Back to Normal?

Well, we are home now and things are starting to get back to normal...if there is such a thing.

Katelyn is trying to figure out a schedule. It only took a day for her to figure out that she was not going to always be on the move or being held now that we are home. She settled into a start of a schedule and then we took off on Thursday to go see Nana. So now she is trying to figure things out again. Sooner or later she will figure out that this is our life... always on the go!

Hanna started her swimming lessons. She said she is having a good time, but she had a lot more fun with Taylor, before we went to Pratt!

Haleigh went to a Pirate Party this past week. She had a great time. She got to hunt for buried treasure and make her own treasure box. Here's our little Pirate!

The kids and I went to Pratt for a couple days to help Nana out. She is now in a cast. They are going to try that and see how works before deciding if there will be a need for surgery. Nana is getting a little bit better with her crutches, which is a good thing.

On the way home we stopped by Wichita for Spencer's cousin's wedding. We learned something on that trip....not a great idea for mom to take all the kids to Babiesrus on a Saturday, by herself. Katelyn got tired of being in her car seat so I was holding her. Hanna thought she would steer the cart. But the place was filled with pregnant ladies registering! Most of which have not experienced the joy of their child trying to act like an adult and steer the cart, only to run into whatever is in front of them. After surviving Babiesrus, it was off to Wal-Mart. We had gotten much better by then!

We are getting busy for the girl's pool party. It is this weekend and they are getting excited to hang out and swim with their friends. Hanna is also pretty excited about a party that we was invited to...they are going to camp out. She thought that it sounds pretty fun, but then she started to wonder how they would get their food and where they would go to the bathroom! She had a lot of questions she wanted answered before she was ready to RSVP.

Next on the horizon: Haleigh's birthday, Katelyn's baptism, check up with the heart dr, mom goes back to work, the girls start school, and Katelyn starts daycare! Normal !?!......RIGHT?

What a trip!

For those of you who are not aware we just got home from Georgia... well it has been a week now! What a trip it was! We had planned a surprise for my Granny. The kids and I were going to arrive in Georgia where my dad's side of the family was vacationing and surprise them. Well Granny was the one who gave us a surprise. She ended up going in for an unexpected surgery on Monday. So all the plans changed. We needed up leaving Tues evening and arrived in Nashville on Thursday. Granny pulled through things great and we all needed up going to Georgia on Saturday. We got to see some beautiful country, visit with family and do a lot of fun things.

A beautiful waterfall we got to see up close!



The girls did not realize the they had so much family! There were 10 great grand kids ranging in ages 9 to 1 month and they all had a lot of fun. There were times the noise level was a little high, but they are still talking about all the kids and things they go to do so it was well worth it. They went tubing down the river, rode on a train, horse back riding, visit to Cabbage Patch Hospital, visit a local fair, and go on a horse and carriage ride.
Here they are with Kylee visiting the Cabbage Patch Hospital.


Mid way through the week, my mom decided that it had not been adventurous enough and fell down the stairs backwards. So the next morning we got to experience the ER in the local town. We found out it was not a simple sprain, but she had broken her heel. Later we would learned of another pain medication that she is allergic to. We also decided that she wasn't going to be every comfortable riding back in the car so we made arrangements to fly her home. Spencer was able to fly in to Atlanta to help me drive home. He did not get to see much, but we did make him pose for a few pictures!
Here is a photo with Nana and the kids before her "trip" down the stairs! They are standing on the state line. Kade is in one state and the girls in another.

The drive was about 18 hours. That is before figuring in 4 children, one of which is 5 weeks old and eats every three hours. The kids were troopers! Thank God for DVD players! It was a good trip and there were lots of memories made....but we are all glad to be home.

Not too much going on here at The Pearson's :

Haleigh finished up her swimming lessons. She had a lot of fun with Taylor and really enjoyed it this year. Having someone one on one with her seemed to make all the difference. Last year she refused to get her shoulders wet and this year she is floating and jumping in by herself. She is excited for us all to go to the pool so she can show us all the things she learned.

Hanna has her final T-ball game tomorrow! I am more excited about that than she is. She has made a lot of improvement this summer. Last week she even hit off the pitch, it went foul; but she is making progress. Hanna spent some time with Taylor at the pool this week as well. She had a lot of fun and is wanting to go back some more.

Kade got his hair cut this week. We had to get him in before he goes back to the ear specialist, which is next week. Once he goes to the ear doctor than he won't let anyone close to his ears for a good month. We are pretty sure that his left tube is blocked, so I don't think he is going to like his next appt. I think that we have talked dad into going with us, which will be great....we can use another set of hands to hold Kade down....but we won't tell him that ahead of time !

Katelyn got her pictures taken this week. She did great and I can't wait to see them. Other than pictures she has been busy eating and sleeping. She is doing more eating than sleeping it feels like. She has gotten into a pattern of needing to sleep on or with mom. Which then leads her to think since she is so close to mom she might as well eat while she is here! This all can make for a very tired mom! She goes for her one month check up this week as well so we will see how much is has grown. Hope all this eating is for a good cause!

Not much else is going on. We are trying to get a few things planned and scheduled before too much time gets away from us. We are having our 2nd annual pool party for the girls birthdays that we are trying to plan. I am a little nervous about inviting just kids, not knowing their swimming skills. But now that both the girls have friends from school the invite list is getting a little too long to invite everyones whole family. So that is why the party is still in planning stages. Then we will have Haleigh's actual birthday and Katelyn's baptism that we will need to get done before school starts and mom has to go back to work! Hopefully we can get all that accomplished the first part of this month. I think that July may be a bit calmer than last month. The girls have decided not to do dance or gymnastics this month...mostly in part to scheduling conflicts; but that clears up most of our Tuesdays.

Well, like I said not too much going on just day to day things for now.