Say Yes To Less Fear

This post is about HOPE and how as a momma you know whats best for your babies. I have been inspired and encouraged by this sweet little face and her family. You can follow them on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/lilly.bumpus.9?ref=br_tf or on Instagram http://instagram.com/lillybumpus_giveforward But first check out their commercial for Little Remedies.  http://www.youtube.com/v/8F0vfvONpkY?autohide=1&version=3&autohide=1&showinfo=1&autoplay=1&attribution_tag=RSeOroYhjrpwY7aydGAh4Q&feature=share

Evan's Surgery

Evan has always been a mouth breather. He snored as a baby and I never thought anything of it. Last year I had to take him to the Dr. and he was diagnosed with Bronchial Spams. He was given an inhaler. In the spring he went back to the Dr. and was referred to a different Dr. We were then told that he would need his adenoids removed. I was relieved. Yes the thought of your child having surgery is not pleasant but having your kid able to breath through his nose is so much better. And we won't even talk about his trouble eating with his mouth closed.
Here he is ready to go. He was a champ, didn't seem scared at all!

Here he is all dressed up.

He got to take his monkey with him AND play video games while he waited.

My two favorite guys. Doing what they do best, playing video games. Bryan did tell me he was nervous for the surgery. Me too!

Right before they wheeled him back, we got to pray with and over him before.

The surgery went great, it didn't take long at all. The Dr. did say that his adenoids where blocking almost all of his passage way in his nose, so thank God we got it taken care of.

First Day of Second Grade

Monday was a great day! Evan started the second grade and Mia started Kindergarten. If you don't know Mia is my niece! I was very happy she got to go to FCS and has Evan's kindergarten teacher as her teacher. Evan gets to see her on the play ground and they get to carpool after school.

Back to School

Hi all. Sorry I know it has been a while. I never knew how hard this would be. Many funny things happen but I simply don't have the memory to store it for later. (I'm working on it.)

So summer is officially over as we start the second grade tomorrow. I was blessed enough to  get Evan dinner, a bath and in bed by 7pm. Early I know but my kid needs his beauty sleep. His alarm is set for 7am. We'll see what time he actually wakes up.

I was in my room finally tackling the boxes that have been piled up since we moved in 4 months ago. Evan walked in gave me a hug.
"You should be asleep!" I said.
"I'm so tired." He replied.
"You know it's not morning yet," as we walked down the hall to his bedroom. As he reached the door he said, "yes it is, help me."
"No Evan, go to sleep," as I tucked him in.
As I gave him one last look from the doorway, nice and comfy in his bed he said, "I like to swim!"
"Yes it's fun!" I said as I closed the door and laughed out loud realizing he was asleep the entire time.


To my friends who have children with night terrors, I'm praying for you tonight. I am thankful that Evan no longer has to deal with that. As for those of you that have kids going to school tomorrow...woooohoooo. I can finally get some peace and quite on my day off and get back to work at a regular time.  ;)

Socks??

I was blessed by a wonderful family to receive a pair of TOMS for Christmas. This is my first pair and I love them. They are classic gray. I wore them today. The first day out of my house. I got them yesterday! :) As Evan and I were getting into the car he stops, looked down and asked: "Mom, why are you just wearing your socks?" I had to LOL. "Evan, these are shoes, my TOMS." "Ohhh!"
Maybe I need to get him a pair so he can appreciate them!

Thank you friend for my shoes!!

Advent Calendar

Evan loves to do the Advent Calendar at Christmas. This year we got him the Lego City Advent Calendar. This very special calendar comes with 24 little Legos to assemble. The box itself has a backdrop of the inside of a house. Genius! Day 1, Dec 1, 2010. Evan it's time to get up. (I usually go through a 5-10 minute waking up period. Nope not day 1! He was up and out of the bed ready to see what Lego goodness awaited his assembly. Snowman! (Which I didn't put in the picture because our cat stole his head and I just found it today.)

