Tarkiln Bayou

Today after I got up we went to Tarkiln Bayou Park. It is about 15 minutes from the house. The trail is all concrete or a wood walk way. At first we let Luke walk, but then he wouldn't walk anymore. He kept saying "No!" Of course, he didn't want to get in the stroller either, but once he did he was fine. Had he not got in the stroller we would still be at Tarklin Bayou State Park.

Me and the boys at the end of the walk way.We are goofy.

You can see the bottoms of the trees were black from a fire.

Joey thought it was really cool to learn about forest fires and prescribed burns.

Kev and Joey, because Luke is to cool to sit up there with them.

Luke enjoying a stroll with his blanket.

Here is an endangered Pitcher Plant.

There were several of them. Tarkiln Bayou is known for Pitcher plants.

Checking out the water.

Just the view

Walking

Luke was discovering everything.

Daddy and Luke

Checking it all out.

Nurses truly are the most kind creatures ever.

I swear these boys are going to be the death of me. So the day I die I hope that someone says it was Joey and Luke's fault. I was helping get Joey ready for school. I said "Luke come on we have to take Joey to school." Here Luke comes crunching on something. I didn't know what it was so I ask him to spit it out and it looked liked a pill. I walked in the bathroom and there were 50-60 Tylenol pills on the floor. I didn't freak out, I just told Luke to spit and I tried to get all white out of his mouth. Then I found 2 half chewed pills. I called Pine Forest and told Kev. I dropped Joey off at school and Luke went to the ER. Kev met us at the ER.

As a nurse, I have seen several things done that I would never want done to my babies. Not the normal things like IV's or blood sticks or shots, I am talking about things that I can't imagine and would never want done to myself. Today I went through it. Luke had to have an NG tube to get charcoal. They wrapped him up and then me and Kev had to help hold him down while two very kind caring nurses put the tube down his nose into his stomach. They started to put the charcoal in and I swear I am not joking there was a hole in the tube. I freaked, if I had been in this nurse's shoes I would never ever had freaked, but as Luke's mom I freaked. She calmed me down just like I would have done to any of the patients or families I deal with. She cut the bad part off and made the faulty tube work.

The next 4 hours we waited in the ER so we could determine if his tylenol levels were high or fine. The next several hours were long. Luke was as good as a 21 month old can be. Kev was right there helping me get through this until he had to get Joey from school. At 1:45 they came in and said that his levels were fine and he could go home.

I know that the nurses just were doing there job, but I know today that I felt just exactly what a nurse can do and I hope I have made my patients and families feel like that.

As far as how he got the Tylenol, well we aren't 100% sure. I just know that the baby lock was on. He climbed on the toilet seat and all I can figure is he reached under it. I figure he must have knocked it down and then got the top off somehow. Because the top was on the floor and so were the Tylenol, but the bottle was upside down in the locked cabinet. We are rearranging now, all drugs are going in the spare bedroom medicine cabinet with a lock and the only things that will be kept in our bathroom are deoderant and toothpaste which will also be locked.

It never fails

Luke fell asleep in the car on the way to get Joey. I found Diane, Lily's mom, and she volunteered to go get Joey for me while Luke slept. I get Joey in the car and he throws a fit over not getting his Bingo prize. You know it is some really cheap piece of plastic. He cries so hard that he wakes Luke, so I just walked him back in the school. His teacher was like what are you doing back. I told her that he had to get his Bingo prize. I told her that it was super important. She couldn't believe he still remembered. Apparently, she told them that their prizes from Bingo would be in their backpacks. She missed Joey's backpack, so they were going to put his in his cubby.

Joey got a package yesterday from Granny with shorts in it. Luke got a package from Granny today with shorts and 2 shirts. I got a package from Granny today and I was sure it was something for the boys, but it was for me. She got me 3 pair of shorts and 2 shirts. I was so excited and thankful. Thanks Mom!!!

New stone

Today our stepping stone was ready to place out, so the boys did this. They both were very impressed with it.

The old stone we are replacing as you can see it has really gotten beat up.The placing by the tree.

Joey and Luke checking it out.

Joey ran his finger over every letter and number.

Our stones by the tree.

Outdoors

Since the weather has been grand, we spent a lot of time outside today. The boys have been playing on the swing set and loving every minute of it.

Joey with his lizard, this hatched out of an egg. He thinks it is very coolLuke likes to climb up on that glider.

Just Luke enjoying the glider

Luke likes to climb on this.

Everything is Grand

This is a picture Joey did at school.Luke is reading on of his favorite books and this is his favorite page. It has lots of food on it. He pretends to eat everything on the page.

Here is my fireman.

Thomas' stepping stone

We weren't able to make Thomas' stepping stone on his birthday because of the weather. We worked on it tonight. I found these cool glow in the dark stars to decorate the stone, I figured a 6 year old boy would think anything glow in the dark would be awesome. We didn't have anything planned out this year. Joey brought home a gem from school today and he add it also. It is the plan round stone. I thought it turned out OK.