'Twas the Night Before....

...Trevor's big ear tube operation and our boy got whatever his little heart desired - as has been for the whole week :) Tonight he got one of his favorite meals - pizza. He was so excited when Mommy said the word that he pulled his chair over to the side of the table and waited patiently for it to come out of the oven! Once it did he seemed to be thinking 'wow! is that all for me?'



Yay! Pizza!


'Mom - what is the hold up'. Actually he's been doing this pose a lot so we're glad that we captured it on camera. He does it a lot too when we ask him what happened to something. He seems to say, 'I don't know'!


After eating, Grandma Pauline and Grandpa John stopped over since they arrived in town earlier in the day. We spent most of our time together outside since the weather is finally cooperating! Trevor is fascinated with the garage lately. Not sure what that is about but you'll often find him climbing the two steps to go into the garage and just standing by the door hoping someone will go in! Well, that is when he is patient. Often times is the case that he stomps his feet, whines, and points until someone opens the door.


The bubble machine and sidewalk chalk are favorites these days. Luckily his bubble machine is working again!


Bubbles!


Randle is such a sport - he actually likes being pushed around in Trevor's car by the man himself. Seriously, how cute is this?


Our neighbor has a trampoline that their two kids play on and Trevor wishes that there was a way for him to get over to them. Just a few more years until you are a big boy Trevor, but we don't need to rush the process. Until then he's stuck on our side of the fence with his bubble maker! Such a rough life!


But Grandma Pauline may have beat the trampoline excitement by pushing Trevor around on his tricycle. He loves pushing the bell to announce his presence.


And with that it was bath time, bed time, and prayers for our little guy. Sweet dreams and may angels keep him safe from harm during surgery tomorrow :)

Trevor Happenings

Trevor has been a very busy boy. He is growing so fast (too fast for this Mommy and Daddy) but it is so fun seeing his personality really emerge. He LOVES to color so we recently got him a big boy size coloring book which he spends much time with.


Still figuring out if he's right or left handed. Sometimes he likes to use both hands at the same time to show off his mad coloring skills!


Trevor also really enjoys getting squeezes and kisses from his Mama. We can hear him laughing in this picture!


Even better in this one!

We recently purchased a high chair for Trevor that fits on our kitchen table chairs. He really likes this set-up since he sees Mommy and Daddy sit on these chairs every night. Now he feels more like us! He's also very into Toy Story things these days so we got him a Buzz cup which he loves. He can even say Buzz! Last but not least, this picture reminds us of his new love for cottage cheese. He had it this past weekend at the Godfather's Pizza buffet so we had to get some for the house now too.

Trevor is still very into bath time. Although he's not such a fan of having water poured over his head :( Recently he's really taken to naked time after his bath. Pretty funny! He sits and read books on his stool:

As well as climbs up to read on his chair:

He even plays with his toys on the ground stark naked. Not sure there is anything cuter than watching his bare little butt run away from us when it's time to get his jammies on!

Otherwise, the only other thing going on is preparing for Trevor's ear tube surgery on Thursday morning at 8:30 am. We're nervous and scared and just about every emotion in the book but we do believe this will be best for him. At his pre-op appt on Monday we learned his ears are still awful so we'll pray that God will watch over him and keep him safe from harm during the procedure and beyond. Thanks for all of your love, support, kind words and prayers during this time. We appreciate each and every one of you for being part of Trevor's life!

Mama's New Look

So Mommy had enough of her long hair. Given how thick it was as well as the length, getting ready each morning was just too consuming so off it went. Luckily we had taken pictures of it recently so we can do a true before and after.

Some days she wore it curly (which surprisingly was much easier than wearing it straight):

Some days she wore it straight...like on Friday....

...and this was Friday evening. 9+ inches gone!

Pretty amazing it is very similar to when Sara cut her long hair off in September 2008. She loves it! And Brian really, really loves it! Yay! But if she wakes up tomorrow or another day and doesn't like it, that's a-okay. Her hair grows so fast that it would probably take 10-11 months to grow back out. But, we don't need to worry about that for now.

And before you all worry that you aren't going to get a recent picture of Trevor. Don't worry! He didn't miss out on the hair fun either. On Friday he sported a faux-hawk! Cutie!!

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day everyone! We had a wonderful day celebrating starting with taking Mommy out to breakfast at one of her favorite spots - Einstein Bagels. This Mama is not a fancy Mama and really appreciated her boys taking her out for her favorite meal :) Then we headed down to Sara's parents house to take part in he annual Mother's Day bbq. Trevor was the ham of the event, making people laugh by putting a bucket on his head and twirling around!

He took a lengthy nap but still was sleepy so he cuddled up next to Grandma until her arm fell asleep like an hour later!

Uncle Bill got his cuddles in to! Love this picture of the two of them! Bill's smile makes us smile :)

Back at home in the evening Mommy and Trevor finally got their picture together! You can see too one of the gifts she got for her special day - a long strand of real pearls that she can layer or wear long. Love it!!

Before bed our little guy also got in some motorcycle time. No real motorcycles though...ever. Got that T?

Fun at the Zoo!

Today was a beautiful day - sunny, warm, just awesome - FINALLY! So we headed to the zoo and had a blast. After a picnic lunch we headed out to see the monkeys. If pictures could talk you could hear Trevor screeching in excitement watching the monkeys play!

Mom - stop taking pictures and watch the monkeys! There is even one right there that has a 13 day old baby!

After the monkeys we headed to the playground where our little guy climbed up the stairs to the slide and sat down like a pro!

