One year older!

We celebrated Craig's Birthday this past week, he is now one year older (next stop is the big 30!).  Unfortunately, Craig's birthday always seems to land on the day when so much is going on!  He did get two cakes, on two different days, and steak for dinner, however.  We tried cakes in the Crockpot, this was somewhat successful.  We are so grateful for Craig and all that he does!!!  We love him!  Hope he had a wonderful birthday!

An eventful Saturday!

Besides fixing the car last Saturday, we also took Lucas to the Patton Township Safety Fair.  Lucas was able to put out a fire with a hose, which he throughly enjoyed (probably because he loves water)!  He took a little ride in the lift of a fire truck, bounced in a couple of bounce houses, and had a sucker.  He was almost blown away when a helicopter was trying to land.   All in all a successful event for Lucas.

 

After that we headed down to the insect fair on campus.  Though we didn't try the chocolate covered crickets, Lucas did touch a tarantula, a walking stick, and a beetle!  He thought this was a riot and didn't even hesitate.  We also spent time in a tent with Monarch Butterflies!

Car Fixed?

This past Saturday Craig found himself once again under the car, trying to fix the hole in the exhaust!  After several hours of hard labor, success (we hope)!  The car doesn't roar to a start every morning, thankfully, especially at 5:30 in the morning.  Thanks Craig!

Who would have thought?

Since we have been home from vacation, Lucas has been really whiny!  I mean really, really whiny!  And for almost two weeks Lucas has been coughing!  At first I thought he might have allergies and was just trying to clear his throat, like his dad does.  I talked to a nurse who told us that if it didn't clear up within the next couple of days they would like to see him.  We put him on a cough suppressant, but unfortunately it just got worse and then his nose started to run.  So yesterday I took him to the doctor, expecting them to say it looks like he has a cold, there is nothing we can do, put a humidifier in his room.  Not exactly the answer we got.  Instead we took a trip down stairs to get an x-ray, and then went back upstairs for the doctor to tell us that he most likely has pneumonia.  For those of you that are thinking to yourself, 'wait a minute we saw and hung out with Lucas yesterday or the day before that or the day before that', don't be alarmed I looked it up and supposedly it is not contagious and he is now on some strong antibiotics.  So if you see Lucas it is not necessary for you to grab your children and run in the opposite direction unless you feel it is necessary!  By the way it was a great start to the week when the weekend had already been very busy!  You know those weekends that you think did we even have a weekend? Oh well.

Wow, Awesome!

I just thought that I needed to document this moment, not to say that Craig doesn't help out around the house because he does, but Craig has this uncanny ability to ask me if I need help at the moment I'm just finishing whatever it is I'm doing.  Today though, he asked me much earlier and I could actually put him to work.  Craig took out the trash and Lucas carried the recycling container, (he looked so cute and so proud carrying the recycle basket) it was awesome!  Lucas was happy because he was helping, I was happy because Craig was helping, I don't know if Craig was happy but it was a very happy blissful moment.

Colors!?!

Just this past week Lucas came up to us pointed to his shirt and said, "orange" which was in fact the color of the shirt he was wearing, and then he preceded to tell us that his pants were blue, denim is blue right?  We were so excited!  Quizzed him a couple of times through out the day about the color of his shirt and pants, praised him like crazy, he lives off of praise!  However, the next day I start asking him what color his shirt was, or what color the bus was, or the block, etc.  He got all of them wrong or he reverted back to associating them with the color of Sesame Street Characters.  I suspect he is just giving me a hard time, but honestly who knows, maybe it was a one time thing.  I guess time will tell!  Maybe next time I will be sneaky in how I ask him.

It's raining, It's pouring, The old man is snoring!

It has been raining constantly since last Saturday evening.  That is one thing that I don't like about Pennsylvania, the fact that it rains and rains and rains for days.  Not to mentioned that overcasts skies that we had several days before it actually started to rain.  What a bummer!  It was not until late Wednesday night that the rain finally stopped.  Here is hoping for some sunshine!