Joey's graduation from Pre-K

Once again St. Paul's Luther Preschool has out done themselves. The kids sang 3 songs and then got a diploma. The introduced each kids and ask them what they wanted to do when they grow up. Joey said that he wants to be a teacher. There were two girls that want to be a rainbow mermaid, a mom, a dad, 3 police officers, and cinderella. You might notice in one picture Joey is dressed up as a cat, Joey played with this costume so much Mrs. Nancy gave it to him as a reminder of his time at St. Paul's Lutheran Preschool.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Ornery Luke

Luke David the cool boy with tennis shoes.

I do believe he is one of the orneriest creatures alive.  Yesterday while at the babysitter's house he was awful.  He was kicking other kids and not listening.  She told me and I ask him if he were good for her, he smiled and shook his head no.  He did not care one bit that he was awful.  So this evening I ask him if he wanted to back to Mrs. Kristie's and he said he did.  I ask him if he was going to be nice.  He said that he would be nice.  I ask him who he wanted to play with and he said "Maw ly" and then he said "I kick Hannah!"  I told him he couldn't kick Hannah because that wasn't nice.  He told me that he didn't care.  I told him if he kicks Hannah, then I would tell Mrs. Kristie that it was OK to take his blanket, hit his butt and put him in time out.  He said "I won't take my blanket, I will take dog blanket instead."

We took a walk this evening he said "My daddy shoot the basketball!"  I said "You do too."  He said "No momma, Luke miss!"

A wet day

Today has been a wonderful day. Joey and I were invited to an end of the year celebration at Mrs. Nancy's house today. It was a swim party and lunch. All the kids had a wonderful time. I had 4 parents come up to me and tell me how polite and mannerly Joey is. Before we left he went to Mrs. Nancy and said "The next time you have a party I will for sure be at it. Because this was a wonderful party." Mrs. Nancy had 2 of her daughter and one of her daughter's boyfriend over as life guards. He also thanked them for being so nice to watch him and keep him safe. I didn't prompt him at all.

Joey was the first kid in the pool.

For some reason the kids loved the hot tub.

The gang at the pool.

A wonderful lunch of pizzaThe boys sat at one table.

Joey and 3 lovely ladies in the hot tub.

This is a pillow case with everyone's hand prints.
It says
Now I lay me down to sleep
I'll count these hands
instead of sheeo
And always remember
The friends I made
When I was at
St. Paul's Lutheran Preschool.

When we were done at the party we had to go get Luke. He was at the babysitters. He was allowed to come to Mrs. Nancy's house, but Joey didn't want him to go. I think it is good for Joey to have some times like this. I also think that when Luke goes to St. Paul's Lutheran Preschool and gets to do these things it will mean more.
I came home and washed a dog and then the boys played in the hose

Playing in the hose.

Luke is screaming "Spray me Joe Joe!"

They decided to get dressed and use the Clifford.

Even wet you can drive a JEEP.

Summer is here

Summer is a wonderful time.  The boys have been enjoying most things about it.  Watermelon, playing on the swing set, riding bikes, and just being outside all day long.  There are a few things about summer aren't so good like skinned up knees and having to come in for a bath.

Joey has spent hours sitting on the swing eating watermelon

The new homemade punching bag

This has brought a lot of enjoyment to both boys.

This is Luke's knee.  He fell and got up and started playing again.  Joey had to tell him his knee was bleeding.  He kept playing and finally we talked him into getting in the bath to get it cleaned up.  Then he insisted he needed a bandaid.

Things are changing

First I would like to start by saying that my $1000 headache is finally gone.  I figure with ER, Urgent Care, Family Doctor, loss of work, medicines and CT scan, we have lost $1000 over this.  That doesn't include all the money that our insurance has paid for my head to stop hurting.

Joey has been practicing on whistling and now he can do it.  He is super excited.  If a boy (Joey) eats 3/4 of a watermelon in one day, it does bad things to a boy's gut.

Luke no longer calls himself "Nuke", he is now "Luke".  Luke insisted that he needed tennis shoes, because "Cool guys were tennis shoes."  I am in trouble at 2 he knows he wants to be cool.

