The Woodruff's World: 06/01/2009

Monday, June 29, 2009

Beautiful Sunset

I stole this picture from a fellow church member & wanted to share. It was taken last night at the fireworks show at our church. Beautiful!

Trey had his 3rd set of tubes put in this morning. Everything went well. They came for him at 6:45 & he was back to me by 7:00. He never fussed. He crawled up into Allen's lap & tried to go back to sleep. We left at 7:30 & were home by 8:00. I put him straight to bed & he slept until 1:30. Wow! I checked on him a couple of times to make sure he was breathing & he was just fine. Madison slept from about 11:00 until almost 2:00. I slept for all of an hour, even with the phones turned off. I guess the kids were exhausted from such a busy weekend. After naps, they both played so good together the rest of the night.

Waiting to go home...

Our weekend

Allen took Friday off so we took the kids to Chuck E Cheese. Fun. Trey & Madison both love that place so my sister gave the kids gift cards for their birhtday's so we used those. That place will drive you crazy but the kids love it.

Friday afternoon we met Allen's parents in Cullman & the kids went home with them for the weekend. Yeah! They had so much fun. My in-laws took them swimming Saturday then they all went to dinner with my parents. Madison told me that she forgot to miss me because she was having so much fun. We picked them up Sunday afternoon. While they were gone we decided to clean out the area of the basement where Allen keeps his tools & stuff. When we moved, we just dumped it & never went through it to organize it. It was impossible to find anything. I wish I had thought to take a before picture. Allen made a workbench with a piece of pegboard on the back so that he can hang his tools, nails, etc. & be able to find it easily. We found a very nice shelving unit at Lowe's on sale for $40, half off. Yippee! It feels so good to have it organized now.

Working on the base

Base done, now for the top

working on the top part

the finished product
Sunday night we went tailgating at the church & then watched fireworks. The children's department's theme was a luau.

the girls love watermelon

The Alabaster Fire Department came in time for fireworks, just in case, and Trey loved looking at & sitting in the fire truck.

me & Marsha

some of the fireworks from church

I will post more pics to the kids' website later tonight.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

My friend...

Got to give a shout out to Marsha. Today is her 32nd birthday. Happy Birthday to one of the best friend's I've ever had! Can't wait to celelebrate. Lots of love!

Friday, June 26, 2009

Urgent Prayer Request

Allen has a friend, Dan, whose wife, Lillian, really needs our prayers. She was recently diagnosed & treated for colon cancer. The colon cancer is gone but now it has spread to her brain. She has been receiving radiation for 1 week & has 2 more weeks to go. The prognosis is not good. She is around 30 years old & they have a son that will be 2 in July. Her dad just died last year from cancer. Please lift this family up in your prayers. Please pray that the radiation treatments work. The doctors will know more about her prognosis in 2 weeks when the radiation treatments are finished. I'll keep you updated as I know more.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Trey

Trey had a bad asthma flare-up 2 weeks ago. When I took him to the doctor I was told that he had an ear infection which probably caused the asthma flare-up. My pediatrician told me to go to the ENT for the 2 week recheck because his tubes were not working anymore & he wanted them replaced (due to his history of bad ear infections, past history of asthma flare-ups with ear infections & his speech delay). So we went today. His ear infection is gone & his lungs sound great. Trey is scheduled for a new set of tubes (his 3rd set) on Monday morning at 5:45.

He was recently evaluated for Speech therapy & qualified for treatment. The therapist said he is speaking at a 17 month old level (he's 25 months old). He has started saying more just in the last 2 weeks but we are going to go ahead with ST, which will start in the next week or so. He passed all of the tests that they did except the communication part. He is right where he is supposed to be developmentally but a little behind with talking. The speech therapist & ENT both think that his history of multiple ear inections may have caused some of the delay. He understands everything we say to him & can follow through with everything we ask him to do but he just doesn't say much. As Marsha says, he sounds like Curious George! Just a lot of grunting. LOL!

Hopefully with a new set of tubes & speech therapy starting up, he will be talking our heads off soon!

Monday, June 22, 2009

Visit to Muscle Shoals

Friday was my mom's 60th birthday & Sunday was Father's Day so we went up to Muscle Shoals to visit family. Saturday morning we went to Allen's mom's house to swim. The kids had a great time. Neither are scared of the water. Trey loves to jump in & never cries when he goes under. He comes up smiling. Madison is perfecting the "skills" she learned last week at swimming lessons. She can swim better than me!

We had a surprise birthday party for my mom Saturday night at a local Italian restaurant. She was so surprised! We all had a great time together.

Sunday we visited with Allen's dad & my dad before coming back home. We enjoyed our time visiting but it sure is nice to get back home. The kids were so off schedule. It will take me a week to get everyone back on track but it was worth it.

My dad with the grandkids, including Ayda (Katherine's baby)

Disney World

We survived another trip to Disney World. Kids loved it. Madison prefers the pirate ship pool & waterslides at our condo over going to the parks. Probably because it was soooo hot! It was so crowded the day that we went that it was hard to enjoy the park like we had in the past. Neither Madison or Trey enjoyed waiting in lines. But they still had fun. She especially enjoyed Tyler & Marlee going with us. They all had so much fun together!

Waiting in line