The night before 1st grade...

and all through the house
come the giggles of Greyson
he squeaks like a mouse!!

It's after 10, you must go to bed!
I can't mom, I can't
There's too much in my head!!

You'll be tired in the morning
I say as we snuggle
You should be sleeping, you should be snoring!

With one last giggle, and one last sigh...
I tuck him in tight
and sing rock-a-bye...


Ok, that was actually pretty lame-sauce!  It's after 10:00 and I can still hear the giggles of Greyson sneaking out of his room - he's just too excited to sleep!!  Silly Rabbit!!

Hope he'll always be THIS EXCITED for 1st day's of school...

Summer is over... Wait! What??





Yes, it's sad but true... Summer break has come to an end.  Monday it's back to school... Sigh...  Summer went by so so so fast.  Too fast!! I need more at home days with my little man, more beach days and water park days!  More sleep in days and snuggle in PJ's all day days!!

However, it's back to school and back to schedule and back to lunches packed, homework checked, uniforms clean and ready to go!!



Dear Greyson,

You are going into the 1st grade!! That is such big stuff!!  I know that you're ready, more than ready and have no doubts that you will excel this year just as you did last.  You have a bit bigger class size this year and mommy worries that you'll get lost in the shuffle, but then I remember how amazing you are and know you will shine to your teachers and they'll no doubt love you and take care of you!  You're so ready to go, so excited to go back, although you say it would be better if you were going back to Miss DeGroot (oh how we will miss her!!).  But I know you will love your new teacher too!!  This is going to be an awesome year for you, a year of more independence and learning so many new things, discovering more of who you are and what you love.  I can hardly wait to see all this year will bring!!  I love you to the moon!!

Love,

Momma

One last trip to Disney... (well, one last trip before school starts that is!!)

Hello Mickey Mouse!

and Minnie too!

We love us some Pluto!!

always a good time posing with Goofy!!

But it was Donald who cracked us up!!

Covering your Mickey's!!

Giving you some attitude!!

and finally posing as only a duck does!

Epcot brought smooches... Momma's favorite!!

a great day had by all 3 of us!!  So glad we got to spend the Friday before school starts together!!  We love you Greyson Lee... Thanks for being the reason Daddy and I get to have SO MUCH FUN!!

Just a little health update:

We saw the pediatric GI on Monday.  She's about as stumped as the rest of us and is going to get all of his records, ultrasounds and x-rays to review.  She ordered blood work and a myriad of other tests (including Celiac) and all of those have come back negative.  The next steps are more invasive procedures that make me nervous... We'll be seeing her again in a couple of weeks to talk about those.  In the mean time we've done another clean-out and Greyson handled it like a champ (the poor baby!) He has good days and bad, but overall he's perfection, as always!!

Happiness....

No better friend, than a furry friend... 

Catching a wave...

We so have boogie boarding down...

Surf's up?!?

Oh... yeah... 

Summer Check In...

Dear Greyson...

Well, here we are half way through summer break (maybe a little more than half?) and wow has it gone by fast!! It's not really been the summer we dreamed of... There has been fun, yes fun for sure, beach time, pool time, water park time too... We've gone to movies and painted pottery and spent entire days in our pj's... We've rode our bikes, and hiked our trails, we've shopped and snuggled and laughed until our sides hurt.  But, we've spent a lot of time at Dr.'s again... See little one, you have a belly that just drives momma insane.  We've fought this for years, and years and years.  Doctors always treating the symptoms and not the problem.  This summer momma has had enough, so armed with information, your diet all written out and a bit of an attitude, momma finally got through to your doctors.  So finally it feels as if mommy and your doctors are on the same page, and we've finally got the referral we wanted to a Pediatric GI.  In a few weeks (or hopefully sooner, as we're on the cancellation list) we'll head to Boreland Groover Hospital and momma will once again, go armed with her information, her pages of your diet, and her attitude, because it's my job to fight for your health care, to make them listen, to make them look at everything... Cross every t and dot every i...

All I want are answers, I know in my heart of hearts that no matter the diagnosis, no matter the cause, we can get through this, we just need the answers so we can make the right decisions and get you the best care possible.  I'm confident that it will be something simple, because isn't it always??  I just want to know, so we can move forward.  Mommy is tired of seeing you miserable, and you are such a trooper, putting on a brave face... You never complain of the things you have to do, the diet you have to eat... You are so strong my love bug and I'm so proud of you!!  It breaks mommas heart that at 6 you worry, my little 65 year old man, trapped in a 6 year old's body... You worry and you fret and you say such responsible things... Things no 6 year old should say, you worry about your Fiber intake and how many ounces of water you've had to drink... You turn away cookies and crackers for Cantaloupe, Watermelon and Cucumbers... You my bug a boo, are amazing...

We'll get this figured out once and for all sweet boy...

I love you so much!
Love,
Momma

Veggie subs for everyone!! 

Splash!!

First you wait and check it out... you get ready...

Then you take a leap!!

and SPLASH!!

 More sun, means more outside time... This time we opted for fresh water...



Life is good...

Ever so good!!

and then there was sunshine...

After what felt like weeks and weeks and months and days and oh my goodness we're floating away!! Tropical storm Debby (downer) moved on off the east coast late last week.  We'd been trapped in the house, sure we went and painted some pottery, we shopped, we went to the movies... But we were getting stir crazy, our lungs full of nothing but damp air conditioned air, we'd slept too much, taken too many naps, stayed in our pj's all day, and we were grumpy!  So late Wednesday night as sun began to shine just as it was also setting, I said to the boy child - tomorrow we're going to the beach!  I knew the surf would be a wash, not big waves, not flat, not the rolling little waves we love but messy and moody from the storm still stirring things up, but it didn't matter.  All we needed was towels, a bag of sunscreens at various SPF's some to rub in, some to spray, one a stick to get noses and cheeks, water and sandals and most importantly his boogie board... 

 (This is all I have to carry to the beach these days... it's awesome!)

 We left tired, sun baked and happy...

Welcome back sunshine, oh how we have missed you!!