Busy, Busy

I feel like I have been running around non-stop lately! We are getting ready to leave on our vacation tomorrow and we are very excited!! Packing is not so much fun for me! I am the type that usually over packs on clothes but you just never know! So today after work I have to finish all the packing and load up to leave after Cam gets out of school tomorrow. We can't wait to see Aunt Brandi and Jeff. Camden can't wait to play GI Joes with Jeff! :) We have alot of fun things planned and I really hope the weather cooperates. As of right now it looks like it's going to be chilly, and a couple days of rain! Hope that changes! Sunday Brandi graduates from college so it will be nice to be there with her to celebrate!
We will be coming back on Monday and then we will be home for two days, then I am off to Swea on Thursday to get ready for Oz's graduation party! The kids are staying with Brad because Cam has ball practice and he doesn't want to miss that. So they will be coming home on Friday morning. I can't believe my "little" brother is graduating already! Seems like just yesterday he was a little shit! I am very proud of him and all of his accomplishments and hope he has a happy graduation!!!

Camden

Me-Camden what is purple on your shirt?
Camden-I got purple paint on it at preschool. Sorry mom! Oh no it's my brand new motorcycle shirt.
Me- It's no big deal Cam, it will come out when I wash it!
Camden-Do we have some Chlorox clean-up to wash it?
Me-Where did you learn that you use that?
Camden-They said to use that on t.v to get stains out.

Oh my I think my kid watches to much tv!!!!

It's been forever it seems that I have posted on here! Anyways here's a few things that have been going on with the Stevens'
Maeci-
*10 months old and a little stinker
*Has an attitude already especially when it comes to her brother bothering her.
*In to everything! She will drag out whatever she can get her hands on.
*Walks along the couch, it won't be long and she will be walking..YIKES!!!
*Hate's the grass! Took her outside a few days ago and she screamed bloody murder!!
*Love's to eat! Eating alot more table food now.
*Doesn't like to take naps
*As soon as she hears music she starts "dancing"..it's so cute!
*Loves to do patty-cake
*Waves bye-bye

Camden-
*Turned 5 the end of March
*Like's to bother Maeci
*Excited that it's Spring and he can be outside on the nice days.
*Kindergarten round-up a few weeks ago and had a blast. He has his assesment and he is above where he needs to be. We have a t-k(transitional kindergarten)program here if the kids are not quite ready for kindergarten yet. The teacher that assesed him said he is definetly ready for kindergarten and we got the official letter last week! It's going to be wierd having him gone all day come August.
*Excited to go to Chicago to see Auntie Brandi and Jeffy(that's what he calls him) for Brandi's college graduation the beginning of May! We will be there for 5 days so he is excited about all the fun stuff we will be doing!
*Starting soccer tomorrow and it will go every Saturday for the next 6 weeks.
*Starting T-ball in May and then games in June.

Me-
*Busy, busy trying to get together all the stuff for Oz's graduation. Trying to finish his scrapbooks before graduation but it's not looking good. All I have done is his Freshman year...HA! I put it off and now with only 4 weeks to go I am pretty sure I will not get them done with everything else I am trying to figure out! This graduation stresses me out just a little! I am more of a detailed person when planning and Oz just wants it plain and simple. It's his graduation so we will be doing plain and simple, but it will be a nice party!
*I got roped in to being a soccer coach for the next 6 Saturdays. I will be there anyways watching Cam so I might as well help out!
*Loving that it's Spring so I can get outside with the kids more often. Excited to go for more walks everyday!!

Brad-
*Staying busy with work.
*Busy with city-council
*Doing great with his p90x routine. He is not doing it to try and lose weight but to tone up more and I can definetly see a difference since he started it 7 weeks ago. I thought I would be able to do it more often than I do but with the kiddos it's hard to find time everyday!
*On a kick right now wanting a Harley. He did this last year around this time so he is looking like crazy to find one.

Well that's about it with us........

Maeci

My little Maecer is having surgery on Friday. I am FREAKING out!! She is going to have tubes in her ears and also have an adenoidectomy done(removal of adenoids). I am not freaking out about the tubes because I have been through them with Camden when he was 9 months old but it's the removing of adenoids.(Camden didn't have his tonsils and adenoids removed until he was just over 3 yrs old) Typically ENT doctors do not like to do adenoids this young unless they are causing chronic problems in children. Well I took her to the ENT doc yesterday and he just looked at her and said she is not breathing right and she is breathing heavy/ mouth breather. He is 99 % sure all this crap going on with her is being caused from her adenoids. He is going in to do the tubes and then while doing that he will evaluate the adenoids and if they look fine he will leave them in and not remove them. If they are not the cause of the problem he will be able to look around a little in her mouth/throat to see if there is something else going on. I really hope this is the problem and it's nothing else. Hopefully she will actually be able to have the surgery on Friday. She is battling a cough and sometimes docs will not release them to have surgery until they get over the cold. We go for an H &P tomorrow to the doc so we will see what she says. I am hoping we can do it on Friday because our ENT doc will be leaving next Friday and will be gone for a couple weeks and I just want to get this over with!!

