The fun begins

Starting in January, Easton began having ear infections again and complaining weekly of having headaches.  It is so odd to have a 4 year old complain of having head aches, especially when you have a history of brain tumors in your family.  It is also hard when the child never slows down for even a second but consistently tells you that he is in pain...what to do, what to do?  We began taking him to the dr often and he would always have an ear infection or a sinus infection...but would get better with the antiobiotics.  His tubes had only been out for a few weeks, so the thought of having to go back in with those seemed a little hasty--but was becoming more and more evident.  We went to the ENT and he recommended waiting and I am pretty sure that he thought I was one of those "over the top moms" based on previous experiences with me...and told us to come back in 30 days if things weren't better...I am pretty sure that my prayer at that moment was not one of grace...but thankfully God is forgiving...and we left that day without an incident.  I did call our pedicatrician back and ask to have a CT scan to rule anything out with the headaches--and she agreed and said that she felt certain that it was the sinus issue, but would help when we returned to the ENT (man, was she right!).  When we went for the CT scan, we were ready to have to put Easton to sleep--but he amazed us all and went through the whole thing without the need for any medicine.  He was such a big boy and we were so proud of him!  The CT scan showed severely impacted sinuses...and ultimately pushed the ENT to remove his adenoids, clean out his sinuses, and put in new tubes.  He told me that it was one of the worst cases of sinus disease that he had ever seen!  That is just terrible!  Now, we have done the surgery and God is so good to take care of my little man...Easton seems to be doing well and hopefully will be continue to do well in the months to come!  Praise the Lord!

Another year

Every year, we set the kids up for Christmas pictures and I am so amazed every year at how much they have grown.  I am also so proud of them that they still adore each other and daily try to show each other.  It sure makes me happy to watch them--and know that they are building such an important relationship in their lives. 

Halloween 2010

It is always fun trying to decide what the kids will be each Halloween and they make me laugh every year because they always want to compliment each other...or Elle want to compliment Easton--so he dictates what their theme is going to be each year.  It is so sweet--but a little sad for Elle since she is the one that always compromises...She ends up loving whatever she picks--so it is all good!  I do love her for being that sweet!  They are wonderful children!!

Easton trying out his shooting skills

Those of you that know how I was about guns when we first had Easton--know that this is HUGE that I am allowing my four year old to be able to shoot a real gun!  My parents know that Easton loves to make guns out of anything and everything and they got their BB gun out and allowed him to try to shoot targets with it...Jason was so excited and my dad and he spent almost an hour working with Easton.  Easton was all smiles and just couldn't get enough of it.  We stressed to him the importance of being safe when shooting a real gun, and he listened--but he is still only four--and the gun will be locked up in the safe.  Seriously, boys are crazy...

Finally finished treatments

Easton has been doing treatments at the chiropractor for the past 6 months...and he is finally done.  He continues to be able to eat anything and everything and is growing like a weed!  We are so excited that God brought us this treatment and that He has blessed our family so abundantly!

Easton started preschool

Well, after 3 years on the waiting list at the EEC at Green Acres, Easton is finally in! I have turned down the call a few times, because it wasn't the perfect scenerio--so this time when they called I just knew I needed to say yes. He is in the three year old class and now that he is potty trained...things are so much easier! It was a big transition from being at Mimi's (the lady that has kept him since he was a year old) and around the same friends he has been with for so many years...but after a little over a week, he loves it! The first few days were really rough for me and Jason and I had to switch our morning routines so that he could drop him off. I just couldn't handle the crying and begging me not to go! That is almost like him reaching into chest and ripping my heart out!! I would find myself crying on the way to work every morning and that it just TOO much! So, I took one week off and finally took him back on this last Friday. This time, he ran in and as he was running said, "oh mom, my friends are already here--I've got to go" without even looking back---I called him back over and said, "do I get a kiss?" He said, "oh, mom!"...So--I don't know which one is better... :)

Elle at Pine Cove

Elle was so excited this year to be able to go to Pine Cove! I had really wanted her to go to overnight camp, but when I found out that all of her friends just went to Day Camp--we changed our minds and sent her to Day Camp. It was still fantastic...but she did come home after the first day and say that she wanted to spend the night--with or without her friends! So, she is now officially pre-registered for overnight camp next year! They spent the week talking about Gideon and Elle seemed to enjoy the study and worship time immensely. Each day we were able to look at the website and see fun things that they were doing--here are a few of the pictures here...

What a huge blessing!