January Happenings

Lots of fun things happened in January outside of the other blog posts!  Including date night at Fleming's of course!

Minecraft birthday party of a friend

New Star Wars movie with Papa John

Riding bike around the house with 2 babies!

Soup!  Can't have enough soup in this house!

Dance offs on the Wii!

Trevor started karate and boy will this be good for him!  

Trevor learned from Miss Julie that he likes seaweed!  So he often requests it as a side to his meal!

Ashley is all about bitty baby (still her name!)

Ashley wants to push her baby during walk-pool!

And the kids all wait patiently while she does!

Bye brother!

Mommy turned around to see what was taking Ashley so long and she found her running back to give Trevor another hug since he was standing at the corner of the fence just waving and saying bye.  

Ashley caught napping in her bed with her little hiney in the air.  So precious!

Trevor coming home from a playdate at Christian's house with lots of boxes to build with!

Ashley and Claire started car pooling to preschool! They loved that Ashley's lunch box and Claire's backpack matched!

More pizza on our new pizza stone!

Mommy surprised Trevor at school for lunch!

He had so much fun showing me his new girlfriend (another one!!) Scarlett!  It was good that Mommy went to school to make sure Trevor was hanging in there after surgery the Friday prior.  He said he was a little tired so Mommy said he could come home.  Guess what happened that afternoon? A bomb threat to his school!!!!!!  Kids and parents were so scared.  Turns out it was a robot-call that 25 other elementary schools also received but still.  Don't think the parents, kids or teachers will forget that panic for a long time.  Thankful Trevor didn't have to experience that!

Mommy got to volunteer at Ashley's school again!  Ashley loved showing off her peddling skills!

And she got to lead the days of the week song for her friends!

Mommy had a PTO meeting at Trevor's school so Ashley got to tag along.  The girl knew just what to do!

Trevor is still enjoying soccer!

S'mores at the Yangs!

Trevor came home with a Spark award - that's Safe, Positive, Accountable, Respectful and Kind, we are Fireside :)

Auntie Dawn was in town for business so she stopped by to say hi to the kids before the adults headed out for dinner!

We went to Ocean Prime in City North - YUM

Dinner got done pretty early so we went to the country bar for a drink!

Back to Dr. Hurley's to see if Trevor's surgery was successful (it was!) and have Ashley's ears checked!  They were great!

Ashley taking Sonny for a walk!  Since Toby is far too lazy to walk more than a few steps!!  

January fun in Goodyear

It's nice having Nana Jeanne and Papa Steve winter in Goodyear.  We miss having them an hour away like we did in Minnesota.  But in the winter months they are just 40 minutes away so when T doesn't have school you'll often find us down there!

Of course, Didi comes too!

Some days we go to the playground near their house to play in the sand!

Play soccer!

Play with rocks in the backyard!

'Mommy!  I found a heart one for you!'

Papa Murphy's mini-murphs for the win!

Not sure if they like the pizza or stickers more!

Trevor likes to show Nana new kindergarten skills on the iPad and of course being a former kindergarten teacher she wants to see!

100 Days of Kindergarten

The kindergartners celebrate 100 days of school and dress up like 100 year olds! 

 It was funny to hear how Trevor would do this - he wanted his hair sprayed grey, he needed glasses and a mustache, he wanted a button up shirt but wanted the buttons done wrong, sweat pants and a walking stick!

 We think he nailed it :)

 The whole walk-pool nailed it!

 Lisa captured it perfectly :) 

Trevor ENT Surgery #2

It was time for Trevor's ENT surgery so we let him pick a special dinner the night before.  His pick?  Buffalo Wild Wings so he could play with the game pad!

Nana Jeanne and Papa Steve drove up from Goodyear that night to take care of Ashley in the morning since we had to be at the hospital by 5:30am or some other early time.

Sweet dreams Trevor!

 Trevor was so brave telling everyone that he was having surgery and when asked he said he wasn't scared at all.  Well, nerves got the best of him and he started throwing up in the middle of the night.  Nothing productive, totally nerves :(  While waiting he didn't feel so good either.  

A little nap seemed to help

And before we knew it Trevor was called back

The nurse gave him his choice of toys so that perked him up!

  Back in the prep room they gave him some medicine but that came up too :(

 A little of it must have gone in because he seemed to get happy

and then mellow

 and then he got hot

 and was sad and didn't feel well again :(

 Mommy and Daddy kept telling him how brave he was and how proud we were and how much better he will hear us when he is done.  And reminded him he had this before when he was 17 months old so he's a champ!

 And then he closed his eyes for a bit while we waited for the doctor to come in.  Side note, there had been some confusion that Trevor was getting his tonsils out.  From the scheduler to the anesthesiologist, everyone seemed to think he was getting them out.  Ugh.  The anesthesiologist who examined him quick said 'huh, his tonsils aren't really close together, wonder why they are coming out?' Mommy said 'because they aren't!! It's 'just' tubes, adenoids, turbinites and having a blood vessel cauterized for nose bleeds.' Luckily Dr. Hurley reassured Mommy and Daddy that he is the one doing the surgery and knows he is not taking out tonsils.

 After his quick nap the medicine kicked in and he was ready to be wheeled back.

 Not sure Mama was though.  Please God watch over our boy.

 And he was off.  It was different than his last one because Mommy didn't get to go back to be with him while being put under.  Ugh.

But just like last time within 10 minutes he was back in his room.  He was crying and crying so Mommy got in bed with him and held him.  

He was groggy and unsure but Dr. Hurley said that was normal.  

 He was monitored for a while and then was told he was released!

Our strong boy!

The nurse said he was a champ!

 Back at home he was showered with cards and gifts from friends and neighbors!

 As well as Mrs. Bundy!!  She is the sweetest!  

He also got a new smart watch from Mommy, Daddy and Ashley!

 And when the excitement wore off he napped and woke up a different person who could hear much better!!