Bekham giggling and blowing raspberries at Daddy

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Trae

 Trae never wants his picture taken, but this past week he changed his mind.  I just can't believe how old he is getting.  At his physical, the doctor said Trae's recent growth spurt should be some kind of record.  From November - March he grew 10 INCHES! He now stands at 5'7".
This kid is keeping me running.  I pick him up from track at 4PM and he needs to be to lacrosse at 5PM and finishes up around 7PM.  Then home again for dinner, homework, and off to la-la land.  We don't have time for much of anything, so if I don't stop and talk we'll both be sad, but have to make do with a friendly wave... What's that saying from that Jim Carrey show?... "Good morning, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!"

Spring weather brings ouchies..

Mason was out enjoying the weather with his brother and friends when he bit his tongue. Blood galore! It's almost good that they don't stitch up tongues because if you think about it, it would be killer painful!
He did get cool points from the guys though! One even compared it to a triple paper cut on the tongue... LoL

**If you noticed the little line on the other side of his tongue, that is from when a pen went through it!  It gives the don't run with that in your mouth meaning!**

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More fun with cousins

Mason being a construction worker at the Discovery Playhouse. We had a blast! Very fun place to take all the cousins on another one of our hooky days. Jamison got a bit bored, but he hung in there with us.

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Peace from Bekham

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Bekham in his skull cap from Michelle

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The toothpaste mess

I keep forgetting to mention the toothpaste mess and post a picture.
On this particular day, I was having some very loving thoughts of my boys and thinking what a challenge they were, but they were my world. I then happened to catch a glimpse of the toothpaste disaster and realized I might be trading them in for some new toothpaste. This mess consisted of 2 new tubes of toothpaste (no wonder Mason was complaining.there.was no toothpaste). I thought of making them scrape it off the sink counter (like Ramona was forced to), but instead just made them clean up the mess. Boys! Im afraid of what they will think up next!

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My boys are scaring our neighbors...

So, my cute neighbor came over to let her little boy play with Mason and she wanted to lend her rocking the baby services. We were sitting on the couch chatting when her boy comes to tell us about Jamison's misuse of the pen. It took him explaining it a few times for it to really hit me what, exactly, Jamison was doing with the pen. I ran downstairs to find Jamison, Mason, and the bathroom sink covered in pen! It seems they wanted to see what was inside and to do some painting with the ink.... yeah, I was not impressed... I just stared at them, told them it better get cleaned up, and quietly walked back upstairs. I mean really what was he thinking??
Not too long after, Mason comes upstairs needing some crayons. I ask him what they are going to color. His response? They were going to use the crayons as darts. My neighbor just looked at me and asks if they frequently use crayons as darts... um, no, this is a new one on me.
Needless to say, I'm not sure when she'll be back...

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Who blogs from their phone and wants to give me pointers?  I tried out the blogger app, but was not impressed.  After writing it up it would not send it.  I was very disappointed.  Do any of you log on to the actual blogger website on your phone and blog from there?  I'll have to figure something out because I can't always be at my computer, but I can almost always be found by my phone.

I had so many things I wanted to put in my new post, but heck if I can even remember one thing now.  I guess that is just the way the mommy brain rolls, or at least mine... It's right up there with forgetting to take my camera places or even worse, is having my camera with me and forgetting to take pictures!  UGH!  I have just come to realize that Bekham has this little sensor that tells him when I am getting on the computer to blog. It wakes him from the deepest of sleeps to let me know he needs my attention instead.  And YES, he woke up just a moment ago, and is not very happy with me.  He is semi satisfied by staring at himself in the mirror on the mobile above his swing, but at any moment that binkie of his is going to fly out of his mouth, and he is going to let out a howl of humongous proportions.

Anyway, I just wanted to share with you all that my 5-year-old flooded my bathroom today.  He came running out screaming the toilet water was going everywhere.  I thought about taking my time to go check things out, but the panic in his voice made me run a little faster.  I am so glad I did, but sadly, the newly washed towels sitting by the bathroom door are clean no more.  They were used to make a dam in the doorway and the rest of them were used to soak up the floor.  This was no little load of towels, this is a load from a fully stuffed front loader washing machine... I'm telling you this so you will realize the large amount of water that was on my floor.  So that was my morning just before having to rush Mason to school.

