First Field Trip with Noah Bleu!

We went to our postpartum checkup and decided to break-up the long drive. We went to the alligator park we had seen on all those drives to prenatals when I was growing our sweet Bumbles.





This little guy had a birth defect. :( Seems he gets around just fine!





Look, Noah is already lining his animals up two by two! Hee hee...





Notice they are baby animals!





This is where Noah and I go back to the car to nurse and change a diaper. Speaking of daipers I cloth diapered all day long while OUT OF TOWN yesterday! I am so happy with myself! :) It was so easy!





The animals were so sweet!








Can you tell Remy was in animal/critter HEAVEN?








This was Eli's favorite!








It helped the boys and Noah to have a riding break and it was a reward to the boys for all that driving they endured on prenatal days. :) I will post postpartum appointment photos soon! And yes, I am going to write that birth story. He may be two months old...but I will get to it.


See you later, Alligator!

Remy's Snail...

:)

Remy and a Green Friend.

Oh the joys of late spring for Remy. The world is truly his oyster during this time of the year. Everyday he finds something wonderful to show me. :) I will so miss my little creature finder when he is grown and away from me everyday. *sigh*








I just love his face when he is holding his finds.

Remy's Various Critters...and a Remy Funny!

I am so happy that Remy can now find and catch and release so many little animals. It was about to kill him, the winter. He was sick and tired of not having anything to catch. ;)


He found these one day on a tree. They were TINY!!!





This really pretty visitor stayed for a while.








Remy has caught lizards of course. And this next set of critters were found and he exclaimed they were mating.





Which led to him saying something that almost had Matthew falling into the pool as he was cleaning it and ME unable to breathe from laughter. Are you ready? Well, first do you remember this POST? Well, now you do. HEE HEE. Well, we were all sitting there after the mating bugs flew away and he brought up the mating lizards he has seen. He says, "So, Mommy, aren't you glad that daddy doesn't climb up onto your back for you to have babies?" There it is! Enjoy! Have a great laugh! OH BOY, what are we going to do with this one? I will tell you that no one answered his question. HA HA!

A Prayer From Remy...

My little Remy boy tried for weeks to catch a wild mouse with a humane trap he had. He sat it out with crackers and peanut butter, he prayed, and no little mouse was to be seen on any of the mornings. But Remy kept praying...

Matthew went out to clean the pool one morning and he came in with THIS!

A little wild mouse that was swimming like CRAZY and trying to live!

Remy watched him for a while and then I convinced him that maybe it was a mama mouse or a daddy mouse and it needed to go home to get dry and tend to its babies. :( Remy cried, but we promised him something in returen, something I will show you all later. He had prayed and hoped for that little mouse and now we were making him let it go. He had grand visions of letting his crawfish go from the tank and keeping little wild mouse in the tank as a pet. *sigh*

But he did the right thing...

...and he said goodbye to little wild mouse. But he held us to our promise! I will show you what it was in another post.

I Went to the Doctor...

I saw the surgeon today and I was a wreck. I begged Matthew to take me back home, my chest tightened up, my breathing was HARD, My palms were sweety, and I cried. I did. Matthew pulled me from the car, and I mean this. He laughed the whole time because he said that I am the strongest woman he knows, but also the wimpiest! Hee hee! I don't care, I was NERVOUS!

We got into the office and I almost pass out. Things were going in and out for me. The girl at the counter was like, are you in pain? Matthew told her nope, she is just really nervous. I am sure that chick thought I was nuts!

I get to the back and the nurse for the doctor takes my history, weight, and blood pressure. My blood pressure was high from that stress, and I could feel it. I hate it when someone tells me that if I enjoy having babies and do it without drugs that this is nothing. No, it isn't the same thing. And I can't stand it when women relate the birth of their child to scary surgery! COME ON! That pain is delicious! It ebbs and flows, you know in your heart that it is meaninful, purposeful. And you get a BABY in the end. A baby! Sweet and chunky and yummy! :)

I guess my labor has started early, first with weight loss, I still have a bit more to go on that, and now the surgery for my belly button hernia. Darnit! I just want a baby! This is too hard! :(

The doctor doesn't seem to think it will be more than him going in tucking and pulling together, 2 or more stitches, and getting me awake and ready to go home. He said 20 minutes tops for him, if all goes well. I am not happy about going under, I do not react well to the medicines. All I have to say is that I want a girl after all this crap.

