Well we have been busy getting settled into the school routine! Things are going very well overall.
Drew has had a few issues at school. None of it was real major but we have dealt with them and things have greatly improved. He has also had a few bumps along the way with the church transition. I think that he has been having a little bit of transition overload. I am happy to say that last night went great though! No problems at all!! He brought home his first ever graded papers on Tuesday and he had all 100's! We were very proud of him.
JC is now walking all the time! You will see that in the video to follow. He continues to grow and eat all the time! He is a very healthy boy!
I will leave you with the videos for now and hopefully in the coming weeks as things begin to get more routine I will blog more often with news of all the things going on.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
1st Grader
Well the first 4 days of school have gone very well! This pic was of him on Thursday, the first day. He was very excited. He went right into the room when we got there, which was better than he did the day before when we went for open house!Here are a couple more pics from before we left for school...
He had his first homework assignment on Monday and then again yesterday. We are doing pretty well on all this right now. It has not been too much just yet. His teacher tried not to assign any on Wednesday to help out families that attend church. That will be very nice!
Update on Church Visiting
We attended Longview Heights this past Sunday evening for the 3rd time. We really enjoyed it. There was a visiting pastor there preaching and his message was very convicting and encouragine, about Godliness and how to seek it. Drew was able to go to a new program for kids, Generation Praise. It is basically children's choir but also some small group activities. He loved it! He did so good going in and not being shy or scared! We were very proud of him. We are going to be there again tonight. RA's is starting for Drew tonight and there will be Bible study for Jim and I. They also have church suppers on Wednesday but we are not going to try to eat dinner there just yet. I think we need a bit more time to get settled into our school routine before we attempt that. At this point Jim and I both feel God drawing us to Longview Heights. Of course we are not joining there now. We still have 3 more Sunday mornings at NPBC. After that we plan to begin visiting Sunday School and Morning Worship at Longview Heights. God has been so good in directing us and being clear with us about what is not His will. Keep praying for us through this time of transition and change.
VERY Funny Story!!
Since I was not a blogger when Drew was little I have probably only shared this story with maybe my mom, which she probably does not remember! One night during bath time when Drew was about JC's age he pooped in the bathtub! It was horrifying and hilarious all at the same time! I remember us looking at it in disbelief and trying to figure out if that was actually what it was and then quickly getting Drew out of the tub and having to clean all the toys that were in the tub then! Well, a while back, maybe a month or 2 ago, I was bathing both boys and noticed JC making that face that just tells you he needs to go, so I quickly got him done and out of the tub, not wanting to find something floating in the water! I ended up telling Drew what he had done as a baby and why I was in such a hurry to get JC out! So, last night I was getting dinner cooked and Jim was giving the kids baths. They had not been in there very long and I heard JC crying and Drew fussing about something. I didn't really think anything of it and just figured that they had made eachother mad. I went on with cooking dinner but kept hearing the tub water running. So after the 3rd time I hear the water on I went back there and found both kids sitting outside the tub on the rug. I ask Jim why he kept running the water. He responded to me "We had an issue but I took care of it". Drew then comments "JC pooped in the tub!" I started laughing! I could not believe that both of our children had seriously done this! I cannot wait to tell them about this when they are teenagers!
Anyway, never a dull moment at our house!
Friday, August 6, 2010
Videos of JC
I have not been able to blog this week. I have been so busy at work that even during my lunch time I have been working! So I wanted to get these videos up here. Another blog post will be coming soon with all the details of Drew's first couple of days at school!
Friday, July 30, 2010
Big things going on at the Mayo house!
Oh where to begin!
