Day at the park

Took the boys to the park today. First time this year and first time ever for little A. They both had fun though A did not like the heat. Connor had a lot of fun and it was  nice to get out of the house!

Witch Hunt

My parent's took my boys to Gardner village which has a witch scavenger hunt going on. From what my Connor said and the pictures sent to me looks like they had fun!

Well Connor had fun Aiden slept ;).

Time out thursday- the Zoo

So what did we do that made my week? we went to the zoo finally!!! Had yet to go becasue it has just been to hot for my cute little Aiden, but we finally went. I've always loved going to the zoo since I was a little girl. And when we went? I had more fun then I had in sometime. They opened a new section a while back that includes a polar bear, seals, otters and grizzly bears. Unfortunately the otters were never out, bit bummed about that I LOVE otters oh well. Maybe next time.  Below are a few pictures from the new sections.

Outing

We went to the park on Saturday for my cousin's sons first birthday party. Its the first time I took Aiden really out and about. The weather was good and so it turned out really well.  Aiden was borrowed quite a few times by my aunts and uncle. The fact that he no longer has a feeding tube meant mire people were willing to hold him.

Connor had a lot of fun. He loves parks!

People have no tact

Yes my baby has a feeding tube, but that's not all of who he is. he's a very happy smiley baby whose smile gets bigger every time you play with his arms. Who already appears to have hay fever poor guy! But yes it is the dominant thing you see on him and it does take up a lot of time maintaining,feeding, avoid tripping on and rushing to the hospital with each clog with fear that he will not be getting enough nutrition for the day.

Now for some people the tube can seem really scary and there is no way they are going to hold him not until its gone! Which is fine, but I've held him with much much more tubes on him then what he has now this one tube doesn't bother me in that way, now I ma careful. I certainly do not want it pulling out! Which I already did once :/ not fun. I am worried abut all of these trips to the hospital about all of the x-rays we have to put him through in order for him to be able to eat. we had to go back on Monday because it clogged again!!!!!!!

The bottle dilemma

One thing has me very on edge right now and its feeding Aiden. I didn't know that the hardest part with him would be getting him off of the feeding tube and on to a bottle, but it is.  Last month he took a bottle like a champ and drank with no problems, he just couldn't swallow it well. Now he has passed to drink some from a bottle. He can have thicker liquids so I add a thickener to the breast milk and give it to him. if only I could get him to drink from the bottle! we decreased the amount of food he was getting by feeding tube in hopes to make him hungry and then maybe he would drink from a bottle.

Doesn't he looks so happy about the bottle??? Crap this isn't going well at all. So he is already little for his age and now getting less nutrition in hopes he would get it from a bottle he will not take!   Yes I am on edge about this whole thing, he never acts hungry... even during the times he's been off it longer then he should due to clogs... or a clumsy mom pulling his tube out. He does have rehab (speech therapy) in hopes to get him off of this damn tube, he just doesn't want to not since he threw up stomach acid :/.  One thing with his rehab is that we put flavored chap stick on his lips. We needed a variety of flavors and of course they only make them for girls so here is Aiden's chap stick!

The fair

The weather was perfect for the fair yesterday! Not to hot and a nice breeze. Connor was really excited to go when we told him there was different types of animals there, he turned everything off in the house and ran down the hall yelling I love animals! So yes we spent some time looking at all of the animals I brought my camera but only took a few pictures.It seemed everyone else decided to come to the fasir as well. There were a LOT of people. At times to many for me.

I also understand more why some people with strollers push themselves through you have to! People see a strooler and cut you of or don't give room for you to get through.b One place I wanted to go was see the bunnies. I love bunnies, but never had one as a pet my dad is really allergic to those little adorable animals *sighs*.

I had to take this next picture because oit was just to funny and made me think of Mother Goose.

I would rather have gotten a picture of them when they were walking about but to many people around. I did go and look at some of the cross stitch submitted and must say wow not sure I'd ever be that good some looked like photographs they were really good!

On our way out of the fair we had to cut through a building that was full of vendors because the pigs were being judged,. My parents were upfront, grandpa had Connor, hubby and I were trying to keep up when one boot stopped us both. It was full of sketches something we have hanging up all over the house.

The Jedi Mickey started it all and yes hubby did leave with a sketch, a Star Wars sketch. The one posted above.

Fun at the park

Been crazy so i haven't been on much. Russ is doing a lot of overtime. So usually if I'm nit at work just me and Connor. We were hoping to go to the zoo today, but he's working all day today and an hour or two tomorrow. So Connor and I went to the park he started clapping and going yay! When I parked the car :).

Tulip Festival

We Went to the tulip festival at Thanksgiving point Gardens yesterday and I must say it was very pretty. it was suppose to be a work activity to get to know others from work better. Well with 55 acres the only people Russ and myself so was the main boss. Which of everyone to see it'd be him! Anyways I'll post a few picks here which turned out well. I wanted to take more pictures but I was not to bright and forgot to charge my camera before going.