-K cirriculum and he is up to 45 sight words he can read and he is doing great sounding words out. You never realize how silly the english language is until you teach a kid to read. He is into writing, drawing, reading, and spelling and that's about all we do in the evenings. So thankful it's getting nice outside so we can start playing outside. Jack did basketball for the first time this winter and really enjoyed it. He did great socially but didn't really like to touch the ball. He just liked to run. The last game the ref picked him up and he dunked the ball. It was so great!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was so proud and right afterward he ran straight to daddy!!!!!!!!!! This spring/summer he will be doing tball for the first time, so we are looking forward to that! Brooke: He has NOT been amazingly healthy this winter. She has had a few bouts of bronchiolitis and ended up in the hospital at the beginning of march with pneumonia. She has had numerous ear infections, got tubes in january and has done a little better since then. She is doing a better job fighting the infections off on her own. She is a WALKER now and gets into a LOT of trouble. She doesn't care about the word "No" and she doesn't care about getting her hand smacked and she doesn't care about getting her butt tapped......she doesn't like you to take her away from what she is doing wrong....she would rather run away when you get up to go get her and laugh. She is CRAZY!!!! She loves outside!!!! She loves to play with Jack and ALL OF JACK'S toys!!!! She loves to play with his cars but she still likes to love on her baby dollls too!! We are all looking forward to the warmer weather and playing outside!!! Pics to come!!! We are going to our first baseball game of the season today. GO TIN CAPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

New Hobby!!!

I have started a new hobby.....

making hair clippies!!!!

I know....I know...like I have time for that right?!?!

being a mommy

a wife

work full time

teach 2 classes at ivy tech

trying to go back to school

ummmm......

and making hair clippies!!!

It just started as a simple cost effective way to make some for Brooke and it turned into this obsession.

So I started a little store on facebook. It's called:

CLIPP-O-POTAMUS

(thanks to my cousin Laura for thinking of the cute name!!!)

So.....log on facebook and check out the page..........PLEASE!!!!

HERE IS A FEW PICS OF CLIPS THAT I HAVE MADE!

the sickies

Our little doodle princess has been very sick. She just got released from the hospital last night after spending 4 days there. She had pneumonia! :-( She started getting sick last Saturday, ended up taking her to the ER on Wednesday and they just sent up home with steroids. Then Friday I took her to her regular ped for a check up and they admitted her from there. She was not sating good and was on 3 L of O2 at one point. Pretty yucky!!!!

But I am VERY happy to say we are back home and she is SUPER excited to be back home and back on the move. It was hard for her to move with the IV in her FOOT and then the oxygen tubing.

It was very de ja vu for me because we were in the same place with Jack almost "exactly" 2 years prior......in the hospital....for 4 days.....with pneumonia! BLECK!!!!!

Us and our kiddos with icky lungs. She will probably now have to be on a daily neb of steroids which will NOT be fun at all!!!!!

and guess what else we are doing????????????

JACK GETS TO SIGN UP FOR KINDERGARTEN TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WA-HOOOOO :-)

Bo-HOOOOOO!!!!! :-(

Very bittersweet!!!!

That's all for now!

sorry, No pictures this time!