Sunday Craft

Ian stayed home with Ezra today while Eve and I went to church. This meant that after church we had girl's craft time with my mom. Eve was so excited to make all the snowmen out of socks and it was super easy!!

So Thankful!!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!
This morning I was thinking of things I was thankful for and the list was never ending. I am so grateful for my husband, he pretty much rocks! He is so patient and such a rock in my life. I am so happy I can always rely on him to be there. I am so thankful for my children. They are always amazing me and bringing so much joy into my life. One toothy smile after a day of cleaning up poop and listening to screaming makes it all worthwhile. I am so thankful for all of our family. They have supported us in numerous ways this past year and without them I don't know where they would be. I know all the things they have done have really kept me from totally breaking down from the stress, they have really carried my burdens and I am so happy that they are willing to do that for us. I am thankful for good doctors! I am so glad that we have them and that we don't have to live our lives in constant fear of what is next for Ezra. I am so thankful for so many things but those are some big ones I wanted to share with everyone.

Life

I think this is a nice blood booger that any boy would be proud of... just another war wound. This actually just happened when he was pushing around something and bonked his nose on it. Am I bad mom for grabbing the camera when the blood booger came out (many hours after the bloody nose) instead of just cleaning his face off?

How come no one told me just how much trouble boys could be? Okay I know it just isn't boys but man I was so lucky that Eve was not a super wild child. It seems every time I turn around Ezra is up to some other type of monkey business or just when I think I have the house "childproofed" he goes and does something new to prove to me just how impossible it is to childproof. His latest thing is climbing.... climbing everything. Why couldn't my child that doesn't have hemophilia be the climber??? I guess that extra dose of wild comes right along with the hemophilia gene. Or maybe he sees his older sister climbing up things and thinks he should be doing it. I think that MAY have more to do with it than anything. So now my time is spent at trying to keep Ezra from climbing everything in sight.
Other things going on around here... the kids are loving the baby in my tummy. Ezra comes running anytime he sees my belly (which happens more than I would like to admit... darn gigantic belly of mine) and Eve has to give the baby a hug and a kiss every night. I am surprised the difference 17 months makes with Eve. When I was pregnant with Ezra she just noticed the belly getting bigger and had no interest whatsoever. Now she is so excited. She loves to feel him move and sing him songs and tonight when I was cuddling with her before bed she was just rubbing my tummy and said she was rubbing his back to help him sleep. I am so happy to have those beautiful moments. Especially now that they are nice quiet moments... who knows what our house will be like 3 months from now.... I am sure our world will just be rocked... but isn't that a good thing?

Our little doctor....

Today we infused Ez for the first time at home!! YAY! I am so excited to not have to drive to town and wait at the doctor's office and make the whole process draw out to take up about half of my day with the driving and dropping Eve off somewhere. It was so nice to just do it and be done with it and still be home going about our day.
Eve hasn't seen Ez's port accessed before. I was worried about how she would handle it but she decided she wanted to do things to help. I thought it was hilarious. It was interesting to add a "helpful" sister to the mix in the infusion process. She decided that all of the pretend stuff in her doctor's kit was crap and that she needed real stuff like mommy and daddy use on Ezra. I let her put gauze on after I pulled the needle and she was so excited!!

Halloween

It felt like Halloween celebrations lasted for two entire weeks. There were lots of opportunities to dress up for the kids and plenty of activities for them to do. By the time Halloween rolled around Eve's bee costume was in the wash and of course she decided her many princess dresses would not make a good costume so she decided to dress up as a nurse... to match Ian's scrubs. She used Ez's hospital gown from his surgery for her shirt. It was so hilarious. Ez really loves the candy. I still have a bowl of Halloween candy in the kitchen and it is going to have to go out of sight because when he sees that he doesn't want to eat anything but candy.
I added some pictures of Ezra dressed up like a beautiful princess. Sometimes he does it himself and sometimes Eve helps him dress up.