Pine Cove Weekend

Well Caleb and I are back from the Mother/Son conference at Pine Cove. We had an awesome time. The weather was BEAUTIFUL(a little chilly though). The food was GREAT! And the fellowship was AWESOME!
But with all those great things..I was a little sad! All the walking and activities just pointed out how weak Caleb truly is. He had trouble keeping up with the other boys, he fell at least 3 times a day and couldn't do most of the activities! It just broke my heart!
(For those of you who don't know Caleb's whole story...short version...he was born with both hips dislocated...was in different braces for 11 months and has VERY low muscle tone, which=weak!)

I am really looking forward to May 2oth to our new neuromuscular Dr appointment. Maybe we can get some answers and some help!

He knows his limitations...and I think that is what makes me so sad! But he is a brave and sweet little boy! He did enjoy ping pong, and miniature golf! As well as swimming (I know I am a bad mommy...it was WAY too cold to swim...but how can you say "no" to all that begging??)

I did learn as a mom of a boy...that all boys want to be warriors...and that's OK..let them play guns and sword fight!

The April fools day cow adventure!

So it was April 1st (April fools day) and Emilee and I were working on some lovely TAKS math homework (my absolute fav!!) and Caleb came running in the house yelling "cow, cow...and I'm not April foolin!" I asked him where...and he said..."over there" pointing towards an open field where there are cows. Now I am thinking, we have lived here for almost 8 years..please tell me this is not the first time my dear son has seen a cow over there!
I said "yes, there are cows over there behind that fence"..he says "NO! this cow isn't behind a fence" and so I proceed to argue with him about how I am SURE the cow he saw WAS behind a fence....now go outside so your sister can concentrate on her homework!

Well about 3 minutes late he comes running in again yelling "cow , cow, come see".
So I grab Aubree and run outside (barefoot mind you) to see what he is talking about.
I DO NOT see any cow...so we walk to the end of our block and look around the corner.
Low and behold there stands a HUGE black bull! He starts running full speed directly towards
us and Caleb takes off running and screaming like a little girl. I decided running was a bad idea, so I decide to just stand still....holding onto Aubree, preparing to be plowed over!
He keeps running until he gets right at us and turns at the last minute....and runs back to his field.

Caleb was yelling "I told you I saw a cow....I wasn't lying mom..I was truing! I was truing!"

SO needless to say that was an exciting adventure!

Oh and Aubree...she was so excited! Because she wanted to "ride that cow mommy!!"

Well I caved!!

So I guess I caved to peer pressure! Glad it wasn't something illegal! I am not sure how interesting my life is to anyone else...but it is interesting to say the least!
I am ALWAYS busy with one of the 3 kids...but I still find time to be an internet junkie!!
(Maybe that is why my house is a mess!) SO I am gonna give this blogging thing a shot...hear goes nothing!!