Catching Up

Somehow I have gotten very far behind in blogging....so here goes. This is what we have been up to the last two weeks. On Mother's Day we headed up to Concord after church and took the kids to the dentist on Monday. Here is Aubrey at her first dentist appointment. She did really well.

Why in the world did we drive 7 hours to go the dentist you might ask? Well, Ethan has had to have a lot of work done on his teeth recently. We do not have dental insurance with this church and we had already spent over $900 and the pediatric dentist wanted another $1000 to do the rest. That was just not an option for us. Derek's family has a dentist in their church who has been good to us in the past. We called an explained our situation and he was willing to see the kids. Dr. Gouch was a blessing to us by taking off $700 since Derek is in the ministry. I can not express the blessing this was to our family and we are very grateful to him. That was the reason for the long drive to go to the dentist. Derek and I were discussing on the way back to his parents from the dentist how that was an example of what we hope for our kids one day. We do not care what occupation they choose, we just pray that they will be able to use in to honor God in some way.
Aubrey is now competely potty trained (except a diaper at night) so we had her big girl party on Monday night. Of course Nana got a few presents for both of them. This was the only thing I could really get Aubrey excited about with pottying. She filled up her sticker chart, so it was time for a party!

Of course, some big girl underwear was involved!


Aubrey requested a Dora came, so that is exactly what Nana got her. We headed back home of Tuesday in time for Derek to make it to practice and Ethan to a t-ball game.
I am happy to report that T-ball is over! That was a LONG season. Ethan says he would like to try soccer next year.


Friday Derek made a Strawberry Key Lime pie and Ethan decided he just liked the strawberries and Derek gave him the whole thing. It was really yummy!
Derek caught Ethan "reading" with Bruster. It was really cute!

The kids have really started to play together better. It is usually loud and crazy, but they are having fun. Ethan especially likes to play school with Aubrey. I think that he likes to boss her around but I guess that comes with the territory of being the oldest. Here they are playing "Coach" from school. It was so cute, Ethan was encouraging her with throwing the ball and telling her to make sure she did not run into the "street" (aka the couch)
Notice that Ethan had to have a walkie talkie and all. Pardon Aubrey missing her pants, I believe she had taken a trip to the bathroom and never put them back on!