Levi's Trip to the Emergency Room

We went to Addi's Fall Ball softball game today. Levi was playing on the playground. I looked behind me to see Levi fall from the jungle gym/monkey bar thingy straight onto his head! My first thought: OH NO! He's going to be paralyzed!! I was fine once I saw him get up and start crying for me. Then I noticed the blood gushing from his head. So off to Children's we went. Two hours and two stitches later, he's fine. He was a real trooper and didn't even get anything to numb the area while they stitched him up! The above picture is out in our yard today before the incident...isn't he cute? The following pictures are from our trip to the ER. I had my camera with me at the ballpark so I took it with me.

All my girls

All my girls except for Hannah....

Picture from my Phone

This is definitely experimental. I've uploaded a few pictures from my phone to my facebook and now I'm going to post this one here. I know it won't be the best quality, but might make it easier for me to keep more recent pictures of the kids on here! Here is a picture of Levi and Lila riding in the car buggy in Publix, their favorite place to shop!

Lunch with Levi

Me: "Levi, what do you want for lunch today? Would you like a hot dog?"
Levi: "No!"
Me: "Would you like some shrimp?"
Levi: "Yes, the orange and white kind." (Meaning cold, peel and eat shrimp)
Me: "Levi, I don't have that kind, but I have some breaded ones I can bake."
Levi: "I don't want that!!!!"
Me: "Well, what do you want Levi?"
Levi: "I want some Cookie DOUGH!!!!!"

Oh my, why did I even ask????

Finally some pictures!

Here are some pictures of the kids from the last month or so. Paul finally got the computer rebooted and I finally got the printer driver installed correctly so we can upload pictures that way.
In other news, we are doing well. We've had another battle with the evil MRSA bug. Lila had an abscess on her thigh, but luckily it responded quickly to the antibiotics and she is much better. I can't believe she is 11 months old!!! She weighed 22 pounds 9 ounces when she saw the doctor last week. She is getting so big and talking all the time. She called Alex and Hannah by name this week! Anyway, enough for now. Enjoy the pictures!!

Levi wearing Addi's pajama pants

Levi as "Underwear Man"

Lila lovin' Broccoli and Cheese Rice

Lila's Bad Hair Day!

Addi at the Butterbean Festival

Much Needed Update

• Things are going well in the Kelsey household. Addi is enjoying school and still calls it "The greatest place on earth." She was chosen as student of the month for her class this month!! I will get to go in the morning and have a special breakfast with her to celebrate.
  
• Addi sold 26 tubs of cookie dough, enough to get to go in the Hummer Limousine to Pizza Hut for lunch one day! She also had her named pulled in a drawing and will get to spin the money wheel soon!
  
• Levi is enjoying school too. He loves his teacher and is learning some things. He will get to go to Children's Theater starting in October and I think he'll enjoy that. He is doing GREAT going to the potty now. He finally caught on! He doesn't even wear a pull-up at night anymore!
  
• Lila is growing like a weed!! She has TEN teeth now! She has two of her molars already! She has taken a couple of steps here and there and I think will be walking before her first birthday (something not accomplished by her sister or brother). She has also found her voice! Man, oh man, has she found her voice! She used it rather loudly in church yesterday. Her favorite word is "Addi!" and she says it with great enthusiasm about 200 times a day!
  
• Thanks to early Christmas presents from Grammy and PaPa in Oklahoma, Levi is getting a new dresser tomorrow and Addi will be getting a new mattress this week. They are both excited! Never knew a 5 year old would be excited over a mattress, but she complains that hers isn't comfortable all the time!
  
• Paul and I broke down and bought a new dryer. Even after we had ours fixed, it's still ruining about one piece of clothing in every load. The clothing gets stuck in the edge and leaves a brown mark that can't be removed. It will be delivered tomorrow with Levi's dresser. It will be nice to be able to dry clothes without having to put it in a mesh bag.
  
• Paul and I are going to see Dave Ramsey in Atlanta on Saturday. We're looking forward to it. Mom is going to keep the kiddos for us.
  
• We had a GREAT, FANTASTIC, MARVELOUS Ladies' Day this past Saturday at Sylvan Springs. If you are a lady and didn't come, you missed out! Thanks to all the girls who did so much work to get this task accomplished, especially Rachel. And of course, Rachel's mom did an excellent job speaking. Addi got to lead two songs and was as adorable as ever.
  
• Soccer is going well, but Levi won't play. He whines and it's not worth it to make him even go on the field.
  
• Addi is loving Paul being their coach. They played a practice game. Our team only had 4 players and the other team had 7 and we held them 1-0. Not bad!
  
• Addi is also going to be playing fall softball this year. It's more of an instructional league and they'll have practice games on Sunday afternoons.
  
• Addi is also going to be in the school beauty pageant on November 8th. Addi is turning into quite the busy little bee! And enjoying every minute of it!
  
• I better go for now. I'll try to get pictures up soon. Our computer is no longer recognizing our camera so I can't do it at home. It doesn't recognize the printer any more either and apparently now won't recognize the disk to reformat the hard drive.
  

September 2, 2008

Hi Everybody! Not a whole lot is going on in the Kelsey household. We went to Parrish yesterday to clean out MaMa and PaPa's house. It is under contract and the closing is supposed to be sometime this month. We worked all day and got the dining room set moved to my house! Thanks, Mom and Dad! Because of Medicaid, etc......Mom and Dad bought it for me for my birthday that's coming up in October. As I mentioned before, I'll be the big 3-0. Ick.
The new dining room suite looks good in my dining room. I still have to get everything squared away and put where it goes, but I think I'm going to be very happy with it. It's not the most beautiful set you've ever seen, but it reminds me of the many family dinners we all had together at my grandparents. It was kind of sad having to go through all the stuff in their house, but it's just a reminder that stuff is JUST stuff! You can't take it with you and you might not even get to keep it while you're alive.

I joined the gym. I met Jazz there this morning at 5 a.m.!!! We both decided we would have to meet each other there at night because this early bird stuff is NOT for us! You'll notice I put a new weight loss ticker on my sidebar. No, I'm not delusional in thinking I only have 30 pounds to lose, but I'm starting with attainable goals and I'll work my way up (or down?)! After working out this morning and all the moving of furniture that took place yesterday, I may not be able to move tomorrow!

Thought for the day: Cherish the moments and forget the stuff.
Have a good one!