Pages

Friday, April 19, 2019

Life with Bennett {34 weeks}



Well, hello and Happy Easter weekend, friends!
We are still a germy little house over here. Will the sickness ever end?!?!

Backing up to last Friday though...Bennett was finally starting to feel better after having a fever all week and my parents were in town! So we hung out with them at the mall!




Everyone had on their Masters attire in honor of the golf tournament last weekend!


Lucas is obsessed with my dad. OB.SESSED.


Saturday:

The weather Saturday morning was awful, so much so that they cancelled soccer for Lucas! Luckily, I knew about an indoor egg hunt (well, it was supposed to be outside, but they moved it inside due to weather) at Queens! So we hit that up and had a great time!


It was definitely the most inconspicuous egg hunt, but my kids loved it and I'm just glad we had something to do while the weather was terrible.





When my parents were here, they brought with them my old American Girl doll, Samantha, for Ella! She was SO excited to get it and has been playing with Samantha constantly since they gave it to her last Saturday!



Sunday:

After the Palm Sunday service (Ella sang the opening song with other kids!), we had an egg hunt at church! Thankfully the bad weather held off so the kids were able to hunt outside!



My kids are basically professional egg hunters at this point!





We spent the rest of the weekend watching the Masters and eating lots of pimento cheese!


Monday:

First official day of Ella's spring break! Woohoo!

It was super cold out, so we met up with our friends at Barnes and Noble!


I couldn't believe Bennett was standing up at that train table!


We also went to the newest Chick Fil A (that Lucas has been asking to go to since it opened at the beginning of March!) for lunch! Thank you Grandma and Papa for the gift cards!!!


Tuesday:

We met up with our friends again, but this time at a local park because it was gorgeous out!

Bennett and Benjamin shared a swing :)


And our favorite 2 year olds found their favorite kind of swings!


Lucas climbed up this huge rock wall! I couldn't believe it! He truly has NO fear!


And we ended our time with a picnic lunch!


Tuesday night, we went to the UNC baseball game! It was right here in Charlotte!


Can y'all believe this was actually Bennett's first sporting event?!?! I couldn't believe it either!!! But Trav and I were thinking about it, and he definitely hadn't gone to a football or basketball game since he was born! What?! How?!?! 


We tried to take a family picture, but all the kids were mesmerized by Ramses on the jumbotron....



...and then they got to meet him in real life!!!



Bennett was not a fan.



We ended our night with some ice cream!!! Ella and Lucas were living their best lives (even though poor Bennett was over it and screaming by this point)!





Wednesday:

Another beautiful day, so we went to the strawberry patch!!



Ella's dress is from Eleanor Rose because everyone has already been asking about it ;)

Bennett started out being really excited about picking strawberries!



You know we were there with Cooper and Mackenzie again! Three days in a row!







During our visit, Bennett got fussier and fussier.



He even fell asleep, which was odd because he had just taken a nap prior to going to the strawberry patch.



We had another picnic lunch before heading home!



When we got home, I took Bennett's temperature, and sure enough...it was 102 :(
I called the nurse line at our pediatrician's office ASAP and they had me bring him in that afternoon.



Poor buddy has a double ear infection. I guess that all the crap he had last week ended up draining into both of his ears. Bless.

Thursday:

Since Bennett was sick, we spent the day at home, finally! Ha! We made Bunny Bait!



And we caught a cute bunny ;)



Fingers crossed Bennett can get his act together and start feeling better ASAP! He's been fever free for almost 24 hours now, but he's still super congested and clearly in pain. Poor guy. Sick babies are the worst!

Hope you have a wonderful Easter weekend!! 

Friday, April 12, 2019

Life with Bennett {week 33}

Happy Friday!


It has been a looooong week for us over here! We had things going on pretty much every day, but a lot of it was unfortunately not that fun! And on top of that, poor little Bennett has been sick! We are pretty sure he just has some gross virus, but his symptoms included: low-grade fever, runny nose, cough, eye gunk (clear/yellow), not eating much, fussy...poor guy! It has not been fun, but I'm happy to say he's feeling much better today!

