Picturing Your Life

When you are little you picture how your family will be when you become an adult.  I always new I wanted to be a stay at home mom, I am not sure why exactly, maybe because my stepmom stayed home with us growing up.  I enjoyed not having to go to daycare and summer camps were for fun, not something you had to go to everyday.

I always pictured myself with 4 kids, 3 boys and a girl.  The girl was the third child.  So when I was pregnant with Braxton and kept the sex a surprise I was truely shocked when I was laying on the operating table and the doctor said through the sheet it was a boy.  God had a different plan for me.  Don't get me wrong I totally love my boys and couldn't imagine one of them being a girl but I do miss the girly things. 

Then I think its okay one day I will have a granddaughter to do those things with.  Is that what Matt's Mom thought her whole life and then Matt and I give her 3 grandsons?  LOL.

A Busy Summer

I though summer time was for relaxing but for some reason my summer has been really busy.

Friday was my birthday, I am offically 31.  Can't believe it.  I was just thinking the other day that it feels like yesterday that I graduated from college.  It will be 10 years next summer.  Where has the time gone?  Matt and I have been together since 1996, it will be 15 years next Friday.  Almost half of my lifetime.

This weekend was my youngest brother's wedding.  It was really nice and we all had a great time especially Nathan and Liam who danced all night long.

Then today was Father's Day, Happy Father's Day to all the Dads.  We celebrating this morning by going to breakfast with Darin and the this afternoon we had lunch with Dad, Grandpa, and the rest of the Oliva's at the club.  There was 34 of us, our family is getting huge.  Afterwards the boys went swimming at my Dad's with their cousins, then we headed back to Jacksonville.  The boys gave Matt all the things they had made for him.  I bought him a Krug that he started using a few weeks back, he is really enjoying it.

Beach Day

Had a great day at Anastasia State Park where we met Aunt Tricia, Christian, Vin, and Val for a beach day.  The kids all played in the sand and water while we relaxed under the canopy with Braxton.  It was his first time at the beach but he has a horrible diaper rash so I didn't want to bring him in the water because it would have burned his bottom.

Afterwards we changed and the kids played at the park for a little while.  We finally left just before 7 and stopped at Steak N Shake for dinner.  Our day was exhausting but we all had a great time.

Braxton's Appointment

Braxton's PO appointment went well today after a delay with the eye drops.  The person who called me last week told me I had to pick them up right before the appointment downstairs at the pharmacy.  I arrived 15 minutes early so I could get them and be upstairs in time for his 2:00 appointment.  Well when I arrive they didn't even have the prescription, since it was a narcotic (cocaine eye drops) the pharmacist had to have someone bring it down to him before it could be filled.  After waiting 30 minutes it was finally filled which made us 20 minutes late to the appointment.

The PO explained that with the drops if he had Horner's Syndrome the effected eye would not dilate with the drops.  So the drops were applied, then 5 minutes later they were applied again.  After an additional 25 minutes the PO looked at the eyes and both were dilated.  GREAT NEWS, he doesn't have Horner's Syndrome.  He said there is no reason for him to see him back unless something changes.  I am still worried about the eye drooping (ptosis) but since it only happens on occasion the PO has never seen it.  If it is truely ptosis then it will happen more frequent as he gets older and at that point we will make an appointment.

There actually was a small finding on his MRI.  The radiologist noted a small cyst on his pituitary gland.  Neither the PO or his dr seemed very concern about it.  Seemed to be one of those things that if any thing comes up then it will be addressed at that point.  I will talk to his dr at his next well visit appointment about it in detail.

Thanks again for all the prayers.

Loose Tooth

Big news in our household, Nathan has his first loose tooth.  He is so excited that he will finally lose a tooth.  All year I have been given the updates on classmates that have lost teeth.  Can't wait for the tooth fairy to come.  I wonder what the going rate is.

Busy Saturday

The swim meet yesterday went great, both boys really had a good time and Nathan placed 2nd in his freestyle heat but 11 out of 19 over all.  He probably could of placed a couple of spots higher but kept on looking around as he was swimming to see if he was beating people.  The backstroke results weren't up since we didn't stay for the whole meet.

Afterwards we went to a boy scout informational meeting.  It looks like boy scouts takes a lot of time so I am not sure if Nathan will join, we just can't commit to something else that requires weekly meetings.

Then Liam and I headed to a birthday party.  He had a lot of fun playing with his friends from school in the water and on the bounce house.  It is so neat to watch him interact with his friends, he looks like such a big kid.

MRI Results

The PO office called yesterday and said the MRI looked normal.  Which means there was nothing effecting the nerves leading to his eye, which is wonderful news.  The next step is to do the eye drop test to confirm Horner's Syndrome, which will be done on Tuesday.  From there I am not sure what the next steps will be if he has or doesn't have it.

It will be a busy Saturday, Nathan and Liam both have there first swim meet of the season.  Nathan is doing 25M freestyle and backstroke and Liam is signed up for 25M freestyle but I am not even sure if I am going to let him do it.  He can use a kickboard but I don't think he is to that point yet.  Then Nathan has a Boy Scout event, his first ever, and Liam has a birthday party for the triplets in his class. 

Thankfully we have Sunday to relax after church.