As you know, Mondays are the days when the fog clears, the dust settles, and what remains are two people (myself and my husband) regrouping and putting themselves back together after a long and eventful weekend. And I must add, my recovery time is getting longer and longer as my very pregnant body is massively rebelling, kicking and screaming, to the demands of our every day life and schedule. Oh boy. That's another story. Let's suffice it to say that I've been praying a lot lately for a triple extra measure of grace to run through the tape with this little guy. I actually took two two hour naps today. Wow.
So, just like always, a lot of nothing and everything has transpired since the last post. I thought it might just be best to do an update through pictures, taking you on a little tour of life at the Pate house lately. So here goes...
This guy has been one of the main stories lately- most of you that read this know about what happened, but the week we moved in (which was just not a great week altogether, hence one of the reasons it has not made mention here) Addison fell off the swing set and broke his right clavicle (collar bone). Our first experience with a broken anything. He has been in a sling the past five weeks, which in the time perspective of a seven year old has been an eternity not being able to play, climb up into his new loft bed, and having to use his left hand for everything! We took him in last week (after some drama and frustration dealing with insurance and having to go more than one place) to reveal in another x-ray to reveal his bone has healed- but it has healed crooked, or not flat. You can feel it when you touch his collar bone. So where does that leave us? Not sure, exactly. The doctor who looked at it didn't seem overly concerned since he wasn't in any pain and has his range of motion back. She assured us that it is healed and stronger than before. The takeaway is that there is not an urgency to do anything about it for the time being, unless something starts to bother him. We're in the process of getting some opinions and advice. For now he is just happy to be rid of the sling and have a normal kid life back :)
Easter. Yeah, it's been that long since I've caught up! Unfortunately, I didn't get a photo shoot because the broken bone incident occurred three days before and it was a feat enough to get Addison dressed Sunday morning, so I wasn't going to push it with a photo shoot. Still toying with the idea of trying at some point, just cause they looked cute :) Look at those hams.
We took a trip to the Museum of Natural Science. There's a cool part inside that is dedicated to insects of all kinds, and then there's a massive live butterfly exhibit. It's a huge, enclosed, glass tower thing with a rainforest like environment (think really hot and humid) where literally hundreds of all kinds of butterflies are flitting and floating about for you to see. This pic below had tons of butterflies flying through the air, but you couldn't see it unfortunately.
Inside the museum part was a display of hundreds of different kinds of chrysalises. We thought it was just a display at first until we realized live butterflies were hatching out of them. They then took the butterflies out of the case and released them into the rainforest part. It was super cool. Can't see too close here, but we were amazed at some of the chrysalis shapes and colors. Some of them looked like 24 carat gold- nature is truly such a masterpiece of God.
Just a small sampling of some butterfly shots I got. The pic on the right has like 8 in it, just an idea of how many there were all around. For a total lover of butterflies like me, it was heaven. Cadence also squealed with delight at seeing them so close all around, some even landed on you.
Addison, well...interesting thing about that....he had a surprise reaction to the butterflies. As in, as soon as we stepped in there and saw them flying all around he started freaking out. And I mean, hysterically freaking out. As in, Chris had to remove him from the habitat and they waited outside until we were finished. Not so sure what was so menacing about the butterflies. We all had a long talk about it and he thinks he'll be better next time. It was really weird because he loves animals and insects and was really into the museum part before where we were learning all about them. Hmm...
A little photo op outside of the museum. No doubt one of the last pics of us as a family of four. It's hard to gather my true size from the pictures. I'm really huge, people.
T was in town for the weekend and got to have fun with us. It was great to see her, because it had been a long time. This is such a good picture.
*I apologize for the wonkiness of the following pics- I was trying to make them smaller and fit better, and I cannot seem to get them to do anything else so it's all wacked. And as a reminder, click on the pic for a bigger version of it.
The following weekend there was something called the Art Car Parade. It's apparently a big deal in Houston, and all of these really crazy decorated cars are on display and then there's a big parade. We went to the preview to look at some of the cars. They were crazy! This is only a few of the many pics I have!
So if you look closely on the right,this
car is made of peeps. Like the candy.
This one is worthy of note, because I
later found out that my son was
"pretending" to lick the car...well you
can guess what happened. The germaphobe
in me tried not to completely lose it.
All of the fish on this car moved and sang with music. It was a major hit with the kids.
The car below on the left is made of teeth, toothpaste, and all things teeth related. Very interesting and very creepy at the same time!
This car on the right was made of chalkboard paint. Cadence in particular enjoyed that one.
So this was probably the coolest part for the kids- they had this huge foam party going on right in the middle of the park. Oh, to be a kid! The expressions on their faces are that of pure, kids having a blast, joy. I love seeing those kinds of faces :) And afterwards the same park has a big splash pad so we got all rinsed off!
I definitely have so many more pictures and things to share, but I think this little post is about to get overloaded. Thus the tragedy of being so far behind. But I wanted to put these on here at least, because we have some fun things coming up that will have their own space! This past weekend the Hargis side of the family came to town, and we had a lot of fun as well. Silly me- I didn't bother to take one picture the whole time which is highly unlike me! But it was all of us- my two bros were able to come too which was a special treat! I said it earlier, but I really wish our family was closer. We so enjoy seeing them, but it's always a little sad when everybody goes home...
I so badly want to show you pictures of cute kids' rooms in progress, but I'm close to finishing so I'll wait. We even have the nursery going which is so exciting! I am DYI'ing a lot of the baby's room and kids' rooms, so it's been fun. I recovered a glider/ottoman yesterday, and I must say I was pretty proud of myself :) My goal is to have most all of it done by this weekend, but we'll see how it goes. Sometimes my pregnant self has other plans so I have to just go with the flow these days :)
This weekend is going to be all about baby. It actually started last weekend with an unbelievable 4D ultrasound (that I will share pics in it's own post). This Saturday we enrolled in a big brother/big sister class at the hospital where the kids will talk about and learn about life with a newborn, and we get a hospital tour out of it which I was wanting. Then Sunday afternoon our awesome church is throwing us a church-wide baby shower that will be more like a party! It's a family/co-ed event, not a traditional shower with just women, so I know it will be a lot of fun! It's such a blessing for them to do this, especially since we are starting all over and have no baby gear/stuff whatsoever!! I know God will provide :)
Well, sorry this was pretty long but I needed to get it out there. And you'll notice it took me three tries to get this thing sent out- it's obviously not Monday anymore :) Oh well! Peace out from the Pate house.
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