First, we are back in an almost normal routine. Jim has been in band camp this week and that has meant everyone getting up super early and leaving the house around 6:30am! We have also had WAY too much going on in the evenings this week, so as a result I am exhausted! I did exercise Monday and Tuesday and then the fatigue hit me and I have not made it since, but next week we do not have all the stuff going on in the evenings so I think it will all go much more smoothly. We have done well over all though. The kids have adjusted and are going to bed at a normal bedtime. I would like to say I am looking forward to a fun, relaxing weekend but unfortunately I have all our monthly shopping to do! I am planning to do this tomorrow afternoon after we spend the morning swimming. I do get to go shopping solo! That is a good thing and means that it will get done quickly, as quickly as possible when you have 5 stops to make!!
Well lets move on to big thing #2. We have termites. We discovered the problem on Sunday evening. We both handled it pretty well although we were both worried over the cost to take care of this. So on top of our already busy afternoons we have been entertaining pest control companies trying to determine who the best one, with the best rates, was to go with. We made our decision yesterday afternoon and they will be out on Monday to treat the house. We both tried really hard to keep a positive outlook on the situation and to not stress too much about the money. It was easy to quickly get down about it as we just spent a good amount of money on air conditioner repairs and then van repairs. But since issues typically come in 3's I will trust that we have had our 3 and maybe won't have any more major issues for a while! Truthfully though we are really so blessed. I tried very hard to cling to Jesus this week as I worried about the money we would have to pay for the treatment and yet know that God promises to provide for our need, not our wants. He takes such good care of us. As I looked to Him through this week I was reminded that even if our house was destroyed and fell down around us we are still so richly blessed and have so much more than many around the world.
And now for the 3rd big thing going on in our family. We have made the decision to leave our church. This has been something that we have struggled with for about a year now. We love the people of our church so very much and we have been actively involved there for a long time. We would have been members for 9 years on September 9. We have been there basically our entire married life. God has made it clear to both Jim and I that it is His will for us to be somewhere else. Nothing has happened at church to cause us to make this decision, it is just simply God's will for us right now. We have no idea at this point where that place will be. We will remain at our church on Sunday mornings until the end of August in order to finish out teaching obligations. We began this past Sunday and Wednesday evening visiting around. It was very different and a little scary walking into a new place. We would appreciate your prayers as we seek God's will. Please pray for Drew especially. I do not know if he fully understands yet and he sometimes has a hard time warming up to new people.
Well the last thing I will share today is our family portraits that we had done a few weeks ago. We will be ordering prints soon. Let me know what your favs are!
First, we are back in an almost normal routine. Jim has been in band camp this week and that has meant everyone getting up super early and leaving the house around 6:30am! We have also had WAY too much going on in the evenings this week, so as a result I am exhausted! I did exercise Monday and Tuesday and then the fatigue hit me and I have not made it since, but next week we do not have all the stuff going on in the evenings so I think it will all go much more smoothly. We have done well over all though. The kids have adjusted and are going to bed at a normal bedtime. I would like to say I am looking forward to a fun, relaxing weekend but unfortunately I have all our monthly shopping to do! I am planning to do this tomorrow afternoon after we spend the morning swimming. I do get to go shopping solo! That is a good thing and means that it will get done quickly, as quickly as possible when you have 5 stops to make!!
Well lets move on to big thing #2. We have termites. We discovered the problem on Sunday evening. We both handled it pretty well although we were both worried over the cost to take care of this. So on top of our already busy afternoons we have been entertaining pest control companies trying to determine who the best one, with the best rates, was to go with. We made our decision yesterday afternoon and they will be out on Monday to treat the house. We both tried really hard to keep a positive outlook on the situation and to not stress too much about the money. It was easy to quickly get down about it as we just spent a good amount of money on air conditioner repairs and then van repairs. But since issues typically come in 3's I will trust that we have had our 3 and maybe won't have any more major issues for a while! Truthfully though we are really so blessed. I tried very hard to cling to Jesus this week as I worried about the money we would have to pay for the treatment and yet know that God promises to provide for our need, not our wants. He takes such good care of us. As I looked to Him through this week I was reminded that even if our house was destroyed and fell down around us we are still so richly blessed and have so much more than many around the world.
