It's been a little over 3 weeks since my last post and man has a lot happened during that 3 week time. The Beach, the hospital, chemo, potty trainED, 5 months and first foods, and Debby.
On June 9th, we found ourselves at the beach for a wonderful week!!! Arnett's mom, dad, aunt, uncle, cousins, and extended cousins go together every year. It was something we had been looking forward to for a while now and we had a great time. Zeke absolutely LOVED the beach. I'm a horrible mom in that I didn't take too many pictures while we were there. It was just too hard to lug 2 children, a boatload of stuff, and a camera down to the beach everyday!! Here's a few pics that I did get:
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| Our view for the week! |
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| Nema and Mommy chillin' at the beach! |
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| Zeke and his cousin Mallory |
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| Nema sleeping poolside!! |
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| Nema wasn't a fan of the water at first but she got used to it! |
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| The alligator farm. Zeke loved it!! He especially loved feeding the gators!! |
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| Our happy baby girl! |
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| Last walk on the beach. Zeke didn't want to leave!! |
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| Zeke daydreaming and wishing we were back at the beach!! |
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| Nema agreeing with Zeke!! |
While we were at the beach I turned 30!! It was also the day my mom got put in the hospital. She started running a fever and they admitted her. Her white blood cell count was extremely low. By the end of the week they had determined she had pnemonia brewing in one of her lungs! Thankfully, after about 5 days in the hospital she was well enough to come home. Only to have her 3rd round of chemo the following week. Praise the Lord, it went extremely well. She's not been sick at all!! The only side effect she's had is extreme fatigue!! She's doing well and hanging in there!!
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| Nema and Nana entertaining each other as we wait to see the doctor and begin chemo. |
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| Two of the most beautiful ladies I know!! |
I guess about a month after we moved back from Africa Zeke stopped taking naps. It was a very, very sad day in our home!! I was nearing the 3rd trimester of my pregnancy with Nema and I so needed that nap everyday! Zeke also needed that nap but refused! While we were at the beach we made him take a nap everyday. I really think that he realized how much better he felt with a daily nap and we didn't stop once we got home!! Praise the Lord, it's been 2 1/2 glorious weeks of nap taking around here!!! In fact, he and Nema are both napping right now! Thank you Lord!!! Another exciting thing happened around here, we are finally potty trained!! PRAISE THE LORD!!! After 3 long months we are done (besides night time which will come!)! I honestly thought this day would never get here but it has, thank you Lord!! The other day I went outside and found Zeke running around with just his shirt on, he went outside fully clothed! He told me, "I had to go pee, Mama!" Okay buddy, you can run around naked for all I care!! I was elated that he took his shorts off to go!!
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| Zeke, the potty master!! |
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| Such a growing imagination!! Loves to shoot squirrels, bears, deer, or bad guys!! And he LOVES hats!!! |
On June 23rd, this precious one turned 5 months old. She's such a happy baby. She cries when she's hungry, hurting, or overly tired. She's sleeping through the night (Thank you Lord for that blessing!!) She hasn't rolled over yet but I know it will be coming soon. She coos and giggles all the time. She loves watching Zeke and laughing at him!! We also started her on solids and she is loving the rice cereal!! She's a little piglet for sure!!
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| Nema Grace, June 23, 2012, 5 months old. |
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| Getting ready to eat solids for the first time! |
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| First bite... |
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| Not so sure... |
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| I guess this stuff is okay. |
Early this week our county was raped by Tropical Storm Debby. She dumped buckets and buckets of water on our dry, dry land!! We were thankful for the rain but unfortunately our county got too much rain!! There has been widespread flooding downtown and throughout the county. The river has come up almost 8 foot since Tuesday!! A developing problem is sinkholes!! Currently there's one that is threatening the courthouse and surrounding businesses. Thankfully, we survived with virtually no problems. We have small area that has sunk in. The pictures are kinda hard to see but you can tell where the ground is cracking. Thankfully, it's not a huge sinkhole! We also had some water come into the house. We're pretty certain it came up through the foundation. We had a contractor friend come and check it out and he said that the ground is just so saturated with water that the water had no place to go but up. Thankfully, it was just a small area in Nema's room. Currently, the carpet is pulled up in her room and we are trying to dry it out. Hopefully, we won't run into any mold issues. I guess if all else fails we can just rip the carpet up all together and keep that 1970's looking linoleum down!! :~)
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| The ground sinking in. |
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| Tried to use the stick for some visual aid. |
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| Drying out the carpet. Check out that linoleum though!! |
Please pray for our county. Many people lost their homes due to flooding. I'm pretty sure most of those people aren't technically in a flood zone, so they probably don't have flood insurance. Pray that no more sinkholes open up and that the remainder of hurricane season is a quiet one for us!! For pictures and details check out our local paper,
http://suwanneedemocrat.com/ . Until next time...