Looking back at happier times, haha! Before he got sick...

Friday:

Bennett has finally figured out how to pull Ella's hair! Funny enough, she doesn't get as mad at him as she does when Lucas pulls her hair....


I got some of my workbooks out for Ella to start focusing on word families! We made a mini book on the -at family using this book, and then did a Making Words activity from this book! She loved both and has been requesting to do them again with other word families! I'm just glad I saved some of my teaching stuff! 


Saturday:

"Soccahh teeeeeem!" 
He's so proud of his airplane move!



That afternoon, it was GORGEOUS out! Trav had to go in to work, so I took the kids to a nearby playground for some fresh air!




Sunday:

This was the day Bennett started feeling yucky. You can tell in the picture below he doesn't look 100%.


But....we had to go to our neighborhood Easter egg hunt!!!

Lucas was beyond excited to wear his dump truck Easter egg shirt! Like, seriously. He had been asking to wear it every day!


He was a pro at finding eggs and even found a few for Bennett!


Bennett appreciated it, I think?


Next up was Ella's turn! I am so glad our neighborhood does different ages at different times!


She found lots of eggs, too!



They had lots of fun activities there besides the egg hunts! Ella got her face painted...


...and they also had a petting zoo!


My kids got to go in (well, just Ella and Lucas! Trav stayed with Bennett!) and they were on cloud 9!



Lucas kept calling the llama a "camel" HA!


Monday:

The boys and I went to the library while Ella was at preschool!


Big hits from this visit include The Cars and Trucks Book and The Usborne Big Book of Machines. Lucas LOVES loves loves loves to read!


And do you know who else loves to read?! And actually CAN read all by herself?! This girl!


She picked up that Hop on Pop book Monday night and just started reading it! I had NO idea she could legit read like that!!! I was so amazed at my new READER girl!!! 

Tuesday:

If you've been following along on my car a/c saga, where we last left off, I was referred to a GM dealership because my issue was covered under a special GM policy. So on Tuesday, we took my car to the dealership and THANKFULLY (!!!!!) they gave me a loaner car with 3 rows (again, YAY!!!!) so we didn't have to sit up there all day. Bennett was not sure about it, but he was full-blown not feeling good at all on this day. Bless. 


We took our new loaner car to....



...where else but Target?! We had to get some medicine/Boogie wipes/saline drops for Bennett. 
But first, another sunglasses try-on session!


Bennett felt a little bit better once we got home and put all of our new supplies to use! Bless him, he is just always smiling, even when he feels like crap. Seriously, he is just the sweetest boy!


Wednesday:

My car was ready so we returned the loaner car to the dealership! They had a bunch of construction vehicles next to the dealership and Lucas was in complete heaven!!!


We picked Ella up from preschool and it was so nice out that I let the kids play at her preschool playground for a bit before nap time. 


That afternoon, Ella got her recital costume at dance!!!


It is even prettier in person (and without her blue leotard underneath)! 

Thursday:

This girl was super excited for her Easter egg hunt at school!


The boys and I had another important thing to do....get my hair colored!!!


So, I have only colored my hair one time, which was in college using one of those boxes of semi-permanent hair dye! But my gray hairs are out of control (thank you, Lucas) so here we are. I usually get my hair done on the weekends, but since Trav had to work the weekend prior and I desperately needed my grays covered, I just brought both boys with me. And it was actually fine! Bennett sat in my lap the whole time, and Lucas was very entertained by his tablet:


Last night, my allergies started getting crazy intense and Bennett's coughing was pretty bad, so we had a little steaming party in the kids' bathroom!


Ella was thrilled


The good news is that Bennett is finally starting to feel better!!! The bad news is that now my allergies have hit me full force. I haven't had a voice for the past 2 days (which is why I haven't called you back yet, Grandma!)!! Ugh! Ready to be done with ALL of the illnesses right this second! 

As for this weekend, we had a bunch of Easter egg hunts planned, but it's supposed to rain all weekend!! I'm hoping it stays kinda dry and we are able to do at least one!