totally drained....

this post isn't going to have much in it....

i'm exhausted....

i'm tired....

i'm taking Kasen to the doctor tomorrow instead of thursday....

(yes...I am working tomorrow until 2:30 and then leaving to go to Dallas....)

i've had a headache ALL day....well actually ALL week....

we are going to bartlesville thursday to watch Jeff play in his final baseball games as a high school senior...and staying for the weekend...

I hope it is a relaxing visit.....because I desperately need it

but I DO have the CUTEST kids EVER......

laughing boys!

Here is a video of the kids laughing at each other. When one of them starts laughing the other laughs too. They are so funny together....and I can already tell that when they are older they are going to be CRAZY together!

DOC band pics

Here are some pictures of Kasen in his DOC Band. When we got it, it was just plain white. We put stickers on it first and then had it painted this week while we were in Dallas for his appointment. He now matches Braden & Billy and has a Boston Red Sox "hat." And he is SUPER cute in it!! There is also a pic to shows him sleeping in it, and it does not bother him at all!! (Thank goodness)

pictures

*Braden being silly*

*bath-time!*

*cutie-pie*

*found them sleeping together like this*

-notice they are laying the same- *sweet baby*

Life in fast forward

As you can probably tell from the title of this post our lives have been busy...to say the least! Between work and driving back and forth to Dallas for Kasen's appointments I feel like the last 2-3 weeks have just flown by....and I don't like it. The boys are getting so big, it is really hard for me to believe that Braden will be 3 next month, even though he acts like he is 5 most of the time! We have been having some discipline problems with him and I really think it is still from me starting work. He is just having a harder time adjusting, but I just keep telling myself that he will get there. I also have to keep reminding myself that is he a 3 year old and that is just how they are.

Kasen is doing really well with his DOC band. At his appointment (or should I say 2 appointments) they said that his growth looks excellent and that at our next appointment next week they will be able to give us a better estimate on how long he will have to wear it. They make "headsicles" (a mold of his head on a stick) to judge their growth by. We will have a mold of the before and the after when it is all over with! He has rolled a couple of times, but we are still working on that area. He is doing Physical Therapy (PT) once a week and it seems to be helping. But I have noticed that he has been tilting his head a little more the past 2 days than usual. I personally think it is from being stuck in the car seat for 2 days (after his appointment on Thursday I had to drive back on Friday because he had a strawberry the size of a quarter on the back of his head). Driving down there 2x a week is already old, and hopefully we can get in the routine of checking his head before we head home on days of his appointment to try to cut out on the double trips.

As for Billy & I, we are doing great. Just working hard and trying to keep it all together during the busy weeks! I came across a quote in a magazine tonight and I think it pretty much sums it up:

*As a couple we don't lead and follow. We stumble forward together*-unknown

a story in pictures!

*A Day Out With Thomas the Train*

*SOOOOO excited*

*Waiting on Thomas!*

*Watching Thomas arrive @ the Station*

*Riding Thomas the Train*

*The boys riding the train*

*Look I got my ticket punched*

*Mommy & Braden
*Daddy & Braden*

*Braden & Thomas*

As you can probably tell from the pictures our Day Out with Thomas was LOTS of fun!! Braden really enjoyed it and I could put 85 more pics of it on here, but you probably don't care to see that many pics!!

Dallas x 3

This week was so crazy!! It started out with taking Braden to ride Thomas the Train on Sunday. We went to Grapevine, TX and first stopped at Bass Pro Shop so that Billy could "look" and they actually had an easter egg hunt while we were there so Braden enjoyed that. But he would NOT get his picture made with the Easter Bunny...he said it was "scary." After the Bass Pro Shop we headed to Grapevine for "A Day Out with Thomas", there were quite a few people there and it was cold and windy, but other than that Braden had a blast. His favorite part was going to the tent were they had a HUGE track with probably 5-10 toy trains running on it, so we stood and watched that for a while. We then headed to the tent were he could play with the Thomas train sets, he liked that Ok I guess, I think he would have liked it better if there were not 200 other little kids that he had to share with! We then had a corn dog for lunch and boarded "Thomas" for our 30 minute ride. We took Braden to do it last year, but he really understood everything so much better this year. He now thinks that everytime we go to take Kasen to the doctor in Dallas that he is going to get to ride Thomas.
We spent the night Sunday night and then headed to the Doctor for Kasen on Monday afternoon. We got there and the DOC Band did not fit him right so they re-took the
3D pics and we headed back home. Tuesday and Wednesday I worked and then Thursday we took Kasen back down to Dallas to get his band. It did fit this time and it really doesn't seem to bother him at all. When they put it on his head he just smiled and laughed like he always does! (Thank goodness he is easy going!) We did a little shopping Thursday and then headed home. Friday morning when I got up and fed Kasen and we took the hat off there were some red spots on his head (which are normal) so I did what Micheal (the Dr.) told me to do. I took the Band off and timed to see how long it took the spots to go away. If they went away in an hour we could put it back on and not worry. WELL....3 hours later we still had red spots, so I called down there and they wanted me to bring him back in so they could evaluate and adjust the band! So we loaded up and headed back to the doctor! If you are keeping count that makes 3 trips to Dallas this week!
Needless to say it has been a long exhausting week, but the boys handled it well and Kasen doesn't seem to mind his band, so I think it was a GREAT week because of that!!

I will post pics later, I've got to get this house clean!

no Band today

We went to get Kasen's band put on today, but it didn't quite fit the way they wanted it to. They are making him another one (actually the lady that invented the DOC Band and owns the company is hand making his). We will be going back on Thursday to pick it up. I should have taken some pics of him with the one on today but we were talking to the therapist and I never got out the camera!! So we will just have to wait until Thursday to post some pics!

what a crazy week

Well I started work this week in the Women's Center and I love it. The first day was hard on my because I could not sleep the night before, I think the last time I looked at the clock it was around 3 a.m. and my alarm went off at 5:15 a.m. So I was totally WIPED before I even got to work. By the end of the day I had a headache like no other and was ready to crawl in bed. I slept really well Monday night and Tuesday at work was so much better, because I was actually rested and feeling good. I haven't done much yet, just learning where everything is and how everything works, but I already love it. I am just so happy that I am finally getting to use everything I learned in school....and glad that I remember it all!!

The boys are adjusting ok I guess, Kasen doesn't really know the difference but Braden on the other hand is NOT liking it at ALL. Monday when I got home he didn't really say much, but Tuesday while Braden, Billy & Kasen were waiting on me to get home Billy had told Braden that I would be home pretty soon and his reply was "I don't care what time mom comes home." When I got home he told me to take off my nurse clothes because our house is not a nurse house it is a NORMAL house. He will adjust soon I'm sure....we all will. It seems like everything has been turned upside down this week with all of the adjustments...but it will all straighten out soon!