Still working

Levi is still taking guitar lessons and is excited every time he "conquers" a song.....by conquer I mean that we can somewhat tell what he is playing. :) Can you guess what he is playing????

The Wreck

Friday afternoon on their way to the Chris Tomlin and Israel Houghton concert, Scott and Levi were in an accident. They were stopped at a light, they started to go, Scott looked down to shift gears from 2nd to 3th, and looked up just in time to plow into the back of the car infront of him. Scott was fine, but the airbag got Levi and he bit down on his tongue at impact and cut and bruised it.

When I got to the accident site, Levi was histarical, I jumped out of the van and ran to him thinking he was seriously injured but he was just crying and mad because he was not going to get to the concert. The ambulance came and they wanted to take him in to have him checked out just to be sure. As you can see Levi was not happy.........

(I took this picture, thinking about my blog, and then I realized that I was thinking about my blog and not my son during this traumatic time, I put the camera up)

On the way to the hospital the EMT called ahead to the ER and told them that they were going to have to hurry the visit up so that Levi could make his first ever concert. From the accident site to the time we walked out of the hospital was less than an hour. The discharge nurse was in the room before the admitting person was finished. Now that is fast.

So that they could make it to the concert I drove them up to Indy, mom came down and picked me up (the baby shower was on Saturday) and I drove the Jeep home (thanks mom and dad) we are looking for a new vehicle, and just a little sad(very very little) to say goodbuy to our 1997 GEO Prism that got 40 miles to the gallon $1400 car. It paid for itself over and over again when gas was $4 a gallon and we were driving to Indy everyday. If you know of any good deals let me know.

While we were waiting for mom to arrive Millie and I went into a WalMart and bought a book for me and some peeps. I read and Millie explored the van and ate a peep.

As you can see Levi is healing up nicely. We are very thankful considering that on Friday nigh

his entire face was burnt and very sore.

I have been tagged

Bless my dear big sisters heart...she decided to play a game and tag me. The rules - 1. Take a pic of yourself right then and there. 2 Post it on your blog. 3 Tag three more people. Well I am only going to play by rule numbers 1 and 2. I don't have enough friends with blogs to keep it going.

So, I just got home from work, put Amelia down for a nap and came downstairs to start the laundry and check my email and blog. So this is what I look like after a oh so crazy day at CMO. Caroline was out today so it was just myself and one other teacher with 14 2 year olds. It was crazy. And of course they all had to poop at least twice. This is all after only about 4 hours of sleep. (I couldn't fall asleep last night), but there is no nap for me because this is what awaits me(see picture below) and we are haveing a church yard sale tomorrow and Saturday so I have to go to the church tonight to help set it up. Plus I need to get ready for Susan's shower on Saturday! (I am excited about that) everything else......well I would just rather curl up and read a book until I fell asleep.

As most of you know Millie fell in love with the jumpy castle while it was at CMO. But now that the weather is nice and we can go outside there really is no need for it and it has been returned to the rental company. Well Millie misses being able to jump. She will go to Levi's door to his room and cry to go upstairs to jump on his bed (something Levi has taught her.)

Today we just maybe found an alternative. While playing on the patio Millie decided to go back a few months to her earlier playing days. I don't know how she got in, but she did....she is a little monkey you know....or a skunk as Grandma McCoy calls her.

I say this again and again

I know I say this all the time, but my kids are too cute. Sunday they both sported new duds. Levi had a new suit and Millie wore a adorable pink and white flowerd dress with a matching pink overcoat. I couldn't get her to take the coat off for the picture.

One cool dude.

Can you tell she is saying "Cheese?"

Millie wanted to wear her pink crocs....I had to hide them when she wasn't looking and bring out the new dress shoes.

Spring Break Day 5

Well it is the last day of Levi's Spring Break. Today we finished cleaning the house and played the Wii. Millie has been super fussy. I think she prefers to go to CMO than to stay home. She certainly acts better there.

Some big news for us.....Scott has been elected as the new Section 5 Youth Director. He is a little excited and a whole lot nervous. In case you were wondering, we just didn't have enough going on as it was, so we thought we would add some more to our plate. Levi is excited because he will have a golf cart at camp this summer.

I am definitely ready to get back to a schedule.

Day 4 Continued

So I basically have most of the house cleaned, all except my room and the basement. Both of which I will clean tomorrow. Currently Levi is watching TV, he just came in from outside and Amelia is crying at my feet for a cracker, to which I said no, we just ate dinner.

The reason for this blog...After dinner I was washing dishes/cleaning the kitchen when Amelia came over to me completely soaked head to toe. I had picked up everything off of the table except for one glass of Cherry Coke (my one and only addiction). Well Millie climbed up onto the table and tried to get a drink splilling the entire cup all over her, the table, soaking the chair, and splashing all over the floor. I was not a happy camper to say the least. So today my floor got mopped twice.

