Some pictures from our trip...

The comments won't line up with the pictures but I'm sure you can figure it out :)

<--Kaleb just so dang cute in his hat. --The family



















The Cousins - Alexander, Zachary, Ashley, Kaleb
















--Zachary at the Aquarium of the Pacific










--Kaleb with 'chicken hair'



Zachary and Kaleb in toon firetruck













Yeah well, Kaleb wouldn't stand by Mickey. --Zachary meeting Mickey Mouse for the 1st time :) <--Zachary and Kaleb in front of the castle at Disney Land.



<--Kaleb at the park I used to play at.








<--Zachary at the park I used to play
at.
















--Zachary and Kaleb at the Grand Canyon.
--Kaleb enjoying birthday cupcake.

Back from Vacation

It went fast, but parts went so slooowwwwwly. The boys had a blast meeting Mickey Mouse and seeing the fish at the aquarium. They had a joint birthday party with their cousins and got to go on a lot of walks.
Kaleb started talking up a storm during the trip, confirms that I knew what I was talking about when I said his lack of talking/speech was because he could not hear NOT that he has an older sibling who was talking for him. Bull hockey! He now talks in sentences (less than 2 weeks after getting tubes he started).
The boys did really well on the long drive and remembered granny sue and grandpa Ted when they saw them.
Glad to be back but would love to still be on vacation!

Everyone CAN hear, not everyone is listening...

Kaleb's tube surgery went well. He had some sort of a laryngeal spasm when they put him under anesthesia but they gave him a shot of something and he was fine. He had a lot of drainage from both ears and a lot of blood but I was told that was all normal. He seems great now.
Zachary's post op check went fine, he can officially hear now. He goes for his 6 month eye check today to make sure his glasses are still working the way they should.
Jerry and I have decided that the boys don't get to go out to dinner with us anymore. Last night was just plain embarrassing. They were behaving so horribly and they never act like that. They were so bad they lost all their marbles (we do marble reward jars) AND had to pay for their own dinner since neither of them even took a bite of their food. Then we put them to bed at 6pm, Kaleb was out by 6:30 and Zachary was out by 7:30, mommy was out by :O

The boys and I leave for California on Saturday and I cannot wait. I've told the boys they will get to meet Mickey Mouse and they are excited too. It'll be a long drive but it's going to be so much fun.

How to get 2 boys to sleep at a decent hour...

Hours after we put the boys to bed, this is what we find...

Fearless...

I thought Zachary was our fearless one with his love of fireworks but he wouldn't get close to this 4 wheeler, Kaleb on the other hand, jumped right on and even rode it with Jerry. The 4 wheeler belongs to BNSF and Jerry brought it home because he is going to use it this weekend at a snake hunt he has to work in BFE. Of course this didn't help my arguments that the boys are too small and would be too scared to get a 4 wheeler like Jerry wants for them (and this is at least twice the size of the ones Jerry has been eying for the boys) I see many emergency room visits in our future...

Slide video

In case anyone missed my video post earlier.

Easter

Easter was good, the boys had fun. We couldn't go outside because of the rain so we did our Easter egg hunt inside but it was still good. Zachary asked when we were done if Santa was coming tomorrow since the Easter Bunny already came, good god no! I explained that Santa wouldn't be coming back for 8 more months, we had to get through his birthday and the summer and Halloween first. He seemed okay with it. Wouldn't it be nice to have no concept of time again?