As the days progressed a family started to come together. First we got the boy, then the little girl with a white cat. Soon the dad appeared. After awhile Evan thought it was kinda dull. That is until I told him he will soon get a mom. When we finally got the mom he was thrilled! Look mom it's you, dad, me and Mia. So cute.

Oh Christmas Tree

This year my dad was able to get Evan his very own Christmas Tree. Here it is! He decorated it by himself. And yes it is in the middle of his room. I will say he has added 2 "light" bulbs to the ears of his alien since I took this picture. Pretty funny!

Bubble Gum Logic

Today I made Evan carry his old backpack to school. When I picked him up from school he popped a piece of bubble gum into his mouth and started the chomping. And I mean chomping!
I asked him where he got it he said from Papa...of course! ;) A full piece of Bubbalicious. He then tells me that this gum is good, not like GG's that loses the flavor. (yes, that would be JuiceFruit. My mom has been chewing the same gum for YEARS!!) He then proceeds to take it out and stick it to his palm. Excuse me? Back in your mouth, please! Then he wraps a piece of paper around it and gets a "fresh" piece. He did this multiple times!
Fast forward 2 hours later. We are in my office, full of people, when he goes for a fresh piece. Last piece Kid!! He decides to share with everyone. G says this is like that gum Bubbalicios, so good you just swallow it. Anakina and myself say, it is Bubbalicious! Swallow!!! G, did you just swallow your gum? Yes! It's so good!
We get ready to leave and as walking out and Evan goes for piece #??? I've lost track and apparently control. I asked him what did you do with the piece you just had? I don't know, must of swallowed it!

Santa

In the months leading up to Christmas, Evan has often said he did not believe in Santa. Yeah, I thought we were off the hook here. Nope! This month he does. Yes, he wants the gift from Santa. I really don't know if he truly believes in Santa or not but I'm also not willing to ruin it for him if he does. He knows the true meaning of Christmas, JESUS! I'm not to worried. I know many of you don't believe in "humoring" your kids, I understand but we started this before we were believers and well I feel as long as he know what Christmas is really about we're ok.
Bryan didn't grow up with Santa so I'm thinking this is new for him. Lol. He cracks me up. We were going over the last of our Christmas list and I told him we needed to get Evan a gift from Santa. Any suggestions. Yep he had one alright. Socks and underwear! As long as he believes in Santa lets get him socks and underwear. His theory is, Evan won't want gifts from Santa if that's all he's going to get. Funny. And totally true. I had an idea. A new Bible! Evan has been asking for a new Bible for about 2 months now. He wants to be able to look up verses. He currently has a "picture/story" Bible.
So that's it. Santa will bring Evan a Bible and yes I see the irony and I love it!

A day to be Thankful

We had the opportunity to serve to the Poverello House Thanksgiving afternoon. When we got there, we were taken out back and given a job. We had to swap out pepperoni sandwiches for turkey sandwiches. The Poverello House gives out 3 meals a day. This was for lunch, a bagged lunch which included: a sandwich, chips, a drink and a sweet. Because of Thanksgiving they wanted each lunch to have a turkey sandwich. We worked with about 8 other people. Evan was in charge of putting the pepperoni sandwiches in the bin and bringing us turkey sandwiches. He was the youngest one in our group and he made everyone smile. He stacked the sandwiches in his arms as high as he could. We did 500 bagged lunches. It was awesome. It was soon time to head in and serve lunch. We prepared and were given our duties. Bryan was on gravy, the rest of us (Evan, my mom and myself) serving dinners. We prayed as a group before people were let in and then it began. We served 360 meals in our 2 hour shift. We soon moved to clean up. We got to take trays and clean off the table to prepare for the next person to fill the seat. As we waited Evan asked, "Mom, don't they pray for their food?" Me, "That is why we prayed before they came in, some people don't pray before they eat."
I was reminded of Evan's dinner time prayer "and please bless everyone who is eating right now." He soon got a lesson on exactly why we were there...to serve others. Yes it was a teachable moment. I used it. He got many talks during that 2 hours but all in all I wouldn't have had it any other way. After we had served all the meals we were cleaning up and they said the kids who were serving could have the balloons. Evan had wanted some so I gave him a bunch. Soon after a Hispanic lady pushing a stroller with a maybe 2 year old in it walked by. She didn't speak English but it was clear she wanted some balloons too. They were all gone! I told Evan and he quickly ran her down and gave his to her. He asked if that made her and the little boy happy and I told him it did. It made me happy too.      
Yes I think he gets it, it is far better to give than to receive!

