snow day pictures

We had a good time playing in the snow! As you can see, Mitchell and I made snow angels, Mark rode the tricycle through the snow like a three wheeler, and Neil made the snow people. Mitchell named the little one Potato Head, and Neil named the large one Pat. I tried to play a snow-chase game that we always played with my dad called "Fox and Geese" with Mitchell, but he did not quite understand how to stay on the path and the game was ruined.

what a difference

We went to Opryland Hotel last year and this year after Thanksgiving.

THE tree

We decorated the tree on Sunday afternoon! I think it looks really nice this year! The pic is a little disappointing since you can't see the twinkling white glow from the lights! One of my favorite things about it is that we have a great window in the front of the house so you can see it from the street! So here are my sweethearts in front of the tree!

no. of days tree has been decorated: 2

no. of ornaments broken: 2

I will keep you posted as we progress through the holiday season with Mark Destructo! He loves the ball ornaments, and they slip off their hangers so easily that he steals them and carries them around the house. He really likes bears, so I pointed out all the ornaments that were bears. Bad idea! Today I found him making a ceramic bear ornament "dance" on the tile floor! Poor little bear lost his tail and half of his back. I have to commend the bear for making it through about ten or so bangs/dance steps before I could rush in to see what the banging glass noise was! The second casualty was a glass football ornament; he threw it, again, onto the tile!

We also lost one of the wise men from our nativity set! I think Mark had something to do with that too! Good news! He has been found and returned to his rightful place of eternally guarding baby Jesus! What would we have done with only 2 shephards?!! I shudder at the blasphemy!

Thankful

Not much going on here! We are glad to have made it through "turkey fest 2006". We had 6 meals of turkey, dressing, cranberry, pie, and what ever else goes with Thanksgiving dinner! It was yummy, but I can safely say that I don't really care to have any more turkey and dressing until next year!

This pic is not of Thanksgiving, but it is something that I am thankful for every day!

Come on Batman! We've got work to do!

As soon as we let the boys into their costumes, Mitchell yelled, "Come on Batman! We've got work to do!" I don't know where he got it, but it was pretty funny! Mark's favorite part about his costume was the wings on his arms. He would run around and flap them. Mitchell loved his cape. We bought the costume in September, and I let him wear only the cape before Halloween (so he could practice flying)! Enjoy the pics, and thank Andrea for encouraging me to post them!

My sister and I got into the "Trick or Treat" decorating and drew halloween scenes all over the drive way. (That is our drive way Neil and the boys are walking up.) I could not find my CD of scary sounds to play as the kids walked up to the door. I did, however, find a CD with "Thriller" and played that on repeat for the entire evening! When Mark heard it he started crying; when I heard it I started dancing!! I am sure the neighbors loved it too!

fall happenings

Pumpkin Patch in Aubrey, TX with Mom-mom
Mark was very intent on picking up his own pumpkin but never succeeded!
It was about 90 degrees that day, which makes for a very hot pumpkin field!

Angry pumpkin and Sleeping pumpkin! He really is asleep! Poor Kid!


Little Elm Fire Department Open House
Mark's feet did not reach the ground, he was dangling inside the boots!
We got to watch a helicopter land and got tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum hats!



Family Fun Night at Sonshine School
Ring toss, or in Mark's case ring place, and pumpkin bowling.

What cute cowboys!

Get ready to Wiggle!

I found out that there is a Wiggles play center in Frisco, so when we went to visit Neil's parents we/I just had to check it out! It is the only one in the US! It turned out to be a large "McDonalds" like play room thing with Wiggles pictures all over it! The highlight was the moon bounce and slide, and the loud Wiggles music that Mitchell (and I, embarassingly admit) jammed to! Of course the room would not have been complete without the "Big Red Cars" to ride around in! The kids had a great time! The grown ups just got to watch, but I guess that is fun too!
The majority of Mitchell's photos turned out to be video of him sliding on the huge inflatable slide!

Labor Day camp out

Well, I know Labor Day was weeks ago, but I am tired of looking at this same post and I am sure you are too. Life has been busy here and not anything really fun to write about, so I am writing a post, post!


We were going to go camping at Lake Arcadia, but started planning late so it all fell through. Neil had set up the tent in the backyard to air it out before we took it to the lake. Well, since the tent was up I suggested we just have a camp out in the backyard. We were a little unsure what the boys would do sleeping in a tent, and if things went too crazy, we could just go inside and sleep in our cozy beds! Mark usually only sleeps by himself in his own bed. We have tired to get him to sleep with us on occasion and it has not worked out. It did not work out for the camp out either. We got the beds ready and got all of our books to read and our sleeping toys and flashlights etc. We played in the tent for a while. Mitchell and Mark had a great time. Mitchell "read" us a few books, and Mark loved rolling off of the air mattress.

After attempting to settle down and get everyone to sleep, we finally just took Mark to his own bed at 10:30. He had that hysterical/tired/crying/laughing thing going on and was not going to be falling asleep any time soon! We figured he had had his family camping experience and was not going to care, or know the difference, if he slept in the tent or his bed. The three of us finally settled in to sleep, and then came the rain! And then came the leaks in the tent! Did we go inside? No! Neil got a tarp and covered the tent and we continued the camp out! Mitchell's best quote of the night, "It's our first sleep over! This is so great! It's our first camp out!" He just kept saying it over and over. My most frequent thought of the night was, "My bed is inside, there is no rain inside, my bed is just inside that door, and I am out side attempting to sleep on an air mattress. This is stupid. My son and husband are having a great time and I can't just leave, even though I want too!" Neil and Mitchell went for a second go-round of camping on Sunday night as well, but I decided to let that be a father-son outing and slept cozily in my bed!

smarter than he looks!

