May Monthly Update

"Speak to your children as though they are the wisest, 

kindest, most beautiful and magical humans on earth, 

for what they believe is what they will become."

--Brooke Hampton

I love that quote because I need to remind myself of it constantly. 

We had a fun month of May. 

Tipper loves to watch the outdoors

she also makes a pretty good running partner

 Griffin LOVES to catch frogs, and we have an abundance of them. 

Mother's Day dinner in SGF

The boys continue to be wild animals. (That's a hose in picture number 2)

We spent some time at the river looking at cool rocks and for arrowheads in the fields. 

Some daycare pics from Facebook. 

We've had several snakes around the house. I only handle the non-poisonous ones crawling up our garage door track. Drew takes care of the copper heads. 

a sleeping Griffin makes a good head rest

This evening was too beautiful not to document. 

Lots more fishing adventures happened. 

We finally took another (high quality) group picture of our kids. 

 We had a swim day down at the farm. 

 Drew and I celebrated 8 years of marriage and this photo is all I have. No trip, or big event this year. Maybe next time. 

Right at the end of May, Cooper scared us big time. Daycare called after we dropped him off and said he wasn't using one of his legs and was really upset. It was obvious that his hip was hurting him really bad. He couldn't rotate his leg in the socket at all. We took him to Springfield in a bit of a panic and after blood work, x rays, and an examination we got good news. The doctor had a lot of scary scenarios of what it could be but since all the test came back fine, he decided that a viral infection of some kind had settled in his hip and caused it to be inflamed. He improved in a couple days time. Afterward, I realized early that morning he had woken me up crying in his room beside his bed. He was standing there which was unusual because he would normally just come to our room if he woke up in the night. I wondered if he had fallen out of bed and injured his hip that way. We hadn't noticed anything that morning since he pretty much gets changed and carried right to the car. All is well now, so we're thankful. 

Here he was getting blood drawn like a champ. No tears. He watched the whole time and when they poked him he said, "Ow". 

Because of the hip incident, I know that Cooper weighed 26.46lbs (7.92 percentile) and was 35.5" tall (15.58 percentile) on 5/31. 

Griffin loves to weigh himself on the bathroom scale and he has consistently been around 46lbs.