Summer Update

What has happened that this blog title is "Summer Update"?! I guess a girl needs to update her blog at least once every two to three months or so. This post may be way too long with pictures, but there are so many cute ones to share!

Here are a few pictures promised from the last post. These are from Gabe's stay in the hospital. When I was taking the pictures, I told him that I had to document his first and ONLY trip to the ER/hospital. Somehow I have a feeling that there will be more trips in the future.

Here is Gabe in the ER...this tiny bottle of Pedialyte was the only thing that made him stop crying.

Gabe was actually feeling better in the picture, but it looks so sad that he had his hand with the IV in it and taped down to a splint. They had to do that because he managed to rip the IV out the first time.

And this was the exciting ride OUT of the hospital! Not bad to ride to the hospital in a red ambulance and out of the hospital in a cute red wagon.

Now on to happier moments in June. Father's Day was such a fun day. Sunday morning was packed with activities at church, but we had a nice lunch at our house with the Murrells. It was fun for Bill to have all of his kids in one place.

Peter and Joshua...

Peter and Gabe...

My dad's birthday is June 28th but we had a late celebration with him. We made him an Oreo pudding pie. As you can tell, the boys just couldn't wait to dig in!

A very fun part of our summer has been enjoying extra boys on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I have been babysitting the Hendrix boys; Toby is almost two years older than Joshua, and Bear & Gabe are only 2 weeks apart in age. Here are some of our fun outings...

Toby and Joshua at our church's playground...

We enjoyed a mid-morning trip to a duck pond and park. By the time we left it was over 100 degrees and the car ride home smelled like sweaty boys! Bear was so sweet to share some of the stale bread with Gabe...

Toby and Joshua spotted a cute squirrel who also loved the bread!

Joshua showing off his new super big smile. I love it when he smiles so big it makes his eyes squint!

We also went to a cute sprinkler park...it was a short-lived outing because of an accident with Gabe. I have been wondering if I should even write about this because of some guilt I have felt over the situation...I am pretty sure every mom goes through this at some point when one of their children gets hurt. But, if this story helps another child avoid an injury, then it it worth telling! Gabe, Josh & Toby were running around the sprinkler park with no shoes on, and I didn't think anything of it because they were in water. Josh and Toby had run over to a nearby playground and sandbox, and Gabe followed behind. But Gabe happened to walk right over a metal grate that was on the ground in between the sprinkler area and the sand box. I guess as soon as he felt the hot sensation on his feet, he froze and began to scream. I immediately ran over there and realized what had happened. I felt the grate and it was burning hot, and this was at 10:15am. His feet formed blisters immediately and I took him to the doctor.

His feet healed even quicker than the doctor expected and has not had any permanent damage. Now, I am much more cautious about the environment we are in and check everything out before hand...I am constantly checking the temperature of the play equipment the boys are on and anything else around...and we wear shoes to sprinkler parks!

More updates to come!