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Last Friday we had our 4 year old check up for Braysen.  He’s 36 lbs and 42 inches tall now.  We are staying at a nice 90% height and well, his weight is on the same curve it’s always been on…didn’t say what % but I’m guessing 30% since that’s where we’ve always been.  What can I say, he’s tall & skinny like Patrick.  In fact, I pretty much think he’s a clone of him..like mini-me version of him.  Everything about him personality wise is similar really.    We were due for some shots and per my delayed schedule, we got 2 of the 4…dtap and polio.   Braysen was a trooper.  We had 2 wonderful nurses come in to do them, once for each shot/leg and got him at the same time so we saved numerous pricks.  He said “ouch that hurt” and that’s about it.

I did have one thing that really needed to be discussed with the pediatrician because of his preschool teacher’s recommendation to have him speech evaluated.   I wanted to discuss this with our doctor before that happened as I really respect his opinions.   I told him of my discussion with his teacher.  She had concerns regarding his voice tone being too quiet and sometimes higher pitched than other boys in his class.  I mentioned how the teacher thought it could be of some concern with bullying later because of his soft voice.   My doctor thought that was really unusual and that Braysen’s voice didn’t send any red flags up when talking with him.  He went on to tell me about Einstein, Gandhi and others who are soft spoken but highly intelligent people and how they have gone on to do great things.

He told me that even though he hasn’t done any IQ tests on Braysen yet, he could be in Mensa someday and is most likely going to be in gifted and talented programs. We talked about how Braysen is ahead of things in regards to patterns/sequencing and the such.  He’s doing basic addition already!   We’ve been told us all along that Braysen is a very smart kid and would need to be challenged in school.  Even as a baby we would talk in our appointments about how he just is so observant and watches everything, then as he became older we’d talk about how he was always trying to figure out how something works and manipulate things in his office.  Friday he’s in there talking science, planets, stars, bones and muscles with the doctor.  Sometimes people think the pediatrician is just saying things but I really do believe that Braysen is pretty darn smart.  Again, he’s a mini Patrick.  (of course I’m biased because I’m h is mom and very proud of him!)

So, that’s our great news on the Braysen doctor front!  We have Bugz appointment Friday afternoon.  I have my final exam for Statistics tomorrow morning so will be studying late tonight!  I’ll get a post up someday about our garden but probably after I finish the other half since we ran out of the compost that I was using to fill my bed.

Spring is supposed to mean sun and um planting and flowers and ….cold, icky, winter like rain?

I know I shouldn’t complain about our weather because it’s been a wonderful mild Oregon winter BUT we were getting used to the sun and beautiful weather then BAM here comes the cold wintery rain.  We are talking rain that comes down sideways and then pelts you like ice hitting your legs brrrrrr.

I just want it to warm up some so I can finally work on the gardens and get them ready for planting.  We are adding another garden bed to the backyard and it’s going to be our early season bed because our other cedar bed doesn’t get the full sun we need for early veggies.  But we need to get some decent weather to get back there and cut back the weed fabric and build up the bed a bit with some more soil, plus we need to add more soil to the cedar bed & my herb garden bed.  Oh the dreams of fresh veggies…if this cold snap would go away and let me get to work!

Besides the thoughts of Spring and gardens, we are in the midst of our birthday season.  Braysen’s was March 23rd and he’s now 4!  Hard to believe that 4 years has gone by so quickly.  It’s one of those things people always says “the time goes by fast when you have kids, enjoy every moment.”  Understatement I say, time seriously FLIES!

We have this digital photo frame up on the counter and it cycles through all these cute baby pics of the boys, even their ultrasound pics and I can’t figure out where time went that I now have a daredevil toddler on my hands and a smart funny preschooler entertaining us.

I need to start planning Merrick’s 2nd birthday party.  We are keeping the parties small this year, family & friends really.  It takes away some of that chaos that comes when I plan these huge party blowouts haha.  I just can’t seem to 1/2 ass it.  I just like to throw parties and I spend hours looking at decorations, finding the right theme, deciding on food …I just can’t help it!  I’m a planner!  It’s in my nature.

We just had a nice Easter, despite Merrick throwing up all over me on the day of our neighborhood egg hunt.  I still took Braysen out but Merrick had to miss out on the festivities. It’s funny how you get puked up on when you have kids and you just take the shirt off, put on a new one, grab a steam cleaner and then go about your day until you have to rinse/repeat hehe.  I am always the one thrown up on though, it’s a mom thing I guess!

Luckily Merrick was over his little tummy bug and we had the in-laws over for a wonderful yummy Easter brunch.  I made this sausage egg breakfast quiche, a yogurt & fruit salad and then I made some yummy donut recipe for dessert.  Hank and Pat brought over the ham (which we are still eating haha)  and they picked up our “honey bunny” from our fave bakery (Great Harvest Bread).  The honey bunny bread is becoming a yearly thing for us to get since it’s so cute, shaped like a bunny and perfect for Easter brunch.   The boys of course got some fun stuff from the Easter Bunny in their baskets.

This weekend is full – a birthday party for our neighbors little girl and then we are having friends over that evening for dinner.  Sunday – the boys are being watched so we can head out to look at new couches and redeem my Gymbucks. Hopefully the pickings aren’t too slim for clothes..they both need summer clothes like no other!!!

Well ~ I probably should be productive so I’ll try to post again soon.  I find our schedule to completely exhaust me lately.  Patrick let me take a nap yesterday afternoon, bless his heart.  I slept for like 2 hours or  so and still felt tired.  I’ve just been drained and running out of steam with all that comes with our crazy family schedule!

*I really need to figure out what I did to make my paragraph spacing so close together, it’s driving me nuts!!!*