And now for the 3rd big thing going on in our family. We have made the decision to leave our church. This has been something that we have struggled with for about a year now. We love the people of our church so very much and we have been actively involved there for a long time. We would have been members for 9 years on September 9. We have been there basically our entire married life. God has made it clear to both Jim and I that it is His will for us to be somewhere else. Nothing has happened at church to cause us to make this decision, it is just simply God's will for us right now. We have no idea at this point where that place will be. We will remain at our church on Sunday mornings until the end of August in order to finish out teaching obligations. We began this past Sunday and Wednesday evening visiting around. It was very different and a little scary walking into a new place. We would appreciate your prayers as we seek God's will. Please pray for Drew especially. I do not know if he fully understands yet and he sometimes has a hard time warming up to new people.
Well the last thing I will share today is our family portraits that we had done a few weeks ago. We will be ordering prints soon. Let me know what your favs are!
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Friday, July 23, 2010
The Story
Okay, here is the JC story that I promised.
CAUTION: Memaws and Nanas procede with caution. This story will contain material that may alarm and shock you!
As I mentioned before, JC has learned to be very mischevious. Especially when there is only one parent at home and it seems to be particularly bad when it is his mama that he is left with! Monday Jim had a meeting at the school and I was home with the kids. They had been bathed and were completely ready for bed but it was a bit early to put JC down. I was trying to finish up cleaning the kitchen. Drew was watching a movie and I decided that he and JC could play with his Thomas Trains together. We got them out and I made sure they were all acceptable sizes that they did not pose a hazard to him swallowing any. So I am back and forth in the kitchen checking on them. The first thing he decided to get into was the puzzles that are stacked on a table in the dining room. Since I could see him from the kitchen I knew that he was getting into them and went in, popped his bottom and told him "no!". I headed back to the kitchen only to return a few moments later to him trying to pull on the blinds in the dining room. Again a pop on the bottom and a stern no. This time I put him on the rug, in the living room, surrounded by dozens of trains. You would think he would just play with the trains, right! So I went back in the kitchen. I was now done with all my kitchen duties and was pouring myself a coke with the intent of sitting in the recliner to supervise the playing. Now I was literally only gone for the short span of time that it takes to get a cup from the cabinet, coke from the fridge, pop the top and pour. I hear Drew gasp, knowing that this was going to be followed by a report of what his brother was doing wrong, I simply waited for Drew to come report. He comes running into the kitchen to tell me that JC is in the rocks in the fireplace. I take off running into the living room to find him in front of the fireplace surrounded by about 15 little rocks from the gas logs and reaching in to get more. I immediately popped his hand and told him "NO!". He starts crying which causes me to see that his mouth is FULL of rocks. Now I am freaking out! I dig rocks out of his mouth and am panicking about whether or not he may have swallowed one. My first reaction was to call Jim and get him home but I managed to pull it together and calm myself slightly. I accessed him and realized that he was breathing fine and seemed completely okay. So I decided to call my friend whose husband is a medic with the volunteer fire department, sorry Scott I do not know the technical term! I ask them what I needed to do and he assured me that if he was breathing okay and able to drink and not have any issues then he was most likely fine but may have still swallowed a small one. Thankfully he was breathing and drinking fine and we have not seen any evidence on the "other end" to indicate that he did swallow any. I made him sit in the recliner with me for the remainder of Drew's movie. He was not happy with me for containing him! I kept him up a bit later than normal just to make sure he was breathing just fine. Later after I had put him to bed I sat down with Drew and told him how proud I was of him. That he had done just the right thing by coming and getting me so quickly and probably saved his brother's life. It was probably the scariest moment of my life when I saw all those rocks in his mouth. I am so thankful that God protected us that evening and that Drew was so vigilant. This boy is quick and kinda bad!
So this little incident prompted me to the next big thing in our house...
CAUTION: Memaws and Nanas procede with caution. This story will contain material that may alarm and shock you!
