Caleb's surgery

Well, I just wanted to let you all know that Caleb's adenoid surgery went very well on Tuesday. Thank you all very much for your prayers! He was a very good and brave boy! He came home quite lethargic from the anesthesia, but felt much better after a few hours of being home! He is supposed to be on "light activity" for a few days. I was thinking more like a few hours of light activity. He was ready to play and have a good time Tuesday afternoon. He has been sleeping well at night and taking good naps all week. Thanks again for all your prayers! We appreciate it

Some helping hands

Doesn't everyone need a little help sometimes? Well, our boys definitely think we need help unloading the groceries! They LOVE grocery day....it is very exciting to help carry bags from the car to the house and then unload them out of the bags. I eventually did learn that I needed to find the eggs right away and put them away before the boys got to them. The first time, the boys came in the kitchen with individual eggs in their hands...I gave out a yelp and told them to stop. Thankfully, they just stopped and didn't drop the eggs. Then, the second time, I still forgot about the eggs...but, the boys learned and so Caleb just brought the eggs in the carton for me. : ) Now, I have finally learned to make sure the eggs and any other perishable things are on the counter.

So, here is a little video clip of our great little helpers!!!!

Adenoid Surgery

I just wanted to post that Caleb will be having adenoid surgery on Tuesday, Dec. 1st. He got sick very often last year, but all the docs told us that he was young and would get sick often. So, we didn't pursue it much. However, Caleb kept getting sick throughout the summer and the bad sickness started coming again at the end of August. He would get a really bad cough and couldn't sleep well at night. So, we finally decided to write down how often he got sick and it ended up being every 2 weeks. We thought it might be allergies and so we saw an allergist. It wasn't allergies and so he referred us to an ear, nose, and throat specialist. This doctor said Caleb had large adenoids...he said it was pretty common in little children, but that it can cause some children to get sick quite often. Caleb got put on an antibiotic to try and heal his sickness, but then he got sick again and the doctor said his adenoids were infected and should come out. So, here we are getting his adenoids out on Tuesday. I'd ask you all to pray that it goes well. It is a low risk surgery and an outpatient one. But, I'm still a little nervous...they will have to put him to sleep for the surgery. Thanks for your prayers! We pray you all had a great Thanksgiving! Ours was wonderful!

Fall videos

Happy Belated Birthday to Aria!!

Our good friend, Aria, from Nevada celebrated her 3rd birthday yesterday. We finally got a little birthday song sung for her. We hope you had a great birthday, Aria! You are a special little girl! We love you and miss you!!

A Few Fall Pics

Well, I realized that it has been a month since my last blog...sorry about that. I guess we have been a bit busy! We enjoyed a Fall Festival with some people at church...they had a hay ride and lots of fun games to play. The boys had a great time...they loved the hay ride! We didn't celebrate Halloween...instead, we went to Friendly's for dinner and the boys got "chicken and fries" and they had ice cream sundaes. They enjoyed that greatly! Now, anytime we eat out...they only want "chicken and fries" and think we are always getting ice cream also! Oh well, we had a fun night as a family and didn't have to see scary trick or treaters!

We had a few weekends in November without visitors...which we missed our visitors, but we were able to get some work done on the house...mainly the basement. Kevin bought us a treadmill for the basement. Yay!! And so we had to do some organizing down there to make room. So, now the boys can play in the basement also!

It has actually been a mild fall/beginning of winter here...maybe that means January and February are going to be bad...we'll see! I have loved the days like today that are like in the low 70's and sunny and the boys and I can just play, play, play outside! I'm not sure anyone else around here likes the warm weather....I think everyone else wants to wear their sweaters...I like being able to wear my flip flops : )

Well, here are some pics of the boys! They were helping Kevin rake the leaves. TJ really enjoyed having all the leaves on top of him...Caleb did not and tried taking TJ's off of him cause he wasn't sure it was good for TJ either! Enjoy!

More Birthday pics

Happy Birthday to.....

Grandma and Grandpa Beeker and Sheri. We celebrated some family birthdays this weekend with the Beekers. Kevin's sister, Liz and her husband Andy, and Drew and Aaron came for the weekend for some fun cousin time and then Kevin's parents came for the day on Saturday for a little birthday party. We had a great time with the family!! The boys LOVED playing with their cousins...they had fun playing with adventure men in the basement, playing at the playground, chasing each other in the house, playing games, and just being boys!

