Handsome Boy!

Beau's 4K School Picture. What a handsome little boy!

Seriously!?!

Seriously....one of us hase been sick since August. Terrible times at the King house!

First, Beau had a terrible case of an ear infection + swimmer's ear. It was horrible. Rodney and Beau spent 6 or more hours at Children's South with an ENT and then we went back in for a check up a few days later to make sure the meds were kicking in. Thankfully, they did and he was fine.



About a week later, Beau started school and got strep throat.

Then, Tropical Storm Lee hit and we lost power for 4 days. We stayed at home because Rodney set us up with a generator that ran almost everything for us. But, Baby Joseph got a nasty cold after that.




Then, a week or so later, baby Joseph got Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease. Yuck!!
Beau had this 2-3 times between 1-2 years old, so thankfully he appeared to be immune to it. :) But, Momma got Mono and possibly Strep from cuddling with baby Joseph while he felt terrrible with hand, foot, and mouth. Apparently, it is a form of Herpes and can cause Mono in adults. Lovely.

The Dr. told me it would take 2-3 months for me to feel normal again and would be contagious until my fever went away, but that I could still cook and clean for my family (As long as I washed my hands). Oh, and to sleep as much as possible. Seriously!?! Not, so easy to do with 2 little ones :) Thankfully, Rodney has decided to work from home this week and help with the kids. Hopefully all the vitamins I am taking will kick in and boost my energy since there is no medicine you can take to get over mono...just sleep, liquids, and vitamins.

Seriously ready for the whole family to be well at the same time!

First Day of 4 year old Kindergarten

He loves Cars the movie and he wanted to take Filmore (the van from cars) with him. He also has a Cars bookbag. :)

Beau also wanted this Auburn poster hung up on the wall in his room...seriously, he is growing up too fast.

Standing by his seat on meet the teacher day

Mom and Mrs. Judy talking to each other on meet the teacher day. Mrs. Judy found out I used to teach and she was telling me all about their curriculum. :)

Playing with his favorite school toy...the yellow crane!

More Summer of Fun 2011

Love this picture, but I could not get it to flip the right way at all...still so cute!

Trying to get a picture of them in their matching pj's, but they just wanted to play :)







Riding like a big boy in the grocery cart
Watching fireworks with Aunt Betty on the 4th of July


Love this picture of Beau reading a Chuggington book to Joseph

Summer 2011

We had a great summer of relaxing, playing in the water, going to McWane Center often to beat the heat, and just playing with friends and family. Beau went to summer school 2 days a week this summer from 9-1. He LOVED it! They had a water play day every week and Beau was so excited to wear his bathing suit to school. :) We went to the beach in May and then Beau went to Callaway Gardens in Georgia with his Nona and Papa around the 4th of July. We were planning a beach trip for August but Beau got a terrible ear infection+swimmer's ear that kept us from going. So, we instead, took him to the Georgia Aquarium while baby brother stayed home with Nona. Here are some pics of our summer fun.

Happy 4th Birthday Beau!

(this picture was taken on his birthday, after a day at VBS and he was so tired! He also got a much needed haircut the next week)

Beau celebrated his 4th birthday a few weekends ago at our house. He had a water play and ice cream party.He was so excited about the M&M's, cherries, and ice cream cones and other ice cream toppings that he talked about it for weeks before his party. We celebrated with our friends and family and Beau had a great time.The kids had a great time on the water slide and little pools. The boys loved the sprayers on the water slide and kept aiming them at each other. On Beau's actual birthday we celebrated with the 4 of us and enjoyed birthday cupcakes. :) Can not believe my baby boy is 4. Time is flying by!

School Days

Beau started going to summer school 2 days a week. It is at the same school that he will go 5 days a week in the fall. Lots of kids in our neighborhood go there and 2 of the teachers live on our street. He is LOVING it so far! They have a water play day 2 times a month where they were their bathing suits to school and play in sprinklers, with water toys, etc. On the other days they make crafts, read books, eat watermelon, and make ice cream. He has a Cars bookbag with Finn and Lightning McQueen (or Lightning the Queen as Beau says.) He eats lunch there with his friends and then comes home to play with his brother. Joseph looks around for Beau when he is at school....Beau is his constant entertainment at home :)

Here he is on his first day...He looks a little nervous, so was Rodney :) We walked in to drop him off and I didnt't think Rodney would ever leave the building. Beau came home so excited on that day and he had a smiley face stamp on his hand and a sweet note from his teacher saying that he had a great day.

A Weekend at the Beach

We spent last weekend at the beach with my Mom and Rodney's mom and dad came for 2 days. The boys had so much fun and loved the water! The pools and the ocean water were freezing, so I did not get in very far. Rodney was a trooper and got in the pool all day for 3 days with the boys. We enjoyed chocolate covered donuts from Thomas' donuts for breakfast, full days at the beach and pool, and good sleep at night time!