My doctor had 5 girls before they got their boy! NO WAY! Matthew told him we would adopt a girl before we had that many boys! *snicker*

On the way out the ladies gave me my "Koff-a-lot" bear for after the surgery to help with the pain when I cough. Urgh!

I will let you all know how I feel Friday night! Only two days away! Eeeek!

We came home and the boys planted their herbs from Easter while I planted mine and did some yard work.

Remy and Elijah found a ladybug.

We checked on the little garden and look how much more the corn grew!

Our beans are sprouting!

Elijah was more excited about the watermelons!

I love these purple flowers every year. :)

Remy found a frog just like the ones he played with over a Sherri's when we cleaned the pool. He was so happy! I pulled up the name of it and on the web page it played the song they sing. The frog jumped from Remy's hand and onto the computer, I think he liked the singing! :)

Matthew has a job interview tomorrow at Target. I will let you all know! It isn't what he wants and we still have the "super neat thing" in the cards, but we have to secure some work just in case. ;)

Simple Days with Friends are Sweet INDEED!

We spent the day with our friends Sherri, Madison, Patrick, and Carter. We had a PACKED car and boy did I need the time away from the house and the worries. ;) Sherri just makes you loosen up and she allows you to be YOU! I have found it very hard to find friends who like you EXACTLY the way you are. To be silly, and hyper, and free with a girlfriend is one of the most treasured moments I have found on this blessed Earth. :)

We went to the local park and the children were just a dream. We ate bad for you snacks and lazily fished. It was fun, even if we didn't catch a thing! Hee hee.

If you are a long time reader here you will remember when Remy made his birthday list and he included only one child on that list. Carter was that child. I bet you can tell why. :)

Remy:

Carter:

Carter is a fun loving, wild at heart, SWEET young man! I am convinced that boy has MUSIC in his SOUL and it shines out of him! :)

They caught something...little fish.

Leeches...

Remy brought him home, the leech, and he was dehydrated and rolled up in a ball. He plopped him into a bottle of water and he came alive! Totally gross! Remy even had one on his foot at one point, he wasn't concerned. ;)

We had some company as well...

This little bluebird was so pretty. My grandmother loves them and she collected blue bird figurines when I was a little girl. Just a memory that popped into my head. *sigh* I need to call Ninny Jack tomorrow.

Elijah and Patrick are the laid back, techy boys. :) Elijah told him today that he was his best boy friend. I loved it. :) For so long he hasn't cared for a friend other than Taylor. And Patrick is a wonderful child that I would love for him to spend more time with.

We were hungry, well Sherri and I needed something other than sugar and flour crap, so we went to a sandwich shop and ate outside. :)

The boys:

The Girls:

My soul feels lighter and I feel ready for the hardships we may encounter. Sherri may have to get me through this with her open heart and girlishness. :) Hugs, sweet friend!

More Creature Time with Remy!

Remy found and played with this little skink for days. He fed it from his own hands and he held it alot. The only problem is that skinks aren't as loving as anoles and try as he may Remy just couldn't gain his affections. Mr. Skink let that tail go in an attempt to get away. It didn't work, but eventually he did pull a fast one on Remy and away he did run. Atleast we have his time spent with the little guy in photos. :)

I am so glad that Matthew took one of just his face, the wonderment there is so fulfilling to see. :)

He even was sure to give him little walks in the grass...

That same day he found a baby crawfish in the creek.

I have some baby turtle photos to share soon...yes...he found that in the creek too!

How I love my sweet creature boy.