On Friday, we went to Annapolis to get some ice cream...I have told you yet how much I love Annapolis. Its only 20 minutes away and is such a cute little town. We attend church in Annapolis so that is nice also! Then, Friday night we broke out our fire pit and had some smores. Yummy...Drew loves to make S'mores and greatly enjoyed that. Caleb went straight for the chocolate and I finally caught him after quite a few mouthfuls of chocolate bars...just like his momma would do : ) And TJ just sat on the swing very far from the fire...I think he has finally learned to stay away from hot things...unfortunately he had to learn the hard way by touching the grill top in Ohio and then touching the hot lawn mower here in Maryland. He learns the hard way apparently...just like his daddy! : )

On Saturday, the boys played outside and took a nature walk collecting all kinds of sticks and leaves and acorns....which I am still finding in Caleb's pockets. This gave me a chance to get the birthday cake made and cornbread ready for dinner. Chili and cornbread and chocolate birthday cake for dinner! Yummy...it must be fall!

Pictures from 90th bday party

My Grandma's Birthday

My Grandma had her 90th birthday this year and so we celebrated with my mom's side of the family in Delaware this Saturday. It was such a nice party and so great to see the family. I haven't seen most of them since last year at my dad's birthday party! My cousin hosted us at her house that she just moved into 3 weeks ago! She is amazing and so is her husband, especially because she is also 8 months pregnant and due in 6 weeks. I can't believe they hosted us...Thank you, Thank you!!! I hope they got lots of rest on Sunday!

We also saw some of my mom's cousins whom we haven't seen in awhile also...it was great to see them! And all the young cousins loved playing together!! They don't miss a beat with each other...its so fun to see! And their was some young boy cousins that had a fun group to play with also!!

They had a bouncy house and a huge backyard...more like woods that all the kids could play in. Caleb enjoyed finding worms with his cousins and feeding them to the fish. TJ loved his big cousin Bryce's trucks and Bryce was very sweet in sharing his trucks with TJ!!! Mark and Bonnie's twin girls were quite the troopers with everyone holding them and lots of commotion around them!! They are so cute and sweet and so big now! I can't believe it!

Of course, because my sis lives close, she had the privilege of driving with us to the party...which thankfully only took about an hour and 40 minutes. We are so close to our family! Yay!!! It was a very nice party and I'm so glad my Aunt and Uncle and cousins organized it for us! It was wonderful to see everyone! I'll put the pictures on the next post since I wrote so much! : )

Family

Well, ever since we have moved into our house, we have been blessed with either family or friends to visit us. It has been awesome! I especially like it as we settle in...its great to have company! This past weekend my brother's wife, Jenny, and my niece Jordan came to visit us. They went to the city for a rally on Saturday and stayed for the weekend. The boys LOVED playing with their cousin...she was really good with them and I loved chatting with both of them!! So, this weekend coming up will be our first weekend without any company....I don't know what we'll do with ourselves...well, actually, I know we'll try to get some projects done! We'll see how that goes! Anyways, we'd love to keep having visitors so let us know if you will be in the area! Here are a few pics of the boys! They just keep growing and growing! Caleb is really into the alphabet right now...and is trying to learn to write some of his letters. He also loves learning new songs to sing! TJ amazes us with new words he says everyday...he is also talking in 2 word sentences...particularly ones that start with, "I want..." He also loves to do whatever his brother is doing...and Caleb has figured that out now and so Caleb enjoys saying..."TJ did that like I did. "

Rainy Day

We were hoping to run some errands today and go to Panera for lunch. However, we had a little leak in our ceiling in the playroom so a repairman was going to come out and fix it today. But, it rained all day and he couldn't come to fix it. So, what else should you do on a rainy day with 2 little boys than BAKE!!! The boys helped me bake some chocolate chip cookies this morning. They did a pretty good job! Caleb is actually pretty helpful with the Kitchenaid mixer while TJ is very good at getting flour everywhere!!! So, I just had to make a video of our fun little time!

