Way To Go Caleb!!

I had to brag a little big about Caleb today. I guess brag wouldn't be the right word, but I am just so excited! I'm hoping we are headed for the good side after today.

I've been attempting the whole potty training thing with him for 4-6 months now. It seems if he goes once though, he's then done for the day. Well, today is a whole different story. It's just after 4pm and he has gone 5 times. I am excited beyond belief!! So as I say though, hopefully this will now be a track uphill for this next step in his life.

I also tried posting a couple pics of him the other day after Adventureland, but I was having some issues of them being timed out. So today instead. We got home that Sunday night around 7. Caleb was just totally pooped out. As you can see!! :)

Addison turns 1....and Adventureland

It's been awhile since I've posted. Lots of things have happened in the past couple weeks. Our baby has turned 1!! I can't believe it! It's been such a fun time. It seems as if we'll be celebrating for the whole month!

The first weekend in August, which was her birthday (the 2nd) we were in Iowa at Adventureland with Mark's sisters and their families. And his mom. We had a great time, but my recommendation...do NOT ride the Outlaw! It's a wooden roller coaster. Yes, it was fun, BUT I had a pinched nerve, or something, with my back for a week! The kids had a blast! Trevor is STILL talking about the pirate ship he got to ride. It's a big ship that swings back and forth. He ended up riding it 2 or 3 times. He's excited to ride it again! He did ride 2 roller coasters as well. The first one was dark, a mine scene. It didn't do much up and down, but had pretend miners and things throughout. He wasn't too keen on that. He then rode the Tornado with me and Mark and Merin behind us. He was excited till we went down the first hill. I think he enjoyed the ride, but it had a LOT of hills, so it was tummy ticklers the whole time. He decided after the 2nd roller coaster he was going to wait till he was 5 to ride more of them.

Caleb had a great time too. I took him and my niece Camryn on the ferris wheel. They had a great time going really high and back "down down down down". He was able to ride a few other rides as well and decided to get attached to the frog that Uncle Joe won. He is now sleeping with it at night!

Addison had a great time too. She as able to ride a little ride with grandma Bonnie while a few of us went on a roller coaster. She rode the teacups with me and had a huge smile the whole time!

That afternoon we went back to the campers for supper and she had her birthday cake. She thought that was the jackpot for the day. Uncle Joe braved it and held her while she ate. As you can see, she was smiling from ear to ear!!

Her theme this weekend was unicorns. Due to traveling, the cake was short it's horn. But it seemed to turn out nicely otherwise.





Here is a picture of all the kids on the Schumacher side. Having 7 of them...it's hard to get them all to look and smile at the same time! :)

And we're off....

I don't think I've been so excited about something in awhile. Just a weekend to get away....ride some roller coasters. See Mark for 3 days straight with NO interuptions!! I just can't believe it's finally here!

Most of us are feeling better. Yesterday was Addison's first day of not feeling crappy at all! She's definitely back to herself! I still have a cough that hits me more in the evening, but nothing to keep me from enjoying my "loopty-loops" :)

But I gotta finish packing my last minute things so we can get out of here!!! Lots of pics, I hope, when we get back. Tomorrow Addison turns 1!!!!!! I can't believe HOW FAST the past months have gone with her!!! So, it's just an exciting weekend x10!!!!

I just don't get it

Why is it, that when you are planning for a vacation-no matter how short or long-something always goes wrong? It never fails for us, someone always gets sick! So far, it's 2 of us. Yesterday morning I woke up concerned about my eye--I won't go into the ucky details--but I did get eyedrops this morning to hopefully take care of it. But the other....my poor little Addison.

