HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

Today was a good mothers day. Nothing too special or over rated, but just a fun day spending time with the family. Church service was good, and Nathan made me a hand print with a poem. I love it when he brings Sunday school arts and crafts home! It makes my day.
Jamie and Nate set up the pool for the first time. Nathan had so much fun flopping around. Afterwards, he fell asleep on the couch for awhile.
Then his cousins and Aunti Samantha came over and we grilled.

It's Time To Say Goodbye

This whole experience with selling fish has been exciting and time consuming at the same time. I officially have a buyer for the batch of 12 from Illinois! He has been struggling with the idea of a 2 day shipment or an overnight. I think with my encouragement he has finally realized that a few dollars is important when it comes to these poor babies oxygen level limits ha ha ha. There is a lady on hold for the other 30. I told her they need to grow a few more weeks. :)
I have also decided to go ahead with my schooling. I can't wait around any longer knowing that Nate is not having surgery in the next 6 months. I am excited and look forward to jumping right in.
Going to school, I will probably still raise the babies, but I have decided to keep it to local buyers.

The Shriners Hospital was wonderful. There were so many fun things for him to do while he waited. After his X-Rays he was able to pick a 'baby' out of a giant tub to care for while he waited. The appointment did not. go the way I was expecting. They said that they can not do surgery right now because they want to see if his leg works itself out on its own. He is supposed to go in again on November 12 to re-evaluate the situation. They will do more x-rays and see where it is at. The Dr. thinks that if we do surgery it might make it worse or just cause him to need more surgery in the future. I was in tears!!! I was hoping for surgery to fix our little Nate, but this is what they think is best at this time. I pounded the poor nurse with questions and my concerns and she answered them to the best of her and the Dr. knowledge. Basically it looks worse then it really is so her words were. I personally do not see how walking on the side of your foot and seeing your leg grow outward is not worse then it is, but thats my first time mommy showing through. Jamie feels confident in the Drs decision and believes that they know what they are doing and all will work out. I take it out of my hands and give it all back to God and just keep praying that in the near future it will work out.
I would just hate to see our baby boy not be able to play sports or be made fun of in school. *sigh*
After my post tramatic stress (he he he) we headed out the door and got some quick lunch. "Burgrr burgrr!!" Those golden arches never seem to slip by his attention. :).

Little Nate

Well tomorrow is the big Shreveport drive to Shriners! Yesterday I had yet to hear from the Dr. office announcing that they had his x-rays and information ready. Their x-ray machine was broke last week so I was a little nervous that they were not going to be able to get them done in time. I called yesterday and they were ready. We took Jamie to the gun range this morning, and then headed into town to pick them up. I felt like I was holding gold in my hands. Any form of picture or information that will help these Dr. out is so important.
Thank you all for your continuing prayers! We will let everyone know as soon as we get home tomorrow what the outcome is going to be.

First Time For Everything

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Well Jamie came home and started working on his online classes and. I thought it would be a great opportunity for Mr. Nate and I to sit down and read some books. I grabbed some books, sat in the living room and asked Nate if he wanted to read some books. "Im busy"........um.....Im busy? I have not heard that one before....so I went to investigate and there he was coloring something on the fridge. (Of course I had to replay the scenario for the film ha ha ha).

Squeeky Clean

Well I hung on to this dog house just in case. Knowing that we. are not getting another dog anytime soon, and when we do someday its going to be another house dog I put it up for sale. It took less then. 24 hours to get a potential buyer, so hopefully it will be gone by the end of today.
It makes me feel better it will hopefully be gone. The spiders around here are so creepy that any object around your house especially a dark dog house is a major no no. I caught Nathan crawling through it awhile back and it freaked out! So we opened it up and he lost interest in it. YEA!
I asked Nathan, "Do you want to help mamma clean?" He jumped up, ran to the cleaning cubord, grabbed my favorite (Lysol all purpose) and headed for the bathroom! I busted out laughing because I have to clean that area so much. I directed him to the right direction, and he was so excited. Any duty that involves water is definitely a Nathan project.
We cleaned it up quite well, and hung it up against the fence to dry..

Around And Around We Go

I heard a bunch of screaming and laughing coming from the game room and found Nathan spinning Jamie around in the computer chair.
Sometimes, Nathan will put his baby in the chair and give it a wirl.
The video is dark, but hopefully I can get this moment again someday soon!