YAY!!

ON TO STATE!! Congrats to the NSK girls basketball team on a great win tonight! We wish we could of been there to see it! Sounded like a pretty great game. From all the text messages I was receiving and the scores throughout the game it sounded like at one point we were down by 16 points! It just proves to never give up and fight hard 'til the end!!! The final score ended up being 62-56! We are very excited for Paul,Klocke, Dr.Tigges and the girls and can't wait to watch them at state next week! GO NSK!!

It has been awhile....

We have been so busy I have not had time to post much on here. I am not sure how we were so busy because when we had plenty of snowstorms in January that made us stay home! I think too I was getting kind of bored with blogging too. Anyways here is what has been up with the Stevens'..........

Maeci-
Last week my baby girl turned 8 months old. I do not know where the past 8 months went.
She is crawling all over the place and getting into everything! It's only going to get worse when she starts walking. She is always full of smiles and loves to babble! She cut her first 2 teeth about 6 weeks ago and now I see the top 2 and possibly 2 more on the bottom coming through. That would explain her runny nose, rosey cheeks, and being a little cranky.
The beginning of January we had her follow up appointment with the GI specialist. We had her off her prevacid for about a month and she started refluxing again. The doc decided to put her back on it and things have been going pretty well again. If she has not grown out of this by 12-13 months then they will scope her in August. We already have the appointment set up for the scope but I am hoping she grows out of it and we can cancel!
We have had her into our family doc a few times because her nose continues to be stuffed up and she has trouble breathing(snoring) while sleeping. He said her tonsils are swollen and that could be causing her snoring. He also thought maybe her adenoids were enlarged too but they are harder to see. So we are going to be taking her to our pediatrician and see what is up with that and possibly have to been seen by the ENT doc. Gosh I am sick of doctors and sickness!! Hopefully it's no big deal and she gets better!

Camden-
My "baby" boy is going to be turning 5 next month. He is so excited for his birthday and being 5 is a big deal to him because then he will get to go kindergarten! He goes back and forth about what we are going to be doing for his birthday. First it's Chuck E Cheese and a John Deere birthday then he is having friends over to our house and having a power rangers birthday, etc!!
So I guess we will have to wait and see what he decides on!
He is doing great in Preschool. He does very well in his school work and I can see that from his papers he brings home. His newest thing at home is adding numbers. He does pretty well at it! We are also starting to work on reading(the small words) and writing more words. He can write all of his alphabet capital and small letters so now he is more interested in writing more words other than his name.
He is getting very, very sick of the winter weather. Everyday we leave for daycare/preschool he tells me he is ready for Spring and Summer. This morning he told me he used to like snow but we have to much of it..HA! Boy is he right though!!
One last thing on Camden...He started wrestling a couple weeks ago and loves it! When he brought the papers home for wrestling Brad and I cringed because we are not fans of wrestling at all. He really wanted to do it and Brad and I are not going to pressure him into not doing something/or doing something. He wanted to try it out and we were fine with that. Some parents that won't let there kids do certain things or pressure them into something they don't want to do drives me crazy. Don't get me wrong we encourage the sports, but are not going to pressure him into it! I don't think I will have a problem because Camden LOVES sports!! ;)
Anyways he is doing great in wrestling and learning the basics. He has practice on Tuesday and Thursday nights and meets on the weekends. We have not attended a meet yet and I am not sure if we will do meets this year or start those next year if he is still interested in it!
Anyways I need to get going so I will continue this post later..........

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Camden thought he needed to wear his new John Deere hat under his new years hat.
Our New Year's consisted of staying home with the kids watching movies and relaxing. Brad had to work the next morning at 6 so going out to celebrate wasn't going to happen. I would rather be home with my kids celebrating the new year! We didn't actually stay up until midnight though but we celebrated early:) Next year I think we will eliminate the noise makers Brad bought. Camden is still blowing them and driving me nuts!! Hope you all have a Happy and Healthy 2010!!!