Travel, Travel, Travel, Home

For my new job, I travel about 3 or 4 weeks in a row (2-3 days during the week), and then take a full week at home. Sometimes I feel like I'm even busier on my home weeks, because I have so much catch up work to do at the office, and so much laundry, cleaning, etc. that needs to be done at home....not to mention fun time with the kiddo!! I absolutely LOVE traveling for work, though! Here are some pics of some recent trips...

I had to go to Albuquerque, NM for a conference, and drove to Los Alamos the day before the conference started to meet with some alumni. These pics are from the drive...

A couple weeks ago I was in San Antonio and had lunch with an alumni on the Riverwalk....I forgot how pretty it is!

BUSTED

I walked into Caroline's room the other day and she looked back with this guilty face.....


Why you ask? Because she was applying "makeup" (glitter lip gloss) all over her face!!!!! I can't wait till she's 16....NOT!

School Picture

Ok....this is a really bad scan of this picture, but it just makes me laugh! Caroline is the second from the left on the front row. REALLY kiddo...do you have to be the most dramatic in your class? YES she does!

Easter

We had a fun Easter...Caroline had an Easter Egg Hunt at her school that Thursday and then we did an Easter Egg Hunt at Nana & Grampy's house that afternoon that the Evans family also came to!!

Here is Caroline before school on Easter Egg Hunt day...


The Cox side of the family cousins on Easter day...

Caroline's Easter basket...she got some goodies....

Zoe really just kinda wanted to look at the eggs, but she eventually got the hang of it!

The Tooth Fairy

Well....Caroline had her tooth removed, and it was definitely split in two all the way up to the root.  It was pretty gross!!!  They gave her some meds to get her all loopy before she went back to get the tooth removed and it was hilarious!!  She couldn't move her head and was just giggling and couldn't walk.  I took a little video of it but I'm not going to put it on here cause of that recent YouTube outrage about the dad who put loopy dentist kiddo video up (if you know what I'm talking about...if not, I probably sound crazy).  The tooth fairy visited her, and she insisted the night before that the tooth fairy brings "two monies", which means 2 quarters in Caroline talk.  The tooth fairy is pretty cheap:)

All in a week's time.....

A couple weeks ago I thought Caroline was going to completely fall apart!!! First, she cracked her tooth while messing around at Hobby Lobby (and yes, the MEAN mom I am fussed at her while her face was bleeding in the check out line, and the lady behind me was looking at me like I was crazy...). She was jumping up and down on the check out counter and came down on her mounth...it made her nose bleed and really busted her tooth!! Caroline told me that she doesn't like that store anymore because "the store hit her":) Now the tooth has completely split into two (there is a front and back half...it is REALLY strange) and it looks like it is going to have to be completely removed and a fake tooth put in. The dentist scared me and said that we could have the choice of gold or sliver for tooth, but he was just joking and it will be porcelin!! She goes in tomorrow morning and can't eat or drink after midnight tonight because they do put her under anesthesia.

You can see a little in this picture what the tooth looks like:

She was also pretty terrified to go to the dentist. I have no idea where that would have come from, but she was crying the whole way there (may have something to do with me waking her up mid-nap to go, but whatever!!). SO...I had to totally bribe her to calm down...she got an ice cream cone from Sonic afterwards, and I let her have it in my car. And for anyone who knows me well, you know we DON'T usually do ice cream cones (way too messy...I know, I'm really mean!!) and they are NEVER eaten in the car!!! By the way...she LOVED the dentist and I think she would have been good and liked it there even without the bribe once we got in there.

Then, her coughing spells got so bad (she has a mild case of asthma, and she doesn't wheeze, she coughs) that she was making herself throw up! This would happen every time she would run and play, or even when she was crying (which is a normal occurance now!!). So...we had to start breathing treatments on her. She kind of puts up a fuss when she does one, but we put on an episode of Dora the Explorer and she'll sit still through them.

Then she went to the ENT for a regular check up. He said that her tubes are still in there, but not functional (which would usually be OK at this point), but when they did a fluid flow test, there was absolutely no fluid flow in her ears. I don't really know what all of this means, but he said we have to come back in about a month to check again and decide if we have to go with tube set #3 or not...with our luck, we will!!

She goes tomorrow to get her tooth removed...wish us luck!!!!!!!!!!!

Caroline's 3rd Birthday

Since it's been about a month since her birthday, its about time I get around to posting some pictures, huh!!! I've been VERY busy with my new job, so I'm going to try to catch up with some posting. Now that she's been 3 for a few weeks, I think I've learned that 3 is worse than 2. Her attitude, temper and drama have defiantely increased...but she's still a great, smart, fun little kiddo!

Ok...here is a look back at Caroline:

Caroline at 5 days...weighing only 3lbs. 13 oz. (I'll always remember how much she weighed that day because she weighted 3 13 on 3/13!! And yes, these are preemie clothes that are so huge on her):

And here she is at her first birthday party:

And at 2:

And now, she's 3!!!!!

Opening her first present of many...on the morning of her actual birthday (March 8th). It was a cute outfit that she got to wear to church that morning, and a Birthday ribbon that she got to wear all day.

That evening, we had all of the family over for a family party, since her actual party wasn't until the next weekend. She is showing off her new puppy that actually barks (Jack is his name), and her new bedding and pillow.

Aunt Shanna, Uncle Mike and Becca got her a baseball set, a golf set and a badminton set. She hit the ball the first time she swung and seems to really enjoy baseball!!

Then we had her birthday party the next weekend. Since she loves cooking so much, we decided to do a cooking party. First, the kiddos decorated their own aprons:

Then, they all made mini pizzas:

While the pizzas were cooking, they all decorated their own placemats:

Then ate:

Then they decorated and ate cupcakes...boy that was a lot of sugar! Most of the kiddos ended up with multiple different colors of icing, tons of sprinkles, mini M&Ms, AND mini chocolate chips on their cupcakes:

Last, Caroline opened presents and they played some more in the church courtyard:

I had to add this picture in here for you, Tierney! Caroline got a Belle wig and crown from her friend Brentley at her party, and it was one of the first things she wanted to put on when she got home. She thinks it is funny to put this wig on and look at her "black hair" in the mirror. She will say "Mommy...my hair is BLACK now, not yellow!!":

The next day we went back to the church courtyard for Caroline's friend Annie's third birthday...it was a fun weekend!!

More Jett pictures...

James Calvin Evans III

James Calvin Evans III (probably will be called Jett...we'll see) came this morning at 11:08 AM! The pitocin didn't even start until about 8:30 ish, so he came really quick!! He is 7 lbs. 9 oz. and 21 in. long. More pictures will be posted tomorrow...I forgot my camera cord at home!