What to do about Luke and more pics.

Is he just cute or what? We were trying out some fun hairstyles after we cleaned up from some chalk playing, which you will see below.
Before we get to that, though, I wanted to write about this boy. As some of you may know, Luke has moderate to severe asthma, he also has some pretty severe food allergies and moderate to severe eczema. He is just a mess isn't he? Last night I spent 3 hours at urgent care (no they were not busy, just slow, slow, slow) because Luke was complaining about his ears and coughing some. On a side note, we had one of the worst storms I can ever remember last night and it was pretty scary being out in it. Anyway, He came down with a stuffy nose on Monday, which he gets whenever we get rain (we have gotten a lot of rain this summer). The stuffy, runny nose usually turns into an ear infection. This time it was no different, he has a pretty severe double ear infection. He had another double ear infection in May, March, January and December, I am sure there were more in the last year but I can't remember right now. I am just so tired of him getting these ear infections. Have any of your kids had tubes put in? If they have how was it decided that they needed them? Do you think I should bring this up at his next appointment. He has a quarterly check-up with his asthma/allergist doctor on Wednesday and I was wondering if I should bring it up with him. Any thoughts and feelings on the matter would help.
The twins have probably each had 2 ear infections in their almost 7 years of life. Luke has probably had 5-6 a year.
One last thing, I believe Luke will be getting retested for his nut and egg allergies on Wednesday. Please keep him in your prayers. Last year the egg had gone down but the nuts were still in the severe (off the charts) range.


Now for more pictures. This one is of Luke writing his name. He found a broken piece of chalk in the rocks in front of our house and just started writing L's and U's. I was very impressed and Grandma Rosie and I talked him through writing the K and E. I think he did a very good job for a not quite 3 and a half year old. He is above his name in the picture because we were trying to get him to pose. He did not write his name upside down.
Here was another silly hairstyle, but you can't see it very well.
This one is Grandma Rosie and the boys right before we took her to the airport.

First Day of School 2008

The twins first day of school was Monday, August 11th. Daddy was gone camping in upstate New York, but Grandma Rosie was here for the week from Pennsylvania. The morning started out pretty calmly with all the boys playing their leapsters. I just had to get a picture of the 3 of them sitting on one chair all concentrating on their games. Here is Jonathan ready for his first day of first grade at a new school. He was ready to go with his new Pokemon backpack and new Spiderman lace up shoes.
Here is Matthew not really wanting his picture taken. He was happy that he was going to school and that he would be in the first grade. He was also very excited that Jonathan would get to ride the bus with him again.
The best I could do at getting the two of them together. Grandma Rosie was taking pictures too, so they didn't quite know where to look.
Opening the door to go outside and wait for the bus, which was 15 minutes late. But we were all happy that it was the same bus driver that Matthew had last year and the twins had her the year before when they were at preschool. We love Tracy the bus driver, who happened to work with my husband a few years ago.
Luke's very first day of school ever was Tuesday, August 19th. He would be in preschool at Little Palms Preschool at my parents church. We went to meet the teacher the day before and all the students were given a little book bag to bring to school everyday. Luke was very happy to get an orange one, which is one of his favorite colors next to red. Here he is getting ready to leave for school. He thought he needed to wear the bag around his neck. I think it looks like an apron.

The sign outside his school.
Poppa (my dad) works at the church and gets to ride this golf cart around from place to place. Luke got a ride to the school building. Nothing like VIP treatment on your first day.
Approaching the door. He doesn't look to sure about it.
Here he is getting ready to find some cars to play with. Luke did just great the first day. He did have a potty accident but all was okay the second day. He was all ready to go back on Thursday. I may have to think about adding another day to his school week in January if he continues to do well.

Pictures are coming.

Just wanted to let you know that I haven't forgotten to post pictures of everyones first day of school. I am having a little trouble locating the cable to connect the camera to the computer. I plan on looking some more tonight. See what happens when you clean your house?....you can't find anything.

First Day of School

The twins went back to school yesterday and Mommy was so happy. It has been a rough last 2 weeks with them home. The fighting between all 3 boys was getting to be too much for me to take. I walked in the house as the bus pulled away and just breathed a sigh of relief. Luke on the other hand turned to me and said "I just need them back." It was such a nice relatively peaceful day. Of course the fighting began as soon as we were back from speech therapy and today it was even worse.
The boys were so happy to get on the bus and they both had a great first day and second day. Luke starts preschool next Tuesday so I will wait to post pictures until then. I just needed to get on here to tell you how HAPPY I am that school is back in session.