End of Summer Recap: August


We finished up our summer spending a lot of family time, doing a lot of bubbles, bug hunting, tent making, arts and crafts. I got so used to having Logan home with us all of the time, that I dreaded school starting. As much as I knew that it would be such a wonderful experience for him, I was so nervous and spent much of August watching the days tick off the calendar.



 The Friday before school started, we were able to take Logan to see his class room and meet his teacher. Here are the boys being silly before we left.
 Checking out his work space in his class room.
 There is his locker! How exciting!

 First day of school...doesn't he look ready to go? We are not morning people, so having to be out the door by 7:20am has been a pretty tough adjustment for all of us.


Graham wasn't really sure what was happening, but he was enjoying the fun!

 Finally ready for his first day to begin!



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Summer Recap: July

In early July, Logan attended VBS at our church for the first time. It was such a wonderful experience for him! He really enjoyed it and said that it was "the best playdate EVER!"

 

I spent a lot of one-on-one time with Logan over the summer as we prepared for kindergarten to start in the fall. We spent a lot of that time painting. 
 Graham learned how to drag chairs all across the kitchen, which included getting into everything that was on the counter tops. This particular day it was dumping an entire bag of coffee everywhere....this has totally changed the way we live because nothing is safe now.

 It's a good thing he's cute!

 

At the end of July, we faced our very first ER visit with Graham...to the tune of SEVEN stitches. It was awful and traumatic and....heartbreaking.

 BUT, he was back to his old self really quickly (this was taken the very next morning.)

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Summer Recap: June



We took Logan to see the Roughriders play with his t-ball team (so HOT, but so much fun!)

 In June, we took our first family vacation. We headed over to East Texas to ride a steam engine, then down to Galveston. Here are the boys in their "road trip" shirts (Are we there yet? Are we there yet?)

 

Enjoying the view around where the engine was parked





Riding the train. The boys LOVED it! 



 Then we headed down to Galveston for some R and R.
Seeing the water
 
Enjoying Moody Gardens


 Wrapped up t-ball at the end of June with Daddy handing out trophies to each player

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Summer Recap: May








Mother's Day 2012 (Graham still had his black eye, forever commemorated in my Mother's Day picture from 2012)

  

Last Day of pre-k for Logan (sniff, sniff...you can even tell his teacher had been crying.) They also celebrated his birthday this day because the last day of school was May 23rd.
 Last time to play on the school playground before summer break.
May 25th, 2012--Logan's 5th Birthday
















Shane and I did the March of Dimes together with the Farmer's team
 Logan played t-ball for the first time


 Shane was the coach!


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Mama said there'd be days like this

Saturday was not a fine day at our house. Graham got his first black eye and Logan got his first x-ray. Sigh. 

We had Logan's kindergarten (AACK!) picnic that morning. It was a great oppurtunity for him to play on the playground and to meet some other kids he will be in school with next year. It was kind of a big flop. Logan was getting sick (more on that later) and had zero interest in interacting with anyone. Then, not long after we got there, Graham fell on the steps of the play ground and bumped his eye. I was right there! (Did I mention that I was right there?!) I even caught his arm, but I could not stop his little face from hitting the iron step. I could tell within a few minutes that it was starting to black, but I had NO IDEA that it would turn into the huge shiner it is today.

This is just a couple of hours after being at home:







These were taken a few days later, and you can tell that it started blacking all the way around. Believe it or not, it looks worse now. All green/purple/black...it is just pitiful.  (I will say that this will probably not be the last black eye that this kid gets. Just throwing that out there. He's a tough one!)







Meanwhile.....Logan is getting more and more sick as the day goes on. In the afternoon, we started thinking that maybe he was coming down with something. By 6:30pm, we had one of those parenting moments where we both looked at each other and just started moving. We KNEW he was sick. Really sick. I was in the middle of cooking dinner and tending to Graham with his blackened eye and in his worst part of the day (he is in bed by 7pm, usually.) So, Shane took Logan to the doctor on his own. By the time they got there, he was completely lethargic, slumped over in the chair and not responding too much. They almost sent them to the ER, but decided to see him there. (Which, I am sooooo grateful for because who knows how long they would have had to wait at the ER.) They suspected that it was pneumonia. They did the nebulizer which helped his chest sound a little better, but did not help his stats. They did the chest x-ray, which did not show pneumonia, thank God. Turned out that he had some crazy strand of strep that has been going around that has bronchial affects. Immediately after the nebulizer, Shane said he was like a different kid. Poor thing just could not get enough air. It just breaks my heart to think about.
I am so grateful to Shane for being an awesome Daddy. I feel incredibly blessed to have a husband that I trust 100% to take care of my kids, even in such a stressful and intense situation. He explained the nebulizer and x-ray to Logan, and Logan handled it all awesome. 
Here is a picture of him back home that night, settled into his "bed" on the floor of our room. (We let him sleep a few nights there while he was recovering.) He went back to school Wednesday and did t-ball practice tonight, so I think he's pretty much 100%. It was so scary, but thank goodness for awesome doctors!





And, now....poor Graham has been running fever since yesterday. I immediately took him to the doctor assuming it was strep and scared to death of the bronchial reaction that Logan had. The strep culture came back negative, however, since I was so "immediate" in taking him, they said it might have been too early to show. We have him on antibiotics anyways to fend of either strep or an ear infection, but he was still running over 102 degrees tonight. So, now I'm thinking maybe it's viral....I spent last night sleeping on an air mattress in his room, and plan to do the same tonight. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we are past the worst of it! Here's hoping for a healthy summer coming our way...




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