Spencer got in a fight. . .

 And guess what?  He won!  He left the other guy dead.  Literally.  Unfortunately it was a fight with a bee.  While we were at the beach on Saturday Spencer got stung on the forehead.  He ran up to us and was yelling "Stupid bee!  Stupid bee!"  I was able to get the stinger out right away and then he went on to playing like nothing happened.  He went to bed just fine, but came into our room around 1:30 saying his eye hurt and that it was hard to open.  It wasn't too swollen, so I gave him some tylenol and sent him back to bed (I didn't have any benedryl).  When he woke up the following morning it was a little more swollen and pretty hard to open his eye, but by midday, he couldn't open his eye at all.  We went and picked up some benedryl and kept that in him, but it kept getting more swollen.  The first two pictures are taken that night.  You can see how the swelling took over the entire left side of his face.

 We took him to the doctor Monday morning and got some prescription strength benedryl and a steroid to help with the swelling.  By Monday night things were looking a little better.

It took until Thursday for the swelling to completely go away.  Although it looks so painful, the only time he said it hurt was that first night.  Otherwise he just said that it was annoying that he couldn't open his eye.  We are now an Epi-pen carrying family from this experience, but hopefully will never have to use it.  Better to be safe than sorry.

Natalie's First Lost Tooth

Natalie lost her first tooth on Easter Sunday.  We were at Grandma and Grandpa Higham's and because she knew how much Grandpa Higham loves to pull out teeth, she asked him to do it and he was successful.

Pure excitement on that face!

And because this picture was too darn cute.  These two are the best of buddies.

Happy Easter 2011

 The kids waiting to go down stairs to their Easter baskets and to find their eggs.

 Tanner with his frog sticker.

 Spencer left his basket to find eggs more quickly.

 Hunter could care less about the eggs.  All he wanted was the candy.

 Bailey with her basket.

 And Natalie with hers.

Brett and I were there. 

Hunter finding an egg. 

Spencer checking out his loot.

And finally, a picture of Hunter throwing a fit because he couldn't have more candy after the 10 pieces he had already had.  Poor baby.

I'm in heaven. . .

He's a Walking Boy

 Although the news is a couple of weeks old, we have another walker in the family.  He was been taking steps forever, but finally decided that walking is worth the effort.  Although he still crawls occasionally, he loves walking and will stop mid-crawl just to stand up and show off.

One Project Down. . .

. . .who knows how many to go.  Actually, we are really happy with our house, but you know there are always those projects that are always lingering in the back of your mind that you would like to get done.  This was one of those projects: the sliding shower door in the kids bathroom.

  I mean, it doesn't look horrible, but have you ever tried to clean one of those things?  Impossible.  Or bathe a child while leaning over the edge of the track?  So not fun.  So when we were looking into buying the house, I told Brett that I wanted this to be one of our first projects.  Four months later. . .it was time to clean it once again and I had had enough.  So I decided to go at it myself.  Really, it was easily to get the doors and track off.  I just unscrewed a couple of screws and then slid a paint scraper under the edge. . .

.  . .and voila, the track was off.  But not so much fun to get all of this off. . .

It was gross under that track.  And there was lots of caulking and "glue stuff" underneath that took some major scraping away at.  Like a couple of hours.  But I am sooo glad it is finally gone.  Do I ever use this shower?  No, but it is one project off the list.  And look how much nicer it looks. . .

And it is a billion times easier to clean.

And because a blog post without a picture of the kids is not allowed. . .

Happy Birthday Bailey

I can't believe that our Bailey Girl turned 5 today.  She is growing up way too quickly.  We were able to have the Yee's and Higham's over for dinner tonight, so we prepared a ton of Bailey's dinner of choice, PASTA!

And what is pasta without some breadsticks. . .

(Can I tell you, they don't look pretty, but oh, they taste soooo good!)

And for desert it was all about the sprinkles:  Rainbow chip cupcakes, with rainbow chip frosting, with sprinkles of course.

Uncle Michael got to play with fire while lighting the birthday candles.

And then it was on to the presents.

A new lunch box.

Dragon Tales

And a birthday card with a special message that Grandpa actually got to read to Bailey.

It was a fun night with family.  Thanks Bailey for having a birthday so we could all celebrate.  We love you girl!