Hmm... where to begin?!
This year, Mother's Day was one of the most memorable I've had. Now that the kids are getting older, they spent a lot of time planning out things to do for me. It was so sweet and made the day very special!
I was surprised with a new wood bird feeder for our tree outside. I kinda gave Kevin a hint on this one. It was a really sweet homemade gift that I will definitely enjoy! They worked in the backyard to make it, using scraps of wood and leftover paint. I stayed inside, pretending that I had no idea what they were doing. :) That is until Hudson came inside and while trying to keep their secret, he said "Do not come outside. We are NOT making you a bird house." Made me laugh!
I woke up to coffee and breakfast of my choosing. Since I'm not a big breakfast eater, I chose donuts since I knew that would thrill the kids. :) The kids had presents for me, mostly of the handmade variety. There were many handpicked flowers that quickly filled vases around the house. Then there were cards... Cameron's card read:
"Happy Mother's Day Mom. Your smile is as cheerful as these colors (below that line he taped several multicolor strands of yarn). Your eyes are as bright as these (next to that he taped two bright red beads). Sorry I'm not doing school right now! Hah hahahahahahah. We need to live with an appreaceated mom. We should make a mom appreaceation week. Cameron"
Cracked me up! Jackson made me several cards. One card had a homemade necklace attached. He used a string of yarn and wrapped a ton of colorful pipe cleaners around it. While I was looking at it, he started crying because he was afraid I wouldn't like it and that it was too small. I told him I loved it and then went to the bathroom to privately get the necklace on because he made it a little too small for my apparently large head. :) He was instantly happy again and then threw me a paper airplane that had two one dollar bills attached and he had written Happy Mother's Day on it. The third card was simple with a piece of yarn that he taped to lay in the shape of a heart. Man, I have some thoughtful boys! Hudson was hilarious as well. As I opened his gift that he made at school, he said "It smells really bad because my teacher made it smell like that." It was a fabric pouch with his handprint on the front. The reason it was smelly was because it was filled with lavendar. :)
Another surprise the kids had thought up awaited me downstairs. They had hooked up the baby monitor in their room and put the listening part upstairs where I was. Then they announced they were ready for me to come down to their room. As I opened the door, a paper that was taped in the crack of the door fell to the ground. It said, "In deep voice Beware only mom may come inside". So funny they wrote "In deep voice". I opened the door the rest of the way and they turned the fan on at the same time. They had it set up for the fan to blow me a paper heart they had cut out. On it was written, "Happy Mother's day Mommy. We love you with all our love."
Talk about making a girl feel special!! I also got the book, One Thousand Gifts, which was on my wish list and cash to buy some new plants and outside stuff. A very blessed and happy mama!
I also spent time with my own amazing mother and two of my sisters. We went to Cowiche Creek Nursery and LooWitt's for some Mother/Daughter time. Have I already mentioned that it truly was a BLESSED day?
And a pic of my fabulous children (who were having problems blinking and looking away). It was the best we could do in the 5 minutes before we had to leave for church! You can't see in the pic, but the bird feeder is in a tree right above the chair I'm sitting in.
Onto the milestone... our little Oliver is WALKING! He is our latest walker, at 17 months old. He crawled so long that he has worn out holes in most of his pants! :) It's so cute seeing them toddle around and it will be perfect timing to be able to start walking outside in the nice (or sometimes not so nice) spring weather!
Another major recent event comes from our second born.... It was a normal day filled with school and then lunch. After clean up, we were all hanging out upstairs. I was sitting in one of our living room chairs and Jackson was on another. He was kind of climbing around on it and started to fall off head first. It wasn't very far from the ground, but he instantly freaked out and buried himself under a pillow. Once I got to him, I pretty much instantly thought he had broken his collarbone. Poor boy! After hours of waiting to hear back from his doctor, we were finally given an appointment to come in for an x-ray. As long as we could get there in five minutes, they had said. Thankfully we live close! Poor Jack could hardly move. He could barely move his feet forward at all to walk. Getting up or down from sitting was excruciating. Keep in mind that we were in a hurry! We got the x-ray done and took a disc to our doctor's office. We waited some more. Jackson just wanted to be home! The dr. called us out of the exam room to look at the x-ray. It was crazy to see his bone like that! Jackson was still not amused and just wanted out of there. We took a prescription for some pain meds and headed home. He definitely had a broken collarbone, but there wasn't much we could do at that point. They put him in a sling until we were able to go to the orthopedic clinic. The first few days were pretty bad. He was in so much pain and just stayed in bed all day. Even when he woke up in the mornings, he had to call for us to help him sit up. It was so sad! He finally turned somewhat of a corner, which is when we were scheduled to visit the orthopedic dr. No new info there. He was put into a different sling and scheduled for a follow up appt. In the meantime, Jackson's soccer season was cut a little short. He also got out of piano lessons and since it was his right side, he has gotten out of any handwriting (which makes school work a little difficult). Lucky boy. :) And here's a pic of the x-ray:
Do you see it? We are thankful that Jackson is well on the road to recovery and will hopefully be back to his normal and daring self, very soon. :)
