If you ever wonder where your shoes (or gloves, in Ben's case) are in my house, just check my kids' feet!
Hunting for eggs at Grandma and Papa's house!
An art project over Spring Break was painting Easter eggs. Since Ben is allergic to eggs, so dying them isn't an option. Personally, drawing eggs on white paper and letting them go with watercolors would be my first preference anyway!
Although the picture is blurry, you can somewhat make out the ADORABLE pink shoes Abby wore on Easter! She was quite the cutie pie!
Ben is excited to start swimming lessons next week at the Y. We've been hoping to get him signed up for several months, but haven't managed to get past the waiting list for weekend classes. So, he is scheduled for Tuesday evenings. Judging on last summer, he seems to love the water and it seems like something he will really enjoy. Getting him into the water without Mom or Dad might be another story... I'm keeping my fingers crossed. In other Ben news, Brant built a swing set for the kids several weeks ago and Ben LOVES to swing in his new "big boy" swing. I love that both kids can swing at the same time instead of having to take turns on our old swing that hung from a tree! Now that the weather is nice, he is also back to loving baseball. When he was looking at books the other night, I said to Ben, "Pretty soon, you're going to be a reader!" Ben looked at me in disgust and said, "No, I'm not going to be a reader, I'm going to be a baseball player when I grow up!"
Abby had her annual appointment in Iowa City two weeks ago to retest her urinary reflux condition. We found out that nothing has changed and it is still grade 5, which I wasn't too surprised about. However, the doctors were a bit concerned about her blood pressure being on the high side, so we are now monitoring that daily and emailing the results to a nephrologist on a weekly basis to make a decision about next steps, if any are needed. That threw a monkey-wrench into the day, and extended our appointment by several hours, but we're glad it all is being closely monitored. Everything shows that her kidneys are growing and functioning fine, but the doctors want to do a few more tests, so we'll be doing that here in Des Moines over the next month or so. I'm slightly frustrated at the run-around I feel like I'm getting on getting these things scheduled, but that is another story. Besides having too many ureters and them not functioning correctly, Abby is a healthy, happy little gal! She is starting to say more and more, but often still in her own little language. We hear "All done" constantly, she has her own jargon for saying "Want a drink", loves to tell everyone to "Stop!", and a variety of other words and phrases. She is also very attached and affectionate towards Ben lately, giving lots of hugs and kisses and copying the things he does. It is pretty neat to watch! Luckily, he eats it up!
I decided a while back that I needed to do something to get an exercise routine going that would motivate me and get me out of bed in the morning. I find that morning work-outs are really best for me, but it was just so hard to get out of bed. So, I signed up for Dam to Dam, which is a half mile short of a half marathon the first weekend in June. I've been a 3-4 mile runner since I was about 15 years old, never having run more than 6 miles since high school, so this has been something I'm pretty proud of lately. My long runs are on the weekend and last Saturday, I ran 8 miles without a problem. My run this Saturday is 10 miles. I love the feeling of doing something I haven't done before every Saturday morning! Not that I needed something else going on in my life besides work and home, but it has felt very refreshing to have something else to take pride in that makes me feel healthy, and just really good about myself!
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