6 months

my boys six months after the swap

six months ago i was living at children's mercy hospital being amazed by my little man, worried about nicks growing allergic reaction and grateful to take daily showers. today i'm still grateful to take daily showers even if they are at 5:30am. i'm also still amazed by little man. and nicks allergic reaction has been long gone. :-) it is really crazy to think that owen is upstairs sleeping in his bed with nicks kidney inside of him. nick doesn't like it to be called his kidney anymore, he says "i gave it to owen, it's not mine anymore" but owen calls it his daddy's kidney :-) it will always be nick's kidney to me too :-) it's truly amazing what doctors can do and i thank my lucky stars for them everyday. over the past week i've gone back and re-read my post from the weeks around the swap. those thoughts feel like they were from a life time ago. and lately it feels like those thoughts are hard to come by. today i was talking to my mom about how i find it harder to blog now. i said before i was always up late, couldn't sleep and that was when i would blog. now i don't stay up so late....hence why i don't blog so much. my mom made a comment that has had me thinking all day "before you couldn't sleep because you had so many worries about owen." it's probably true but it doesn't feel possible that i could have less worries about owen now. i wouldn't say i have more but maybe just different ones. a parent always worries about their kids, right? i just need to make sure i'm not letting my guard down with owen....that worries me :-/ may 13th owen has a 6 month biopsy on the kidney. they will do it in surgery under anesthesia because of his heart history. we will stay one night to watch for bleeding.....one night will be a breeze for us. on may 20th we have round 2 with the independence school district to see what their plans are for him next year. i'm actually looking more forward to hospital stay then i am the school meeting :-/ i'll let you know how they both go.

owen loved dyeing Easter eggs
nick and noah making "the Face"

she was so proud of the eggs

the Easter bunny brought them luggage instead of baskets for our upcoming trip to California. owen's Make A Wish is in 20 Days.....we can hardly wait!!!!!

the cute gets cuter

just when i thought that there was no way this face could get any cuter......he gets glasses!!!!! he has been doing great with wearing them. like he has always had them :-) until today.....he broke them :-( a new pair has been ordered. it's amazing the difference they made in his vision!!!

we've had a lot of fun outing with the kids lately. we took them to see toy story 3 on ice. that's our splurge every year on the kids and we love surprising them with it. every year liv sees the billboards and hears the commercials and always says i want to go to that but she never catches on that we always take her. i just love putting them in the car then telling them where we are really going.

owen stayed awake for the whole thing unlike when he fell asleep at the circus before the swap.

noah went last year but spelt thru the whole thing so we were a little nervous taking him with us. i must say that he did awesome. i'm sure the fact that he is really into toy story right now helped. it was so fun to get to see them all enjoy it.

couldn't not get a picture of these three all holding hands. we were heading into the zoo. my mom got us a season pass for christmas so we have really been taking advantage of it every chance we get. we've been bringing a picnic lunch and getting lots of walking exercise. the kids have really loved it and ask us to go every weekend.

Livi turned 7 on the 10th!!! we started the weekend with a slumber party with 4 of her friends and cousins. we took them to get pizza, then bowling and then to get ice cream.

they all stayed the night sleeping on a air mattress in the living room. they made bracelets, played hide-n-seek, colored and watched movies. livi had so much fun. it was a little hectic and trying on my nerves having that many 7 year olds here but well worth it to see liv having so much fun :-)

noah got to ride with daddy on his mower the first time nick mowed the lawn this year. he thought it was pretty cool!!!

i can't hardly believe that liv is 7 years old. where did all that time go?!?!?! how did i get here?!?!? i hope the next 5 years with noah don't go by as fast and i'm not sitting here posting about his 7th b-day saying the same thing. i really need to try slowing down and enjoying the small stuff.