As I mentioned before, JC has learned to be very mischevious. Especially when there is only one parent at home and it seems to be particularly bad when it is his mama that he is left with! Monday Jim had a meeting at the school and I was home with the kids. They had been bathed and were completely ready for bed but it was a bit early to put JC down. I was trying to finish up cleaning the kitchen. Drew was watching a movie and I decided that he and JC could play with his Thomas Trains together. We got them out and I made sure they were all acceptable sizes that they did not pose a hazard to him swallowing any. So I am back and forth in the kitchen checking on them. The first thing he decided to get into was the puzzles that are stacked on a table in the dining room. Since I could see him from the kitchen I knew that he was getting into them and went in, popped his bottom and told him "no!". I headed back to the kitchen only to return a few moments later to him trying to pull on the blinds in the dining room. Again a pop on the bottom and a stern no. This time I put him on the rug, in the living room, surrounded by dozens of trains. You would think he would just play with the trains, right! So I went back in the kitchen. I was now done with all my kitchen duties and was pouring myself a coke with the intent of sitting in the recliner to supervise the playing. Now I was literally only gone for the short span of time that it takes to get a cup from the cabinet, coke from the fridge, pop the top and pour. I hear Drew gasp, knowing that this was going to be followed by a report of what his brother was doing wrong, I simply waited for Drew to come report. He comes running into the kitchen to tell me that JC is in the rocks in the fireplace. I take off running into the living room to find him in front of the fireplace surrounded by about 15 little rocks from the gas logs and reaching in to get more. I immediately popped his hand and told him "NO!". He starts crying which causes me to see that his mouth is FULL of rocks. Now I am freaking out! I dig rocks out of his mouth and am panicking about whether or not he may have swallowed one. My first reaction was to call Jim and get him home but I managed to pull it together and calm myself slightly. I accessed him and realized that he was breathing fine and seemed completely okay. So I decided to call my friend whose husband is a medic with the volunteer fire department, sorry Scott I do not know the technical term! I ask them what I needed to do and he assured me that if he was breathing okay and able to drink and not have any issues then he was most likely fine but may have still swallowed a small one. Thankfully he was breathing and drinking fine and we have not seen any evidence on the "other end" to indicate that he did swallow any. I made him sit in the recliner with me for the remainder of Drew's movie. He was not happy with me for containing him! I kept him up a bit later than normal just to make sure he was breathing just fine. Later after I had put him to bed I sat down with Drew and told him how proud I was of him. That he had done just the right thing by coming and getting me so quickly and probably saved his brother's life. It was probably the scariest moment of my life when I saw all those rocks in his mouth. I am so thankful that God protected us that evening and that Drew was so vigilant. This boy is quick and kinda bad!
So this little incident prompted me to the next big thing in our house...
Christmas in July!
I decided that maybe a change of toys would get his little mind off doing things that are bad for him and back to playing with toys! So we went up to the attic on Wednesday night and pulled down all the little people toys and mega blocks. As you can see it was much like Christmas morning. Actually we were saving some of these things to be JC's Christmas present, but I have already gotten him one big item from a yard sale and that may just be it this year with all the pay cuts for Jim and all. So they had fun, and Drew is still having lots of fun with the new toys. JC however is already back to his mischevious ways!
Drew has been in VBS all week at our church. He has really had a lot of fun. This makes 2 weeks in a row that he has been at the Saddle Ridge Ranch! Last week he was with me at Longview Point. He told us last night at dinner how he was going to do all the dancing at Parent Night, which was last night. He knows all the moves because we have been singing and doing them at home this week. Well this is what he looked like through the entire program last night...
Yes, he looked mad the entire time. I cannot explain this stage fright he has. When he is in a small group he wants to be the center of attention, but put him on a stage and he is a statue! His brother on the other hand was all smiles and when he saw Drew on stage all he could do was call his bubba and try to wave at him, but Drew would not wave at him, which made him call louder and louder and louder! It was an exciting program trying to contain JC!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Just Hanging Out!
