My Kids Love Watermelon?

T went out of town for the weekend and on his way back he stopped at a roadside stand and bought a watermelon. The kids were excited to cut it and eat it. Here they are enjoying it!

My Kids' First Baseball Game

The other weekend we took the kids to their first major league baseball game. It was great fun. They really enjoyed it. Z learned how to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" so we were excited to take him to a game.

Here is T and Z doing the "wave".

E really loved doing the wave and did it all three times it came around.

My Husband's Dragon Boat Races

Each each T's hospital does the dragon boat races. A few weeks ago they participated again. It was great fun. The weather was mild enough for us to come out and watch. The kids enjoyed watching all the events. T's team won the competition after a grueling day on the water!

Z got a bit bored waiting around and E fell off the jungle gym and I thought she might have broken her arm (she didn't thankfully!)

My Family's Trip to the Forest

Now that the weather has cooled off, we've been able to go for our first walk in the forest since the spring. Guess who was the first one in the truck! Sydney!

After we got home, the kids enjoyed getting the halloween stuff out and jumping around.

My Daughter's Racoon

E's kindy class has a stuffed raccoon that each child gets to take home for one weekend. A few weekends ago, E got to take it home. The child then take a few photos and write a journal entry to put in a book to let the class know what Chester did over the course of the week. We had lots of fun doing the following....

We took Chester to the grocery store to find food items that started with the letter P since that what she was learning about.

Chester also went to the regional airport which has a lunch spot, where we had lunch and watched the airplanes take off and land. We always enjoy that.

My E photos

So you saw the Mark O'Shea video. Here are our own real pictures. Here is E in the CVICU when she had her surgery at three months old. Here she is with all her tubes, on the vent, with her chest tubes (the yellow ones), blood pressure cuff on her ankle and restraints. It is hard to believe that we all were there and had to do that. I thank God every day for all the doctors and nurses and staff that helped us.



And here we are today in the grocery store, doing our kindergarten homework: taking a photo of our class "pet" Chester the raccoon and finding foods that begin with the letter "P" like peaches and plums, over 5 years later. Just unbelievable. Hard to believe that it is the same kid.

There are so many emotions that go along with all of this. We are simply just thankful for each day that we have.