Single Motherhood

Well, once again I am experiencing what it would be like to be a single mom. Madison and I got back from Coeur d'Alene on Monday and JR has only been home two nights since then and one day. I am exhausted and I am sure JR is also. Madison cries every night for her Daddy and begs him to come home. Luckily, he will be gone tonight and tomorrow, but will be home tomorrow night and all day Monday!!!!

The boys have also been gone all week. We had to leave them in Coeur d'Alene due to an unfortunate incident with our not so lovely neighbors. The short version of a very long story is that the neighbor dog attacked JR and the humane society guy and JR was afraid the hysterical neighbors might retaliate against our lovely dogs.

On another note the pregnancy is going well. My lower back has been bothering me and a stitch in my right side, but other than that I'm not doing too bad. I try to go to the gym as often as I can which is 100% more than I did with Madison. I love the gym because it's the only time I have to myself :)

playing with Madison's sprinkler ball... this is where I will be all summer... wish we had a pool!!!

Dance the Night away

Aunt Mic, Papa, Madison, and Mommy


Madison, Grandma, Aunt Mic, and Mommy


Grandma and Madison making monkey bread.... yum!!!!

It's Magic!!!!!

Madison in Mom and Dad's backyard

Digging in the dirt

Madison's dirt flowers

Madison and her shovel

Doing the Madison... her dance she came up with at the wedding

Mark showing us his alter ego.... Martha

Madison giving Aspen love

Miss Madison pretending to sleep on her new mattress in her new empty bedroom (we are waiting on her bed to be made)

Demon is hacking up a hair ball and Madison fell

Demon enjoying the cabin

Madison at the cabin

Madison watching the boys dig holes

Madison and Papa playing "Chester"

The new kitchen at the cabin... it looks so wonderful

Madison, Demon, Kelty, Great Grandma, and Mic

Madison, Mic, Aspen, Demon, and I are at home in Coeurd' Alene. We came up to attend a wedding this weekend. The wedding was very beautiful and the reception was wonderful, a little rainy, but I think everybody really enjoyed themselves. Madison, Grandma, Aunt Mic, and even Papa danced a lot. Madison clapped, and stomped her feet, and had a really cute hip swagger.

Mommies worst Fear come true!!!

Trying to help Luke down the slide

You can't say that Luke doesn't care about Madison :)

Madison and Luke

Lori and I

Baby elephant at Animal Kingdom

Lori and Luke

I could have reached out and touched the White Rhino!!!

Madison waved at the animals the entire safari ride (about 15 min.)

Madison was infatuated with Pocahontas (so was Daddy! )

Daddy and Miss Madison

Lori, Luke, and Chris

One of the carvings on the Tree of Life

Daddy, Madison, and Mommy

Daddy and Goofy

Another traumatic moment for Madison!!!

Ok, My worst fear as a mother has come true and I have survived. It's not the worst thing that could happen, but anybody who knows me knows this is the one thing that I fear the most in life. Two weeks ago tomorrow Madison ended up with a stomach bug and threw up about 10 times Friday and then was ok Sat. and Sun. when Grandma and Papa were here, but woke up Monday and threw up all day and night about another 12 times!!!! She's gotten sick before, but nothing like this. We ended up taking her to the Ped. on Tuesday and she gave her some Zofran to help keep things down. The rest of the week she was fairly lethargic, but by last Friday she was pretty much back to her usual self. Poor Baby!!!! She kept telling me she was ok and the poor thing kept getting sick. I cried a couple of times, but we survived!!!

Brown Chicken, Brown Cow

Chris got the kids saying "Brown Chicken Brown Cow" and they went on for about 10 min. Notice that they are holding hands. I wish we had gotten more on video because it was hilarious the fights they got into!!!