Trucks and Tubes

Meeting Isabel
Aiden with Uncle Dick

Visiting with the fireman

Aiden bouncing with Daddy

Riding Horses at the Family Fun Day

Liam was so proud of his purple train

Luke wanted a purple Elmo

Luke in the Bobcat from our Landscaping crew

Liam and Luke in the Bobcat

Liam really did not want to get out!

We are officially the parents of three children with six ears and six tubes. Luke and Liam had tubes placed in their ears in May and Aiden followed with tubes in his ears earlier this week. While Luke and Liam battled ear infections for what seemed like forever, we (and the doctor) opted to do Aiden's surgery earlier so as to hopefully forgo the multiple trips to the doctor, ear infections, and prescriptions for medication. Apparently, we have some genetic predisposition to ear infections according to the Ear, Nose, and Throat physician who knows us all too well now. He jokingly said to me, "you and your husband make beautiful children with terrible ears."

On another note, we also had some landscaping completed last week and the boys thought watching the trucks and digging was so much fun. I am pretty sure my legs were tired at night from standing around watching the Bobcat dig in our yard, but the boys were mesmerized. Over the weekend, we went to a "Family Fun Day" at a little town nearby that had firetrucks, horses, a helicopter, and other things that the boys enjoyed playing with. I must say they are very easily entertained. John and I joked that this was something we never would have considered going to before we had kids, but now it is cheap entertainment, the boys love it and so do we!

Over the weekend, we also enjoyed a visit from some relatives on John's side of the family who live in my favorite state of Colorado. Thanks for the nice visit Isabel and Dick, we enjoyed seeing your comfort level with our chaos and hearing how you survived seven kids!