Time Drags By!

I have not written anything or post any pictures lately. We have not been up to much lately. Here is just a brief update on all of us.

--Bryce started school on August 12th. He seems to be enjoying class and is doing very well this year, so far. He is making friends and likes his teacher. He also has been enjoying his bible class on Sunday's and Wednesday's, and is making new friends at the church we are attending.

--Wyatt is enjoying his alone time with me, for now. He keeps picking up my shirt and giving my tummy rasberries and announcing that there is a baby in there. Little does he know what is really in store for him when she arrives. I am wondering at this point in time how he will take to the new baby. Wyatt and I have had a recent play date with two members from church, who have kids his age. He has enjoyed bible class on Sunday's and Wednesday's, I have only had to attend one class with him.

--I, on the other hand, am very eager to meet Grayson. I, like Linsey, have had kankles for quite sometime. I go to the doctor tomorrow to find out if I am progressing or if I am going nowhere, since I still have 3 weeks left. I am hopeing I am progressing and he will induce within the next week. Because, I live in Hobbs and Midland is 2 hours away, I would like to have her where my doctor and pediatrician are located. My doctor said he would induce at least 10 days early. Guess we will see tomorrow.

--Cody has been working quite a bit the last week. He always has tons of paperwork to catch up on and get in the system by the end of the month. His headaches are not any better and I think we are looking at going to the headache institute in San Antonio sometime in January. I just pray someone finds something soon and they are able to treat the headaches.

Happenings with the Hathorn's

Just a quick little note about what we have been up to recently.

--The boys and I are finally living in Hobbs, NM. We have been here a month now and are still in the process of putting things away, painting and decorating the babies room, and trying to organize the boys room to make the tiny room a little more roomier.

--We have placed membership at the Jefferson COC, after visiting a few Sundays, in Hobbs and the members of the congregation are so nice and helpful. The minister of the church happens to know Jimmy and Betty Hathorn, what a small world.

--We have attended a summer company party, which the boys enjoyed so much. The party was held at the park and was catered. We chased the boys from the playground to the moon jump for about four hours before we headed over to the water park for about an hour, so they could go swimming, because that was what Bryce was really waiting on all day. The park is more for kids than really adults, and when I say water park, I don't mean like Schliterbahn, I wished. The park has a couple of slides and some water raining down into the pool. The pool does not contain water over three feet. Hobbs actually has a few of these small water parks around the area, which is nice.

--I took the boys to a free movie and met the minister's wife and her children there. It was an older movie that is maybe a couple of years old, "Evan Almighty". In order to collect can goods for the hungry, the movie theater hosted a movie and all you brought was a couple of can goods per person in order to watch the movie. Apparently the theater had shown a movie like this more than once in order to collect can goods. I really liked this idea and hope that they will continue this next year.

--The boys and I went to Kermit to visit Aunt Linsey, "Linney", "LuLu", and Uncle Tim for the night. I took a crafting project for her and I too work on. I am not very crafty when it comes to things I see on tv, in a magazine, or on the internet, and I know my creative sister'n law is, I am always asking her for advice on how to decorate something or asking for her help in working on the project. Of course, she pretty much did the project for me, he he he, I could not get my creative thinking cap on, or should I say to work.

--While still in Kermit, the next morning we attended a scrimmage volleyball game for about an hour, Linsey had volunteered to keep score. After the game, we headed to Odessa to do a little shopping and go out to eat. This will probably be the last shopping trip for me for awhile. By the time I got back to Hobbs that day my feet and legs were so red and swollen, it was so very nasty. I just laid on the couch and put my feet up for awhile and let Cody take care of the boys.

That is about it right now. Our days have been busy since moving here, which makes the time go by faster for me. Bryce will be starting school on Tuesday and I hope it will slow down just a bit after that.

Update...Cody

Cody was discharged from the hospital on Friday. He is still suffering from headaches and now has a sinus infection. The doctor has no clue as to why Cody is suffering from these headaches. He has increased his dose on one of his medicines that is supposed to help headaches and asked to see Cody in two weeks. If the medicine has not helped in any way during the two week time period the doctor will be sending Cody to a doctor in Houston. I have my fingers crossed and am praying very hard that the increase in the medicine will work.

I miss having my husband around physically and mentally, he has enough energy to make it to work and then back home to sleep. So, when we see him during the weekend, because we still live in Pecos during the week, he is like a zomby.

Cody

Cody and I headed to Lubbock yesterday to see a doctor, he has been experiencing severe headaches for about 2 months now, which also result in migraines. So, we decided to make an appointment with a neurologist in order to diagnose the problem. We also thought that since we did not bring the kids with us, we would take a few days to celebrate our anniversary in Lubbock. I was excited about our get away and a few shopping trips to buy baby items. The doctor sort of put a halt in our plans. Needless to say, the doctor put Cody in the hospital for a few days to help stop the headaches and send him for an MRI at this time.