Well we had a good rather low keyed weekend. Since JC was still recovering from the ear infections we just kept him in most of the weekend. Jim took this pic of me and the boys Friday afternoon as we were playing around in the living room...
He said we looked like a 3 headed monster, which I did not think was very nice!
On Saturday Jim took Drew to a birthday party. That left me and JC on our own for a while, which was really nice to have some time with him alone but he has also learned to be very mischevious when he knows that only one of us is in the house, especially when that one is me I think! He decided that helping me with the unloading of the dishwasher was a fun idea...
He splashed in the water that was collected in the door from the clean dishes. He got his face soaked, as you can see in this pic...
When the dishwasher no longer interested him, he decided to make some tea...
But decided that perhaps it worked better as a drum...
Then we had fun playing with one of his favorite toys...
the toy bucket/dish pan! Why do we even buy kids toys! Just give 'em a box and they are happy!
Then he thought he was gonna drink out of mama's water bottle...
I don't think so baby! Mama don't drink after anybody, not even your daddy!
As you can see he is REALLY into everything, and he is not yet walking! YIKES! I will post later about what he got into on Monday night while Jim was at a band meeting, definitely a story that must be documented for future harrasment, oh I mean reference!
He said we looked like a 3 headed monster, which I did not think was very nice!
On Saturday Jim took Drew to a birthday party. That left me and JC on our own for a while, which was really nice to have some time with him alone but he has also learned to be very mischevious when he knows that only one of us is in the house, especially when that one is me I think! He decided that helping me with the unloading of the dishwasher was a fun idea...
He splashed in the water that was collected in the door from the clean dishes. He got his face soaked, as you can see in this pic...
When the dishwasher no longer interested him, he decided to make some tea...
But decided that perhaps it worked better as a drum...
Then we had fun playing with one of his favorite toys...
the toy bucket/dish pan! Why do we even buy kids toys! Just give 'em a box and they are happy!
Then he thought he was gonna drink out of mama's water bottle...
I don't think so baby! Mama don't drink after anybody, not even your daddy!
As you can see he is REALLY into everything, and he is not yet walking! YIKES! I will post later about what he got into on Monday night while Jim was at a band meeting, definitely a story that must be documented for future harrasment, oh I mean reference!
Friday, July 16, 2010
Toothless boy!
Well Drew has now lost 4 teeth! And he had 4 permanent teeth coming in! 2 of those were coming in behind the baby teeth. We pulled one before leaving home this morning and then the other one when he got here to work with me. He has been coming with me all week for VBS. Here is a pic of all the missing teeth and you can see all the permanent ones. The big one in the front is where he lost the first tooth...
JC has been home sick since Wednesday morning. Tuesday he started getting kinda stopped up but he has 4 teeth cutting so we figured it was just that. Well by yesterday afternoon his face was so puffy and red that we decided he needed to go to the doctor and sure enough he has a double ear infection! Everytime that boy gets a stuffy nose it ends up in his ears! Fortunately it happened this week since Jim is still home. Drum camp starts next week and that would have meant me having to take off work for a sick kid, so I am very thankful that God allowed it to be this week. He is so much more pitiful than Drew has ever been about being sick. He is really gonna be one of those whiney, pitiful, sick men! He is on the mend now though!
JC has been home sick since Wednesday morning. Tuesday he started getting kinda stopped up but he has 4 teeth cutting so we figured it was just that. Well by yesterday afternoon his face was so puffy and red that we decided he needed to go to the doctor and sure enough he has a double ear infection! Everytime that boy gets a stuffy nose it ends up in his ears! Fortunately it happened this week since Jim is still home. Drum camp starts next week and that would have meant me having to take off work for a sick kid, so I am very thankful that God allowed it to be this week. He is so much more pitiful than Drew has ever been about being sick. He is really gonna be one of those whiney, pitiful, sick men! He is on the mend now though!
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