The Three Little Pigs

Bryan recently brought home his computer a huge 24" Mac. (It was at work.) Since then Evan has discovered old cartoons on youtube. He is fascinated with old Disney cartoons. He loves Goofy and Donald Duck. But has recently started with The Three Little Pigs. Tonight as we were eating dinner and watching youtube. (Yes, most families gather around the TV, we gather around the 24" Mac.) Evan said "I think the Big Bad Wolf is like the devil and the Three Little Pigs are like us, like all the world!" Yes Evan you would be correct and we must build our house out of Brick (Jesus)!

A Symbol

So Evan went to the Dollar Store with my mom and Mia the other day. He came home with a few items. This house box being one of them. My mom tells me that when he saw this he told her it was a symbol. Of what you may ask, "Our family." Apparently there were several houses he could have chosen from. The came in three different sizes (he picked the middle size for us). He even had to examine what the pictures were and settled on the one with the dog.

Pregnancy & infant loss awareness day (october 15th)

I will be lighting my candle at Hume! Please if your not too busy take just an hour, light a candle at 7pm and let it burn for 1 hour! Thanks. To my niece and all your sweet baby friends, we miss and love you and will see you again.

Crazy Sleeper

This was Evan about 3:45am this morning. Bryan always checks on his before he leaves for work in the morning. Minutes later he was in bed on his pillow with the covers up by his neck.

Girls

So about 2 weeks ago Evan comes home from school asking if he can have a play date with a girl in his class. I told him I needed to speak to her mom. We mapped out a tentative date. the next morning at school they arrived as we were getting out of the car.
Evan: Mom there is her mom! Go ask her!!
Me: Umm ok. How about we let them get out of the car first.
Evan: Ok but your ask her right?
Me: Yes Evan I will.

Well the date we picked didn't work out so we'll try again. It's a must. He still asks when the play date will be.
He comes home today and says another little girl wants to have a play date with him and asked if she could come over. I said wow, ok sure. I know these kids and their parents so I'm feeling ok about it.
He then says so mom when they come over don't let them get markers and start writing L O V E on my wall or anything.
Um WHAT? Then he tells me that one of the girls in his kindergarten class last year thought he was her boyfriend.
Oh my goodness! Really. It cracks me up and even more that he is so embarrassed by the whole thing. i asked if he was and he about freaked. Oh to be 6 and in love....lololololololol.

School is boring!

So Evan, how was school today?

It was boring and I don't want to talk about it.

Umm, ok???

So everyday he has told me that school is boring. Really, how can that be? He just started the 1st grade. He's learning new things. It can't be boring. His first day, he came home with a list of 2 weeks worth of spelling words and 3 weks worth of memory verses. He doesn't have spelling words the first week. So we study Day 1, get to where he can say his verse by himself without help. I wanted to work on the spelling words but he wasn't having it and I let it slide since it was for next week. (That was Monday.) I had choir Wed, he and Bryan stayed home. Bryan got the job of bedtime and homework. Here is how homework went.

This is what my husband text me: Evan read the verse once on his own, then repeated it 3 times on his own. Too easy. So I went over his spelling words and he nailed every single one without looking at the paper at all.