To follow up the entry about the lack of good, funny, and random things that have happened in the Roberts house, I found this pic of Mark and though it would bring some humor to your day! It really needs no explanation. If you can see, he has placed a People magazine in the toilet! Aparently, he knows trash when he sees it and is helping his mommy learn where not to store her reading materials! (Was that too much information?) I mean, helping his mommy eliminate waste! (Oh, the puns could go on forever!) We have some interesting toilet stories thanks to our two sons. Mitchell usually returns from the bathroom sans clothing on the bottom half of his body. This even happens sometimes at family dinners at our house or at relatives homes. One afternoon post-potty, he was running around and I was trying to convince him to go get his underwear and put them back on. He finally went in to get them and started screaming, "My underwear! My underwear! Oh!" I rushed in to see what had happened. Aparently Mark had wandered into the bathroom while Mitchell was out "running free" and had deposited Mitchell's underwear into the toilet! Ah, ya gotta love having sons! I think it is hilarious - most days!

Update- Sebastian is home! They went home Wed night, and are very glad to be there! He still has some tests and things to go, but being home so good! Thank you for praying for him!

Yeah, Sebastian!

Our little buddy is doing so much better! Today he is eating some real food, and has his IV unhooked and can walk around a little. He has even let his Grandmom hold him and read to him instead of his mom. This is good because it gives Sara a small break from being the only one who can comfort Sebastian. The best news of all is that his platelets are rising on their own! The platelet issue is the most concerning because of the long term illness it could present. They were told at the beginning of the week that they may get to go home on Friday, but now the doctors think it may be as early as this evening or tomorrow, Thursday! They are so excited that this seems to be nearing its end! Sebastian had a CT scan this afternoon to see how the clot and bleeds in his head are doing. They are waiting for the report. Pray that the clot is smaller and that there are fewer bleeds. There were some small bleeds in his head because of the pressure and stress caused by the clot. Things are sounding good! Keep praying that the cause of this can be determined and prevented in the future! Thank all of you so much for praying for Sebastian and for Brian and Sara. God is good even in the middle of turmoil! Thank you for being concerned with us!
Jeny

museum

Last week, while keeping busy to avoid sock puppet requests, we went to the Edmond Historical Museum with Quinn and Kerri. The museum is free! There is a small hands-on kids area with a little prarie house with dress up clothes and food and kitchen things. There is a history of phones part where you pick up antique phones and they play a message. Mark liked the phones. Kerri got better pictures than I did so if you have not seen them check out her blog. These were the only pics I got of the day. That is the edge of Mitchell wearing a fringed leather vest (You can't see the cowboy boots)! Cool Kid!

sock puppets

Last week Mitchell came up with the idea to make sock puppets. We had just read If You Give a Moose a Muffin where the moose makes sock puppets. I thought it would be more fun to make puppets with a friend, so I invited Molly and Kim over. We read the book on Tuesday, but did not get together with Molly until Friday. It was a long week trying to fend off frequent daily requests for sock puppets. We had to go somewhere everyday last week to keep Mitchell's mind off them. Finally it was Friday and Molly and Kim came over. It was their first time to play together so they were more interested in playing than sitting down for a craft! Kim and I had to strongly suggest (force) them to come inside to make the puppets. They did well at first, but quickly moved on to playing something else or watching TV, I don't know what. Never trust the attention span of 3 year olds! Kim and I ended up finishing them and they looked pretty good! The pictures don't really show our artistic talent. Again, I think it has to do with being three and never sitting still!

update on Sebastian

The MRI today turned up that it is only a blood clot. Sebastian woke up today and after a little vomit spell, that was thank goodness not followed by a seizure, he said, "Done" he smiled a little smile, and said "Daddy". One of the Doctors for the first time sounded confident and positive and said, "I know what this is, and we will get to work on fixing it!" Brian and Sara are very relieved and are feeling much better. Thank you for the prayers! I told Sara today that I had sent the mass e-mail request and that we had been praying specifically for Sebasitan to wake up and act like himself. It is such a great testimony to the power of prayer! Thank you so much! There are still questions to answer, like what caused the blood clot and his low platelet level, so be praying about that too. Thank you for praying!
Jeny

Pray

Dear friends,
This is Sebastian. He is 12 months old and his parents are Brian and Sara. He is in the PICU at children's in Oklahoma City. He has been sick for two weeks and entered the hospital Thursday afternoon. He is now having seizures. They are doing an MRI today, Friday, at 3:00 to get a closer look at a bleed, or blood clot in his brain. Please pray hard for him today and for his parents and doctors. Sebastian is so young and is Brian and Sara's only child; they are very worried. Many of you know what it is like to have kids in the hospital. Please pray for them intensely. Pray that his seizures will stop, that they can diagnose the clot that is in his brain and treat it, and that he will be awake more and be able to return to acting normal quickly. Pray for his parents to have peace and patience and rest. Mitchell has been praying that they will be brave. Please join us in continuous prayer for them. Sara has been my friend since the 5th grade and our hearts hurt with them. Many of you have prayed with us for many things and we know that prayer is powerful! Thank you so much.