Dying Easter Eggs

On Saturday morning, we got up and played outside for a while and then decided to dye Easter eggs.  It took a while to talk Dustin into letting Zeke do anything but watch, but he finally gave in.  Zeke put the eggs in the cups, breaking a few, and got them out.  After he got them out, he wanted to put them in another color so some of them were ugly colors or broken.  He really did like playing in the dye best, luckily with a little Dawn we got it all of his hands and he won't have green hands for church this morning to match his shirt.  In the afernoon, we went to Charlotte for Ruby's birthday celebration.  We always have so much fun visiting with everyone and Zeke loves playing outside there.  He has finally decided to call Travis something that we can understand and so he spent yesterday hollering at him and his Poppy to do what he wanted to do.  He is not at all spoiled....lol.  He hollers Tra-is leaving out the v and PopPop for Poppy.....too cute!

A Beautiful Week

The week leading up to Easter has been the most beautiful week I remember in such a long time.  The temperatures were perfect all week and the sun has been shining daily.  We spent most of the week outside playing.  On Monday and Tuesday, we played outside.  On Wednesday, we took Easter pics and then worked in the yard.  Zeke helped Daddy mow the yard and then we played tball before going to church.  On Thursday, we cooked out, rode his tractor, and played on the swingset.  On Friday, we rode the tractor and played on the swingset.  We did alot of the same stuff, but he loves all of it.

Finishing the deck 3/26-3/27

We finished the deck this weekend.  I shouldn't say we, because Zeke and I did very little, but Mom and Dustin finished our deck.  I was very proud of them because it turned out very nice.  Mom got Zeke his own little rocker like our big ones and he thought it was the coolest thing ever.  It's so funny.  Towards the end, we went out because the weather was so pretty and Zeke "helped" his Daddy.  He followed him around closing screw boxes, carrying pieces of underpinning, and measuring where he thought the boards should go like Daddy did the weekend before using a carpenter's pencil.  It is so cute how he is about his Daddy lately.  He thinks he must do everything just like his Daddy.  Not quite as funny when he points to the tv and says e-it, which in his babble language is idiot.  He watches his Daddy do that and does it too.  I hope he doesn't pick up everything we do.

Key Club DLC

The Friday before spring break we took off to Key Club Leadership Conference in Lake Ozark, MO.  On Friday, we drove from 1030-330.  I took two girls with us.  By the time we got there and got checked in, it was time for some supper.  After supper, we had meetings all evening until 1130.  By that time, we were all ready to hit the bed.  Dustin and Zeke enjoyed the hotel room and being lazy.  On Saturday, we had breakfast, meetings, lunch, meetings, time to rest and go out to eat, and more meetings.  We were busy all day.  We won first place in two categories:  most money raised for district project and most money raised for major emphasis programs (march of dimes, children's miracle network, and unicef).  By the time it was time for the dance the girls just wanted to hang out in the room.  On Sunday, we went to a church service, meetings, and drove home.  We got home by about 5 and when we dropped the girls off at home, Zeke cried, he was losing his buddies :(

3/13-3/14

For the weekend, we went back to the lake.  This time the goal was to build a porch.  Dustin and Mom got up early Saturday and got started and they worked hard.  He has never been much of a carpenter, but his hobbies are changing as we get older, because he really enjoyed the work.  We didn't get the rails put on so we will have to go back during spring break to finish it up.

3/8 back to the dr a week later

On the 8th, we were back at the dr, fifth time in the last four weeks.  I just had that feeling again and not really that much of a reason except I just thought we needed to.  I was right again,  he had a left ear infection.  He has been so lucky to have only had 2 since birth and the other one was in his right ear last April.  He gave us some amoxicillan and Zeke loved it (I always did too). 

3/6-3/7

For the weekend, we headed to the lake.  We got a new pontoon and we worked all weekend getting it really clean and finding a place to store it.  It was such a pretty weekend!

3/1 The Croup

This morning Zeke woke up with the worst cough I have ever heard.  I knew I had to take him to the doc for my own peace of mind and when I got there he said it was good that I brought him right away.  I had heard people talk about the croup before and I thought his cough sounded like it, but I didn't realize kids can have trouble breathing with it.  He gave us three days of steroids and Zeke sounded better by evening, however, he was still pretty sick so I stayed home from work on Tuesday too.

Jill is 26

By my birthday, the following Sunday, Zeke felt much better.  We went to Dad and Cyn's for supper.  Zeke had a blast playing with the girls, he likes to pretend to be big like them.  He is catching up on them though :)

Sick Sick Boy

On Saturday morning February 13, we woke up to Zeke throwing up.  We just thought he had some drainage making him sick to his stomach and we all fell back asleep.  It wasn't long before we realized that just wasn't it.  He continued to throw up everything and then some.  I have never seen him quite so sick.  We got to sick call as soon as they opened at 9, but he had already thrown up about 7 times.  By the time we got his medicine and got him to stop he had thrown up around 10 times.  By that evening, we had a better little boy and thought that he was better.  On Sunday, we decided to run to Jonesboro to get him something for Valentine's Day because we had planned to do that on Saturday.  When we got over there, he started having diarhea.  This continued for about a week.  It was so sad to see him feel so bad :(

Snow Days

We really enjoyed the snow this time, it was the first snow that we were able to play in.  Zeke wasn't sure at first, but when he decided he liked the snow, he didn't want to go in.  We made 2 snowmen, one at Papaw and Meme's and the other at home.

Dustin is 28

For Dustin's birthday, we got together for supper with Lisa, Tommy, and Travis.  We had Zeke's favorite Cu-K for dessert!