Kev is ready for school to be out.  He is tired.  The whole house including Kev took a nap today.

My head, my aching head

Yeah, I still have a headache.  I went to my doctor today and got more medicine and a shot of Toradol.  Will head for a CT of the head tomorrow around noon.  Hopefully, by tomorrow for my CT I will be thinking this is a waste of time.  They put me on a medication call Mexalt, it is for migraines.  I had to wait till I could go get Joey before I took the medicine, because it might make me tired.  I took it about 15 minutes ago and I think it is starting to help things.

This has been a very long day

I decided last night if my head was no better this morning, I would go to the doctor.  So Kev woke me up at 6am and my head was pounding.  He gave me some medicine.  I was thankful that the boys slept till 7:15.  I got up with them and called the babysitter.  Got everyone ready.  At 8:05 I called my family doctor.  He had no openings for today.  My options were to wait and see if someone cancelled or take an appointment for tomorrow or go to Urgent Care.  I decided to go to Urgent Care.  I was sure it would be an in and out sort of thing.  Well I was part right, I went in and the Nurse Practitioner talked to me and decided I needed a CT scan of the head.  According to her, my insurance wouldn't cover it if she sent me, but would if I went to the ER.  She recommended I go to the ER in Gulf Breeze, it would take less time.  I got in my car and headed to Gulf Breeze.  I waited and waited and finally saw someone at Gulf Breeze.  She really checked me out.  In fact, I don't think I have had a physician check me out this well in years.  She said she truly saw no reason to do a CT scan.  She told me that neurologically I was intact, I just had a terrible headache.  She recommended a liter of IV fluids, morphine for my headache and zofran for my nausea.  I ended up getting 2 shots of morphine.  In the middle of all of this, I had to get a hold of Kevin to get Joey and then to come get me.  I ended up leaving the ER at 3:30 today.  Basically, all we found out is that I had a migraine.  We aren't sure what caused this.  If I am not any better then I have to go to my family doctor and be referred to a neurologist for the headache workup.

My wild little man

Last week Luke mastered the art of opening doors.  So a few times he opened the door out to the garage.  My solution was to keep the garage door down, which I try to do anyways, and to lock that door. He hasn't figured out the lock yet.  Well I had warned Kev of this, but he forgot or something.  Kev went to throw something in the trash.  Well Luke followed him outside.  He then opened that door like three more times.  He decided that we needed a chain on that door.  So off they went to Home Depot and right away he installed the ever popular chain to that door.  Now I don't mind that he put it up, I just thought it was funny that he thought to do that.  I just fear this summer while I am working full time that all doors will have chains,  the furniture will be bolted to the floor, and everything else will be secured some way shape or form.  Luke isn't bad and doesn't do bad things, he is just busy and you must constantly watch him.

On Friday, at the babysitter he took a hair brush and hit Joey in the face with it.  He got in big trouble with the babysitter.  She slapped his hand.  I ask Luke if he hit Joey in the face with a hair brush, Luke said "I don't know!"  I then ask him if he got his hand slapped, he responded with "I don't know!"  Joey would totally have told on himself.  Luke can't remember.  I love it.

Birthday parties and parades

This morning I got off work at 8am and headed to Joey's school for the preschool yard sale.  I didn't see much of anything so I left without spending a dime.  I came home spent a few minutes with the boys and headed to sleep.

I was woke up at 1:15 by Luke, who opened the door to tell me that Joey hurt him and Daddy said no.  I still am not sure what was going on, but everyone was mad at Luke.  So I got up and took Luke to Target.  At Target, he showed me he had the "I wants".  He wanted everything he saw including a little sundress that was pink.  He got nothing. 

We came home and got Kevin and Joey so we could head to Sophie's birthday party.  She is in Joey's class at school.  She had a wonderful birthday party at a really fun place in Gulf Breeze.  Both boys had a blast.

On the way home there was a parade tonight in downtown Pensacola.  Of course, we couldn't miss a parade.  So we hung out and went to the parade.  The boys had a blast.  Joey said that it was the best parade he has ever been to.

A few pictures

The boys together.  I love this picture.

