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!

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.

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!

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

Enjoying Dumbo!

Trey cooling off with his mister fan

My favorite meal, Lobster & Crab Claws from my favorite restaurant, Fulton's Crabhouse in Downtown Disney. YUM!!!!!

Marsha & me at Disney WorldFUN TIMES!!!!!!!

On our way!

Friday we drive to Tallahassee, half way to Orlando. Saturday we hope to be here by early afternoon. Our resort has a huge pirate ship with lots of waterslides & water cannons for the kids to play with. There is also another pool with a water slide & a huge water play area.


Sunday we plan to go here, Animal Kingdom.


Then, the park the kids are dying to go to, Magic Kingdom.

Should be a fun trip. Marsha, Joey, Marlee Grace & Tyler are going with us. Even though they have had the worst week ever (see Marsha's blog http://mommyroach.blogspot.com/), we will still have the best time. Pray the rain moves out of Florida SOON!

Recital & Party weekend

Madison had her dance recital Saturday morning at the BJCC. She did pretty good considering the lights & crowd freaked her out a little. She didn't want her hair rolled but I finally talked her into it & it looked so good! She even let me put make-up on her. She looked so grown up! All of our family came for the weekend to watch her dance & she was so excited to have everyone there.

Saturday evening we had Trey's birthday party. He had so much fun! He played in the sand with his trucks & jumped in Marsha's jumpy thing until 10:00 p.m. He got lots of presents & loves them all. I'm not sure who gave what so thanks to everyone for his gifts! Special thanks goes out to Marsha for her potato salad and to Dan for his crack dip (YUM!). And thanks to Dan for taking pictures of both events. I got a new camera & he knew how to adjust the settings to take the best pictures.

Sunday after all of our family left we took a long & much needed nap & were lazy all day. It was great! Now I have to pack us for vacation. We leave Friday for Orlando. Kids can't wait!

I hope to have pictures from the recital & party posted to the kids website later this evening, if it works.