However, I am enjoying the hotel and still going on my small shopping trips, while Cody sleeps. The doctor was going to send him home and up his dosage, but he is in so much pain I talked to the doctor and asked for the hospitalization. I am praying that these three days in the hospital and along with the medicine they are giving him every 8 hours will stop his headaches/migraines completely. I will keep everyone posted on his condition, I just pray that his pain will stop permanently.

Headed into summer!!!!

Last Friday was water play day at the school. The kids had about four swimming pools set up to play in, a slip n' slide, and a water sprinkler to run in, not to mention the sprinklers that came on during the day at school. There was a shaving cream center and a bubble center. Of course, I think the teachers tried to have the shaving cream center set up for kids to spray on the table and create something, yeah right, the kids were chasing each other down and spraying it all over it other. And, the children had hot dogs and watermelon to snack on. All in all, Bryce had a blast, Wyatt not so much, too hot.

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Tuesday the students sang for us at their Music Program. I had a hard time getting Bryce out of the house, he did not want to participate. I told him that his teacher, Ms. Parent, would be very disappointed if he did not show up to sing for me. I was able to get him out the door and to the school finally. I had recorded a couple of the songs that the kids performed, but am having trouble loading them.

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Today was the big day for Bryce, he received his certificate for completeing kindergarten and walked across the stage to meet the new 1st grade principal, even though he will not be attending 1st grade in Pecos. He was very excited this morning before he left the house, he couldn't wait to graduate from kindergarten. I even teared up three times, I kept telling myself to hold back the tears. I guess I am very emotional during my pregnancy. Really, I can't believe my first child has already started and completed kindergarten. He is growing up so fast, if I blink I might miss something.

Bryce is receiving his certificate from his principal, Mr. Garrett.

Bryce with his teacher, Ms. Parent.

22 weeks

I thought I would go ahead and put a picture of myself up this week, since I am past my mid-way mark. I will try to add another one closer to the end of my pregnancy, if I am that brave. It took me long enough to talk myself into this picture.

I am huge, by September I am not going to be able to pull myself off the couch. Also, I had my doctors appointment yesterday. The baby had another growth spurt, if she keeps having these growth spurts, she is going to be a big baby. I have only gained 9lbs, so far. I guess I need to add walking to my daily tasks, because I don't want to go over 20lbs. I have 3 1/2 months to go, but it is going by pretty fast. I stay busy going back and forth to Hobbs to see Cody, which I am very excited about finally being with my husband at the end of June and finally being a family again. We have been living apart since October, which some more good news is, Cody's company finally purchased our house yesterday and we will be getting the rest of our equity money next week.

Linsey and I are about 1 1/2, maybe 2 months apart. So, I decided to have Tim take a picture of us together, something I did not get to do when I was pregnant at the same time as Kelsey, Dashielle, and my sister Debra. Of course, my other sister Crystal is pregnant as well and I will not get to take a picture with her either, because I live away from them. So, I thought I would capture one of Linsey and I for my photo album and blog.

What's up with Bryce

I have not forgotten about my other two rascals. I will write two separate posts, so I guess I will start with Bryce. He has two weeks of school left and he is very excited, even though he does have to attend summer school for three weeks, but it will only be half days. Cody and I placed him in soccer at the last part April and first part of May, for a hyper kid you need something on the side to keep him occupied. He enjoyed it, he had a tough time when he wouldn't make the goals and would beat himself up. He is having a hard time understanding the meaning of teamwork, but I hope he comes around. He did make a few goals for the other team and that is when he would really beat himself up.

As for school, it has taken him quite sometime to make friends. School is almost over and he is just now at the point where he wants to associate with his classmates. According to his doctor, Bryce has a hard time interacting with others due to his ADHD. However, I am extremely proud of him, because he has come a long way in the past few months after leaving his school in Greenwood. I have to give credit where credit is due, to his teacher Ms. Parent, she has helped him in tremendously. She has worked with him daily in order to catch him up with everything a kindergartner needs to know. He was extremely behind, of course this is a whole other store of why he is so far behind, I will not even get into it. Of course, Bryce deserves much of the credit as well, he has worked very hard with Ms. Parent, so he can move onto the next grade. Like I mentioned before, I am extremely proud of my son, he has overcome the obstacles that were in his way and will be graduating from kindergarten at the end of May. Of course, he does have to go to summer school, so things will stay fresh in his mind, before he starts 1st.