Seriously, are you sure you have the right kid? I need to talk to him in the morning. Maybe it was boring?

Evan I need to ask you something. Do you go over your spelling words in class?

No Mom.

Then how did you know how to spell them?

Mom, it was the weirdest thing! I just did. (Bright eyed and a huge grin on his face!)

We'll see how he does on the test next week!

Monkey on a mission

Evan is attached to Monkey. Jen gave it to him with a matching sweater from Children's Place (Mia got the same but the girl version.) He didn't attach to it a first (or I'd have gotten a new one!) He carried Monkey with him everywhere, church, on the way to school, GG's, Auntie's and he slept with it EVERY night.

About a month ago, Monkey disappeared. He was no where to be found. I back tracked all of his steps but found no Monkey. Oh great. Evan was sad. He didn't know where he left him and claimed he hadn't taken him out of GG's house. Well she basically ripped her place apart looking for him. Mia even felt bad for him and went to Build A Bear to make him a new monkey. She even dressed him in Star Wars pj's. It put a smile on Evan's face and he happily slept with his new friend.
Not long ago we had dinner at Bryan's grandma's house and Evan was reminded of his original Monkey. Kay had so graciously made Evan a flag for the tree house and put a picture of Evan and Monkey on it. He brought me the flag saying, "I'm keeping this cuz look mom, MONKEY IS ON IT!" I told him the flag stays but it will always be here and he can look at it whenever he visits.
We go home that night and as I was putting him to bed he tells me, "I really miss my monkey!" Sad face and all! I have to say my heart broke a little (ok, a lot!) When he woke up the next morning he had his new monkey. He proceeds to tell me, "Mom, I like this monkey but it's just not the same!" Again heart breaking.
So what does a mother do? She starts the search! I looked on ebay with no luck. So I go to facebook. I wrote on the wall of Children's Place to see if they could help me out when low and behold a dear friend had the answer to my prayers. She had looked on ebay for me and found "The Monkey." Yes it was $27.00 but priceless in my eyes. I text Bryan and he gives me the green light. Monkey ordered now the wait.
The Monkey arrives and I show it to Evan. "MONKEY!!!!" He immediately grabs him by the tail and throws him in the air (his favorite thing to do). When we get home he asked me, "where was he? Did someone have him? How did he get here?" I responded carefully with,"He came in the mail." Evan's cute little brain responded with, "Maybe he was on a mission trip in Africa?" "Sure!" I said.
Oh goodness, am I lying to my child? Well I'm not telling the truth. He loves that monkey and I love him!


This was the last picture of his monkey. The day before he disappeared. And he had to make sure he was buckled in.

Nose picker

Mia: (slaps Evan's hand) Evan don't pick your nose! Auntie I told Evan not to pick his nose, is that a good girl?

Me: Yes Mia, he shouldn't pick his nose.

Mia: Evan if you pick your nose it will bleed.

Evan: No, your nose bleeds because it's dry. I pick my nose and it has never bleeded. I pick it cause it's dry.

Mia: Hummm

Me: Mia do you pick your nose?

Mia: ummm sometimes. (To Evan) I don't even know how to pick my nose Evan.

Evan: (showing her) You stick your finger up your nose like this and feel around for the dry stuff then you just scratch it out. It doesn't bleed cause you got to get that dry stuff out, like this.

At least he doesn't eat it!! But I think I need to keep Kleenex with me at all times!!!

feeling sorry

Mom, I feel sorry for dad.

Why?

Cause he has to go to work at night and he doesn't get to sleep a lot and he doesn't get to go to church on time.

Oh, that's nice of you.

Mom, I feel sorry for you too.

WHY?

Cause you left your phone at church and now you can't talk to anyone.

Pumpernickels

Evan, "Mom do you have any more pumpernickels?"

Me, "what are pumpernickels?"

Evan, "I don't know, but do you have any?"

Me, "no."