Spring Break Day 4

Due to the post migrain weakness and no energy, we are staying home today in our pajamas. I am doing laundry, catching up on some reading, and playing with Levi and Amelia. Both of which are tired and just want to lay around. They are currently laying beside each other watching Tom and Jerry. Hopefully I will have enough energy and feel good enough to clean the kitchen when Amelia goes down for a nap.

Again what an eventfull spring break.

Spring Break Day 3

The day started with me driving to Batesville, Greensburg, and Westport for some First Steps Visits with my supervising DT. All I can say is that I am very thankful that little Gideon does not have Spina bifida and when I think my house is dirty....it is not.

Scott met mom after work in Indy and we finally got our children back home. I had started doing laundry and cleaning out our closets, when they came in. Both were excited to be home. Around 4 pm I started seeing lines and I knew that a migrain was coming. I took some medicine and went to bed. I tried to make it to church, but when I started vomiting I just had Scott bring me home and I went back to bed. I woke up around 10 pm and watched American Idol, Good-bye Alexis Grace :(, and then went back to bed.

What a fun Spring Break we are having!

Spring Break Day 2

It is sunny, beautiful outside, and about 70 degrees out. So what do we do. That's right folks we go to.........you guessed it Chuck E. Cheese. We were the only customers there and a maintenance woman was testing all of the games and rides and leaving the tickets so Levi followed her around for a while and would take the tickets she left. Millie enjoyed herself by riding a ride for about two seconds and then she would say, "all done" and she moved on to whatever caught her eye. Then because the weather was so nice we had to go to the Goodwill and Kohls.

When we came home we did play outside and "wing" with Millie. Pap came home early and taught Levi how to get up onto the Harley, come July 25th he will finally be able to legally ride with Pap. Millie is now sleeping and Levi is wanting to go to the Park...hopefully Pap will take him.

Spring Break Day 1

I drove up to marion to spend a few days with my children. You see Jacob, Levi's bestest cousin was having his bday party last Friday night and Levi just couldn't miss it and I needed a babysitter for Wednesday. So Mom met me in Indy to get Levi and of course Millie wanted to go too so we decided that Mom would take both kids for the weekend I would come up on Monday and go back home on Tuesday evening so that I could be at my first steps appointments on Wednesday, and then mom is going to bring the kids back to me on Thursday on her way to St. Louis to pick up Sara Jane and the boys because Sara also needs a babysitter and David is in Africa. Point to the story......don't live so far away from your parents if you need babysitters. They can't say no so they have to drive.

With my two children you just never know what is going to happen.

After dinner we were sitting around the table and Millie kept coming in and getting the napkins and running back to Grandma McCoy's room. Mom figured she was just putting the napkins in with Grandma's napkins. Well after a few minutes I went in to check. Millie had been putting the napkins in the toilet and stirring them with a strawberry shortcake comb and then tasting it. She was just making some "PEE SOUP."

I don't know which is worse Millie making soup or Levi drinking the water from the urinal when he was little in the restroom of the funeral home at Grandpa McCoy's funeral.

Spring Break

I realize that it has been a while since I last put an update on for all on my followers. If there are any out there. This is the official start of our Spring Break. It is a much needed week off. The kiddos are already at my mom and dad's house and I am heading up tomorrow morning to be with them for a few days. Hopefully the weather will be beautiful and we can go to the park or something like that. We had hopes of going to St. Louis for a few days, but because of my hectic schedule we just could not fit it in.

I will try and fill you in about our week as the days pass by.

Leah

Our Weekend

Friday night we drove up to Marion for a little visit. Millie spent the evening with Pap for a little one on one playtime and of course Levi went to Jacobs house while the rest of us went to church. It was great being able to sit through a service without keeping kids quiet and happy.

Saturday was a beautiful day, which was spent outside playing golf and playing with the kiddos.

Pap and His two little loves. A Monkey you say...

A little climbing for Amelia

Please notice the crocs

A great weekend.

Beautiful Weather

For the past couple of days it has been sunny and in the 60s!!!!!! This has given us spring cleaning fever. I have cleaned out the van, and Scott has attacked the garage, pool, sheds and backyard. It has been great....now only if we can keep it this way.

While cleaning out the shed, Scott also found a dead chipmunk. What is it with our house and dead rodentsAs for the kids, Amelia has been enjoying the swingsets and playground at CMO and Levi is loving the the neighborhood boy Colin has come out to play. They told me they were getting ready to go out. I didn't question, but when I came back up to the porch a few minutes later they were all ready to go out on a hike.

I love the warm weather. I hope that it stays this way!!!

The best Pap ever!!!

HAPPY 61st BIRTHDAY PAP!!!!!!!!!!!



Sorry that we couldn't spend the day with you, but we hope that you have a great day!!!! We Love you soooooo much!!!

Scott, Leah, Levi, and Millie Bug

PS we tried to get Millie to say happy birthday, but she just would not cooperate. She just keeps saying, "Ode co lode." Now where did she hear that?