Wee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then our little guy spotted where the big kids were and of course, had to head that direction to do what they were doing!

Surprised he didn't try to climb over the bear like the big kids were!

He he! Look at me!

Rocking fish, rocking fish, ride a little fishy! Trevor is a rough rider - he took the reigns and went eeek!

Such a big boy!

Then the best part came - Jeff, Dawn, and girls joined in on our Saturday fun at the zoo! We headed over to see the bears. Trevor thought they were pretty neato and couldn't stop pointing when the two bears were hugging or fighting. Couldn't really tell which one they were doing!

Hey, who is sitting on my Dada's lap?

Trevor and his two older girl cousins! Don't they kinda look alike? :)

Lauren is always very into Trevor and loves holding hands with him as he walks. Sara grabbed her camera and just shot this from her shoulder quick hoping to capture the moment, unsure how long it would happen or if it would happen again! Kinda cool that it turned out and we can see Brooke reaching for Uncle B's hand :)

Leah was pretty content in the stroller most of the time. Unfortunately, this is the only pic we got of her during our time together!

Lo and behold, Lauren and T were buddies most of the day. Holding hands whenever Trevor was walking! Love seeing these two together!

We headed to the farm to see the baby animals. Trevor thought feeding the goats was pretty cool!

And he found a door just his size. He loves playing peek-a-boo with doors lately!

Hi friends!

And we finished up inside at the fish area. Trevor got to spend a few quality minutes with Uncle Jeff checking out the fish!

Those ears!

So no post would be complete lately without talking about his ears...here's the latest update. First though, we'll start with a little refresher.
- Ends antibiotics for ear infection last Thursday.
- Thursday afternoon he gets sent home from school with high fever.
- Stays home Friday with Dada who is also sick. Mommy gets home from work Friday and Trevor has 103+ temp.
- Take him to the doctor Saturday and it turns out he has a bad double ear infection.
- Awful Saturday night and the poor guy is just miserable all Sunday. Completely out of character, fussy, fussy, fussy, seems like he's in awful pain.
- Go to urgent care and the doctor says his ears are awful - possibly the worst she's ever seen. Urges us to use numbing drops in his ears and stay the course with the new antibiotic since it can take time to work.
- He (and we) slept all night - yay!
- On Monday Trevor goes to school.
- Monday afternoon Mommy gets a call that he has a rash all over his body and we need to come get him.
- Monday night go to the doctor and we're fortunate enough to see the same one that he saw on Saturday and she says he's probably allergic to one of the medicines that are in his system (at this point either Amoxicillian or Augmenting) or it's a virus, either of which can cause a rash like his. But, back to the story at hand.
- She looks at his ears and can't believe what she sees - they are worse now than they were on Saturday and he's had at least 4 doses of meds. Well, at this point we're thinking with all of his ear infections he's probably just immune to antibiotics! Ugh! She again reiterates using the numbing drops, layering doses of Tylenol and Ibuprofen, and switching antibiotics. Now he's on Zithromax (she first prescribed Ceph something but Mommy remembered that one didn't work before).

Poor Trevor....so now we are in the process of scheduling ear tubes for our little guy. Please say some prayers as we are so scared about the procedure and putting him under. But we believe the result will be good and is very needed!

There is light at the end of the tunnel though - yesterday Trevor seemed to be back to himself. Well, somewhat. We'll save the new temper tantrum issues we've been experiencing for another post. He must have learned that at daycare :( But, again, we digress. When Mommy came home from a team happy hour on Wednesday she found her boys at the park across the street. It's nice that the sun was shining and we got a bit of warmth finally! Trevor rode in his little car and really enjoyed watching some boys play baseball!

Mommy's Helper

Sunday morning is usually pancake morning for Mommy and Trevor. Thank goodness our baby likes pancakes as much as his Mama! But this past Sunday morning Trevor was Mommy's little helper. We got out the step-stool and he helped pour the ingredients and stir them up! He did a great job!


And he seemed really proud to be helping! After we were done he gave Mama a big kiss to say thanks!

Sickos

The Hillins household has succumb to the crud. On Wednesday, Sara went in finally for a sinus infection (and pneumonia watch). On Thursday, Trevor got sent home from school in the afternoon with a fever. Poor guy had his last dose of antibiotics that morning so not sure what that was about, but he sure just wanted to cuddle with Dada:


And sleep on Dada:


Thursday night was rough so Dada stayed home with him on Friday since he too wasn't feeling well. When Mama got home Friday afternoon from work Trevor had another fever of 103 which baby ibuprofen reduced quickly but he had another rough night Friday waking up every 30 minutes to one hour :( So we visited his pediatrician Saturday morning only to discover that fresh off meds for an ear infection now Trevor has a double ear infection. Ick. His temp then was 103 too so we now now that the famous pink medicine officially doesn't work for Trevor. Guess he's like his Mama in that regard, she never got to have it either since she's allergic to penicillin.

Because no one wanted to be left out of the trifecta, Brian too was diagnosed with ear fluid and a sinus infection on Saturday so the Hillins clan has been quarantined all weekend. Starting to look like a pharmacy on our kitchen counter :(


And yes, for those of you concerned about Trevor's ears - we are too! We were hoping to make it through the Spring with minimal ear issues because most likely when he turns 2 in the Fall he will have outgrown ear stuff. Doesn't look like that is going to happen, so we will call his peds ent specialist and give him the update and see how he wants to proceed. It's not that we are against tubes, it is just so scary to think of putting him under. He is the love of our lives and if anything happened to him we just wouldn't know what to do. Stupid ears :(