Keeping Busy

The days have been very busy as of lately, not a lot of time to write on our blog! I have friends who do this nightly and write a book each night. I wonder where they ever find the time or the energy to do this! The kids have been doing really well. We signed both boys up for swimming class on Saturday mornings, so our first class is tomorrow. I am really excited to get them involved in this! Preston is doing a reading program at the library. We went twice this week and pick out books to read, for every five we read he gets a prize and at the end of the program if he reads 15 than he will get Peoria Chief Baseball tickets for the family. Preston likes the library, but looses track that we are there to get books not just to play with all the cool toys they have set up! Chase likes to eat all the toys they have! Preston did pick out one book about a dinosaur roller coaster and this has been his favorite so far. I took a picture of him with the book so I will post it later. Yesterday I couldn't help but pick out one girly book called Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy. A couple of weeks ago I did a photo shoot for the library tea party and the little girls had Fancy Nancy books read to them. They cracked me up because they always new how to finish the story, "because she's FANCY!" Well of course Preston saw all the bright colors on the book and all the dogs so that was what we read last night. It was super cute and Preston barked at every page! We have met a few other Moms in town who have kids around the same age. This has been a lot of fun for all of us. Today we are going to a play group in the middle of the day, so I get two hours during the day to play with the kids! YEAH!!! Hopefully I will get a few pics of all the kids to post, but I don't want to stand out as the crazy mom who can't put her camera down!

Chase went to the doctor yesterday to check his gums. I noticed the previous night that there was a large bump, bigger than a marble, coming off the top of his gums. It was black and green as it faded toward the top of his mouth. I called the doctor and she said it sounded like molars, but she had never seen a child have that bad of a reaction. For piece of mind I took him to the doctor the next day and her response was, "That's Impressive." She said she understood why I was so concerned. At this point we are going to leave it be and hope it goes down. She is pretty sure there will be no problems, but we may have to go back in a week. Chase has been acting just fine. He is not grumpy nor pulling at his ears. There was not a sign that he wasn't feeling good. He was laying on my lap and yawned when I noticed the black bump in his mouth. It looked worse when I saw it in the doctor's office because she was able to hold him down so I could get a good look at it. It looks awfully painful, but chase is still laughing smiling and being his happy self. We'll keep everyone posted on what is to come with that.