Back from vacation...and some updates.

And by the way...A pic of Rowan w/her cast is up now...I just took off her old pic and put up this one. I put a new picture of Taysen too...he doesnt look the happiest, but its still cute. LOL...he wouldnt smile for me. Haha!

Anyways...we were on vacation all last week. Hence the not updating. :)

OK...so before vacation Taysen had his ears tested. His hearing came out to be normal to near normal. I dont think he could hear the quietest tones during the test, because he was just looking at all of the cars in each corner of the booth thing waiting for one of them to light up. (During the test, there would be a tone, from either the left, middle, or right of the room...each location had a toy car that would flash a few seconds after the tone was played.) Anyhow, he loved it and was kicking and screaming in joy everytime a car lit up. Anyhow...when the quiet tones went, he was just looking from side to side waiting for a car to light up. When they were louder, he would look right to the car that had the tone before it would light up. Anyhow, his hearing still turned out normal to near normal...but the ENT still suggests tubes because there is a lot of fluid behind his ears and he thinks it will help Taysen at least with his ear infections. So we are doing it! Which I wanted to do from about the time he was 15 months old! But the old Ped. said it was too dangerous. I even mentioned that to the ENT and he said "Well it might be dangerous if he was to do it since he isnt an ENT." LOL...I laughed. And told him I didnt like the old Ped. opinions on much anyways. Anyhow his surgery is scheduled for 8/18! Yay! I cant wait.

For Rowie..she gets her cast off on the 14th of this month. Well she gets it off, then goes for an x-ray, then as long as it looks good, she will get to keep it off. :) Im sorta guessing everything will be ok because the kid picks up her whole cast leg and slams it on to the floor over and over again...almost like she is trying to break out of the thing. LOL. One plus though, at least I think so, is that she seems to have gained pretty good back strength from the weight of it, because before she got her cast she was just sitting up and always fell over, but since she got it its almost like it gives her a little pull back so she doesnt fall. Haha...and now she is even trying to crawl! Yay! Im happy. Im guessing once she gets it off, she is going to be all over the place. :) Fine with me!

Ok so anyhow vacation went pretty good. We were there with Josh's whole family. It was actually a lot of fun and we didnt have as many flying attitudes like we have had in past years. We did have ONE major problem though. The only bad thing is it seemed like we were the only ones that noticed it! Blake, one of Rowan and Taysen's cousins is a total terror. He is Josh's brothers son. He just turned 2 a couple weeks ago. Anyhow, this kid is the meanest little kid I have ever met! Its horrible! And his parents dont do crap when he is bad! For instance...on wednesday night we were sitting outside on the deck while the kids played on a little step2 slide. (Just Taysen and Blake were playing.) Anyhow, they were taking turns going down. Anyhow, Blake must have gotten impatient and pushed Taysen right off the side of it when he got to the top! Taysen was crying and scared, but didnt get hurt. Anyhow...of course, he didnt get yelled at. Then not even 10 minutes later, they are both up on the deck with us parents. The kids were just playing with some little toys. Anyhow, Taysen was standing at the top of the steps of the deck like maybe he wanted to go back down....he might have just been looking at the lake..who knows, anyhow he was just standing there, being quiet and staring. Anyhow, Blake is on the other side of the deck and runs at Taysen and shoves him right down the steps! He shoved him so hard that he flew right over every step and landed on the cement below! Josh and me both jumped up and grabbed Taysen, we thought for sure we were going to be taking him to the hospital for something whether it was a broken bone or stitches!! Taysen was screaming so much his face was turning blue, Josh yelled at his brother "What the F**K is wrong with your kid!" And what do you know, Blake got a time out. Wow...a whole 2 minute time out. Can you believe that crap. He needed a freaking beating! (Luckily, somehow all Taysen got was a huge scratch on the back of his arm and a little one on his leg...nothing serious at all...that was total luck Im telling you!) Anyhow, the same night he pushed Ellie (one of Joshs sisters 1 yr old twins) off of the couch! The next day when me and Andrea (Joshs sister) were cooking in the kitchen...Ellie was in there with us. Blake comes running through the kitchen and screams "MOVE!" and pushes Ellie into the cabinet! Andrea was pissed and grabbed Blake and screamed "Quit being so mean!" He is a total terror. He has these toy golf clubs and he goes around swinging them at people! Its freaking ridiculous! I dont know what I would do if that was my kid. And I dont know why in hell they think that its ok for their kid to do things like that. He even says "move" to adults when they are in the way! God he is such a brat. And they want to have 4 kid!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE GOD NO! Josh and his brother didnt talk for 2 days after the steps incident...because we literally had had it from Blake after that point. Its one thing to be a toddler and not share and occasionally hit...but for all of the other kids to be flinching and putting their arms above their faces as sheilds when he walks by, shouldnt that be signaling to his parents that there is a real problem here? I dont know what they are thinking...but they are going to regret it when he is kicked out of kindergarten for being such a mean bratty kid. Uh...just the thought of him makes me want to go buy a whipping belt! The sad thing is, his father (Joshs brother...) doesnt respect anyone...and he is teaching his son that he doesnt have to respect anyone either. Its just wrong! Ok...vent over.

Anyhow...so I guess thats it for now. I cant really think of anything else...plus Rowan woke up and is crying so I better go get her. :) OH WAIT...Rowan got her two bottom teeth this past week! :D Took long enough! Haha!

I hope youre all doing well! :D