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.

boring?

I realized last night that I have not had any random, "can you believe it?" stories to tell lately! I am sad! Has my life changed? Are we getting boring? Do I need to get out more? As I layed in bed last night I thought of a list of a few random/ridiculous things that had happened lately, but now I remember none of them! Well, I remember one: I dropped a brand new bottle of salsa on the floor and it shattered all over! We were having fajitas that night and salsa is a pretty important item to fajitas, and we had none! Sad! - Not a really funny story is it?

In the last few weeks, I have met some interesting/rude people who own fabric stores. One Chinese lady store owner told me that if I painted my walls grey, like I told her I was planning on, and did not pick a red and grey paisley fabric that she thought matched my tan/gold/sliver/brownish paisley fabric that my room would be, "sad, it you room, but it be sad!" Another guy who was young, and foreign, and a "designer-type" (you know what I mean?) was just odd and rude throughout my fabric selection process. He was helping me but acting snotty and like he would rather be doing something else, giving really short answers. There is a really nice woman who works there that I have talked to before and she was being really kind and helpful. After about 30 minutes of talking and selecting, I was making my purchases. He had talked me into buying 16 yards when I only needed 12 and into buying $12 fringe to match my 40% off $9.99 fabric. He was getting my money and was still not being nice. I asked the guy, "I can't tell if you don't like me, or if you are just like this?" There was no real reply. The nice lady said, "He is foreign like me." Foreign yes, but like you, no. Another highlight came shortly after when I was asking about where to purchase curtain rods. I was asking about sizes and finials for the ends and cost. He gave some suggestions. He snottily said, "I can order you one, but it takes a while and it cost a lot." I pointed to a rod and asked its size and cost just to get an idea. $300! To my shocked reaction, he continued, "People don't understand about hand made. . ." I said, "Yes I do, I make things by hand. (He already knew I was planning on making the curtains myself.) My dad was a trim carpenter, I know about. . ." "Why don't you have your dad make them then?" "He died three years ago!" Not a blink or a cringe or a "sorry" - nothing! Wow! Well, believe it or not, I still really like the stores and the fabric selections at both stores and plan on going back when I need to. I think that we just have some cultural differences, and I am not really good keeping my mouth shut. If they can give their opinion bluntly, you better bet I will give mine too! Not to be mean, but to prevent being walked on! Well that was a long story! Thanks for reading if you stuck through to the end! I will try to think of some more of the random stories I had in mind to share later!

Check out Dustin Risley's latest post and the video of the treadmill routine! It is cool!

I should be cleaning or sleeping! Neil's entire family - really the whole family - is coming into town this weekend. They start trickling in tomorrow. We pick up GiGi, Neil's mom's mom, Wed afternoon at the airport. Thursday evening, Ben and Melissa (Neil's sister) and parents get here. Some time Friday Neil's dad's parents will be joining us! I am excited to see everyone! Really excited! Now I must go change sheets and fold laundry! It is 2:30 AM! I know that what ever cleaning I do, it will be negated in just a few short minutes by my sweet kids, so I am not too worried about it. Especially since I have spent the last hour or so wasting time on the computer. Bye now! I am going to bed, with dirty dishes in the sink (its too noisy to do them now) and laundry on the couch (I am just too tired and lazy, they are in a hamper/bag/thingy so I can move them and no one will know!). I think I will at least put the sheets in the dryer so they will not smell moldy for the guests.
Wanna know something else cool? I invited some friends (Hi Cindy and Kim) to the mall for tomorrow morning thinking I wanted to keep the kids out of my clean house until the company came. Only problem - no clean house! Lots of work to do still! I will call them in the morning! Ok, really! Bye!

Spaghetti night

This was actually last week and I am just now blogging it, but Mark was so cute, I just had to share it! We ate spaghetti on the patio and Mark just dug in. Mitchell did not get so messy, but his sweet little face just looked so angelic! I enlarged both for you!

Mark's face actually kind of looks like this right now. He has roseola and the rash is all over his little cheeks as well as his whole body. It does not seem to hurt him, but it looks pretty rough! Hopefully we are near the end of it!

Oh, Mitchell's facial expression. His favorite thing to say right now is, "no it isn't". So, you decide. Is this the sassy face or the sweet face?

This is my latest sewing project. It is a John Deere blanket for Sebastian's 1st birthday. As you can see it fit the theme of the party and the huge mural his mom painted on his wall! I forgot to take a picture of the blanket all layed out, so you get to see the action shot of them opening it! Can you feel the excitement?