We have a new baby in the house, Baby “C”. He’s absolutely adorable and we are blessed that he is happy, eats well and sleeps through the night (all but twice). As always, we’re not too sure how long he’ll be with us but baby time is always fun.
We still have Baby “A” and he’s rolling around everywhere and really getting a funny personality. Looks like he’ll be moving to his forever home here soon and will be truly missed.
Five boys in the house is quite an adventure!

Hope you had a wonderful celebration, Papa. We love you!

Carlos got stung by a bee yesterday afternoon, in the hand. It did the usual hurting and swelling that came down with Benadryl and ice. Around 4:30 this morning, though, he was miserable. It was itching, hot and very swollen.
We had speech therapy this morning at Harrison in Silverdale, and dropped down to the ER to have it looked at. With his past history with bee stings (click here for that story) I was worried. The doctor said it was getting infected and put him on antibiotics. Seems like we’ve done this with Carlos not so long ago. I don’t tend to trust the Harrison ER so we made an appt with our pediatrician’s office for this afternoon. Second opinion was that it was an allergic reaction, to continue with the Benadryl, ice and elevation and see how it is tomorrow.
Fingers are crossed that poor Carlos gets a break!

Nana always comes up with great projects and this one didn’t disappoint. Kick the can ice cream! It did take a total of 20 minutes of kicking coffee cans around, and we didn’t quite have enough ice to make the ice cream firm but it was tasty and fun to do. Hoping to get the recipe posted here soon.

The kids weren’t all that happy to hear that I would be their teacher for the summer. An hour per day on weekdays, doing workbook pages and reading. It’s not too much to ask, hoping we can avoid the summer slide. They are all doing their work, though, with few complaints!

Levi’s class celebrated the end of the year with a bowling party. We could only be at half of the party because we had to get to the last half of Carlos’ class picnic but our guys love to bowl. Bumpers on, they did pretty well. I love Levi’s form where he kicks his back leg up just like my dad did when we used to go bowling.

It was Fishing Derby Day at Island Lake yesterday so I took Levi, Carlos, Trey and Alice out for some fun. It was the coolest set up, each of the kids got a tshirt and new fishing pole to use and keep! They had a seasoned fisherman helping out so each child caught their limit (2 fish), then another volunteer cleaned the fish for the kids to take home. It was a perfect morning. The kids can’t wait to go fishing again and we had trout for dinner.

Here are just a couple of shots from Carlos’ class picnic. We went out to Fort Ward and met up with his class. It was quite the hike to get to the picnic spot but Carlos and Trey spent part of the time walking down the path holding hands. It was very sweet. Then they found the horsetails and attacked me…not so sweet. Ah, the life of a mama with boys.

We braved the weather (warm at times, cold at times) and kept up our last week of school camping tradition. Stayed the 1st night in Maymay’s trailer then moved over to the tent. So much fun, glad to be officially on summer vacation.
Got some great pics of bed head….and all the flavors of marshmallows I found at the Evil Empire. I have to say, the kids loved them all but I really only liked the caramel ones.

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY, DAD! I am lucky to have such a caring, supportive, funny and loving man to call my dad.