Broken Nose?!

Well, I am finally going to post on the weekend festivities as well as what we have done so far this week. On the 4th of July, Mike bought ALOT of fireworks. So he put on our fourth of July show...it lasted for almost an hour. It was really good!! We had a few friends over to enjoy the fireworks. He had everything from ones that just stay on the ground and light up to the full blown "real" fireworks you see when you go somewhere. I think he and his brother, Bill, enjoyed "playing" with the fireworks as much as we enjoyed watching them. Again, it made me think about what we were doing last year on the 4th...this year was less eventful!

On the 5th we celebrated little Liam's birthday! He woke up in the night around 3am (like usual), but this time I actually enjoyed it because I picked him up and said "happy birthday, munchkin!" That is what I call him since he is my little guy. He really is turning into an older baby...interacting with his brothers and trying to make us laugh. He pretty much stands whenever he gets the chance, but he has yet to figure out how to get back down which makes bedtime fun with mommy going in a few times to lay him back down. Anyway, back to his birthday party. His party was great! We had our close friends over. It was the perfect size party. With the older boys, the parties were bigger and seemed more chaotic. L's was really quite nice. The older kids that came mainly played outside on the playset. The theme of the party was little cowboy. I found the cutest plates a while back with a little cowboy on them with the number 1. I pretty much decided then that he would have a cowboy theme. I thought he was adorable in his overalls and red bandana. And E's old rocking horse just completed the look. I ended up buying foam cowboy hats for the older kids to decorate. That is the hat that J has on his head in the picture in the other post. They put foam stickers on their hat when they came to the party. L actually had 3 "little" friends at the party. I think the highlights for the party for L were his balloons and cake. He enjoyed the cake for quite sometime, but when he decided he was done, he was done...as you can see from the crying picture I posted! It was a really nice day...as Mike said before the party, it was a big day. Not just because of his first birthday but because of what it meant and what we had gone through to get to this point.

E has swim lessons again this week. He is enjoying them and can't wait to go to Grammy and Papa's to practice. He told Grammy the other day that she could swim with him. It makes for a hectic week but I definitely think they are useful and worth it. After this week of lessons, I have pretty much have the weekend to get ready to go away for two weeks. That means I need to do ALOT of laundry since I am behind...as always.

Yesterday, J decided to pull a weight bar down on his face. His nose instantly swelled up and is now a little asymmetrical as the doctor put it. I took him to the doctor today and was told that we need to go to the ENT tomorrow to see if it is in fact broken and to possible get it reset. That should be fun! He also has to get some blood work done to see if he has a immune deficiency that is causing all of his sinus issues. He is going to have a rough day tomorrow! I think that I am going to do something special for him after the doctor's. Lately I have been feeling really guilty that he is not getting enough of my attention. It is so easy to just "lump" him in with E. He really doesn't get an opportunity to be with me by himself very often. E does in the afternoon while the younger boys are napping. I need to make an effort to carve out time each day where it is just J and mommy time.

Well, I know that the boys have said many cute and funny things that past few days but of course I can't think of them now. Isn't that the whole point of this blog! I really need to do this everyday probably more than once a day to truely capture it all. Maybe I should write the stuff down on paper and then do the blog later. I will need to work that out. At least I am writing something down...I am one step ahead of where I was a month ago, right!