Yesterday morning Caleb woke her up so we could get ready for church. Mark put her at the table with some cereal. She was awfully fussy, and Mark figured it was cuz she saw the boys had egg sandwiches. Nope, not it....and her pants weren't dirty. I just assumed she was still tired, so I laid her back down. 2 1/2 hours later I went to check on her. She was just burning up...temp, 101.2. Holy cow!! So, she was constantly drinking-which was a good thing!-and rubbing her eyes, so I laid her down again. She then slept another 3-4 hours, till I went to check on her. Still didn't break the fever, it went up instead (even after Motrin) to 102 something. She was up, maybe 30 minutes, and I laid her back down.

Fast forward to this morning...she was completely out of it. NOT herself at all. She whines alot, but in a "I want what I want" type of way. This was not that kind of whine. :) It looked like it actually hurt her to make any noises. Temp, 103.3. Called the dr right away.

Got there, they took her temp and supposedly it was 99.9, or something like that. I don't think I believe that. She was STILL extremely HOT and burning up. I didn't give her anything in that hour from calling the dr till we got to the office. So, I still think their thermometer was just wrong. Anyway, nothing else wrong with her. Funny it was JUST a fever. After doing all the normal checks, they decide to prick her finger and check her bloodcount...result: fine. So then the poor girl had to go thru a catheterization. Yeah, I was just as stunned as you might be! But they wanted to check her white blood cells to be sure they were ok. They were thinking possible urinary tract infection. Result: fine. So this poor little girl went thru kinda hell this morning, with a 103 fever to find out it's just viral, nothing to give her for it, and it should pass in 3-5 days.

Again I say, Holy Cow!!!

Things have started looking up as the day has passed though. She laid down for 3 or so hours after getting home. Her fever has broke from being so high...it's now just over 100. She has still been drinking like crazy, but she has ate 3 or 4 handfuls of cheerios now too. So it's great to see her getting an appetite back.

Why does this always happen when we're ready for vacation....and a MUCH NEEDED one I might add!!?!?

While Travis was home

My brother was home for about 10 days and over one of my nephew's birthdays. My sister and her husband have a hammock in their backyard, and it's a magnet to the kids and Travis. They enjoyed their swinging time together very much!


This photo speaks for itself....Mark and my brother-in-law, just don't feel like using their own "hot air" to blow up the slip-n-slide.

Caleb was a HUGE fan of the hammock whether he was with them all or by himself. Totally comfortable! I just gotta get ours set up now.

Yes, my brother was in a goofy mood come cake and ice cream time. I'm not quite sure WHAT he was thinking, but Trevor said he looked like the sun. :-)

Yep, Addison has become a true Schumacher....she LOVES her ice cream!

Here are a few pics of Addison hanging out in the grass. One of her favorite places to be!


And AGAIN, the hammock is the place to be!

These last 2 pics were taken the day before he headed back to Texas. Of course, having 3 kids excited to see Uncle Travis...couldn't get them all 3 to cooperate with the camera.

Prayer request

A week ago in church I heard a friend of mine's name announced in church when praying for the sick. Wasn't sure what was going on. Today I have found out she has a brain aneurism. I ask for all the prayers able for her. She's a great person full of life. Please pray that God will help her thru this extremely tough time.

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1st post placemet AND my boy is famous!

So we had our first post placement visit for Addison this past week. It went just great. And Addison, of course, ate up the attention she got that day...from Katie, as well as, daddy coming home for lunch! The meeting was nice...it was fun to have an hour to "brag" about our baby girl and just talk about her (even if it was cuz we HAD to!)

Also, for those of you that received, or will be receiving, the Gladney Today magazine, my son, Trevor, is famous! Check out the bottom corner on page 13. That's my boy on the yellow blow-up slide in the I'm the Big Brother t-shirt. You should have SEEN the smile on his face when I told him he was in there and every person in the United States that works with Gladney got this magazine. He's only 4, but he sure acted like he knew what I was talking about! I have to say though....we had such a fabulous time that weekend in Texas. It was a great time with all the activities and people we got to meet!

My nephews b-day party was this past weekend and my brother has been home this past week, so I've got lots of pics. I'm hoping by the end of the week I'll be able to update here with new pics.....