Peyton’s 6th Birthday

 

Ok, when did a birthday turn into a birth”week” or longer??  I guess it’s always been that way at our house, but wow, this has been exhausting, although a lot of fun and Peyton has really enjoyed himself!!

Last Sunday was the start of everything.  We planned a birthday party and a little cookout for Peyton’s family birthday.  All of our families came over and helped us celebrate.  I really enjoyed having everyone here, although the kids spent most of the time outside and I don’t really think anyone saw Peyton except for presents and cake time! 

Peyton was very happy to get a ball bag for all of his baseball gear from his mom-mom and pop-pop.  I think Jason and I are equally as excited since it’s now much easier to carry all that stuff across the field too!

Here’s his birthday cake for this party too.  I know it doesn’t look like much, but it  is the best and easiest ice cream cake I have ever made.  It’s made with ice cream sandwiches, chocolate pudding, crushed oreos and cool whip!  YUM!!!

Peyton’s actual birthday was the 21st.  Although he had school that day he got a couple of presents from us that night.  As soon as I walked thru the door from work he wanted to know where I hid his presents!  Just look how nice he was to allow his little brother to help open them.

 

He also got to pick what he wanted for dinner.  Of course, it was not for mom to cook, but rather his favorite pizza place!

And FINALLY, we had a little party this weekend for some of Peyton’s school friends.  He invited a few friends from school and we planned to roast hotdogs and marshmallows over the fire pit.  I didn’t really plan any games or activities for the kids and it’s a good thing because they spent the entire party chasing each other around the yard!  Boys can be sooo easy at times!!!

One More Appointment to GO!!!

Jaxson had three doctor appointments on Tuesday.  We went back to Johns Hopkins for a follow up with Dr. Tunkel about the ear tubes and a hearing test.  Since we were already going to the hospital I decided to make an appointment with the ortho doctor for Jaxson’s checkup so we finally got to meet Dr. Ain. 

All of the appointments went very well and we were very pleased.   Dr. Tunkel is happy with the placement of the tubes and the hearing test showed improvement in Jaxson’s hearing so it looks like the tubes are doing their job! YEAH!!!

Dr. Ain was also very nice.  We didn’t really spend a whole lot of time with him since Jax is doing so well and we didn’t have many questions.  He watched him walk around the room a little, checked his back and his hips.  Now we only need to see him once a year!!!! 

We have one more appointment coming up with Dr. Hoover-Fong in a couple of weeks to go over Jaxson’s overall care for his achondroplasia.  After that we shouldn’t have any more appointments for at least 6 months!  God, that will be so nice.  It’s great living so close to these absolutely amazing hospitals, but I’ll be happy to not have to make that drive for a little while. 

Happy Easter (a little late….)

Ok, so it’s been quite a while since our last post and I’m really running late on the Easter post, but life is just CRAZY!  I was going over the calendar of everything we have going on and I honestly don’t have a free Saturday between now and June!  GEEZ!!  Life is good though, even though we are very busy it’s mostly fun stuff we have scheduled. 

Anyway, Easter was great.  We couldn’t have asked for better weather around here.  I actually got my first sunburn of the year!  Not that I ever get anything else being so fair skinned, but hey, it was great to sit outside at with my inlaws and again with my family to enjoy all of the Easter Egg Hunts and time with our families.  Here are a few pictures of our day.

Peyton and Jaxson had a great time dyeing Easter eggs.  Oh and Kim, we did get lucky enough to get the wax crayon so they could write their names of the eggs, but we only got 3 colors.

 

And of course, the Easter baskets……..

Can you tell Jaxson was really excited about his new Elmo coloring book?

The Easter bunny finally found some new hats for Jaxson that fit.  And Jax was nice enough to share that prized Elmo coloring book with his brother!

Here is one of the three, yes three, Easter Egg Hunts the boys had.