Between work, yard work, tball, PTO, the "kid in casts", Easter, birthday parties, guitar lessons, the dog rolling in horse poop and requiring a bath daily, and a bunch of other stuff that I can't even remember, we've been busy around the Davis house!
Some quick updates and photos:
Trace driving the jeep - he drives it daily until the battery dies, then goes in to take a nap while it charges and kills the battery again. Yeah, he drives the jeep with the full leg casts - he uses the tball tee post with a rag taped to the top, pushes it between his casts onto the pedal, and leans on it with his stomach to make it go. He's a clever little guy, huh?
Easter - the Easter bunny was rather generous this year with the toys and rather stingy with the candy. The kids both loved their baskets, and still managed to make it to 7:30am Sunrise Service at church!
On the Saturday before Easter, the kids went to the annual Easter Egg Hunt in my parents' neighborhood. Eaden was there too. The kids had fun finding eggs, and Trace found one of the prize eggs - he scored a $15 ToysRUs gift card (which, incidentally, cost me $50 by the time I got the kids out ToysRUs).
Trace has entered into the "do not take my picture" phase, just to prove it, I'll show you some of the pictures...I've been trying to get a good shot for Thank You Cards, but I might have to ditch the photo idea.
Ugh. What's a mother to do?
Trace update:
Trace also went on April 13 for a check-up with Dr. Ain (read - we left the house at 8:30am, arrived just in time for our 1:30 appt, and made it home at about 9:00pm). His legs looked good on xray and he must have had some serious post-surgery swelling, because his casts were way to big - we were lucky that he hadn't crawled out of them. They changed his casts (and I didn't think to take a picture of the sneak peek of straight legs that we saw because Trace wasn't the happiest little guy), so now he's got blue casts - and these casts would seriously fit inside of the old ones. Trace has been crawling ALL OVER the house (more like dragging himself with his arms), is a pro with the wheelchair, and still won't sit in one place for more than like, oh, 15 minutes.
He's super geared up for his birthday on the 22nd (tomorrow), turning the big 4! He informed me that he needed 4 presents because he was gonna be 4, so I gotta hit ToysRUs on the way home! Stay tuned for multiple posts regarding this as I plan to attempt to bake a cake this weekend, and he and Eaden's co-birthday party is at the zoo in Pittsburgh on May 2.
We also have "The Big Reveal" scheduled for May 11 - less than 3 weeks away!!!!!!!!
I also owe Taylor a post of her very own for her awesome tball season!