Will's new tricks!

Will has learned a few things this weekend! If you tell him to give you five, he will slap your hand! He will even come up randomly and turn your hand over so he can give you five.

He also learned the phrase Uh-oh, Shoo-Wee, and Oww!

I took him in the backyard to play the past two nights. He had a blast!

My little baby is growing into a little boy!

My big boy!

Fun in the backyard!

Swim lessons

Raleigh just finished night 3 of swimming lessons..or Whimming le-huns as Ral would say. Mike took him the first two nights. He said that he liked the little pool but he wasn't going in the big water. I told him he would have to. He told me they would have to take some of the water out and make it lower for him to go in it.

I took him to swim lessons last night. Apparently Mr. Ral was not a good boy. Ral told me he cried for me. His hair wasn't even wet, so I knew it wasn't good. The teacher talked to me and told me that it was a bad day for Ral.

On the way home Ral wanted to watch his new video I got from the library. I told him that he didn't get to do that b/c I was not happy with his behavior. He said, "But daddy happy." I explained that after daddy found out, he wouldn't be.
Ral was so cute. He looks at me and says, "Mama, don't tell daddy!"

Ral has long hair!

Cute Will

Will and Grandma

What a cute cake!

Easter Cake

Raleigh is doing great!

Raleigh is really doing well. His nose is still stuffed up. He keeps telling me, "I think the doctor just forgot."
Forgot to do what, Ral?
"I think the doctor just forgot to fix my nose."

The stuffiness should last about 2 weeks.

He has slept well the last 2 nights. Drinking lots of liquids and eating great.

Yesterday at his ME's house he worked on his Easter cake. He was SOOO proud of this bunny cake. He told us all about it 50,000 times. When he was done with it, he gave it an orange jelly bean and said it was a carrot :)

Tonight Ral is with Daddy in Bristol to see "Thomas Live On-Stage"

I'm sure he had a blast!

Raleigh's adenoidectomy

Ral had an adenoidectomy today. I've been telling him for a few weeks about it. His version of what was going to happen was, "I'm going to have surgery. They will give me medicine. The doc will fix my nose. When I wake up I'm going to be grumpy. Then I'll get to have ice cream."

The actual events were a little close to his tale.

He was fine during pre-op. After the verced he got kind of loopy and drowsy. We walked him to the OR doors and kissed him goodbye. It wasn't until after he was through the doors that he looked back crying.

The doc said his adenoids were very swollen. They also did allergy testing. He is allergic to several trees and grasses. Also dust.

When they brought him back from surgery the nightmare began.

Poor kid cried for so long. I didn't realize coming off of the anesthesia would be so hard for him. He was thirsty and his throat hurt so he drank about 5 cups of water. He just cried and cried. I got in the bed and held him for quite a while. Soon he went to daddy in the chair and then to me in the chair. They had an oxygen level indicator on his toe which he ripped off quickly. His biggest complaint after that was the IV, which of course was the last thing they took out. When he looked at the bloody bandage after they took it out he cried and cried b/c the bandage was "sucking his bleed" out.
The other time he got upset was when he saw the writing on his legs from the allergy testing. I told him they just needed to write some stuff on his legs. He looks at me and cries, "They think Im a piece of paper!"

Poor guy.

When we got ready to leave after at least an hour and half after surgery, Ral was back to being Ral.

We watched Toy Story on the way home. He had an ice cream and a happy meal from McDonald's.

He tried to take a nap but his nose is SO very stuffy, it just didn't work.

He's been complaining of his throat hurting some more, so he's already had more ibuprofen and his dose of steroid.

Raleigh is tough though. I think tomorrow he will be much better.