WARNING TO PARENTS OR ANYONE WHO TAKES CARE OF KIDS

Saturday evening I was playing with Evan in the living room as the rest of us were discussing what we were going to eat for dinner and going to yogurt mountain afterwards. Evan was sitting on one of those big huge bouncy balls. You know the ones in Wal-Mart that your kids can’t walk by the bin without getting one out and bouncing it! I was sitting on the couch holding her hands and she was sitting on the ball bouncing up and down. She started laying backwards on it while I was still holding her arms and I would pull her back up. We did this a couple of times and then she went back really hard and I kept her from banging her head on the floor and then she rolled over off the ball and started crying hysterically. Evan is tough! Usually if she gets hurt, she whines for a minute but gets over it quick or doesn’t even cry at all. But she was crying big…I mean big tears down her face, snot everywhere. I thought she had hit her head or something until I saw her holding her right arm against her body and pointed to it with her left hand just boo hooing. She was pitiful! After giving her a few minutes to calm down I realized that something was really wrong so I called doc in the box to make sure they did x-rays or to see if I just needed to go the emergency room. They did so at 7pm Evan and I headed to the dr. So much for yogurt mountain. I just knew DHR was going to interview me b/c they wouldn’t believe that she broke her arm on a bouncy ball! Every time I would move her she would just cry I know those people in the waiting room were like I don’t feel good would you please shut that baby up. All except for the lady beside us in the motorized chair that called out to Jesus for help every few minutes…she kept talking to me about Evan and how she knew someone blah blah blah…Anyway…after waiting and x rays, the Dr tells me that Evan has nursemaid elbow. I had never heard of such and if you haven’t either, here’s the Wikipedia link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursemaid's_elbow When wonderful Dr. Lovely (yes that’s his name) explained to me how it happened, it made perfect sense and I knew that I had done this to my sweet girl. About 3 min after he put it back in place, she was moving her arm, giving me high fives, and knuckle bumps (chan taught her that) and was a happy laughing child! It was amazing! I could not get over the quick transformation and I was so glad there was nothing more serious wrong. Dr said it would be very likely that this would happen again so to be careful and make sure you pick her up under her arms and all that. I just can’t believe I had never heard of this before. So to all you moms, dads, babysitters out there who didn’t know about this pretty common injury, glad I could enlighten you!

Vacation

We went to Chattanooga, TN for Hudson's world series. Love Chattanooga! Like I said in an earlier post, they didn't do very well so we were started playing on Friday morning and were done Monday Morning. Since I was off all week and Richard was off Tuesday and Wed, we decided to stay another night in Chattanooga and have a mini vacation so we checked out of the hotel we in (our reservations were only til Mon) and checked into one just down the road. I caught up on laundry while going back and forth to the pool with the boys while Evan and Richard napped. Later that evening, we drove to downtown Chattanooga and walked along the river and through downtown. It's so pretty there!

The dress was getting too wet so we had to take it off!

The next morning, we packed up and checked out of the hotel. We went to the aquarium and imax in Chattanooga thanks to some free tickets from a friend! Then we drove to Atlanta to a Braves game. They were playing the Padres. Usually when we go, we don't have very good seat but Richard wanted good ones so we were about 16 rows behind the Brave's dugout. It was cool to be that close! My sweet little Evan even made the jumbo tron twice! After a trip to the wonderful QT we started home and got home a little after midnight.

She had just woke up from a nap! I know this pic is blurry but it looks like he's looking right at us!

I enjoyed the rest of the week off and Friday we went to Alabama Adventure with my mom and sisters (minus Ashley plus Collin) and all the kids except little Clay. It was so hot but a lot of fun! Thanks for the treat mom!

I love going on vacation with my family. And although it can be stressful and I can be a complete butt sometimes, I still love it! Can we go somewhere now?

Lazy Days of Summer

What does that even mean when your a full-time working mother of 3, 2 of which are very active in baseball, the wife of a husband who works full-time, runs his own business, and coaches a baseball team? While we were very busy this summer, we were able to enjoy some "redneck" summer days. Note:Chandler would not participate, either not home or in the air conditioning playing X-Box.

Baseball

What a year of baseball it has been! Let's see...Chandler started playing in Feb for his middle school team. They had a great year and came in 3rd in the city/county tournament. Of course we were upset they didn't win it because they really could/should have but that's the way it goes. He had a great year playing catcher and received the defensive award at their sports banquet. His coach told how many innings he played (I don't remember) with no errors. Right after that season was over, he started playing with a travel ball team and they played a few tournaments from April-July. This was no so fun. Lots of rain delays and rain outs. When they did play, they did well except for the last tournament in July in Panama City. They stunk it up there!

He also played for his future HIGHSCHOOL team, Northridge, in their summer ball program. This involved workouts everyday at 11am at the highschool and then practice later that day and about 2-3 games a week. Thank goodness for my mother in law who helped out a ton with the transportation! This was fun and they did well. Chandler was able to pitch more than he ever did with middle school and he did really well. Other than that, he played catcher of course. I think we are really going to enjoy this team in the spring but it sure will help when he can drive himself! So, we went from watching games in the freezing, freezing cold to the burning up hot!

Hudson played this year at Kentuck and Richard was his coach. Their team did not do so well. Hudson had a good year and was able to play some different positions. Richard had the opportunity to coach the 2nd all star team again and stupidly said yes. They played in 3 tournaments and didn't do really great in any of them but they had a good time and loved the traveling. It was a good opportunity for Hudson to meet new people that we haven't played with before and he really improved on his hitting and had some great defensive plays. We went to Chattanooga, TN for the world series and they had a blast. Again, lots of rain outs and rain delays and that was frustrating but as long as they got to swim at the hotel, they didn't care!

A picture our sweet friend, Shelby, took of herself. :) Too cute not to share!

I just love Evan's shirt with her accessories to make it somewhat fit! And, no I can't get a picture of her without that "pappy" in her mouth!

So funny! Richard bought this mustache in a gumball machine! I told Chan he was porn star fabulous!

The little sisters of the ballpark. These girls loved entertaining Evan and were so sweet!

I love baseball and the time it gives us together as a family! I hope my boys always love it and always want to play. Richard is hoping Evan is a softball player!

Catching Up

I am the worst blogger ever! We have had a great spring and summer! We are so lucky to have all our family so close and i am so thankful my kids get to grow up close to their cousins! Here are a few pictures from times spent with them.