Our favorite songs

I finally remembered to video the boys singing some of their favorite songs. Well, its mostly Caleb singing with TJ dancing and mommy as backup singer! TJ tries to sing the words...he does his best. He actually speaks a whole lot of words...just singing is a little too tricky for him right now. But, he is a very good clapper and dancer!

The boys love to sing their ABC's...Caleb and my mom had quite the time singing their ABC's when she was visiting last week. Caleb loved it! They also love "Beloved"...a Bible verse song of I John 4:7+8.

Well, enjoy the videos! Have a great day!

Playdough

We had a fun craft day today with some coloring and playdough. We played outside all morning on our sit and spin...then Caleb rode his tricycle around and TJ rode in the stroller to the playground. But, it was just getting too hot by lunch time. So, after lunch we had a fun time with the playdough. TJ did much better with it this time. He didn't eat it like the last time. He's getting so big! And Caleb probably could have played all afternoon with it...he was having a great time using his imagination making all sorts of things!

Cousin Mike's Birthday

We had my cousin Mike and his girlfriend Anne and my sister over last night for dinner. It was Mike's 30th birthday on Saturday. It is really nice to be close to family and celebrate birthdays with them. I grew up close to a lot of my extended family in Florida so we always celebrated birthdays together. It was a huge blessing to have them all over...the boys had a blast playing with them. Here are a few pics!

The Metro

Well, the boys took a ride on the metro into Washington DC today!! The boys and I went with my mom to visit my sister in the city. She works in DC..so we took the metro in and had lunch with her. It was quite an adventure for us all! We were pretty wiped when we got home! The boys enjoyed the "train" ride for sure. Caleb especially liked when the "conductor" told us we arrived and when new people would get on the train with us! He just sat and watched everyone get on and off and had a great time! I was very thankful because it was 30 minutes to the city and 30 minutes back...so that was a lot of sitting time for my little ones. But, they did great! TJ even did fine also...he's a little more squirmy than Caleb...seeing as he is only 1 1/2...but, he did well playing with some toys and singing songs! It was so nice to see my sister and to be so close to her. She came over this past weekend also! The boys had a great time playing with her and going to the swimming pool!

The boys got to show off their new swimming skills to Grandma and Aunt Kristen. We have a very nice little community swimming pool in our neighborhood. What a blessing that was this weekend since it was in the 90's!!!

We are in!!!!

Yay!! We are in our new house! Praise the Lord! The movers came yesterday and all of our stuff arrived! The boys stayed at Kevin's parents yesterday and came to their new house today. It was so nice for them to stay with Kevin's parents, we got a lot done without them yesterday and this morning. Thank you so much to Grandma and Grandpa Beeker. You are awesome! We have also been staying with them quite a bit during this transition time. So, it is just such a huge blessing for us. And we are now closer to them and my sister and my cousin and not too far from Kevin's sister and my brothers are not too far either. Wow!! What a great blessing to be close to our families!

So, Kevin looked for houses in May while I stayed in Ohio with the boys. So, he picked this house for us without me...I saw pics but that's all! He of course did an AWESOME job! Most ladies think I'm crazy for letting my husband pick a house for us. But I have the utmost confidence in Kevin and so I am so thankful for our house. And it so nice to be in a permanent place for a few years!

All my boys are napping now as they are quite tuckered from the travels and stresses. I know Caleb is very glad to have his crib back...the pack n play really is too small for him, but he did fine! He was very cute when he went into the playroom. He said "Mama we have that play kitchen set and we have that duck and we have that ball". He thought the people at this house had the same toys as he did. So, I explained that those were his toys...but, then he still kept saying...we have that, we have that!! It was so cute!!! And TJ didn't care to see the rest of the house...he just stayed in the playroom and played and played! I was gone from them for one day and they both looked so much bigger and older to me.

Well, I'll try to get some pics of our house up for you soon! My mom comes on Thursday for a visit!!!

Boys in the sand

Here are a few pics of the boys playing in the sand!! They have enjoyed the beach greatly! There is a playground on the beach here which we have visited everyday! We are so thankful for it! The boys have done pretty well here...I think they are ready to be in their house though with their cribs again! They haven't been sleeping the greatest either which is a little hard on everyone! But, overall we are doing fine! Thankfully, we only have 1 more week of temporary living and then we get to move into our house next week! Yay!!!