ST DAVIDS DAY

Saint David's Day  in welsh--: Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant
is the feast day of  Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, and falls on March 1st each year.

According to Wikipedia ---The date of  March 1st was chosen in remembrance of the death of Saint David on that day in 589, and has been celebrated by followers since then.
To celebrate this day, people wear a symbol of either a leek, or daffodil.

Your wondering why I posted this now??? its not March 1st.
I know I know, but look what popped up in our garden and I wanted to post it before the rabbits, small crazy dogs, or very curious little children decided to get to it.

Very fitting for our family!!




Look what else survived the frigid temps..

Hoping I can keep these alive-- and out of the mouths of rabbits, out from under the dogs legs, and away from little fingers.

Its HERE!!!!

our tornado shelter its here!!!
I was trying to snap some pictures while the guys didn't see me.

Luckily they were done with the loud sawing and digging before the kiddos had their nap



so here is how it began.

And the finished product!

And of course I had to leave my mark on it.
Darren, Jennifer, Dylan, Sophie, Matilda and Tator's imprint


Now that it is finished I thought I would feel better or at least less scared...
Not so much,
so Ok we are safe when we are at home...what happens if I took the kids to the grocery store??? guess you know where to find me during tornado season. AT HOME!!

FEBU-BDAYS??

Holy cow, I didn't realize how many birthdays in our family there were in February....
I couldn't leave out my other February birthdays!!


I just wanted to wish my grandmother a HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I'm so sorry we don't live closer. I'm hoping we can visit soon. I love you, and wish you many many more happy birthdays!

Great grandma Stagg loving on Sophie

Great grandma loving on dylan

Christmas 2009.
Missing you Grandma and Grandpa!!

Grandma shares a birthday with a silly silly monkey.... IAN!
Happy 3rd birthday....as Ian would say he is celebrating "3 old years"
Gosh I love that kid!

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY IAN!!

fun for some?

Again we are having so much fun in this great weather!! We thought we would take the kiddos for a bike ride.

Sophie and Daddy enjoyed it.
Poor dylan was scared and wanted to jump out.
And mommy's legs were hurting...who decided to live by all these hills!
Im sure we all will get used to it soon!!

I had to post this...
The kids love getting into my pots and pans...This is sophie making a funny face..
They certainly keep me laughing

peanutbutter jelly time

This just shows how different my kiddos are.
At lunch today we had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Miss Sophie--takes her time and savours each bite
Mr Dylan--uses the Henry VIII technique...shoving as much in his mouth as fast as he can..

I guess its bath time!!

almost spring?

Having the warmer weather just reminds me of how much I really don't like winter time.
We have had a couple of days of temps in the upper 60's so we have made the best of it and played outside.

look who is getting older

I had a great Valentines day with my hunny!!
then the next day we celebrated darren's Birthday!

Hope you had a great birthday. We love you!


Hoping we have many many more fun valentines and birthdays together!

-- Darren actually celebrated his "day" in houston on a business trip...I convinced the hotel to send this to him!! Hope you liked it!

HAIR CUT TIME

Dylans hair was getting a little out of control..so off to get our 1st haircut!

Such a big boy!!

I'm not so sure about this

poor buddy getting a little scared

Excuse by big head--I'm trying to keep him still by feeding his little face with yogurt melts..so far its working

More yogurt melts please!!

Sophie wondering whats going on with her brother

I'm OK now I can hold my mommy's hand

Super happy with my new haircut and my mouth full of yummy yogurt melts

HEY!! Look at my good looking brother!!

What a handsome fellow!!

After a fun day--mom says its time for a nap? what? try and catch me if you can!!

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young at heart!

Wishing Grandad a HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
cant wait to see you soon!!



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Disease free...finally sort of

SOPHIE---

OK so after 4 visits to the doctor, and being diagnosed with measles, a viral rash, and I dont know what that is...and experimenting with all sorts of creams, gels, and bleach baths....we finally found a doctor who knew what she was doing!! Sophie didn't have the measles or a viral rash...just a weired type of eczema. After one day of putting on a steroid cream, it nearly all went away! THANK GOD. poor kid almost tried to scratch herself to death.

DYLAN---
So I have complained about this before.. my poor baby Dylan and his blocked tear duct. Well it has gotten better, but we still have episodes. Took the advice from my pediatrician and took him to a pediatric ophthalmologist. I wasn't happy with what he had to say--the doctor was a nice guy but quick to surgery. He wants to put Dylan under general anesthesia to do a nasolacrimal duct probing. I wasn't thrilled about this considering his age, and didn't think that this was a huge enough problem to put him under anesthesia. So here were the pros and cons

Pros-
1. it opens his blocked tear duct so his tears can drain normally and thus eliminate chronic watering of the eye and eye infections
2. Success is 90-95% with a single probing

Cons-
1. 5-10% the tear duct can close back down, and may need to be probed again.
2. Anesthesia---HELLO!! I know all these risks -heart stopping, breathing stopping, brain death...I may be a little dramatic...but it can happen
3. Possible damage to his eye--this procedure includes placing a silicone tube into his tear duct to help it stay open--you can actually see this tube and according to the doctor "often children will accidentally pull the tube away from the corner of the eye" UMMM----great!!

I luckily have a best friend who is married to an ophthalmologist--THANKS GREG for all of the advice.  He put my mind at ease when we made the decision NOT to do the surgery. We just didn't think it was worth the risks. So unless something dramatic happens Dylan will NOT have this surgery!

That wasn't the only thing that was discussed during our eye visit. Doctor did a complete eye exam and said Dylan's left eye was very farsighted and he suggested we needed a prescription for glasses. Now I cant even keep this kids hat on when we go out in the cold...you now want me to put glasses on him!! Again THANKS to Greg, we decided to wait till he is a little bit older and his eyes have developed a little bit more and go back for another eye appointment. I just wanted to make clear, I'm not against the glasses, just don't think its very realistic right now to have a 17th month old expected to keep his glasses on.

I guess if a little rash and a little eye problem is the only problems we have we are doing pretty good!! I really am blessed and I know that!!




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Stir Crazy- busy doing NOTHING

STUCK because of the weather...im running out of things to do...here is what has been going on today

some of us have been getting into trouble...
Dylan says UH OHHH!! of course they blamed spilling the dog food on each other!

Sophie carrying her baby with her EVERYWHERE she goes

Baby was sleeping so we decided to push our shoes around?? silly sophie!

If dylan was a girl----I think he still would be a cutie!

Im trying to find new things to do. We decided to try coloring.

Making valentines cards for Nana, Grandad, MaMaw and PaPaw

Dylan being a goof ball as usual.

Sophie cant decide what color to use next

Whats next---how about a bubble bath?

Bubble bath----lots of fun

sophie having fun with bubbles

Watchout! Splish Splash!

Time for a movie and a nap...yup that sounds good!!



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