Trae had an A-W-E-S-O-M-E lacrosse game on Saturday, first game of the season and did I mention that it was awesome?  No?  Well it was awesome!  Trae was so on his game.  He floored a few guys and made a few passes that I never thought I would see from this kid.  I'm so super duper proud of him.  Okay, so maybe I shouldn't be saying super duper when talking about a 13-year-old, but my kid is so cool!  I'll have to get some action shots of him next weekend.  Love lacrosse season.

Oh My Heck!  I keep forgetting to post the most exciting news!!  Trae had an allergy test and a soy challenge test done last week and the results were.... Drum Roll please.....  He grew out of his serious soy allergy!! I never in a million yrs expected to hear this.  We got out of there and he asked me for a Snickers bar!  HA HA HA!!  I don't think it will change our eating habits too much, but the stress of these last 4 years can finally end.

Time to blog?... I don't have no stinkin' time...

I say this as Bekham gives me the pouty lip and starts howling.  Yep, life is busy!  Lacrosse practice started a few weeks ago, soccer practice starts tomorrow, Trae decided to do track and those practices started this week, and then let's not forget about the older two having scouts.  The very best time taker is that my sister-in-law is in town with my niece and nephew!!  Woot! Woot!  I feel like I still have not had much time with her, but we've been able to do a few fun things with the kids.  Yes, you heard the underlying meaning... We played hooky!  Shhhh, don't tell on us.... Okay, I just told on myself, but hey, all that matters is that we had fun and even escaped the gloom one day and hit the goldmine of Sunshine! 

Last week was Jamison's big 1-0!  He's so excited to be in the double digits.  Although, he seems to think that this has given him a hallpass to be a snot bucket.  I'm hoping he looses this idea soon or he won't be seeing the light of day after school hours because he'll be stuck in the dungeon by himself.  He had a great time celebrating his birthday at the movie theater with some friends.  We saw Diary of  Wimpy Kid 2 and I think I laughed louder than the kids.  Loved it!  Bekham was great the entire movie.  Jamison had a good giggle over the fact that Bekham was ripping some very loud farts, but at least he didn't do any crying,

Finally, Daddy was able to pay up for a deal he had made with Mason and Jamison:

I will have to catch up with baby pictures next time.  I have a bunch on my phone I need to transfer over.

My poor baby is still one very sick boy. I took him in for his follow-up yesterday and was just floored by the news. I had honestly thought to not even schedule it and then I felt silly for even taking him because he seemed to be doing better.  He was smiling more and would bounce on my lap (which is hilarious because he only bounces with one leg while the other leg stands there pretty stiff.) The dr walks in reads his O2 levels and asks me if I'm ready to admit him to the hospital.  I was stunned.  I tell him not yet, and he says he'll do everything to help me keep him out.  He also found that Bekham has an ear infection, which he says he's never seen in a guy this little.  Even lovelier news...  So from here we keep sucking out his nose, give him treatments at the very least 3x's a day, give him antibiotics, and hope that this is all still enough to keep him out of the hospital.
I haven't slept in days and it is all railroading me today.  I'm worn out and just want my baby healthy again.  So excuse me while I continue my mini meltdown that has turned into an all day crying event.

Sickies at the Smith house

I'm seriously missing Bekham's smiles these day because he is not doing much of it.  We have one very sick baby on our hands and one exhausted Momma trying to do everything possible to keep him out of the hospital.  Our Dr sent us home with an electric suction machine for his nose, actually pretty cool and so much faster than those little blue bulb syringe things.... can I say something that pulls boogers out of your kid's nose is cool?  Oh, well, I just did anyway...  Then of course, we are doing the nebulizer treatments. 
The Dr warned us that Bekham would get so much worse before he got better, and holy hell, he was horrifyingly correct.  He said some other things and I really did try to concentrate, but I was burning up with fever and wanted to keel over and die myself.  I lived through it and we'll get Bekham through this.  These walking the floor nights are really wearing me out though. 
I announced to Jamie that dishes and dinner were now his duty because I don't have time to pee, let alone feed anyone.  He's already been doing it, but now that it has been discussed between, it can officially be his job.
Let's see, Trae won 2nd place at the Davis/Weber Science Olympiad.  We are stinking proud of him.  I was worried he wouldn't be 100% because he was up most the night before sleeping in a snow cave (that he built himself) for scout camp.  He just started practicing for lacrosse and should get his nasty smelling cast off tomorrow!
Here are a few pictures of the chunky monkey

and we'll end with a self portrait of Mason