Our little leprechauns

 

 

The fireman hat gets a lot of mileage around here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Monster trucks

One of Tommy's favorite netflix shows is all about monster trucks, so when the Monster Jam came last week I could resist taking him and Grandpa Pat.

Excited out his gourd, he could hardly wait to leave the house.

 

Testing out his new ear muffs on Charlie.

Of course the only show times were at regular nap time, or at bed time. I chose nap time" and Tommy nearly made it. He only fell asleep during the last 3 (and loudest) runs. We didn't realize it, but he's also incubating the stomach flu in this video.

He couldn't make it through the show, but riding on Grandpa Pat's cart proved too exciting to stay asleep.

 

 

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We're ready for spring...

We haven't seen our lawn for 2 months. It's still covered by about 2 feet of snow because as a little melts we pick up a bit more. We recently thought that bowling would be a good winter-time activity. The boys had a really good time!

Both our boys love to laugh, but Charlie's our big giggle-guy. In fact, I had to leave church twice today because he just wouldn't stop laughing and squealing. This particular night he found his octopus highly amusing.

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Bye Grandma!

Thanks for a great visit!

This last video was a actually a few weeks ago. Charlie rarely falls asleep, much less this soundly.

 

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I passed "you shall not pass", storm Gandalf

Most of you don't know that Charlie has different pupil sizes. His pediatrician isn't worried but referred us to a specialist anyway, who also isn't worried, but recommended we go ahead and get an MRI for the remote chance it's a neural blastoma. Great.

Mom came up Thursday night to help, in time for snowmageddon. It took about 3 hours to get home. Because the streets werent thoroughly plowed, my truck couldn't make it up the hill, and after several tries, she had to hoof-it about 150 feet in 12-14 inches. Once we ate and got Tommy in bed, I donned my new winter work-wear (thank you D!), helped my neighbors tow my truck up the hill, and cleared a few driveways.

The MRI was scheduled for 630am the next morning. When I got up about 430 am, there was another 18+ inches on the drive, and our culdesac hadn't been plowed yet.

After some hand shoveling. I shoveled the drive and part of the street so I could get a running start (the road was pretty good just outside the culdesac).

We made it to the main drag!

This was about 530am.

After narrowly dodging several idiots heading back uphill to the hospital, this was the clock in the waiting room. We made it!

 

Food was restricted for the MRI, but Charlie was in great spirits despite being hungry and up way too early.

Tommy likes to play with Katie's hair bands. They end up everywhere, like in my shoes.

 

After hours of shoveling snow, white-knuckle driving, an hour of forms and waiting, the NP sent us home because he's still coughing a bit from croup. This is despite Katie discussing with the hospital a couple days ago, and being reassured he'd be fine unless he was deathly ill and coughing profusely. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Oh we'll, at least we have a nice weekend with grandma, covered in about 30" of gorgeous snow!

Taking a nap with grandma.

 

 

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