Joey at his first Tae Kwon Do tournament.

Joey's class picture.

Mother's Day Pictures

When you are blessed with two boys things are done differently.  You don't have relaxing days where you looking at your children and reflect on the most wonderful gifts that God has given you.  But instead you have water gun fights where you laugh and try to kill your young sons.

The fight is on

This is fun

Refilling

Shoot him

Even Luke is in on the action

He is done and I am pretty sure I killed him.

Joey shooting me.

Shooting the boys.

The boys baked me a super yummy cake yesterday.

This morning before I took Joey to school.  The boys were watching tv, cuddling together.  This is a pretty common event.  

My sweet babies that love each other so much.

Mother's Day Tea

Today at Joey's school they had a Mother's Day Tea.  It was a very lovely morning.  Joey was so excited to take me to school with him.

The cookies and tea/lemonade

My little kitty cat

Looking out the window

Joey and me

Joey loved the cookies

My gifts

Mrs. Nancy read this out loud.  Joey filled in the Bold areas

This is my Mom Andrea Dawn Turner

she is 44 years old.

My mom is prettiest today because I love her.

and she is funny when she tickles my brother.

She likes to make eggs.

My mom always says "I love you."

This is the picture he drew for me.

The beautiful stepping stone.

Me and my stepping stone and pretty pin.  The pedals are Joey's fingerprints.

I think this is neat.

Joey and me.  I needed my visor on.

Thanks Mrs. Nancy for a wonderful event.

My one

Mrs. Kristie is always telling me that Luke is "my one."  He is going to be the one to hurt himself.  He is going to be the one to get into more trouble.  This morning, while dropping Joey off at school, Luke decided to let go of my hand, running through the crowd of other people dropping off their kids hit the door has hard has he can and tried to run out into the road.  Luckily for me, one of the other Moms grabbed him before he got there.  So I warned him he can't stay with me he will have to get in the stroller. 

Conversations with Luke

Now I first would like to say that Luke is all boy and to get him to sit still during this would be impossible.  Secondly, he loves talking.

This morning Luke decided that he needed to wear underwear and not wear diapers.  So he wore underwear for about 30 minutes until he accidently peed in them and then he would have nothing to do with the underwear.  He was right next to the potty when he peed in them, I think he might have been trying to get to the potty.  I know that when he decides to wear underwear all the time, he will have very few accidents.  That is just how Luke does things.

Isn't he cute, even with cereal on his chest.

Wonder Mutt

Wonder Mutt went to the vet yesterday.  He had chewed all the hair off of his hind end again and his skin was looking dark in color.  He was scratching constantly.  The vet said that it is just irritation from fleas and that his skin is inflamed from from the fleas.  So he got a steroid shot, some new flea medication and we are to treat our backyard with some special flea treating solution.  Last night he did not move a muscle and slept so good.  

A rainy day

At Joey's school they started doing something for when it rains, we don't have to get out of our car. I pull up and they radio his class room and tell them to get him ready, then someone walks to his room to get him.  Monica even buckled him in his seat.  Well this is the first time that we had to do this, since they started offering it.  Well this really messed Joey up.  He heard Mrs. Nancy get the radio call and he thought it was the police wanting him.  So when he got to my car he had a very scared look on his face. He had the looked as if he were going to cry.  I think this is the same look that I gave Mom when I missed the bus.  I managed to get him calmed down and he didn't cry, but he truly thought he was wanted by the police for some reason.  This did bring several other conversation, like the police don't want him because he is a good guy and if the police want him they want to help him.

Monday is here

Monday is here.  All people in our home are healthy.  The boys were better by Friday.  Joey was so excited to go to school today.  I am not sure what they are doing this week, it is a surprise for the Mother's Day Tea on Thursday.  He can't wait to take me to school on Thursday.

Luke is happy to have just his Momma home with him today.  He has been eating very well, but last night he ate a huge dinner.  This morning he got up and ate a bowl of cereal and has been eating Mickey Mouse fruit snacks and now pudding.

Luke in the outfit he picked out to wear.  He had to have a ball shirt.

Eating fruit snacks.